Masterworks of American avant-garde experimental film, 1920-1970 /
American avant-garde experimental film, 1920-1970
- Deluxe combo Blu-ray/DVD edition.
, United States
- 4 videodiscs (418 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 cm).
- Blackhawk Films collection .
- Blackhawk Films collection .
Originally issued as separate motion pictures 1920-1921 to 1970. Includes accompanying booklet. The majority of silent films in this collection feature new musical scores. -- taken from container. Bonus features: 2k restoration of Manhatta with 2008 Slovak Sinfonietta orchestral score by Donald Sosin and 2013 music score by Henry Wolfe and Phil Carluzzo; 2k restoration of Ballet Mechanique with additional footage and George Antheil's 1925 percussive score for 16 player pianos and mechanical noises; previously unavailable, unique versions of Meshes of the afternoon, In the street, N.Y., N.Y. and Film that rises to the surface of clarified butter; additional films: "Sappho and Jerry. Parts 1-3", "Seasons ..." and "Ch'an"; 28 page booklet featuring essay by curator, filmmaker and historian Bruce Posner, as well as extensive notes on the new editions.
Let the eyes have it / by Bruce Posner -- Booklet. The 1920s -- The 1930s -- The 1940s -- The 1950s -- The 1960s -- 1970 -- Legacy bonus films. -- Manhatta / Ballet Mechanique / Anémic cinéma / Life and death of 9413: a Holywood extra / Skyscraper symphony / Mechanical principles / Tango in D / A Bronx morning / Lot in Sodom / Poem 8 / An optical poem / Hungarian rhapsody, no. 2 / Thimble theater / Tarantella / Pursuit of happiness / 1941 / Meshes of the Afternoon / Meditation on violence / In the street / by Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand ; new music, Donald Sosin by Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy by Rrose Sélavy a.k.a. Marcel Duchamp ; new music, Gustavo Matamoros by Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich ; new music, Donald Sosin by Robert Florey ; new music, Donald Sosin by Ralph Steiner ; new music, Eric Beheim, arranged from by Issac Albéniz by Jay Leyda ; new music, Donald Sosin by J.S. Watson Jr., Melville Webber, Alec Wilder, Remsen Wood, Bernard O'Brien ; music, Louis Siegel by Emlen Etting ; new music, Rodney Sauer Oskar Fischinger ; music, by Franz Liszt by Joseph Cornell ; completed by Lawrence Jordan by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth ; music, Edwin Gerschefski by Rudy Burckhardt by Francis Lee ; music, Igor Stravinsky by Maya Deren, A. Hackenschmied by Maya Deren by Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee ; music, Arthur Kleiner disc 1. (207 min.): (1920-21) (11 min., 41 sec.) -- (1923-24) (15 min., 53 sec.) -- (1924-25, released 1926) (6 min., 40 sec.) -- (1927) (13 min., 20 sec.) -- (1929) (8 min., 53 sec.) -- (1930) (10 min, 18 sec.)-- (1931) (14 min., 5 sec.) -- (1930-32, released 1933) (25 min., 53 sec.) -- (1932-33) (19 min., 40 sec.) -- (1937, MGM release 1938) (7 min., 2 sec.) -- (circa 1938, unfinished until 1968) (6 min., 7 sec.) -- (1940) (4 min., 24 sec.) -- (1940) (8 min., 9 sec.) -- (1941) (4 min.) -- (1943) (13 min., 46 sec.) -- (1948) (12 min., 27 sec.) -- (filmed 1945-46, released 1948, 1952) (16 min., 50 sec.). -- Four in the afternoon / Abstronic / Eaux d'artifice / Four seasons / Bells of Atlantis / House of incest Evolution / Gyromorphosis / Django / Hurry, Hurry! / N.Y., N.Y. / 9 variations on a dance theme / Film that rises to the surface of clarified butter / Excerpt from Walden: diaries, notes and sketches / Our lady of the sphere / Love it-Leave it / DL2 (disintegration line #2) / Transport / Sappho and Jerry. Parts 1-3 / Ch'an / Seasons ... / Manhatta / by James Broughton ; music, William O. Smith, with Anna Halprin, Welland Lathrop by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth ; music, Aaron Copland, Don Gillis by Kenneth Anger ; music by Antonio Vivaldi by Ian Hugo ; abstract color effects, Len Lye ; music, Louis and Bebe Barron ; with Anaïs Nin reading from by Jim Davis by Hy Hirsh ; music, by John Lewis, played by the Modern Jazz Quartet by Marie Menken by Francis Thompson ; music, Gene Forrell by Hilary Harris ; music, McNeil Robinson ; dancer, Bettie de Jong by Bruce Baillie by Owen Land, formerly George Landow by Jonas Mekas by Lawrence Jordan by Tom Palazzolo ; music, Ray Whilding White by Lawrence Janiak ; music, Peliatan Gamelan by Amy Greenfield Bruce Posner by Francis Lee ; music, Christopher Atwood by Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage by Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand ; new music, Henry Wolfe, Phil Carluzzo disc 2. (211 min.): (1950-51) (14 min.) -- (1952) (5 min., 45 sec.) -- (1953) (12 min., 57 sec.) -- (1952-53) (9 min., 27 sec.) -- (1954) (8 min., 1 sec.) -- (1954) (6 min., 40 sec.) -- (1957) (4 min., 27 sec.) -- (filmed 1949-57, released 1958) (15 min., 10 sec.) -- (1966-67) (12 min., 39 sec.) -- Castro Street (the coming of consciousness) / (1966) (9 min., 59 sec.) -- (1968) (8 min., 26 sec.) -- (1969) (13 min., 5 sec.) -- (1969) (9 min., 14 sec.) -- (1970) (14 min., 7 sec.) -- (1970) (11 min., 46 sec.) -- (1970) (8 min., 26 sec.) -- (1977-78) (5 min., 35 sec.) -- (1983) (6 min., 8 sec.) -- (2002) (16 min.) -- (1920-21) (11 min., 41 sec.).
Editors, Bret Hampton, John Tariot. Editors, Bret Hampton, John Tariot.
A collection of 37 restored avant-garde films from some of the most acclaimed names of American avant-garde filmmaking.
DVD-video; NTSC, region 1. Blu-ray disc; Blu-ray, region A.