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Summary:

INVERTED NARRATIVES is part of the retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The second most well known collaborative experimental art film production helmed by the avant-gardist duo J.S. Watson, Jr. and Melville Webber produces an exemplary work of experimental cinema. Artfully illustrating "Genesis 19:8", the filmmakers over-sex the screen with lusciously lit bodies and dynamic camera-printer effects. Approaching visual music, the hybrid of sound and image concludes with the fiery demise of Sodom. The biblical illusions are so well crafted that the explicit scenes avoided censor and continue to resonate a meaningful poetry for modern audiences. -BRUCE POSNER James Sibley [J.S.] Watson, Jr. was regarded as a Renaissance man in each of his chosen fields: medical doctor and researcher, man of letters, preservationist, philanthropist, and filmmaker. After graduating medical school, Watson bought and published "The Dial" between 1920-29, a literary journal founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1840. By the mid-1920s, he became fascinated with motion pictures and produced a striking series of films, "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1927), "Tomatos Another Day" (1930), and "The Eyes of Science" (1931) among others. -JAN-CHRISTOPHER HORAK / BRUCE POSNER. Melville Webber pursued parallel careers in art history, archeology, poetry, art, and motion pictures. He is primarily known for collaborating on films with Watson, but he also assisted Mary Ellen Bute with "Rhythm in Light" (1934). Soon after, his fortunes shifted, and he suffered a nervous breakdown from which he never fully recovered. -BRUCE POSNER.

Contributors:

Watson, James S. (James Sibley), 1894-1982 , director, producer

Webber, Melville , director, producer

O'Brien, Bernard , producer

Wilder, Alec , producer

Wood, Remsen , producer

Cineric (Firm) , presenter, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pre

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Silent film with title cards in English.

Alternate Titles:

Title translation: Loth a Sodoma

Subjects:

Lot (Biblical figure) — Drama

Experimental films — United States

Motion pictures — United States

Sodom (Extinct city) — Drama

Lot (Biblical figure)

Experimental films

Motion pictures

United States

Israel — Sodom (Extinct city)

Israel

Genres:

Experimental films

Fiction films

Silent films

Short films

Online media

Internet videos

Drama

Production Credits:

Music: Louis Siegel.

General Notes:

"New directions in storytelling".
Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020).
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (27 mins.))

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

1191032897

Other Control Numbers:

99265073800971 (source: VaAlASP)
5053311 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP5053311/avon