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Directed by: Alberto Cavalcanti, etc.
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MPAA Rating: Not Rated
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Running Time: 321
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Date: 03/18/2013
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Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954 (2009)
Painting with Light
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Kino has released another two-disc set of avant-garde and experimental films, and unless you're a fan of these kinds of films, the results are interesting, if not particularly exciting. There's a 46-minute "feature" by Alberto Cavalcanti, who is best known as one of the four directors on the great anthology horror film Dead of Night (1945); it's a meditation on the city of Paris over one day. The Tell-Tale Heart (1928) -- based on Edgar Allan Poe's story -- isn't bad, though it's slow and not as daring as something like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The other interesting item is a clip from the experimental horror film Dementia (1955), which Kino has already released in its entirely on a separate DVD. Each film comes with explanatory notes. The following is a complete list of films: DISC ONE - DANSE MACABRE
US 1922 Color Tinted 6 Min.
Dir: Dudley Murphy - RIEN QUE LES HEURES
(Nothing But Time)
US 1926 B&W 46 Min.
Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti
Music by Larry Marotta - THE TELL-TALE HEART
US 1928 B&W 20 Min.
Dir: Charles F. Klein
Music by Sue Harshe - TARANTELLA
US 1940 Color 4 Min.
Dir: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth - TOMATOS ANOTHER DAY
US 1930 B&W 7 Min.
Dir: James Sibley Watson - THE UNCOMFORTABLE MAN
US 1948 B&W 23 Min.
Intentionally silent
Dir: Kent Munson, Theodore Huff
The above films are from the collection of the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department - THE PETRIFIED DOG
US 1948 B&W 18 Min.
Dir: Sidney Peterson - THE LEAD SHOES
US 1949 B&W 16 Min.
Dir: Sidney Peterson - FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON
US 1951 B&W 14 Min.
Dir: James Broughton DISC TWO - PLAGUE SUMMER
US 1951 B&W 15 Min.
Dir: Chester Kessler - LA MORT DU CERF
(The Death of a Stag)
France 1951 B&W 12 Min.
Dir: Dimitri Kirsanoff - IMAGE IN THE SNOW
US 1952 B&W 26 Min.
Dir: Willard Maas - CELERY STALKS AT MIDNIGHT
France 1952 Color 3 Min.
Dir: John Whitney - THE VOICES
US 1953 B&W 14 Min.
Dir: John E. Schmitz - CLOSED VISION
US 1954 B&W 65 Min.
Dir: Marc'O BONUS FILMS - TOMATOS ANOTHER DAY (outtakes)
US 1930 B&W 5 Min. Dir: James Sibley Watson - EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF A GIN BOTTLE
US 1925 B&W 11 Min. Dir: Bela von Block
Music by Paul Mercer, Bruce Bennett and Davis Petterson - SCHICHLEGRUBER DOING THE LAMBETH WALK
UK 1941 B&W 2 Min. Dir: Charles A. Ridley - DEMENTIA (excerpt)
US 1955 B&W 5 Min. Dir: John Parker - FALLING PINK
US circa late 1950s Color 9 Min. Dir: Robert H. Spring
Music by Paul Mercer and Bruce Bennett
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