Avant-Garde (DVD collection)
Avant-Garde is a DVD-series with experimental films released by Kino International.
Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s is a 2-disc, 6-hour DVD collection, released in August 2005 by Kino International which includes the following titles:
- Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason) (France, 1923) directed by Man Ray, 2 minutes
- Emak-Bakia (Leave Me Alone) (France, 1926) directed by Man Ray, 16 minutes
- L'Étoile de Mer (The Starfish) (France, 1928) directed by Man Ray, 15 minutes
- Les Mystères du Château de Dé (The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice) (France, 1929) directed by Man Ray, 20 minutes f
- Ménilmontant (France, 1926) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 37 minutes
- Brumes d'Automne (Autumn Mists) (France, 1928) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 12 minutes
- The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (US, 1928) directed by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, 13 minutes
- Lot in Sodom (US, 1933) directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 27 minutes
- Rhythmus 21 (Germany, 1921) directed by Hans Richter, 3 minutes
- Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast) (Germany, 1928) directed by Hans Richter, 9 minutes
- Anemic Cinema (France, 1926) directed by Marcel Duchamp, 6 minutes
- Ballet mecanique (France, 1924) directed by Fernand Léger, 11 minutes
- Symphonie Diagonale (Germany, 1924) directed by Viking Eggeling, 7 minutes
- Le Vampire (France, 1939–1945) directed by Jean Painlevé, 9 minutes
- Hearts of Age (US, 1934) directed by Orson Welles and William Vance, 8 minutes
- Uberfall (Germany, 1928) directed by Erno Metzner, 22 minutes
- La Glace a trois faces (France, 1927) directed by Jean Epstein, 33 minutes
- Le Tempestaire (The Tempest) (France, 1947) directed by Jean Epstein, 22 minutes
- Romance Sentimentale (France, 1930) directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov, 16 min.
- Autumn Fire (US, 1931) directed by Herman G. Weinberg, 15 minutes
- Manhatta (US, 1921) directed by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, 25 minutes
- La Coquille et le clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) (France, 1928) directed by Germaine Dulac, 31 minutes
- Regen (Rain) (Netherlands, 1929) directed by Joris Ivens, 14 minutes
- H2O (US, 1929) directed by Ralph Steiner, 12 minutes
- Even As You and I (US, 1937) directed by Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins, 12 minutes
Avant Garde 2 – Experimental Cinema – 1928–1954
On 24 July 2007, Kino International released a second DVD collection of experimental films Avant-Garde Vol. 2: Experimental Films 1930–1954. This release includes:
- Geography of the Body (US, 1943) directed by Willard Maas, 7 minutes
- The Mechanics of Love (US, 1955) directed by Willard Maas and Ben Moore, 5 minutes
- Visual Variations on Noguchi (US, 1945) directed by Marie Menken, 4 minutes
- The Potted Psalm (US, 1946) directed by Sidney Peterson and James Broughton, 18 minutes
- The Cage (US, 1947) directed by Sidney Peterson, 28 minutes
- House of Cards (US, 1947) directed by Joseph Vogel, 16 minutes
- Christmas, U.S.A. (US, 1949) directed by Gregory Markopoulos, 13 minutes
- Adventures of Jimmy (US, 1950) directed by James Broughton, 10 minutes
- Interim (US, 1952) directed by Stan Brakhage, 24 minutes
- Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection (US, 1953) directed by Stan Brakhage, 29 minutes
- The Way to Shadow Garden (US, 1954) directed by Stan Brakhage, 11 minutes
- The Extraordinary Child (US, 1954) directed by Stan Brakhage, 13 minutes
- Rebus-Film Nr. 1 (Germany, 1925) directed by Paul Leni, 15 minutes
- The Fall of the House of Usher (US, 1928) directed by James Watson and Melville Webber, 12 minutes
- Pacific 231 (France, 1949) directed by Jean Mitry, 10 minutes
- Arrière Saison (France, 1950) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 15 minutes
- Traité de Bave et d'Èternité (Venom and Eternity) (France, 1951) directed by Jean Isidore Isou, 111 minutes
Avant-Garde 3 - Experimental Cinema - 1922-1954
On 17 November 2009, Kino International released a third DVD collection of experimental films Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954. This release includes:
Disc 1:
Disc 2:
- Plague Summer (US 1951 B&W 15 Min.) Dir: Chester Kessler
- La Mort du Cerf (The Death of a Stag) (France 1951 B&W 12 Min.) Dir: Dimitri Kirsanoff
- Image in the Snow (US 1952 B&W 26 Min.) Dir: Willard Maas
- Celery Stalks at Midnight (France 1952 Color 3 Min.) Dir: John Whitney
- The Voices (US 1953 B&W 14 Min.) Dir: John E. Schmitz
- Closed Vision (US 1954 B&W 65 Min.) Dir: Marc O
BONUS FILMS:
- Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle (US 1925 B&W 11 Min.) Dir: Bela von Block - Music by Paul Mercer, Bruce Bennett and Davis Petterson
- Schichlegruber doing the Lambeth Walk (UK 1941 B&W 2 Min.) Dir: Charles A. Ridley
- Falling Pink (US circa late 1950s Color 9 Min.) Dir: Robert H. Spring - Music by Paul Mercer and Bruce Bennett
- Dementia (excerpt) (US 1955 B&W 5 Min.) Dir: John Parker
- Tomatos Another Day (outtakes) (US 1930 B&W 5 Min.) Dir: James Sibley Watson
See also