Official Description: From The Collection of The George Eastman House and from the Raymond Rohauer Collection.

From the little theaters of the 1920s to the ad hoc film societies of the ’50s, avant-garde cinema knew no established form and held no predictable position. The boundaries of its history are still hotly debated, but its rough sensibilities informed and permeated the city symphonies of Alberto Cavalcanti, the visual music of Mary Ellen Bute and John Whitney, the classroom films of Sidney Peterson, the confessional film poems of Willard Maas and John E. Schmitz, the Lettrist cinema of Marc’O, and even marginal exploitation films and home movies.

Drawn from the rich collections of Raymond Rohauer and the George Eastman House, Kino’s third volume of experimental films continues to illuminate the degree to which cinema’s evolution has been influenced by those filmmakers who occupy its periphery.

Distributor: Kino International

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Contents:

Disc 1:

1. Danse Macabre
   US 1922 Color Tinted 6 Min.
   Dir: Dudley Murphy
2. Rien Que Les Heures (Nothing But Time)
   US 1926 B&W 46 Min.
   Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti
   Music by Larry Marotta
3. The Tell-Tale Heart
   US 1928 B&W 20 Min.
   Dir: Charles F. Klein
   Music by Sue Harshe
4. Tarantella
   US 1940 Color 4 Min.
   Dir: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
5. Tomatos Another Day
   US 1930 B&W 7 Min.
   Dir: James Sibley Watson
6. The Uncomfortable Man
   US 1948 B&W 23 Min.
   Intentionally silent
   Dir: Kent Munson, Theodore Huff
7. The Petrified Dog
   US 1948 B&W 18 Min.
   Dir: Sidney Peterson
8. The Lead Shoes
   US 1949 B&W 16 Min.
   Dir: Sidney Peterson
9. Four in the Afternoon
   US 1951 B&W 14 Min.
   Dir: James Broughton

Disc 2:

1. Plague Summer
   US 1951 B&W 15 Min.
   Dir: Chester Kessler
2. La mort du cerf (The Death of a Stag)
   France 1951 B&W 12 Min.
   Dir: Dimitri Kirsanoff
3. Image in the Snow
   US 1952 B&W 26 Min.
   Dir: Willard Maas
4. Celery Stalks at Midnight
   France 1952 Color 3 Min.
   Dir: John Whitney
5. The Voices
   US 1953 B&W 14 Min.
   Dir: John E. Schmitz
6. Closed Vision
   US 1954 B&W 65 Min.
   Dir: Marc’O

Bonus Films:

1. Tomatos Another Day (outtakes)
   US 1930 B&W 5 Min.
   Dir: James Sibley Watson
2. 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
3. Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk
   UK 1941 B&W 2 Min.
   Dir: Charles A. Ridley
4. Dementia (excerpt)
   US 1955 B&W 5 Min.
   Dir: John Parker
5. Falling Pink
   US circa late 1950s Color 9 Min.
   Dir: Robert H. Spring
   Music by Paul Mercer and Bruce Bennett

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