NFPF's Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986: 3/3/09

[NoirFan]

From The National Film Preservation Foundation's website (http://www.filmpreservation.org/): We are delighted to announce that Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, the latest in the NFPF's Treasures DVD series, will be available on March 3, 2009. The two-disc set presents 26 avant-garde films never before available on quality video in North America and features new music by John Zorn and a 70-page book of program notes introduced by Martin Scorsese. Retail price: $44.99, 312 minutes.

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Films include:

- Bruce Baillie - Here I am (1962)
- Wallace Berman - Aleph (1956-66)
- Stan Brakahge - The riddle of lumen (1972)
- Robert Breer - Eyewash (1959)
- Shirley Clarke - Bridges-go-round (1958)
- Joseph Cornell - By night with torch and spear (1940s?)
- Storm de Hirsch - Peyote queen (1965)
- Hollis Frampton- (nostalgia) (1971)
- Larry Gottheim - Fog line (1970)
- Ken Jacobs - Little stabs at happiness (1959-63)
- Lawrence Jordan - Hamfat Asar (1965)
- George Kuchar - I, an actress (1977)
- Owen Land - New improved institutional quality: In the environmnt of liquids and nasals a parasitic vowel sometimes develops (1976)
- Standish Lawder - Necrology (1969-70)
- Saul Levine - Note to Pati (1969)
- Christopher Maclaine - The end (1953)
- Jonas Mekas - Notes on the circus (1966)
- Marie Menken - Go! Go! Go! (1962-64)
- Robert Nelson and William T.Wiley - The off-handed jape... & how to pull it off (1967)
- Pat O'Neill - 7362 (1967)
- Ron Rice - Chumlum (1964)
- Paul Sharits - Bad burns (1982)
- Jane Conger Belson Shimane - Odds & ends (1959)
- Harry Smith - Film no.3: Interwoven (1947-49)
- Chick Strand - Fake fruit factory (1986)
- Andy Warhol - Mario Banana (no.1) (1964)

Tremendously excited for this - looks like the perfect companion piece to the Unseen Cinema set, which was a real revelation. I only have volume one in this series, but it had some classic pioneering work. It's unfortunate that this is only 2 discs, unlike the previous sets of 4, but wonderful news nevertheless.

[bboisvert]

Avant-garde is less appealing to me than the (mostly) silent work that they've previously featured... but I've loved the previous 3 sets, so this is a no-brainer. Price is reasonable too.

(And I'm also a fan of the Unseen Cinema set... you're right, this will fit in nicely.)

Thanks for the news!

[Gerry P.]

I'm in.