Dimitri Kirsanoff (1899-1957)
Maggie: What was your favorite movie in your entire life?
Pauline: In my entire life? Well, there's a French movie that probably you've never heard of that I like best.
Filmography
Miss Catastrophe (1957) French VHS
Ce soir les jupons volent (1956)
Crâneur, Le (1955) French VHS, R2 Rene Chateau DVD
Moires: Dali/Oster Newsreel (1954)
Témoin de minuit, Le (1953)
Une chasse à courre (1951)
Fait divers à Paris (1950)
Arrière-saison (1950) R1 Kino Avant Garde Vol. 2
Deux amis (1946)
Quartier sans soleil (1939)
Avion de minuit, L' (1938)
Plus belle fille du monde, La (1938)
Franco de port (1937)
Fontaine d'Aréthuse, La (1936)
Jeune fille au jardin (1936)
Visages de France (1936)
Berceaux, Les (1935)
Rapt (1934) Swiss Ramuz Cinema/Coffret
Brumes d'automne (1929) R1 Kino Avant Garde Vol. 1
Destin (1927)
Sables (1927)
Ménilmontant (1926) R1 Kino Avant Garde Vol. 1
Ironie du destin, L' (1923)
In Print
Books
L'oeuvre singulière de Dimitri Kirsanoff by Christophe Trebuil
Essays/Articles
Prouty, Richard, "The Well-Furnished Interior of the Masses: Kirsanoff's Menilmontant and the Streets of Paris," via Cinema Journal (Austin), vol. 36, no. 1, Fall 1996.
Web Resources
Kirsanoff and Menilmontant on UBUWEB
Discovery of rare original copy of Menilmontant's piano score
Rare account of an interview with Kirsanoff
D. Totaro on Mdenilmontant
Forum Resources
Menilmontant
Les Nuits de port said (w John Alton)
Much discussion of Kirsanoff, especially Menilmontant, in The All Time List thread.
Avant Garde & Eexperimental Films
Kino thread discussion of the AV Vols 1 & 2[/url]
Screen caps for the Swiss Ramuz Rapt disc
Dimitri Kirsanoff
- HerrSchreck
- Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:46 am
- Zazou dans le Metro
- Joined: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:01 am
- Location: In the middle of an Elyssian Field
Merci infiniment for this page and this link. All we need is for Kino to gather up all those shorts and put them together with Rapt.HerrSchreck wrote:
I'd strongly recommend reading the link embedded in "Rare account of an interview with Kirsanoff"... it's a hidden gem written not long after his death by a man who made a pilgrimage to visit Kirsanoff with Lotte Eisner.
Faisons un reve !
- Steven H
- Joined: Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:30 pm
- Location: NC
Re: Dimitri Kirsanoff
I hope I'm not posting something everyone but I already knows, but there are some rare Kirsanoff short films on youtube: Jeune fille au jardin (1936) & La fontaine d'Aréthuse (1936).
- Tommaso
- Joined: Fri May 19, 2006 10:09 am
Re: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Thanks Steven, great find indeed!
- Tommaso
- Joined: Fri May 19, 2006 10:09 am
Re: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Have just watched these. Wonderful stuff, called "cinéphonies', i.e. very lyrical 'visual illustrations' of pieces from classical music (Alfred Mompou and Karol Szymanowski, respectively). In the Szymanowski piece we see the myth of Arethusa re-enacted, the Mompou basically features a solo dance with imagery which vaguely reminds me of late Maya Deren. This seems to have been a whole series, with famous directors, and I found one more:
Children's Corner, directed by Marcel L'Herbier.
Do yourself a favour and do what I just did: use some youtube download program, convert them into avi, and watch them on the big screen. These shorts deserve it.
Children's Corner, directed by Marcel L'Herbier.
Do yourself a favour and do what I just did: use some youtube download program, convert them into avi, and watch them on the big screen. These shorts deserve it.