For Immediate Release: Announcing a unique film series available for public and classroom screenings either as the complete 15-part retrospective or as individual programs in 35mm and 16mm: UNSEEN CINEMA: EARLY AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILM 1893-1941 A Travelling Retrospective Series of Restored and Preserved Films Detailing the Unknown Accomplishments of American Pioneer Filmmakers American Premiere: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 14 - September 9 Anthology Film Archives, New York, September 8 - October 11 American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York, September 15 - 16 UNSEEN CINEMA is a first-ever, comprehensive retrospective of the pre-Maya Deren inspired avant-garde film movement in America. Over 145 films in newly restored 35mm and 16mm film prints will survey the hitherto unknown accomplishments of pioneer filmmakers working in the United States and abroad during the formative period of American film. The series postulates an innovative and often controversial view of experimental cinema as a product of avant-garde artists, Hollywood directors, and amateur movie-makers working collectively and as individuals at all levels of film production. Many of the films have not been available since their creation over a century ago, some have never been previously screened in public, and almost all have been unavailable in pristine projection prints until now. Bruce Posner, curator The retrospective is organized by Anthology Film Archives, New York, and Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, as a collaborative film preservation project. Film preservation, exhibition, and catalog is made possible through the generous support of Cineric, Inc.,New York, a full service film production, restoration, and preservation lab. With additional support provided by Film Preservation Associates, Robert A. Haller, Eastman Kodak Company, WRS Film and Video Laboratory, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 1999, XVIII edizione, New Hampshire Humanities Council, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts, Department of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College, Howe Library, The Main Street Museum of Art., Footage.net, VideoMax, and private contributions. Exhibition catalog edited and annotated by Bruce Posner. 136 pages with 24 pages of illustrations, soft-bound. Publisher: Anthology Film Archives Films available from Anthology Film Archives for booking through December 2005. For more information, contact: Robert A. Haller Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212)-505-5181 Fax: (212) 477-2714 www.anthologyfilmarchives.org ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu