experimental

Synopsis

In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. Programming diverse films at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles, and making the films in his personal archive available for commercial distribution, he helped preserve and promote avant-garde cinema.

This two-DVD collection assembles some of the most influential and eclectic short films in the Rohauer Collection, including works by Man Ray, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Watson & Webber, Fernand Léger, Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Epstein, and Orson Welles.

“…is a community for video artists, curators, writers, theorists, educators, collectors, and enthusiasts”

"Experimental Cinema, the Film Reader brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists."

Edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon & Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
In Focus: Routleedge Readers (New York, 2002)

ISBN 0-415-27787-6

791.43611 Exp