Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941

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"Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894- 1941" reveals little-known accomplishments of American filmmakers working in the United States and abroad from the invention cinema until World War II and offers an innovative and often controversial view of experimental film as a product of avant-garde artists, of professional directors and of amateur moviemakers working collectively and as individuals at all levels of film production. Many of the films have not been available since their creation, some have never been screened in public, and almost all have been unavailable in copies as good as these until now. Sixty of the world's leading film archive collections cooperated with Anthology Film Archives to bring this long-neglected period of film back to life for modern audiences. Featured Films Include: "Annabelle Dances And Dances;" "Early Superimpositions;" "Diana The Huntress;" "The Soul Of Cypress," "Looney Lens: Pas De Deaux;" "Oramunde;" "Hands;" "Joie De Vivre;" "Dada;" "Stars And Stripes;" "Dance Macabre;" "Peer Gynt;" "The House With Closed Shutters;" "Suspense;" "Moonland;" "Black Dawn;" "Ballet Mecanique;" "H2O;" "The Furies;" "So This Is Paris;" "Scherzo;" "The Thieving Hand;" "Beggar On Horseback;" "The Fall Of The House Of Usher;" "The Telltale Heart;" "Jack's Dream;" "The Ghost Train;" "Portrait Of A Young Man;" and many more.

Digitally remastered from newly preserved and restored 35mm and 16 mm prints. New recordings of original music by George Antheil, Marc Blitzstein and others; new film scores by Eric Beheim, Neal Kurz, Paul Lehrman, Guy Livingston, Rodney Sauer, Donald Sosin and others. Film notes and filmmaker biographies by historians and scholars Kevin Brownlow, David Curtis, Robert A. Haller, Jan-Christopher Horak, David James, Scott MacDonald, Bruce Posner, David Shepard, Paul Spehr, Cecile Starr and 32 others. Rare photos of the films and filmmakers. Essay by curator Bruce Posner.