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Cinema Dada (2006)

Director

Hans Richter; Viking Eggeling; Man Ray; René Clair; Fernand Léger

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £17.99

Published to coincide with the Pompidou Centre’s major Dada exhibition. Features Rhythmus 21 by Hans Richter, Symphonie Diagonale by Viking Eggeling, La Retour a la Raison by Man Ray, Entr’acte by René...

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Scenes and Songs from Boyd Webb (1984 Film, Video)

Director

Philip Haas; Boyd Webb

Producer

Philip Haas

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Boyd Webb’s art works are extremely large photographs. In the studio he constructs elaborate sculptural sets in which figures pose and are photographed. In this film Boyd Webb has designed eight new works...

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Manet (1993 Video)

Distribution

Off-air recording license Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Professor T J Clark examines the possible meanings of two notorious paintings by Manet: ‘Olympia’ (1863) and the ‘Bar at the Folies Bergère’ (1881-2). Using contemporary criticism as evidence,...

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Chantal Akerman: From Here

Director

Gustavo Beck; Leonardo Luiz Ferreira

Subject

Film studies; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 62 minutes), $298.00

This film about Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman consists of an hour long conversation with the director about her work. Akerman describes her first experiences with avant-garde film in New York, and, in...

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Four American Composers: John Cage, Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass (1984)

aka: 4 American Composers

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 220 minutes), £32.92

A series of four programmes of performances by ‘avant-garde’ musicians from New York: John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Robert Ashley. The programmes are preceeded and followed by short...

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People on Sunday (1929 Video)

aka: Menschen Am Sonntag

Director

Robert Siodmak; Edgar G Ulmer

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. st. with music soundtrack. 73 min., 2001 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

A snapshot of Berlin life, telling a story of five young Berliners - a taxi driver, a travelling wine dealer, a record shop sales girl, a film extra and a model - spending a typical Sunday. A trip to the...

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Tom, Tom, The Piper’s son (2002)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 115 minutes), 39 euros

Jacobs constructed the film by re-photographing and dissecting a 10-minute short made by Billy Bitzer for Biograph in 1905. The original is shown at the beginning and near the end, and in between Jacobs...

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Still Life at the Penguin Cafe (2007)

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), £19.99

Issued to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Simon Jeffes, the founder of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, which had a unique brand of music drawing on classical, avant-garde, pop, folk and ethnic...

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Kazmir Malevich (2014)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 44 minutes), £17.99

In 1915 the Russian artist Kazimar Malevich declared a Black Square on a White Background to be the ‘face of the new art ... the first step of pure creation.' He saw his work as a (secular) icon of its...

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Oskar Fischinger, Volume 1 (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 33 minutes), £17.99

Oskar Fischinger discovered cinema at the age of 20 from the German avant-garde animators (Eggeling, Richter and Ruttman) and began his own visual experiments in 1921. From 1929 to 1934 he composed his...

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