List of avant-garde films before 1930
A list of avant-garde and experimental films made before 1930. Though some had dedicated music scores written for them, or were synchronized to records, nearly all of these films were silent. Several of them involve color, through tinting, hand-painting or even photographic color.
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes | ||
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1900 | ||||||
A Nymph of the Waves | Frederick S. Armitage | Cathrina Barto | Early use of optical printing[1] | |||
1901 | ||||||
The Ghost Train | Frederick S. Armitage | Use of overprinting; section shown in negative[2][3] | ||||
1903 | ||||||
Le cake-walk infernal | Georges Méliès | Ghostly, in-camera superimpositions[4] | ||||
Down the Hudson | Frederick S. Armitage, A.E. Weed | Single-frame, time-lapse travel actually "up" the Hudson River[5][6] | ||||
1905 | ||||||
Interior NY Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street | Billy Bitzer | Shot from front of subway car, largely abstract[7][8] | ||||
1906 | ||||||
The '?' Motorist | Walter R. Booth | Short, experimental animation in the style of Georges Méliés. Produced by R. W. Paul. | ||||
1907 | ||||||
Les Kiriki - Acrobates Japonaises | Segundo de Chomón | Exceptional trick film, shot from the ceiling facing downward[9] | ||||
1908 | ||||||
Fantasmagorie | Émile Cohl | Early animation, reflective of the pre-modernist movement of the Incoherents[10] | ||||
1910 | ||||||
The Hasher's Delerium | Émile Cohl | Early animation; representation of a hallucination[11] | ||||
1911 | ||||||
The Automatic Moving Company | Romeo Bosetti and/or Émile Cohl | Often attributed to Émile Cohl; recent scholarship points toward Bosetti.[12][13] | ||||
A Chord of Color | Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna | Abstract animation, Lost film[14] | ||||
Study on the Effects of Four Colors | Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna | Abstract animation, Lost film[15] | ||||
Translation of Mallarmé's poem "Flowers" into Colors | Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna | Abstract animation, Lost film[16] | ||||
Translation of Mendelssohn's Spring Song | Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna | Abstract animation, Lost film[17] | ||||
1912 | ||||||
The Dance | Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna | Abstract animation, Lost film[18][19] | ||||
The Rainbow | Bruno Corra, Arnaldo Ginna | Abstract animation, Lost film[20][21] | ||||
1913 | ||||||
Rythmes colorés (Coloured Rhythm) | Leopold Survage | Abstract animation; ca. 105 drawings made but not filmed[22][23][24] | ||||
Suspense | Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Valentine Paul, Lois Weber | Contains early examples of split-screen and a car chase. | |||
1914 | ||||||
Drama in the Futurist's Cabinet No. 13 | Vladimir Kasyanov | Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, David Burliuk | Lost film[25][26] | |||
1915 | ||||||
La folie du Docteur Tube | Abel Gance | Albert Dieudonné | Archaic trick film, shot through Anamorphic lens[27][28] | |||
The Hypocrites | Lois Weber | Courtenay Foote, Myrtle Stedman | Allegorical and highly symbolic religious picture; nude principal character[29] | |||
The Picture of Dorian Gray | Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mikhail Doronin | Vavara Yanova, Vsevolod Meyerhold | Adaptation of Oscar Wilde story by symbolist theater director; Lost film[30][31] | |||
1916 | ||||||
Diana the Huntress | Charles W. Allen, Francis Trevelyan Miller | Lionel Braham, Percy Richards | Highly stylized mythic film; fragment only[32][33] | |||
Intolerance | D.W. Griffith | Lillian Gish, Robert Harron | Influential film which attempts to tell four stories at once; extensive use of montage[34] | |||
The Strong Man | Vsevolod Meyerhold | Mikhail Doronin, Vsevolod Meyerhold | Adaptation of Stanisław Przybyszewski play by symbolist theater director; Lost film[35][36] | |||
1917 | ||||||
Thaïs | Anton Giulio Bragaglia | Thaïs Galizsky | Italian Futurist film; incomplete print extant.[37][38] | |||
Vita futurista | Arnaldo Ginna | Filippo Marinetti, Giacomo Balla | Italian futurist film; Lost film[39][40] | |||
1918 | ||||||
