Dark World Non-Fiction
Film History - part I
discussion on early film history and German Expressionism
the Lumiere Brothers [Actualities (1895)]
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George Melies [Trip to the Moon (1902)]
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Segundo de Chomon [Le scarabee d'or (1907)]
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Robert Wiene and Fritz Lange [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)]
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German Expressionism
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Friedreich Wilhem Murnau [Nosferatu (1922), The Last Laugh (1924)]
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Fritz Lang [Metropolis (1925-1926)]
Film History - part II
discussion on early film history and Russian Montage
Russian Montage
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Lev Kuleshov [The Kuleshov Workshop]
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Sergei M. Eisenstein [Battleship Potemkin (1925)
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Part One
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Part Two
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Part Three
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Part Four
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Part Five]
Film History - part III
discussion on early documentaries and experimental film
Robert Flaherty [Nanook of the North (1922)]
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Walther Ruttmann [Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927)]
Maya Deren, the Mother of American Avant Garde
discussion on the film works of Maya Deren
Eleanora Derenkowsky (1917-1961)
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Maya Deren
[Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
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At Land (1944)
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A Study in Choreography for the Camera: Pas de Deux (1945)
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Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
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Meditation on Violence (1948)
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The Very Eye of Night (1955)]
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