Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema from 1928 — 1954

In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation’s foremost proponents of experimental cinema. This two-disc collection continues Kino’s tribute to the Rohauer Collection, including the early works of Stan Brakhage and influential films by Willard Maas, Gregory Markopoulos, Marie Menken, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Mitry, Sidney Peterson and others.

The pièce de résistance is Jean Isidore Isou’s passionate manifesto of film aesthetics Traité de bave et d’eternité (Venom and Eternity), which sparked a riot when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. This edition of Venom...