Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970

Flicker Alley anuncia la publicación de una compilación de treinta películas del cine de vanguardia norteamericano en formato Blue Ray y DVD. Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 consta de cuatro discos que incluyen trabajos paradigmáticos de la experimentación fílmica en Estados Unidos. Sinfonías urbanas, documentos poéticos, narraciones surrealistas, prácticas de música visual y trabajos de reciclaje audiovisual confluyen en una edición que combina películas clásicas de la tradición vanguardista (Manhatta, Meshes of the Afternoon, A MOVIE) con piezas a descubrir de cineasta menos reconocidos (1941, Love It / Leave It, Transport). Muchos de estos filmes ya han sido publicados anteriormente en el esencial pack Unseen Cinema o la serie Avant-Garde Cinema editada por el sello Kino Video.

Listado completo de películas incluidas:

Manhatta (1920-21) by Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
Anémic cinema (filmed 1924-25, released 1926) by Rrose Sélavy a.k.a. Marcel Duchamp
The Life and Death of 9413–A Hollywood Extra (1927) by Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
Skyscraper Symphony (1929) by Robert Florey
Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner
A Bronx Morning (1931) by Jay Leyda
Lot in Sodom (1930-32, released 1933) by J.S. Watson, Jr., Melville Webber, Alec Wilder, Remsen Wood, Bernard O’Brien.
Poem 8 (1932-33) by Emlen Etting Thimble Theater (c. 1938, unfinished until 1968) by Joseph Cornell
Tarentella (1940) by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
The Pursuit of Happiness (1940) by Rudy Burckhardt
1941 (1941) by Francis Lee
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) by Maya Deren, A. Hackenschmied
Motion-Painting, No. 1 (1947) by Oskar Fischinger
Meditation on Violence (1948) by Maya Deren
In the Street (filmed 1945-46, released 1948, 1952) by Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee.
Abstronic (1952) by Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Hurry, Hurry! (1957) by Marie Menken
N.Y., N.Y. (filmed 1949-57, released 1958) by Francis Thompson
A MOVIE (1958) by Bruce Conner
Re-Entry (1964) by Jordan Belson
Castro Street (The Coming of Consciousness) (1966) by Bruce Baillie
Excerpt from Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1969) by Jonas Mekas
Our Lady of the Sphere (1969) by Lawrence Jordan
Love It / Leave It (1970) by Tom Palazzolo
DL2 (Disintegration Line #2) (1970) by Lawrence Janiak
Transport (1970) by Amy Greenfield
Seasons… (2002) by Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage
Manhatta (1920-21) by Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand with new music composed and performed by Henry Wolfe and Phil Carluzzo

Abstronic (1952) Mary Ellen Bute

Skycraper Symphony (1929) Robert Florey

Transport (1970) Amy Greenfield