Essential Cult Cinema Drawn from the Same DNA as Prodaná nevesta: C...

Dir: Edwin J. Collins

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Unknown Director

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Home Again perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Walter Ruttmann

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Companions perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others rounded. The abstract shapes move into or across the screen in harmony with the musical score.

Dir: Svatopluk Innemann

Boy scouts from Prague enjoy a summer camp near a castle and look after the wounded daughter of the estate's owner. When the summer ends they return on rafts along river rapids.

Dir: Unknown Director

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Lichtspiel Opus 1. perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Unknown Director

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Bud pripraven perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Blake plays the neoclassical piece on the piano. The highest notes failed to record in this seminal experiment with synchronized sound.

Dir: Viking Eggeling

A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.

Dir: Lee De Forest

The Ben Bernie and All the Lads band, featuring pianist Oscar Levant, perform songs by Vincent Youmans and George Gershwin in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.