Âmes des fous | Germaine Dulac | Sylvio de Pedrelli, Ève Francis | Serial which incorporated avant-garde techniques; lost film.[41][42] | |||
The Blue Bird | Maurice Tourneur | Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall | Stylized, almost surrealistic, fantasy film[43] | |||
Nye dlya deneg radivshisya (Born Not for the Money) | Nikandr Turkin | Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk | Russian futurist adaptation of Jack London story[44] Lost film [45] | |||
Il Perfido Incanto | Anton Giulio Bragaglia | Renée Avril, Thaïs Galizsky | Lost Italian Futurist film.[46][47] | |||
Prunella | Maurice Tourneur | Isabel Berwin, Jules Raucourt | Stylized, almost surrealistic, fantasy film; only a 30-minute fragment extant[48][49] | |||
The Young Lady and the Hooligan | Vladimir Mayakovsky,Yevgeni Slavinsky | Fyodor Dunayev, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksandra Rebikova | The only surviving film appearance by arch-Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky [50] | |||
1919 | ||||||
The Fall of Babylon | D.W. Griffith | Constance Talmadge, Alfred Paget | Edited from Intolerance, widely influential in Europe; introduced 'Russian montage' to Russia[51] | |||
Rose-France | Marcel L'Herbier | Claude-France Aïssé, Jacque Catelain | Symbolic romance[52] | |||
1920 | ||||||
Anywhere Out of the World | Dudley Murphy | Chase Harringdine | Dance film, Lost film[53] | |||
Aphrodite | Dudley Murphy | Katharine Hawley | Dance film, Lost film[54][55] | |||
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover | Expressionist horror film, greatly influential on avant-garde filmmakers, particularly in the United States[56] | |||
La Fête espagnole | Germaine Dulac | Ève Francis, Gaston Modot | First film written by Louis Delluc[57][58] | |||
From Morning to Midnight | Karlheinz Martin | Ernst Deutsch | Adaptation of Expressionist play, only film made by theatre director Martin; barred from German cinemas at the time[59] | |||
Genuine | Robert Wiene | Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski | Particularly extreme example of Expressionism[60] | |||
Nude Woman by Waterfall | Claude Friese-Greene | Dance film.[61] | ||||
Le silence | Louis Delluc | Ève Francis, Gabriel Signoret | Naturalist, experimental short[62] | |||
The Soul of the Cypress | Dudley Murphy | Chase Harringdine | Dance film[65][66] | |||
1921 | ||||||
El Dorado | Marcel L'Herbier | Ève Francis, Jacque Catelain | Melodrama, highly stylized sets and use of montage[67] | |||
Fièvre | Louis Delluc | Ève Francis, Gaston Modot | Naturalist melodrama[68][69] | |||
Manhatta | Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler | First City film[70][71] | ||||
Opus 1 | Walter Ruttmann | Abstract Animation[72] | ||||
Opus 2 | Walter Ruttmann | Abstract Animation[73] | ||||
Rhythmus 21 | Hans Richter | Abstract animation.[74] | ||||
1922 | ||||||
Danse macabre | Dudley Murphy | Adolph Bolm, Ruth Page | Dance film[75][76] | |||
The Enchanted City | Warren Newcombe | Art heavy futurist short[77][78] | ||||
La femme de nulle part | Louis Delluc | Ève Francis, Gine Avril | Naturalist melodrama[79][80] | |||
Der Sieger | Walter Ruttmann | Semi-abstract advertising film[81] | ||||
1923 | ||||||
Cœur fidèle | Jean Epstein | Léon Mathot, Gina Manès | Naturalist melodrama, experimental sequence; cited in Curtis[82][83] | |||
Dnevnik Glumova (Glumov's Diary) | Sergei Eisenstein | Grigori Alexandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Filmed inserts for The Wise Man, a production of the Moscow Proletkult Central Theater; issued as part of Kino Pravda No. 16[84][85] | |||
L'ironie du Destin | Dimitri Kirsanoff | Dimitri Kirsanoff, Nadia Sibirskaïa | Naturalist melodrama; Lost film[86][87] | |||
The Man Without Desire | Adrian Brunel | Ivor Novello | Fantasy, cited by Rotha[88] | |||
La mort du soleil | Germaine Dulac | André Nox, Denis Lorys | Social drama, experimental techniques[89][90] | |||
Le Retour à la Raison | Man Ray | Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse) | Insert film for a Dadist soirée[91] | |||
La roue | Abel Gance | Séverin-Mars, Ivy Close | Lengthy melodrama utilizing extensive segments of "Russian montage"[92][93] | |||
