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This video art production is an abstract piece in which role reversal is carried to its peak - all the "dancing" is done by inanimate objects and the people are used as stationary, inanimate objects stuck in repeating patterns. Tana Hobart

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The British censors found this film incomprehensible as it combines surrealism and avant-garde techniques. ~ All Movie Guide

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A movie influenced by the Dadaist art movement, with some important innovations. ~ All Movie Guide

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An extra tries to achieve fame but fails. ~ All Movie Guide

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An artisitic perpsective of the Big Apple. ~ All Movie Guide

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A story of two sisters who lose their parents to a vicious murder. ~ All Movie Guide

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Enjoy this unique video presentation featuring perspective differences of variously sized and shaped rectangular figures. ~ All Movie Guide

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This experimental film shows different shapes applied at different times. ~ All Movie Guide

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Some accounts claim that Eisenstein only attached his name to this sound short simply because he needed the money. It is, however, closer to the truth to say that this was a collaboration, although the exact extent of the collaboration between him and Grigori Alexandrov remains undetermined. The film itself is a short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images. Eisenstein's contribution seems to have been the soundtrack which demonstrates his theory of "contrapuntal use of sounds" or the attempt to find a common denominator between sound and image. The sound for Romance Sentimentale is drawn directly on the film's optical track and is the first instance of the use of this technique. This was not intended as a materialist film statement; it was rather an experiment towards an integrated film language. While the film's images are cursory, it retains historical importance as an experimental film predecessor and as the first sound film made by Soviets, even if not in the Soviet Union. ~ Brian Whitener, All Movie Guide

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One of several short films made by German Dadaist filmmaker Hans Richter in the 1920s, Ghosts Before Breakfast uses stop-motion animation to create an odd dream world featuring flying bowler hats. Clocking in at six minutes, the film's original German title was Vormittagsspuk. Matthew Tobey

From the Producers

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.

Product Details

• UPC: 738329040222
• Source: KINO VIDEO
• Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Language: English
• Sales Rank: 19,201

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

• Lot in Sodom
• Les Mystères du Château du Dé
• Rhythmus 21
• La Coquille et le Clergyman
• Autumn Fire
• Even -- As You and I
• Manhatta
• Romance Sentimentale
• Überfall
• Regen
• Anémic Cinéma
• Ballet Mecanique
• Emak Bakia
• H20
• The Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra
• L'étoile de Mer
• La Glace a Trois Faces
• Hearts of Age
• Menilmontant
• Le Retour à la Raison
• Symphonie Diagonale
• Le Tempestaire
• Ghosts Before Breakfast
• Le Vampire

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