Unseen cinema. 3, Light rhythms. Skyline dance, Slavko Vorkapich montage sequences (1928-1950s) [9-film compilation] / Cineric, Inc. presents ; [by] Slavko Vorkapich.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Vorkapich, Slavko, filmmaker.

Cineric (Firm), presenter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Experimental films--United States.

Experimental films.

Genre:

Experimental films.

Silent films.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (18 minutes)

Other Title:

Unseen cinema : early American avant-garde film, 1893-1941

Light rhythms : music and abstraction

Skyline dance

Slavko Vorkapich montage sequences

Place of Publication:

United States : Filmmakers Showcase, 1928.

Language Note:

Silent with music.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

LIGHT RHYTHMS is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Awe-inspired by D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, Serbian émigré Slavko Vorkapich landed in Hollywood and proceeded to create a stellar montage-editing style that relied upon hyper-kinetic visual stimulation. Following the outrageous success of "The Life and Death of 9413-A Hollywood Extra" (1927), made in collaboration with Robert Florey, Vorkapich worked at big studios on montage sequences. Lucky for film history Vorkapich kept personal copies of his experiments, and Vorkapich's version will be shown silent and with sound. His editing style, knowm in the industry as a "Vorkapich," compress time and space while conveying maximum narrative content. Designed, shot and edited by Vorkapich, the inspired sequences illuminate his influential "innocence of the eye" theory of kinesthetic perception. -BRUCE POSNER Serbian-born artist, he settled 1925 in Santa Barbara as a portrait painter and by 1928, inspired by director Rex Ingram, entered Hollywood studios as a "montage" specialist. His name eventually became a noun describing the sequences for which he was famous. In later years, he made Pepsi commercials and lectured on principles of film art. -DAVID SHEPARD SLAVKO VORKAPICH MONTAGE SEQUENCES (1928-1950) - 9 FILM COMPILATION42 00:00 SKYLINE DANCE (1928, 29 seconds)43 01:30 MONEY MACHINE (1929, 7 seconds)44 01:37 PROHIBITION (1928, 1:32 minutes)45 03:09 TOTAL WARFARE (1934, 1:59 minutes) SILENT46 05:08 THE FURIES (1934, 2:50 minutes)47 07:58 BATTLE OF VITORIA (1937, 1:52 minutes) SILENT48 09:50 DORA (1935, 1:41 minutes) SILENT49 11:31 LIBERTY (1939, 3:30 minutes)50 15:01 ABSTRACT EXPERIMENT IN KODACHROME (c.1940-50s, 2:54 minutes) 35mm 1.37:1 black and white silent with music 17:55 minutes. Courtesy: Filmmakers Showcase, Jugoslovenska Kinoteka.

Notes:

"Music and abstraction".

Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020).

OCLC:

1191031908

Publisher Number:

ASP5053267/marc