Silent Avant-Garde
2024
Computer Files, Websites
Offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.Highlights include brand new digital restorations of classic experimental films, Manhatta (1921), The Enchanted City (1922), Return to Reason (1923), Ballet Mechanique (1924, 1931), The Twenty-Four Dollar Island (1925), Eisenstein Mexican Footage (1930), Escape (1938), The Eclipse (1936-1949), Look Park (1973), and Tenga fe (2022). Each film features a brilliant accompaniment of original silent film music specially prepared, composed, improvised and/or performed by a master of experimental new music. SILENT AVANT-GARDE desires to focus on the creative possibilities of image, sound, and silence used in American-made experimental films of the 20th century.
Main title:
Author:
Filmmakers Showcase (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Work:
Imprint:
Filmmakers Showcase, 2023.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (197 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by Filmmakers Showcase in 2023.
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
BRN:
482415
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/14077715/external-image - Cover Image