FM-A052-2005

Avant Garde

Video

DVD

F&MS

No

Available

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 preserved and promote avant-garde cinema. This two-DVD collection assembles some of the most influential and eclectic short films in the Rohauer Collection. A full listing of the films included is as follows: Le Retour à la Raison, (Man Ray, 1923), Emak-Bakia, (Man Ray, 1926), L'Étoile de Mer (Man Ray, 1928), Les Mystères du Château du Dé (Man Ray, 1929), The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey, 1928) Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926), Brumes D'Automne (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1928), Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 1933), Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, 1921), Vormittagsspuk (Hans Richter, 1928), Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp, 1926), Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger, 1924), Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggeling, 1924), Le Vampire (Jean Painlevé, 1939) The Hearts of Age (Orson Welles and William Vance, 1934) Überfall (Ernö Metzner, 1928), La Glace à Trois Faces (Jean Epstein, 1927), Le Tempestaire (Jean Epstein, 1947), Romance Sentimentale (Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov, 1930), Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg, 1931), Manhatta (Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, 1921), La Coquille et le Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1926), Regen (Joris Ivens, 1929), H2O (Ralph Steiner, 1929), and Even—As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins, 1937).