Last week I started watching the Unseen Cinema DVD collection, which is composed of American avant-garde films made between 1894 and 1941. Many of them come from the Library of Congress and are years past copyright protection. More importantly, they’re often beautiful, innovative and surprising.Every week or so I am going to post one of them up here and write some thoughts about them. Hopefully you find them as interesting as I have.
Please add your own observations and comments. To encourage participation, I am starting a contest. Whoever posts the best* comment about each film will receive a gift handmade by me. Perhaps it will be an origami crane folded out of a Peanuts comic. Maybe it will be a straw made for two people. While the quality of prize will surely be lacking, the cachet value of a singularly unique object will not. So please, post your comments and let’s get this dialogue started.Here is the first film, titled “In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea.” I will post some thoughts on it in a few days.
