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  1. American Avant-Garde: The Lawrence Jordan Album and the Films of James Broughton (2011)

    Director
    Lawrence Jordan; James Broughton
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 465, 290 minutes), $89.95

    The life’s work of two legends of the US avant-garde cinema is included in this 7-disc collection. Lawrence Jordan’s collage-style animation—which influenced the early work of Terry Gilliam, among...

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  2. Maya Deren: Dance Films (1997)

    Subject
    Dance; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00 (individual); £60.00 (institutional)

    Selections from the series of dance films made by the American avant-garde film-maker Maya Deren in the 1940s and 1950s. It contains Talley Beatty’s A Study in Choreography for the Camera, Frank...

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  3. Maya Deren: Experimental Films

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00 (Institutional use £60.00)

    MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943 music by Teiji Ito, 1959, b/w, 15’ With Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. Grand Prix International, avant-garde section, Cannes 1947. AT LAND 1944 silent, b/w, 16’ With Deren,...

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  4. Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 418 minutes), €50.00

    This collection includes 37 films, restored to high-definition, from some of the foremost experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s creative...

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  5. Visions of Warhol (2008)

    Director
    Jonas Mekas; Maas Willard; Marie Menkin
    Subject
    Art; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), Lux: £23 (individual), £60 (institutional)

    Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by three pioneer avant-garde filmmakers and close friends. The DVD features four films. 'Award Presentation to Andy Warhol’ (Jonas Mekas), documents Mekas...

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  6. Collector Costakis, The (2014)

    aka: George Costakis

    Director
    Barrie Gavin
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 55 minutes), £17.99

    George Costakis is well known as the foremost collector of early 20th Century Russian avant-garde art. The walls of his public housing flat in Moscow are crowded with his rich collection of banned and...

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  7. Riddles of the Sphinx (2013)

    Director
    Laura Mulvey; Peter Wollen
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £19.99

    Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s 1977 film is a landmark moment in British avant-garde filmmaking which fuses feminist theory with formal experimentation to create an elliptical narrative exploring issues...

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  8. Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946 Video)

    Director
    Hans Richter
    Subject
    Art; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

    Painter, film theorist and film-maker Hans Richter, one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde, assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators for this film,...

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  9. Major Works of Jonas Mekas, The (2012)

    Director
    Jonas Mekas
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 798 minutes), £50.00 (individual); £200.00 (institutional)

    This box set brings together the key works of Jonas Mekas, one of the most prolific avant-garde film artists and an acclaimed poet. Born in Lithuania in 1922, chased west by Soviet and Nazi forces, Mekas and...

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  10. Britain in the Twenties (1936 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Brunel; Desmond Dickensen; Robert Fairthorne; Len Lye; Ivor Montagu; Hans Richter; Brian Salt
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation of rare short British avant-garde films made in the 1920s, influenced by the ‘art’ cinema of the USSR and Germany. The chosen films represent the many distinct avant-garde styles of the...

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