Visual Essays: Origins of Film (1984)

Plot Summary

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films themselves (as 'text') to provide the meanings of their creations. Together, these film essays comprise a critical/structural investigation of silent cinema ending with Segei Eisenstein's works (for Stalin) - from Lumiere and Melies through surrealism and horros, to montage and propaganda, we 're-invent' epochs in cinema that became its language and culture.

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Susan Berganzi

(segment "For Artaud") (voice)

Trevor Brazil

(segment "For Artaud") (voice)

Maria Insell

(segment "For Artaud") (voice)

Amarjeet Ratan

(segment "For Artaud") (voice)

Al Razutis

(voice)

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