List of avant-garde films of the 1940s
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Avant-garde and experimental films din yina 1940s.
Title | Director | Cast | Nation | Notes |
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colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1941 | ||||
Moods of the Sea | Slavko Vorkapić, John Hoffman | United States | Black & white, sound (Felix Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (overture)[1] | |
Who Has Been Rocking My Dream Boat | Kenneth Anger | United States | Lost film.[2] | |
colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1942 | ||||
By Night with Torch and Spear | Joseph Cornell | United States | ||
Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style | Charles A. Ridley | United Kingdom | British propaganda short, which "remixes" marching Nazis to a pop song.[3] | |
Tinsel Tree | Kenneth Anger | United States | Lost film[4] | |
Variations on a Circle | James Whitney (filmmaker) | United States | Color, silent. Abstract animation, shot in 8mm. [5] | |
colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1943 | ||||
Allegretto | Oskar Fischinger | United States | Abstract animation, color, sound. Third version, completed in 1943[6] | |
The Geography of the Body | Willard Maas | Willard Maas, Marie Menken | United States | Film poem, text written and read by George Barker (poet)[7][8] |
Meshes of the Afternoon | Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | United States | Black & white; sound by composer Teiji Ito added in 1959. Established the movement known as "New American Cinema."[9][10] |
The Witch's Cradle | Maya Deren, Marcel Duchamp | Marcel Duchamp, Pajarito Matta | United States | Black & white; silent. Never finished; survives as workprint or gathering of trims.[11][12] |
colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1944 | ||||
At Land | Maya Deren | Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Parker Tyler, John Cage | United States | [13] |
colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1945 | ||||
The Eye and the Ear | Stefan Themerson, Franciszka Themerson | United Kingdom | ||
Le Vampire | Jean Painlevé | France | ||
Out-Takes From a Study in Choreography for Camera | Maya Deren | Talley Beatty | United States | [14] |
A Study in Choreography for Camera | Maya Deren | Talley Beatty | United States | [15] |
Visual Variations on Noguchi | Marie Menken | United States | [16] | |
colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1946 | ||||
The Potted Psalm | Sidney Peterson, James Broughton | Beatrix Perry, Harry Honig | United States | Live action surrealist short.[17] |
Ritual in Transfigured Time | Maya Deren | Maya Deren, Rita Christiani, Frank Westbrook, Anaïs Nin | United States | [18] |
colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1947 | ||||
The Cage | Sidney Peterson | United States | Tɛmplet:Fact | |
Dreams That Money Can Buy | Hans Richter | Max Ernst | United States | [19] |
Fireworks | Kenneth Anger | Kenneth Anger, Bill Seltzer, Gordon Gray | United States | [20] |
Forest Murmurs | Slavko Vorkapić, John Hoffman | United States | Black & white, sound; made for MGM, but withheld from release. Jacobs dates it to 1941; most other sources give 1947.[21] | |
Lady in the Lake | Robert Montgomery | Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter | United States | [22] |
Motion Painting No. 1 | Oskar Fischinger | United States | [23] | |
Private Life of a Cat | Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | United States | ||
Le Tempestaire | Jean Epstein | France | ||
Transmutation | Jordan Belson | United States | Belson's first film, shown at Art in Cinema screenings in San Francisco in the early '50s; lost film.[24] | |
colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1948 | ||||
Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort | Gregory Markopoulos | United States | Color, 70 min. Begun in Los Angeles in 1947; finished in Toledo, Ohio. In three parts: Psyche, Lysis & Charmides.[25] | |
In the Street | Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee | United States | Silent; sound version issued in 1952 [26][27] | |
Meditation on Violence | Maya Deren | Chao Li Chi | United States | [28] |
The Petrified Dog | Sidney Peterson | Gail Randall, Marie Hirsh, Jo Landor | United States | [29][30] |
Weegee's New York | Weegee | United States | [31][32] | |
colspan="5" Tɛmplet:Yearheader style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1949 | ||||
Christmas, U.S.A. | Gregory Markopoulos | United States | Tɛmplet:Fact | |
The Lead Shoes | Sidney Peterson | United States | Tɛmplet:Fact | |
Medusa | Maya Deren | United States | [33] | |
Pacific 231 | Jean Mitry | France | [34] | |
Puce Moment | Kenneth Anger | United States | [35] |
Notes
[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]- ↑ Horak, Jan Christopher (1995). Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-299-14680-4.
- ↑ Sitney, P. Adams (2002). Visionary Film: The American Avant Garde 1943-2000 third edition. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 84. ISBN 0-19-514885-1.
- ↑ Public Domain Review, "Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style" [1]
- ↑ Lewis, David. Tinsel Tree. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Los Angeles Filmforum, "Alternative Projections: John Whitney" [2]
- ↑ Oskar Fischinger Filmography [3]
- ↑ P. Adams Sitney, "Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943–2000. Oxford University Press, 2002 pg. 75
- ↑ Lewis, David. Geography of the Body. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ MOMA Object Page [4]
- ↑ Lux Entry [5] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Dangerous Minds: ‘The Witch’s Cradle’: Watch Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp’s stunning occult short [6]
- ↑ Charney, Leo. Meshes of the Afternoon. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Lewis, David. At Land. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Lewis, David. A Study in Choreography for Camera. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Lewis, David. A Study in Choreography for Camera. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Lewis, David. Visual Variations on Noguchi. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ [7] MUBI entry
- ↑ Lewis, David. Ritual in Transfigured Time. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Erickson, Hal. Dreams That Money Can Buy. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Crow, Jonathan. Fireworks. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Lewis Jacobs, "Experimental Cinema in America II," Hollywood Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3, Spring 1948, reprinted in Smoodin, Eric Loren; Martin, Ann (2002). Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 43. ISBN 0-520-23274-7.
- ↑ Jake Hinkson -- Through the Camera's Eye: Experiments with Subjective Camera in Film Noir [8] Archived 2017-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Motion Painting No. 1. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Experimental Cinema -- Jordan Belson [9]
- ↑ Harvard Film Archive Markopoulos retrospective [10]
- ↑ In the Street. Film, Video. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
- ↑ In the Street. Little Fugitive / In the Street / Quiet One. UCLA Library Film & Television Archive. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
- ↑ Mediation on Violence. allmovie. Rovicorp. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre review [11]
- ↑ The Sound of Eye: The Petrified Dog [12]
- ↑ Visionary Film: Weegee [13]
- ↑ ICP: Weegee's New York [14]
- ↑ Lewis, David. Medusa. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Pacific 231. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Lewis, David. Puce Moment. Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
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