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FILM HISTORY “Sometimes film history really is revisionist.” VARIETY “One of the first great triumphs in the DVD age. It will permanently rewrite the story of American experimental film!” NEW REPUBLIC “Magnificent. An astonishing achievement!” NEW YORK TIMES “This amazing seven-disc set will undoubtedly stand as one of the major monuments of the DVD medium.” FILM COMMENT “The must-have release of the year…an avant-gardist's wish list.” MODERNISM/MODERNITY "Anthology Film Archives's recent DVD collection, Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, 1894–1941, offers nothing less than a fundamental redefinition of American avant-garde film and an expansive, iconoclastic vision of experimental film practice that should be enthusiastically welcomed by anyone invested in widening the cultural playing field of the modern. This final fruit of a much broader project of scholarly revisionism is, aptly enough, immense. With a running time of over nineteen hours, and including 155 films, many of which are rare and previously unavailable on DVD, Unseen Cinema hopes to make part of its revisionist argument about the early American avant-garde—that such a thing, in fact, existed before Maya Deren—through sheer volume. Size matters, then, but so does style, and the collection's surprising choices and irreverent juxtapositions add up to a kind of modernist Wunderkammer with the sympathetic expansiveness of Whitman's catalogues and the campy curiositas of Guy Maddin." “Unseen Cinema 7-DVD set…is probably the best seventy bucks I’ve spent in years. I love this thing.”–Girish "I have been
obsessed in the last couple of weeks with 'Unseen Cinema,'
which is astounding. Thank you a thousand times, and then another
thousand." "Congratulations
on the tremendous accomplishment, a real contribution to history
and culture. I am looking forward to many hours of enlightment and
pleasure." NATIONAL
SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS, Film Heritage Award to Unseen
Cinema PREMIERE
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