La Souriante Madame Beudet | Germaine Dulac | Germaine Dermoz, Alexandre Arquillière | Social drama, experimental techniques. Considered one of the first feminist films.[94][95][96] Premiered November 9, 1923.[97] | |||
Paris qui dort | René Clair | Henri Rollan, Charles Martinelli | Surrealist comedy with science-fiction angle[98][99] | |||
Rhythmus 23 | Hans Richter | Abstract animation. Several scholars have shown that Richter likely backdated his film; this was probably made at least several years later.[100] | ||||
Salomé | Charles R. Bryant | Alla Nazimova, Mitchell Lewis | Art Nouveau rendering of biblical story based on Aubrey Beardsley[101][102] | |||
Sea of Dreams | Warren Newcombe | Hazel Lindsley | Futuristic fantasy; Lost film[103][104] | |||
1924 | ||||||
The Adventures of Oktyabrina | Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Zinaida Torkhovskaya, Yevgeni Kumeiko | First production of FEKS; lost film[105] | |||
Aelita: Queen of Mars | Iakov Protazanov | Igor Ilyinsky, Mikhail Zharov | ||||
Ballet Mécanique | Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | Alice Prin | Cubist film, with music score by George Antheil[106][107] | |||
Entr'acte | René Clair | Alice Prin, Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp | Dadaist insert film for Erik Satie's ballet Relâche[108][109] | |||
The Fugitive Futurist | Gaston Quiribet | Comedy featuring "melting" wipe effect; futuristic projections on travel[110] | ||||
L'Inhumaine | Marcel L'Herbier | Georgette Leblanc, Jacque Catelain | Highly stylized science fiction feature[111][112] | |||
Interplanetary Revolution | Nikolai Khodotaev, Zenon Komisarenko, Yuri Merkolov | Satire of Protazanov's Aelita: Queen of Mars | ||||
Kino-Eye | Dziga Vertov | |||||
Opus III | Walter Ruttmann | Abstract animation[113] | ||||
Au secours! | Abel Gance | Max Linder, Jean Toulout | Horror-comedy, highly experimental in style[114][115] | |||
Symphonie Diagonale | Viking Eggeling | Abstract animation; in production from 1921. | ||||
Soviet Toys | Dziga Vertov | Satirical animation and advertising[116] | ||||
1925 | ||||||
Les aventures de Robert Macaire | Jean Epstein | Jean Angelo, Alex Allin | Fantasy serial, cited in Rotha[117] | |||
Battleship Potemkin | Sergei Eisenstein | Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Alexandrov | "Odessa Steps" sequence is a textbook example of Russian montage[118] | |||
La fille de l'eau | Jean Renoir | Catherine Hessling, Pierre Champagne | Naturalist drama, surrealist influenced[119][120] | |||
Jean Cocteau fait du cinéma | Jean Cocteau | Jean Cocteau | 16mm short, Lost film[121][122] | |||
KIPHO | Julius Pinschewer, Guido Seeber | Trailer for International Film Congress of Berlin, 1925[123][124] | ||||
Lebende Buddhas | Paul Wegener | Paul Wegener, Asta Nielsen | Fragment only; fragment is more experimental than Expressionist[125] | |||
Opus IV | Walter Ruttmann | Abstract animation[126] | ||||
The Pottery Maker | Robert J. Flaherty | Semi-documentary, experimental in style[127][128] | ||||
A Quoi revent les jeunes films? | Henri Chomette, Man Ray | Lost film. Made as a collaboration between Chomette and Ray; later sub-divided into three different films.[129][130] | ||||
Rebus Film Nr. 1 | Paul Leni | Semi-abstract filmed puzzle, part of a series of eight films[131][132] | ||||
Rhythmus 25 | Hans Richter | Abstract animation; Lost film[133] | ||||
Strike | Sergei Eisenstein | |||||
Stromlinien | Oskar Fischinger | Abstract animation[134] | ||||
The Way | Francis Brugière | Sebastian Droste, Rosalinde Fuller | Unrealized project, dated by Rotha to 1923 and often dated to 1929; 1925 is correct[135] | |||
1926 | ||||||
Anémic cinéma | Marcel Duchamp | Dadaist semi-animated film[136] | ||||
Cinq minutes de cinéma pur | Henri Chomette | Extract from A Quoi revent les jeunes films?[137][138] | ||||
Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse | Henri Chomette | Extract from A Quoi revent les jeunes films?[139] | ||||
Ménilmontant | Dimitri Kirsanoff | Urban realist melodrama[140][141] | ||||
Filmstudie | Hans Richter | Merger between abstract animation and photographic abstraction[142] | ||||
Moonland | Neil McGuire, William A. O'Connor | Mickey McBan | Fantasy short, surrealist sets & situations[143][144] | |||
Mother | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov | Gripping social realist drama, heavy use of montage[145] | |||
A Page of Madness | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa | Surreal, intense representation of insanity using highly advanced film techniques.[146] | |||
Raumlichtkunst series | Oskar Fischinger | Abstract animation; multiple projector performances. Reconstructed 2012 in HD as a three screen installation.[147] | ||||
Rien que les heurs | Alberto Cavalcanti | Blanche Bernis, Nina Chousvalowa | City film[148] | |||
Secrets of a Soul | G. W. Pabst | Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher | Co-written with psychoanalysts Karl Abraham and Hanns Sachs, with dream sequence and sets by Ernő Metzner.[149] | |||
A Sixth Part of the World | Dziga Vertov | |||||
Spirals | Oskar Fischinger | Abstract Animation; incorporates footage made several years earlier[150] | ||||
Le voyage imaginaire | René Clair | Dolly Davis, Jean Bõrlin | Fantasy film with surrealist elements[151][152] | |||
Wax Experiments | Oskar Fischinger | Abstract Animation; incorporates footage going back to c. 1921[153] | ||||
1927 | ||||||
Bed and Sofa | Abram Room | Nikolai Batalov, Vladimir Fogel, Lyudmila Semyonova | Written by Viktor Shklovsky | |||
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City | Walter Ruttmann | City film | ||||
City Film | Ralph Steiner | Amateur City film[154] | ||||
Combat de Boxe | Charles Dekeukeleire | Staging of boxing match, based on poem by Paul Werrie | ||||
Emak-Bakia | Man Ray | Alice Prin | Extract from A Quoi revent les jeunes films?[155] | |||
The End of St. Petersburg | Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya | Historic epic[156] | |||
La Glace à trois faces (The Three-Sided Mirror) | Jean Epstein | Raymond Guérin-Catelain, Jeanne Helbling | Avant-garde projection of a narrative romance.[157] | |||
Les Halles centrales | Boris Kaufman | City film[158] | ||||
L'invitation au voyage | Germaine Dulac | Emma Gynt, Raymond Dubreuil | Impressionistic "Cinéma pur"[159] | |||
Die Landpartie | Alex Strasser | Animated "grotesque"[160] | ||||
Loony Lens | Al Brick | Anamorphic views; insert series to Fox Movietone newsreels, begun 1924, only 4 known,[161][162] | ||||
La marche des machines | Eugène Deslaw | Semi-abstract art film of machinery; filmed by Boris Kaufman[163] | ||||
München-Berlin Wanderung | Oskar Fischinger | Photographic single-frame film. Not released until decades later.[164] | ||||
Napoléon | Abel Gance | Albert Dieudonné, Antonin Artaud | Enormous historic epic, experimental techniques and multi-screen[165] | |||
Magic Umbrella | Jerome Hill | Genre parody, filmed in Rome; color and sound added in 1965[166] | ||||
Orgelstabe | Oskar Fischinger | Abstract animation; series of experiments made over several years.[167] | ||||
La p'tite Lili | Alberto Cavalcanti | Catherine Hessling, Jean Renoir | Naturalist short, street film[168] | |||
Prelude | Castleton Knight | Experimental projection of Edgar Allan Poe's The Premature Burial, conventionally framed.[169] | ||||
En rade | Alberto Cavalcanti | Pierre Batcheff, Blanche Bernis | Urban realist melodrama[170][171] | |||
Seelische Konstruktionen | Oskar Fischinger | Abstract animation.[172] | ||||
Sur un air de Charleston | Jean Renoir | Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins | Silly, surrealist dance short with sci-fi elements[173] | |||
Le train sans yeux | Alberto Cavalcanti | Hans Mierendorff, Gina Manès | Written by Louis Delluc[174] | |||
Vieux châteaux | Eugène Deslaw | Zet Molan | Artful semi-documentary[175] | |||
Wing Beat | Kenneth MacPherson | |||||
Your Acquaintance | Lev Kuleshov | Pyotr Galadzhev, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Yuri Vasilchikov | Art direction by Aleksandr Rodchenko. Only a fragment survives.[176] | |||
1928 | ||||||
L'Argent | Marcel L'Herbier | Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel | Experimental, modernized treatment of Zola novel[177] | |||
Blue Bottles | Ivor Montagu | Elsa Lanchester, Joe Beckett | Hybrid of experimental style and slapstick comedy[178][179] | |||
De Brug (The Bridge) | Joris Ivens | |||||
