Paul Strand, Bruce Posner, various
Silent Avant-Garde : 21 Experiments with Silent Film & Music
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray All regions, black and white, sound
Original format 16mm & 35mm
Year 1920-1973
Language(s) English
Author(s) Paul Strand, Bruce Posner, George Melford, Joseph Cornell, Mary Ellen Bute, et al.
Artist(s) Orson Welles, Dudley Murphy, Robert J. Flaherty, Ferdnand léger, Man Ray, Rrose Sélavy (pseudonym for Marcel Duchamp), Sergei Eisenstein, et al.
Subtitles French, English, German
Running time 118 min
Films
TWENTY-FOUR DOLLAR ISLAND 1925, 14 min
EISENSTEIN MEXICAN FOOTAGE
1930, 5 min
ANÉMIC CINÉMA 1926, 7 min
PAS DE DEUX 1924, 4 min
VORKAPICH MONTAGE SEQUENCES
1928-1934, 5 min
A BRONX MORNING 1931, 14 min
LOOK PARK 1973, 10 min
LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413 1927, 14 min
HÄNDE 1927, 13 min
RETURN TO REASON 1923, 2 min
MANHATTA 1921, 12 min
BALLET MECHANIQUE 1924, 1931, 13 min
HEARTS OF AGE 1934, 8 min
ESCAPE 1938, 4 min
N.Y., N.Y. 1949-1958, 15 min
THE ECLIPSE 1936-1949, 21 min
TENGA FE 1906, 1922, 2022, 7 min
THE ENCHANTED CITY 1922, 12 min
Description
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SILENT AVANT-GARDE offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements. Highlights include brand new digital restorations of classic experimental films, The Enchanted City (1922), Return to Reason (1923), Ballet Mechanique (1924, 1931), The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1925), Eisenstein Mexican Footage (1930), Escape, Synchromy No. 4 (1938), The Eclipse (1936-1949), Look Park (1973), and Tenga fe (2022). Each film features a brilliant accompaniment of original silent film music specially prepared, composed, improvised and/ or performed by a master of experimental new music. SILENT AVANT-GARDE desires to focus on the creative possibilities of image, sound, and silence used in American-made experimental films of the 20th century.
Paul Strand - Director
Warren A. Newcombe - Director
Gaston Velle - Director
Charles Bryant - Director
Bruce Posner - Director
George Melford - Director
Joseph Cornell - Director
Francis Thompson - Director
Theodore Nemeth - Director
Mary Ellen Bute - Director
Orson Welles - Director
William Vance - Director
Dudley Murphy - Director
Fernand Leger - Director
Robert J. Flaherty - Director
Charles Sheeler - Director
Man Ray - Director
Stella Simon - Director
Miklós Bándy - Director
Robert Florey - Director
Ralph Steiner - Director
Jay Leyda - Director
Slavko Vorkapich - Director
Al Brick - Director
Rrose Sélavy (pseudonym for Marcel Duchamp) - Director
Eduard Tisse - Director
Grigori Alexandrov - Director
Sergei Eisenstein - Director
Orson Welles - Actor