Unseen cinema. 3, Light rhythms. H2O / by Ralph Steiner.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986, director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Experimental films--United States.

Experimental films.

Genre:

Abstract films.

Short films.

Silent films.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (13 minutes)

Other Title:

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

Light rhythms : music and abstraction

H2O

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Filmmakers Showcase, 1929.

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. Steiner's "H2O" depicts water under a variety of forms, increasingly focusing on its ability to create a multileveled reality of surface and reflection. Ultimately, the film produces a phantasmagoria of light and shadow that renders its simple title almost ludicrous. -SCOTT MACDONALD Educated at Dartmouth, Ralph Steiner became a successful commercial and much honored fine art photographer. He made perhaps the first American abstract film, "H2O" (1929), following it with other experiments, some political in nature, some in Hollywood. Steiner also photographed with Paul Strand "The Plow That Broke the Plains" (1936) and co-directed and photographed "The City" (1939) with Willard Van Dyke and Henwar Rodakiewicz. -ROBERT A. HALLER 35mm 1.33:1 black and white with silent with music 18fps 11:11 minutes. New music by Donald Sosin.

Notes:

"Music and abstraction".

Title from resource description page (viewed June 11, 2020).

OCLC:

1191033515

Publisher Number:

ASP5053263/marc