Introduced by Author/Collector WilliamMoritz This program hopes to promote areconsideration of the seminal experimental films of the 1920s. On theone hand, it presents an alternate view of the canon of avant-gardefilms, exhibiting some rarely seen key works and not including somefilms and filmmakers that receive disproportionate attention. On theother hand, some familiar classics are seen here, restored to theiroriginal form: hand-tinted, with original soundtracks, and shown atsilent speed. This reveals a strong belief in and reliance oncraftmanship and musicality as structural principles for these hopefulartists exploring a new terrain that they believed could be revelatoryand healing.-William Moritz William Moritz, whorestored these prints, will also show slides and "gossip about thefilmmakers." Moritz is on the film and video faculty at theCalifornia Institute of the Arts. The author of numerous articles onabstract film, Moritz also is a filmmaker.