Various – Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 [Disc 1] (2007)

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In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation s foremost proponents of experimental cinema. This two-disc collection continues Kino s tribute to the Rohauer Collection, including the early works of Stan Brakhage and influential films by Willard Maas, Gregory Markopoulos, Marie Menken, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Mitry, Sidney Peterson and others.

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the major pioneers of the period that came before the American avant-garde crested in the late Fifties to mid Sixties are all in attendance on the collection’s first disc: Willard Maas, Marie Menken, Sidney Peterson, James Broughton, Gregory Markopoulos, and Stan Brakhage. That period’s two seminal achievements—along with nearly the entirety of Deren’s oeuvre—are accounted for in Maas’s Geography of the Body (1943) and Peterson’s The Cage (1947). The former brings to cinema an unconventional depiction of the nude figure, with Maas’s extreme close-up photography transforming familiar parts into exciting, undiscovered terrains of flesh, an erotic revolution in vantage point that would inform everything from Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses to Brakhage’s entire film philosophy.

List of films in DISC ONE:

GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY
US 1943 B&W 7 Min.
Willard Maas

THE MECHANICS OF LOVE
US 1955 B&W 5 Min.
Willard Maas and Ben Moore

VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI
US 1945 B&W 4 Min.
Marie Menken

THE POTTED PSALM
US 1946 B&W 18 Min.
Sidney Peterson & James Broughton

THE CAGE
US 1947 B&W 28 Min.
Sidney Peterson

HOUSE OF CARDS
US 1947 B&W 16 Min.
Joseph Vogel

CHRISTMAS, U.S.A.
US 1949 B&W 13 Min.
Gregory J. Markopoulos

ADVENTURES OF JIMMY
US 1950 B&W 10 Min.
James Broughton

INTERIM
US 1952 B&W 24 Min.
Stan Brakhage

UNGLASSED WINDOWS CAST A TERRIBLE REFLECTION
US 1953 B&W 29 Min.
Stan Brakhage

THE WAY TO SHADOW GARDEN
US 1954 B&W 11 Min.
Stan Brakhage

THE EXTRAORDINARY CHILD
US 1954 B&W 13 Min.
Stan Brakhage

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DVD Source: Kino Video, DVD9
DVD Format: NTSC
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Language(s):English
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