Unseen cinema. 4, Inverted narratives. Black dawn / Cineric, Inc. presents ; by Josef Berne and Seymour Stern.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Berne, Josef, director, screenwriter.

MacPherson, Cameron, producer, screenwriter, composer.

Cameron MacPherson Productions, production company.

Cineric (Firm), presenter.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--United States.

Experimental films.

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Experimental films.

Short films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (34 minutes)

Other Title:

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

Inverted narratives : new directions in storytelling

Dawn to dawn

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Filmmakers Showcase, 1933.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

INVERTED NARRATIVES is part of the retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. Adapted by Seymour Stern, director Josef Berne's film tells of a farm girl in conflict with her authoritarian father over a young drifter. Virtually silent, the film's strength is its lyrical realism -- its pastoral scenes are shot on a real farm and don't suppress the harsh reality of American agriculture. -JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAKThe characters in "Black Dawn" are more like archetypal figures than particular people. They really convey a sense that this is a universal drama being enacted rather than a story about these particular individuals. -JOHN C FILM NOTES Josef Berne emigrated from Kiev to the United States as a child, though little is known about his life before coming to films. After directing "Black Dawn "(1933), aka "Dawn to Dawn," he spent the rest of his career kicking around Hollywood, directing Yiddish language features, as well as "Soundies" shorts, and B-Films at Columbia. -JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAK. As a youth, he watched D. W. Griffith film "Orphans of the Storm". During 20-30s, Seymour Stern was a special advisor to Carl Laemmle at Universal and helped Sergei Eisenstein in U.S. and Mexico. As co-editor of the film magazine "Experimental Cinema", he attempted several experimental productions, only "Black Dawn" (1934) completed and released to acclaim. Later, he became Griffith's "authorized" biographer. -DAVID SHEPARD / BRUCE POSNER Dawn". 35mm 1.37:1 black and white sound 11:39 minutes. Production: Cameron MacPherson.

Notes:

"New directions in storytelling".

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

OCLC:

1191033021

Publisher Number:

ASP5053313/marc