Celles qui s'en font | Germaine Dulac | Visualization of music[180] | ||||
La chute de la maison Usher | Jean Epstein | Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance | Horror, highly stylized[181] | |||
Disque 957 | Germaine Dulac | Visualization of music[182][183] | ||||
The Eleventh Year | Dziga Vertov | |||||
L'Étoile de mer | Man Ray | Alice Prin | Surrealist film financed by Charles De Noailles; written by Robert Desnos | |||
Ghosts Before Breakfast | Hans Richter | Dadaist fantasy[184] | ||||
Grotesken im Schnee | Alex Strasser, Lotte Reiniger | Animated "grotesque" with sillouhettes[185] | ||||
Hände | Stella Simon, Miklós Bandy | Stylized love story utilizing only hands; made in silent and sound versions[186][187] | ||||
Inflation | Hans Richter | Montage made for the feature Der Dame mit der Maske (1928).[188] Visual abstraction on the subject of runaway inflation in Weimar-era Germany. | ||||
Impatience | Charles Dekeukeleire | Yvonne Selma | Photographic abstract film[189] | |||
In the Shadow of the Machine | Albrecht Viktor Blum, Leo Lania | Montage made of footage shot by Dziga Vertov for A Sixth Part of the World | ||||
Johann the Coffin Maker | Robert Florey | Horror short, Lost film[190] | ||||
Jûjiro | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bando | Expressionistic treatment of Samurai story[191] | |||
The Last Moment | Paul Fejos | Otto Matieson, Lucille La Verne | Independently-made, experimental feature; Lost film[192] | |||
The Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra | Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich | Jules Raucourt, George Voya | Ultra low budget anti-Hollywood film[193][194][195] | |||
The Love of Zero | Robert Florey | Anielka Elter, Captain Marco Elter | [196][197] | |||
Les nuits électriques | Eugène Deslaw | Semi-abstract art film of neon signs[198] | ||||
October, a.k.a. Ten Days That Shook the World | Sergei Eisenstein | Nikolay Popov, Vasily Nikandrov | Contains Eisenstein's most radical uses of montage[199] | |||
Le petite marchande d'alumettes | Jean Renoir, Jean Tedesco | Catherine Hessling, Eric Barclay | Fantasy short with surrealist elements[200][201] | |||
Praha v zári svetel (Prague Shining in Lights) | Svatopluk Innemann | City film[202] | ||||
Rennsymphonie | Hans Richter | |||||
The Seashell and the Clergyman | Germaine Dulac | Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou | Surrealist dream film written by Antonin Artaud. Often dated to 1927, but premiered in Paris, February 9, 1928.[203] | |||
The Tell-Tale Heart | Charles Klein | Charles Darvas, Hans Fuerberg | Horror short[204][205] | |||
Thèmes et Variations | Germaine Dulac | Visualization of music[206][207] | ||||
There It Is | Charles Bowers | Charles Bowers, Kathryn McGuire | Two reel comedy, absurd in the extreme[208] | |||
Twenty-Four Dollar Island | Robert J. Flaherty | City film, variously dated to 1926, 1927. Premiered in NYC, January 1, 1928[209][210] | ||||
Überfall | Ernő Metzner | |||||
The Fall of the House of Usher | James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber | Short film | ||||
Koko's Earth Control | Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer | Koko the Clown | Animated cartoon with exceptional visual dynamism; flash frames[211] | |||
Zvenigora | Oleksandr Dovzhenko | Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny | Film poem with fantasy elements[212] | |||
1929 | ||||||
Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich (Everything Turns, Everything Revolves) | Hans Richter | Sound; music by Walter Gronostay. Only roughly half of this 15-minute experimental short still survives.[213] | ||||
Arsenal | Oleksandr Dovzhenko | Amvrosy Buchma, Georgiy Kharkiv, Semyon Svashenko | ||||
The Bridge | Charles Vidor | Nicholas Bela, Charles Darvas | Experimental narrative film based on Ambrose Bierce story, also known as The Spy; sometimes dated 1930-31[214] | |||
Brumes d'automne | Dimitri Kirsanoff | Nadia Sibirskaïa | Film poem, with synchronized music track[215][216] | |||
Dr Turner's Mental Home | Dora Carrington, Beakus Penrose | Short, experimental melodrama. Not publicly screened. | ||||
