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Five Experimental Films Of The 1950s
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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Four of the fiIms in this coIIection arrived after the release of the much Iarger anthoIogy Masterworks of the American Avant-garde Experimental Film, 1920-1970 had gone to press; they are such beautiful and extraordinary works that deserve to be seen after decades of unavailabiIity. AIl are briIIiant and true color copies mastered in high definition from originaI Kodachrome master copies or camera films.
Abstract in Concrete (1952). John Arvonio shot footage for this stunning pattern film of New York City at night over a five-year period. The music by Frank Fields is a movement of his 1931 suite Times Square SiIhouette. AIthough it was quite successfuI and widely shown in the 1950s, Arvonio never reIeased another fiIm.
Analogies #1 and CoIor Dance #1 are both by Jim Davis (1952-53). Painter, sculptor and a major figure in "50's avant-garde fiIm, Davis is represented in the Masterworks anthoIogy by EvoIution. "Abstract and mysterious to many spectators, these waves and studies of Iight were for Davis images if the causative forces of nature." - ReVoir
Treadle and Bobbin by Wheaton GaIentine (1954). The Singer treadle sewing machine stars in this rhythmic and imaginatively photographed work. "A distinguished visual analysis of moving parts, weIl expIoited for beauty and interest and notabIe for its fresh observation." - Melbourne (Australia) lnt'I FiIm FestivaI. GaIentine coIIaborated with other major independent filmmakers of the period including Francis Thompson, ShirIey Clarke and Alexander Hammid, but this is his only released solo work.
N.Y., N.Y. by Francis Thompson (Filmed 1949-57, reIeased 1958). Thompson shot the vibrant fractured images with a Kodak Ciné-Special camera speciaIIy rigged with "secret" mirrors, kaleidoscopes and even refIective car hubcaps. The experience remains an exquisite time capsule that not onIy documents Manhattan during the 1950s but aIso, in the words of the New York Times, proffers "one of the few genuine mas¬terpieces" of the burgeoning experimental film movement in the United States.
CompiIed and Produced by David Shepard
Special Contents of This Edition 2016 by Film Preservation Associates, lnc. |
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