Avant-garde : experimental cinema of the 1920s and '30s

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Twenty-five short films selected from the avant garde movement of the 1920's and 1930's
"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 ... 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."--Container notes

Language note: Films are primarily silent with music and English, French, German, and Dutch credits and intertitles with optional English subtitles

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