Drifters | John Grierson | Documentary with a distinctly modernist orientation[217][218] | ||||
Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque | Germaine Dulac | Visualization of music[219][220] | ||||
Every Day | Hans Richter | Sergei Eisenstein, Basil Wright | Artful semi-documentary about everyday life[221] | |||
H2O | Ralph Steiner | |||||
Histoire de détective | Charles Dekeukeleire | Pierre Bourgeois | Semi-abstract film; despite the title, not a detective story[222] | |||
Images d'Ostende | Henri Storck | |||||
Impressionen vom alten Marseiller Hafen (Vieux Port) | László Moholy-Nagy | City film[223] | ||||
Lullaby | Boris Deutsch | Riva Deutsch, Michael Visaroff | Expressionist drama, likely incomplete; Horak dates it to 1925[224][225] | |||
Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | |||||
Monkey's Moon | Kenneth MacPherson | |||||
Montparnasse | Eugène Deslaw | Luis Buñuel, Filippo Marinetti | City film, with synchronized sound[226] | |||
My Grandmother | Kote Mikaberidze | Aleksandr Takaishvili, Bella Chernova | Eccentric combination of avant-garde and social comedy[227] | |||
Les Mystères du Château de Dé | Man Ray | Man Ray, Georges Auric | Surrealist short funded by Charles De Noailles[228] | |||
The New Babylon | Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina | Production of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor[229][230] | |||
La Perle | Henri D'Ursel | Georges Hugnet, Kissa Kouprine, Renee Savoye, Mary Stutz | Experimental narrative film.[231] | |||
Pour vos beaux yeux | Henri Storck | |||||
Rain | Joris Ivens, Mannus Franken | |||||
Skyscraper Symphony | Robert Florey | City film[232][233] | ||||
The Storming of La Sarraz | Hans Richter, Sergei Eisenstein, Ivor Montagu | Béla Balász, Léon Moussinac | Made during a film conference; Lost film[234] | |||
Studie Nr. 1 | Oskar Fischinger | Abstract animation[235] | ||||
Tusalava | Len Lye | Abstract animation[236][237] | ||||
Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil | Short surrealist film written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí[238] | |||
War Under the Sea | M.G. MacPherson, Jean Michelson | Artkino production; Lost film[239] | ||||
See also
References
- Paul Rotha and Roger Manvell, "Movie Parade: A Pictorial Survey of the Cinema" London: The Studio, 1936
- Jay Leyda, "Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film" Princeton University Press, 1983 (originally published in 1960)
- Parker Tyler, "Underground Film: A Critical History" New York: Da Capo Press, 1995 (originally published in 1969)
- David Curtis, "Experimental Cinema" New York: Universe Books, 1970
- P. Adams Sitney, "Visionary Film" New York: Oxford University Press, 1979
- Jan-Christoper Horak, ed., Lovers of Cinema: the first American film avant-garde, 1919-1945. University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-299-14684-9
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- ↑ The Ghost Train
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- ↑ Raphaël Bassan, "Cinema and Abstraction: From Bruno Corra to Hugo Verlinde"
- ↑ Moma entry
- ↑ Standish D. Lawder, "The Cubist Cinema." New York University Press Anthology Film Archives series, 1975, ISBN 0814749577
- ↑ Bruce Checefsky's digital realization of 12 drawings
- ↑ Nitrateville Thread, "The Drama in the Futurists Cabinet No. 13 (1914)"
- ↑ Jay Leyda, "Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film," Allen and Unwin, NYC 1960
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- ↑ David Curtis, "Experimental Cinema" Universe Books, NYC 1971
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- ↑ Silent Beauties
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- ↑ Thaïs
- ↑ "Love Story of the Painter Balla and a Chair"
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- ↑ Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, "Wome Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary. Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1995, pg. 116 imdb entry
- ↑ Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, "To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema. University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1990
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