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 preserve and promote avant-garde cinema.
This two-DVD collection assembles some of the most influential and eclectic short films in the Rohauer Collection, including works by Man Ray, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Watson & Webber, Fernand Léger, Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Epstein, and Orson Welles.
Contents:
Disc 1: (3:20:42)
(Man Ray, France, 1923, 2 min.)
(Man Ray, France, 1926, 16 min.)
(Man Ray, France, 1928, 15.5 min.)
(Man Ray, France, 1929, 20 min.)
(Slavko Vorkapich, Robert Florey, U.S., 1928, 13 min.)
(Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1926, 37 min.)
(Dimitri Kirsanoff, France, 1928, 12 min.)
(James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber, U.S., 1933, 27 min.)
(Hans Richter, Germany, 1921, 3 min.)
(Hans Richter, Germany, 1928, 9 min.)
(Marcel Duchamp, France, 1926, 6.5 min.)
(Fernand Léger, France, 1924, 11 min.)
(Viking Eggeling, France, 1924, 7 min.)
(Jean Painlevé, France, 1939, 8.5 min.)
(Orson Welles, William Vance, U.S., 1934, 8 min.)
Disc 2: (3:20:43)
(Ernö Metzner, Germany, 1928, 22 min.)
(Jean Epstein, France, 1927, 33 min.)
(Jean Epstein, France, 1947, 22.5 min.)
(Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori V. Alexandrov, France, 1930, 20 min.)
(Herman G. Weinberg, U.S., 1931, 15 min.)
(Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, U.S., 1921, 10 min.)
(Germaine Dulac, France, 1926, 31.5 min.)
(Joris Ivens, the Netherlands, 1929, 14 min.)
(Ralph Steiner, U.S., 1929, 12 min.)
(Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, LeRoy Robbins, U.S., 1937, 12 min.)