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Avant Garde: Experimental Cinema 2 (Region 1) - Volume 2
Releasedatum: 24 juli 2007
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. The pièce de résistance is Jean Isidore Isou’s passionate manifesto of film aesthetics Traité de Bave et D’eternité (Venom and Eternity), which sparked a riot when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. This edition of Venom includes 34 minutes of footage never seen in the United States.

Disc 1:

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)

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

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

Disc 2:

REBUS-FILM NO. 1 (US 1928 B&W 15 Min. / Paul Leni)

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (US 1928 B&W 12 Min. / James Watson & Melville Webber)

PACIFIC 231 (France 1949 B&W 10 Min. / Jean Mitry)

ARRIÈRE SAISON (France 1950 B&W 15 Min. / Dimitri Kirsanoff)

TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D’ÈTERNITÉ (Venom and Eternity) (France 1951 B&W 111 Min. / Jean Isidore Isou)

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