This deluxe 2 disc collection was derived from the Collection of the George Eastman House and 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.

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

Disc 2:
Plague Summer (US 1951 B&W 15 Min.), directed by Chester Kessler
La Mort du Cerf (The Death of a Stag) (France 1951 B&W 12 Min.), directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff
Image in the Snow (US 1952 B&W 26 Min.), directed by Willard Maas
Celery Stalks at Midnight (France 1952 Color 3 Min.), directed by John Whitney
The Voices (US 1953 B&W 14 Min.), directed by John E. Schmitz
Closed Vision (US 1954 B&W 65 Min.), directed by Marc O

Kino International; 2009; NTSC; Regiong 1 (US and Canada only); 321 minutes

Also available is Avant-Garde DVD and Avant-Garde 2 DVD.