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Home > Archives > Archive by category "Avant-garde"
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    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
    Blackhawk Films® Collection’s David Shepard on MOD Blu-rays Five American Experimental Films of the 1950s and The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)

    By Sarah Bastin Film historian and preservationist David Shepard is the founder of Film Preservation Associates, the owner of Blackhawk Films® Collection and the producer of many Flicker Alley titles, including Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970, Chaplin’s […]

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    13.6.2016
    by Flicker Alley
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    How Georgette Leblanc Captivates the Crowd in L’Inhumaine

    Feminist, rebellious, and a close friend of Marcel L’Herbier’s, famed opera singer Georgette Leblanc shared the director's artistic vision for L'Inhumaine (1924). In the film, Leblanc plays Claire Lescott, the "inhuman woman" who lives on the outskirts of Paris where she draws important men [...]
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    14.1.2016
    by Flicker Alley
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    The Artists of L’Inhumaine: Claude Autant-Lara’s Avant-Garde Greenhouse

    With the intention of capturing the trends of the time in the field of artistic creation, director Marcel L'Herbier surrounded himself with exceptional collaborators on the film L'Inhumaine. One of these collaborators was future filmmaker Claude Autant-Lara, whose first [...]
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    14.1.2016
    by Flicker Alley
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    Maya Deren the “New and Emphatic Voice” of Experimental Film – 1946 Review

    The National Board of Review’s Committee on Exceptional Motion Pictures reviewed three experimental films by Maya Deren for their March 1946 issue of New Movies magazine, including Meshes of the Afternoon, part of Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film […]

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    2.10.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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    Images from Ballet Mechanique (1923-24)

    Ballet Mechanique (1923-24) by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film. The film has undergone a 2K digital restoration from 35mm for the Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 Blu-ray/DVD collection with music by George Antheil from original [...]
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    11.8.2015
    by Flicker Alley
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