Avant-gardes : Chefs d'oeuvres cinéma expérimental

Outside the narrative world, cinema becomes art, experimental, part of the avant-garde and an exploration of what the senses can not perceive in reality. Figurative or abstract, it offers a virtually infinite field of visual and sound possibilities: multiple superimpositions, amazing framing, rapid editing, surprising experiments on the very surface of the film, optical effects ...

Looking primarily at touching the eye and the senses, experimental cinema works more on the visual image than on the narration.

These films help one to discover the invisible, visit parallel universes and they surprise, invent, deconstruct and propose new logic. Between classical cinema and cinema of our everyday world, there is an exciting third path, sometimes difficult to approach, but always promising.

In this panorama of experimental short films from around the world and from the origins of cinema to the present day, are included films from Orson Welles, Ralph Steiner, Fernand Léger, Dziga Vertov, Maya Deren and Stan Brackhage.  Prepare to be be astonished, reassembled, scandalized ...

DVD 1 - L'OEIL SYNTHETIQUE
• EARLY SUPERIMPOSITION (1900)
• BUTTERFLY DANCES
• BUILDING UP AND DEMOLISHING THE STAR THEATRE (1901)
• CONEY ISLAND AT NIGHT (1905)
• LOONEY LENS - ANAMORPHIC PEOPLE (1927)
• LOONEY LENS - Tenth Ave, NYC (1927)
• MANHATTA (1921)
• THE 24$ ISLAND (1926)
• A BRONX MORNING (1931)
• THE THIEVING HAND (1907)
• IMPOSSIBLE CONVICTS (1906)
• THE HEARTS OF AGE (1934)
• MACISTE ALL' INFERNO
• THE TELLTALE HEART
• WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY
• HÄNDE : DAS LEBEN UND DIE LIEBE EINES ZARTLICHEN GESCHLECHTS
• RACHMANINOFF’S PRELUDE
• THEODORE CASE SOUND TESTS

DVD 2 - LE CINEMA PLASTIQUE
• BALLET MECANIQUE
• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413 : A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA
• THE LOVE OF ZERO
• L’INHUMAINE
• MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
• SERGEI EISENSTEIN’S MEXICAN FOOTAGE
• SKYSCRAPER SYMPHONY
• LOT IN SODOM
• THIMBLE THEATER

DVD 3 - REVERIES OU ILLUSIONS
• DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY (1947)
• A PIE IN THE SKY (1935)
• SPOOK SPORT (1939)
• ABSTRONIC (1952)
• L’APPRENTI SORCIER (1933)
• TARANTELLA (1940)
• PEER GYNT (1941)
• VORKAPICH - CRIME WITHOUT PASSION (1934)
• VORKAPICH - FIREFLY (1937)
• VORKAPICH - MOODS OF THE SEA (1942)
• MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943)
• ANALOGIES NO.1 1952-1953)
• TREADLE AND BOBBIN (1954)
• COLOR DANCES NO.1 (1952)

DVD 4 - HERITAGE & OUVERTURE
• IN THE STREET (1948)
• EVOLUTION (1954)
• GYROMORPHOSIS (1956)
• ABSTRACT IN CONCRETE (1952)
• N.Y., N.Y. (1949-1957)
• L’ENFER (1964)
• BLEU BLANC ROUGE (1989)
• PANT'O JAZZ (1991)
• MONA LISA SMILES (1975-2015)
• SEASONS ... (2002)
• SAPPHO AND JERRY : PART 1-3 (1977-1978)
• DL2 (DISINTEGRATION LINE #2) (1970)
• IMPRESIONES EN LA ALTA ATMOSFERA (1988)