Links
to other relevant DVDs, books and music available online
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items are available for purchase on
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(by following these links, a small commission from your purchase will
benefit CVM's programs):
Avant-Garde - Experimental Cinema of the 1920s-30s
(includes Richter's Rhythm 21 and Ghosts Before Breakfast,
Eggeling's Symphonie Diagonale, Ballet Mechanique, 2 Man Ray
films, Duchamp's Anemic Cinema, films by Dulac, Ivens, many others.
DVD
The
Right Stuff (includes
Jordan Belson's spectacular special effects)
"by
Brakhage: an anthology"
2-disc DVD
set with booklet, Criterion 2003, 243 minutes. Liner notes by Fred Camper.
Man Ray, Prophet of the Avant-Garde
DVD,
1997
Walther
Ruttman, Berlin: Symphony of a City
DVD, also contains Opus I
Fantasia, 60th Anniversary 3 DVD Set.
With commentary by John Canemaker. Third 'bonus' disc contains animation
drawings by Oskar Fischinger.
Scott
Snibbe, Selected Interactive Works 1995-2005 DVD
Bill
Morrison, DecasiaDVD
Lotte
Reiniger, Adventures of Prince AchmedDVD
Books
we recommend
Visual
Music exhibition catalog (Kerry Brougher, Ed., et al)
William
Moritz, Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger
David
James, The Most Typical Avant-Garde
Hilla
Rebay: Art of Tomorrow (recent exhibition at Guggenheim Museum)
Summer
of Love (recent exhibition at Tate, UK)
P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943-2000
P. Adams Sitney, Ed. Film Culture Reader
Malcolm LeGrice, Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age
Scott MacDonald, A Critical Cinema 3: Interviews with Independent
Filmmakers (includes Jordan Belson interview)
Robert Russett and Cecile Starr, Experimental Animation: Origins
of a New Art
On
the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950 (includes William
Moritz's essay, "Visual Music and Film as an Art before 1950")
Scott
MacDonald, A History of Cinema 16
Jayne
Pilling, Ed., A Reader in Animation Studies (essays by Bill Moritz, Robin
Allen, others)
Maureen
Furniss, Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics
Giannalberto
Bendazzi, Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation
Jan-Christopher Horak, Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde
1919-1945 (includes major essay on Mary Ellen Bute)
Dan
Flavin : The Complete Lights, 1961--1996
more
titles coming, please check back periodically
MUSIC
Anthology
of American Folk Music - CD Box Set (Harry Smith, Editor)