Symphonie Diagonale
Description: This early experimental short is one of only two films completed by Swedish-born artist Viking Eggeling, who worked in Paris, Milan, and ultimately Germany. Finished in 1924 and premiered...
View ArticleUn Chien Andalou
Description: Based on an exchange of dreams between the Spanish duo of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, this jolting tale of desire contains one of the most notorious and potently metaphoric sequences...
View ArticleLichtspiel: Opus I, II, III, IV
Description: The four-part Lichtspiel: Opus was an early film career high for Walter Ruttman, an artist with a background in painting, graphic design, and architecture, and a future in Nazism (he...
View ArticleLa Glace à Trois Faces
Description: Any crash course in early film history will no doubt include Jean Epstein’s La Glace à Trois Faces. Structured as a psychological triptych, three women reflect on their respective...
View ArticleLa Marche des Machines / Les Nuits Eléctriques / Montparnasse
Description: Born out of the Czech and French avant-garde movements of the ’20s, Eugène Deslaw’s silent documentaries all share a certain meditative drift to their montage, at once emphasizing strong...
View ArticleThe Hands of Orlac
Description: Director Robert Wiene, most famous for the Expressionist masterpiece The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, delves into more intensely ambiguous physiological territory in this 1924 film. Pianist...
View ArticleA Page of Madness
Description: This 1926 film, directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, is considered to be one of the first Japanese experimental films. Despite the fact that its story is fairly straightforward by modern...
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