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Avant-garde : experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s.

"In the latter half of the 20th century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. Programming diverse films at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles, and making the films in his personal archive available for commercial distribution, he helped preser...

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Corporate Authors: Rohauer Collection, Kino International Corporation
Other Authors: Man Ray, 1890-1976, Vorkapich, Slavko, Florey, Robert, 1900-1979, Kirsanov, Dmitri, 1899-1957, Weinberg, Herman G., Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-1982, Webber, Melville, Richter, Hans, 1888-1976, Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968, Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955, Eggeling, Viking, 1880-1925, Painlevé, Jean, Welles, Orson, 1915-1985, Vance, William, Metzner, Ernö, 1892-1954, Epstein, Jean, 1897-1953, Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948, Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984, Strand, Paul, 1890-1976, Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965, Dulac, Germaine, 1882-1942, Ivens, Joris, 1898-1989, Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986, Barlow, Roger, 1912-1990, Hay, Harry, Robbins, LeRoy, 1904-1987, Rohauer, Raymond
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Dutch
French
German
Language Notes:Films are primarily silent with music and English, French, German, and Dutch credits and intertitles, with optional subtitles in English on selected films.
Published: New York, N.Y. : Kino on Video, [2005]
Edition:Deluxe two-disc ed.
Subjects:
Surrealism in motion pictures.
Experimental films.
Surrealist > Short > Videodisc.
Silent films.
Short films.
Table of Contents:
  • disc 1. Le retour à la raison / Man Ray (1923, France, 2 min.)
  • Emak-Bakia / Man Ray (1926, France, 16 min.)
  • L'étoile de mer / May Ray (1928, France, 15 min.)
  • Les mystères du château du Dé / Man Ray (1929, France, 20 min.)
  • The life and death of 9413, a Hollywood extra / Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey (1928, United States, 13 min.)
  • Ménilmontant / Dimitri Kirsanoff (1926, France, 37 min.)
  • Brumes d'automne = Autumn mists / Dimitri Kirsanoff (1928, France, 12 min.)
  • Lot in Sodom / James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber (1933, United States, 27 min.)
  • Rhythmus 21 / Hans Richter (1921, Germany, 3 min.)
  • Vormittagsspuk = Ghosts before breakfast / Hans Richter (1928, Germany, 9 min.)
  • Anémic cinéma / Marcel Duchamp (1926, France, 6 min.)
  • Ballet mécanique / Fernand Léger (1924, France, 11 min.)
  • Symphonie diagonale / Viking Eggeling (1924, France, 7 min.)
  • Le vampire / Jean Painlevé (1939, France, 8 min.)
  • The hearts of age / Orson Welles and William Vance (1934, United States, 8 min.)
  • disc 2. Überfall / Ernö Metzner (1928, Germany, 22 min.)
  • La glace à trois faces / Jean Epstein (1927, France, 33 min.)
  • Le tempestaire / Jean Epstein (1947, France, 22 min.)
  • Romance sentimentale / Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov (1930, France, 20 min.)
  • Autumn fire / Herman G. Weinberg (1931, United States, 15 min.)
  • Manhatta / Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler (1921, United States, 10 min.)
  • La coquille et le clergyman = The seashell and the clergyman / Germaine Dulac (1926, France, 31 min.)
  • Regen = Rain / Joris Ivens (1929, Netherlands, 14 min.)
  • H2O / Ralph Steiner (1929, United States, 12 min.)
  • Even--as you and I / Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins (1937, United States, 12 min.)