Avant-Garde is a DVD-series with experimental films released by Kino International. [edit] Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s is a 2-disc, 6-hour DVD collection, released in August 2005 by Kino International which includes the following titles: - Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason) (France, 1923) directed by Man Ray, 2 minutes
- Emak-Bakia (Leave Me Alone) (France, 1926) directed by Man Ray, 16 minutes
- L'Étoile de Mer (The Starfish) (France, 1928) directed by Man Ray, 15 minutes
- Les Mystères du Château de Dé (The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice) (France, 1929) directed by Man Ray, 20 minutes f
- Ménilmontant (France, 1926) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 37 minutes
- Brumes d'Automne (Autumn Mists) (France, 1928) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 12 minutes
- The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (US, 1928) directed by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, 13 minutes
- Lot in Sodom (US, 1933) directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 27 minutes
- Rhythmus 21 (Germany, 1921) directed by Hans Richter, 3 minutes
- Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast) (Germany, 1928) directed by Hans Richter, 9 minutes
- Anemic Cinema (France, 1926) directed by Marcel Duchamp, 6 minutes
- Ballet mecanique (France, 1924) directed by Fernand Léger, 11 minutes
- Symphonie Diagonale (Germany, 1924) directed by Viking Eggeling, 7 minutes
- Le Vampire (France, 1939-45) directed by Jean Painlevé, 9 minutes
- Hearts of Age (US, 1934) directed by Orson Welles and William Vance, 8 minutes
- Uberfall (Germany, 1928) directed by Erno Metzner, 22 minutes
- La Glace a trois faces (France, 1927) directed by Jean Epstein, 33 minutes
- Le Tempestaire (The Tempest) (France, 1947) directed by Jean Epstein, 22 minutes
- Romance Sentimentale (France, 1930) directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori V. Alexandrov, 16 min.
- Autumn Fire (US, 1931) directed by Herman G. Weinberg, 15 minutes
- Manhatta (US, 1921) directed by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, 25 minutes
- La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) (France, 1928) directed by Germaine Dulac, 31 minutes
- Regen (Rain) (Netherlands, 1929) directed by Joris Ivens, 14 minutes
- H2O (US, 1929) directed by Ralph Steiner, 12 minutes
- Even As You and I (US, 1937) directed by Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and LeRoy Robbins, 12 minutes
[edit] Avant Garde 2 - Experimental Cinema - 1928-1954 On 24 July 2007, Kino International released a second DVD collection of experimental films Avant-Garde Vol. 2: Experimental Films 1930-1954. This release includes: - Geography of the Body (US, 1943) directed by Willard Maas, 7 minutes
- The Mechanics of Love (US, 1955) directed by Willard Maas and Ben Moore, 5 minutes
- Visual Variations on Noguchi (US, 1945) directed by Marie Menken, 4 minutes
- The Potted Psalm (US, 1946) directed by Sidney Peterson and James Broughton, 18 minutes
- The Cage (US, 1947) directed by Sidney Peterson, 28 minutes
- House of Cards (US, 1947) directed by Joseph Vogel, 16 minutes
- Christmas, U.S.A. (US, 1949) directed by Gregory Markopoulos, 13 minutes
- Adventures of Jimmy (US, 1950) directed by James Broughton, 10 minutes
- Interim (US, 1952) directed by Stan Brakhage, 24 minutes
- Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection (US, 1953) directed by Stan Brakhage, 29 minutes
- The Way to Shadow Garden (US, 1954) directed by Stan Brakhage, 11 minutes
- The Extraordinary Child (US, 1954) directed by Stan Brakhage, 13 minutes
- Rebus-Film Nr. 1 (Germany, 1925) directed by Paul Leni, 15 minutes
- The Fall of the House of Usher (US, 1928) directed by James Watson and Melville Webber, 12 minutes
- Pacific 231 (France, 1949) directed by Jean Mitry, 10 minutes
- Arrière Saison (France, 1950) directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, 15 minutes
- Traité de Bave et d'Èternité (Venom and Eternity) (France, 1951) directed by Jean Isidore Isou, 111 minutes
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