VSW will screen Films from the Early Avant-Garde (projected from 16mm film) including Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, Germany 1923, 3 min.), Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggeling, Germany 1924, 5 min.), Entr'acte (René Clair, France 1924, 22 min.), Anemic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, France 1926, 7 min.), Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, France 1929, 16 min.), and Le sang d'un poète (The Blood of a Poet, Jean Cocteau, France 1932, 55 min.)

The VSW Film Series will present a screening of seminal avant garde films from the 1920's and 1930's. This program includes historically significant films by European artists working between world wars, who were struggling against the restrictions of classical art to re-define the role of the artist in modern society. Dada and Surrealist artists in particular began using the "new" form of cinema to experiment visually and sonically, and in doing so pushed filmmaking far beyond traditional narrative boundaries, cutting a new edge in artistic discourse. The titles in this program present a selection of influential films made by artists working at the front lines of cinema.

[source: Facebook, 2016-Feb-15]