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 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'toile de Mer (The Starfish) (France, 1928) directed by Man Ray, 15 minutes
Les Mystres du Chteau de D (The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice) (France, 1929)
directed by Man Ray, 20 minutes f
Mnilmontant (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 Lger, 11 minutes
Symphonie Diagonale (Germany, 1924) directed by Viking Eggeling, 7 minutes
Le Vampire (France, 1939-45) directed by Jean Painlev, 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
Arrire Saison (France, 1950) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 15 minutes
Trait de Bave et d'ternit (Venom and Eternity) (France, 1951) directed by Jean Isidore
Isou, 111 minutes
