Unseen Cinema: Inverted Narratives
Duration: 02:35:00 One of a seven-DVD series exploring American avant-garde cinema from 1894-1941. Presented by Anthology Film Archives in association with the British Film Institute, Cineric, Film Preservation Associates, Deutsches Filmmuseum, George Eastman House, The Library of Congress and The M...
| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
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| Language: | English |
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Anthology Film Archives
2005
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:e03881de-31b4-4b72-9ae4-d6da993f5ea3 |
| Summary: | Duration: 02:35:00
One of a seven-DVD series exploring American avant-garde cinema from 1894-1941. Presented by Anthology Film Archives in association with the British Film Institute, Cineric, Film Preservation Associates, Deutsches Filmmuseum, George Eastman House, The Library of Congress and The Museum of Modern Art. Early directors D.W. Griffith and Lois Weber develop the radical language of cinema narrative through audience-friendly melodramas made for nickelodeon theaters. Experimental fantasies are depicted in such independent productions as Moonland (c. 1926), Lullaby (1929), and The Bridge (1929-30). Depression era films by socially-conscious filmmakers reshape drama as demonstrated in Josef Berne's brooding Black Dawn (1933) and Strand and Hurwitz's biting Native Land (1937-41): each pictures a raw reality. Parody and satire find their mark in Theodore Huff's Little Geezer (1932) and Barlow, Hay and Le Roy's Even as You and I (1937). David Bradley's Sredni Vashtar by Saki (1940-43) boasts an inadvertent post-modern attitude. Films: The House with Closed Shutters (1910)—D.W. Griffith & G.W. "Billy" Bitzer Suspense (1913)—Lois Weber & Philips Smalley Moonland (c. 1926)—Neil McQuire & William A. O’Connor Lullaby (1929)—Boris Deutsch The Bridge (1929-30)—Charles Vidor Little Geezer (1932)—Theodore Huff Black Dawn (1933)—Josef Berne & Seymour Stern Native Land (1937-41)—Frontier Films: Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand (excerpt) Black Legion (1936-7)—Nykino: Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke Even As You and I (1937)—Roger Barlow, Harry Hay & Le Roy Robbins Object Lesson (1941)—Christoher Young "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (1940-43)—David Bradley |
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| Published: | 2005 |