The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the medium through its components of camera, film stock, and lenses. Many of these types of experimental/avant garde films, usually shorts, have been lost or can only be found in archives. Luckily, some of the silent films of visual artist Man Ray has been restored and now released via Criterion Collection, with a fantastic score by Sqürl. Ray was an artist of many talents, known for painting, photography, and sculpture. While he did not work in film as much as the other forms, his reworking of...
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