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The author of more than 200 films of scientific research in the avant-garde spirit, Painlevé devoted his life to filming the infinitely small with state of the art equipment. This collection features Mathusalem, Hyas et Stenorinques, L'Hippocampe, Barbe Bleue, Le Vampire, Oursins, Histoires de Crevettes, Les Amours de la Pieuvre, Acera ou le Bal des Sorcieres and Cristaux Liquides.
Images disintegrate and the gelatine layer - where the chemicals are embedded, dissolves. All that\'s left is the \'raging of the elements\' in a near-abstract, hypnotic landscape. \'The basic idea is that it is impossible to fix film\' - Reble.
One of the major works of letterist cinema, LE FILM EST DEJA COMMENCE? had as much of a direct or hidden influence on the New Wave as it does on today's Avant-Garde. Its first screenings in Paris in 1951 became major events. The critics despised it, but this work is and will remain a landmark in film History.
\'Meshes of the Afternoon\' was a genuine landmark which launched the American post-war avant-garde movement and has continued to influence experimental film-makers. Through a variety of disorientating creative devices, everyday objects acquire strangely
"In September 1947 I disembarked in Haïti, for an eight-month stay, with eighteen motley pieces of lugage; seven of these consisted of 16-millimeter motion-picture equipment (three cameras, tripods, raw film stock, etc.), of which three were related to sound recording for a film, and three contained equipment for still photography." - Maya Deren
From the maker of the influential \'Wavelength\', an investigation into representation, process and material and the nature of camera movement.
The champion of absolute ideas in abstract experimental films, Fischinger\'s name is synonymous with the genre. This is a good mix of his films from his experiments with animating kaolin wax on glass to his beautiful later colour abstracts. Notice: this title is out of print; please refer to Oskar Fischinger - Ten Films
A wide range of abstract films from the master of the genre, from advertisements for Muratti cigarettes and Muntz televisions to fragments of animated experiments. Notice: this title is out of print; please refer to Oskar Fischinger - Ten Films
Three extraordinary, experimental films. Features 'Piece Mandala / End War', N:O:T:H:I:N:G and T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G.
Call to Mind contains the films My Name Is Oona (1969), Time Being (1991) and Red Shift (1984), a trilogy with the family as a theme. True To Life (2006) functions as a separate comment for the other films. The Blu-ray box includes a catalog with texts by Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Susanne Forest, Steve Anker and John Sundholm, in Swedish and English, as well as a large number of still images.
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