Avant-garde : experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s
Bret Wood (Film producer, Designer), Elliott Stein (Writer of added commentary), Man Ray (Film producer, Film director, Editor of moving image work, Screenwriter, Photographer), Robert Florey (Film director), Slavko Vorkapich (Film director), Dmitri Kirsanov (Film producer, Screenwriter, Film director, Editor of moving image work), James S. Watson (Film producer, Film director, Photographer), Melville Webber (Film producer, Film director), Hans Richter (Film director), Marcel Duchamp (Film producer), Fernand Léger (Film producer), Viking Eggeling (Film producer), Jean Painlevé (Film producer), Orson Welles (Film producer), William Vance (Film producer), Ernö Metzner (Film producer, Film director, Screenwriter), Jean Epstein (Film producer, Film director, Screenwriter), Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich Aleksandrov (Screenwriter, Film director), Paul Morand (Author), Sergei Eisenstein (Screenwriter, Film director), Herman G. Weinberg (Editor of moving image work, Film director, Film producer, Photographer), Paul Strand (Film director, Photographer), Charles Sheeler (Film director, Photographer), Germaine Dulac (Film director), Joris Ivens (Photographer, Editor of moving image work, Film director), Mannus Franken (Film director), Ralph Steiner (Film director, Photographer), Roger Barlow (Film director), Harry Hay (Film director), LeRoy Robbins (Film director), Kiki (Actor), André de la Rivière (Actor), Robert Desnos (Actor), Georges Auric (Actor), Beaumont (Actor), Raymond Rohauer, Rohauer Collection, Kino International Corporation (Production company)
Originally produced as individual silent motion pictures in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States, these twenty-five short films epitomize the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's. The films are drawn from the collection assembled by Raymond Rohauer, one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema, founder of the Hollywood Film Society, and longtime programmer at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Rohauer helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema, and these films from his personal archive are some of the most influential and eclectic short films made during the 20th Century
DVD Video, English, 2005
Deluxe two-disc edition
Kino International, New York, NY, 2005