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- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWalter SteinerWerner HerzogA study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsColin CantlieTongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An attempt is made to "reconstruct" a proposed, but never made, film according to some reasonably vague directions. The attempt is made over and over because of conflicting interpretations of the instructions.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsPeter GreenawayHannah GreenawayColin CantlieExperimental short film set in the English countryside, with strange narration which has a particular focus on objects beginning with the letter 'H'.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayDocumentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences against a typically Greenaway backdrop of lists, black humour, 'collated statistics', bizarre camera angles and Michael Nyman music.
- DirectorAntónio ReisStarsEvangelina Gil DelgadoJaime FernandesA documentary about a deceased psychiatric patient, Jaime Fernandes.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsFrançois PérierSophie GarnierBibiane KirbyA computer generates conflicting hypotheses about the future of trade unions.
- DirectorBruce ConnerBruce Conner reconstructs his own film Looking for Mushrooms (1962) by expanding each frame five times in length and adding footage of similar mushroom hunts he did in Frisco.
- DirectorSamuel BeckettAlan SchneiderStarsBuster KeatonNell HarrisonJames KarenA twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts
- DirectorJoris IvensAn industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass bulbs. Machinery assists the bulb manufacture. A virtuoso glassblower begins a more complex tube used in radio broadcasting; it is then turned, fired, and sculpted. Conveyors carry partially completed units. Workers perform their various specific assembly-line tasks. Cases are manufactured and machined, wire harnesses are assembled, loudspeakers are produced. As radios near completion, they are run through a series of tests. Engineers and draughtsmen define future developments. In a closing stop-motion sequence, in a style reminiscent of Norman McLaren, a group of loudspeakers performs a playful dance. The film overall is a poetic depiction of an industrial process.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardAn 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAlain CunyJuliette BinocheAn 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Luc GodardSerge DaneyJulie DelpyAn 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardAn 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardAn 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardAn 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardAn 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Luc GodardSabine AzémaAn 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreLouis LumièreStarsMadeleine KoehlerMarcel KoehlerMrs. Auguste LumiereA train arrives at La Ciotat station.
- DirectorHollis FramptonStarsMichael SnowFrampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
- DirectorHollis FramptonThis Experiment is a Scenario who Have 4 Act titled (1-4) Tableau. Poetic Justice is story about lovers who holding camera, Third Tableau is have Middle Shot and other Tableau is on various camera shot.
- DirectorGraham HeidWilfred JacksonStarsElvia AllmanMarie ArbuckleBarbara BrewsterAs a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsJacques DumesnilThis documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsMichel PiccoliJuan AlmeidaAlejo CarpentierA photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsClaudio BrookSilvia PinalEnrique Álvarez FélixSimon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
- DirectorMichael SnowStarsHollis FramptonLyne GrossmanNaoto NakazawaClaimed by some to be one of the most unconventional and experimental films ever made, Wavelength is a structural film of a 45-minute long zoom in on a window over a period of a week. Very unconventional and experimental, indeed.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsSamson De BrierMarjorie CameronJoan WhitneyHistorical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsWilliam RobertsA man futilely struggles to make his fortune with a frog that sings and dances, but only when it is alone with the owner.
- DirectorWarren SonbertStarsGerard MalangaRene Ricard
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogJörg Schmidt-ReitweinEdward LachmanHerzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.
- DirectorGhislain CloquetChris MarkerAlain ResnaisStarsJean NégroniFrançois MitterrandPope Pius XIIA documentary of black art.
- DirectorYuri AncaraniStarsOlivia FanucchiStylianos KorasidisFranca MelfiRobotic surgery department. A surgeon performs an entire operation, controlling the robot's motions using a joystick.
- DirectorKevin Jerome EversonStarsBuick CenturyCentury, filmed in 16mm in Charlottesville, Virginia, consists of a General Motors automobile--a Buick Century--meeting its fate.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsColin CantlieJean WilliamsAn anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
- DirectorPeter KubelkaA short film originally intended to be a commercial for Schwechater Beer, but along the way it morphed into something completely different.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsJim BroadbentStephen BillBelinda BradleyThe 23rd Earl of Leete shares brief moments of his life, the truth behind his family estate and his particular glorious moment when he murdered his wife and his brother.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsAntónio Rodrigues SousaJoão Rocha AlmeidaAlbino FreitasJosé and Roberto are friends, and they decide to go hunting but without guns, so that no accident will happen. As they stroll and talk, one of them falls into a hole in a hidden marshland. His friend runs away, and manages to gather a number of men that were in the vicinity. They form a human chain to pull the victim out, but their affliction mounts, as they have no strategy for doing it, and they can't understand each other.
- DirectorMartin ArnoldArnold's original material is a piece of found footage from the 1950s; 18 seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: a living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a disturbing pan, his wife follows him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exiting tango of movements. But "Pièce Touchée" is more than just a matter of forms. The reflections, distortions, and delays it displays challenge Hollywood's stable system of space and time.
- DirectorJane CampionGerard LeeStarsDavid BentonAnne BerrimanAlan BrownA collection of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments, each with an uneasy familiarity.
- DirectorCharles EamesRay EamesStarsPhilip MorrisonBeginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsKumgieng JittamaatMiti JittamaatPhetmongkol ChantawongA filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand.
- DirectorKenneth AngerA man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover".
- DirectorMartin ArnoldStarsMickey RooneyJudy GarlandGrace HayesMickey Rooney and Judy Garland perform a hellish courtship in a nightmare of the American dream, created by manipulating old film.
- CreatorBill ViolaBroadcast television project featuring forty four 30-second portraits of people - ranging in age from 16 to 93 years old - sitting in their homes and staring in silence at the camera, which aired in between programs as unannounced inserts.
- DirectorMichael SnowExperimental short in which sentences are formed by displaying one word at a time and at alternating speeds.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsPascal BonitzerJean-Loup RivièreA man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
- DirectorRalph SteinerA study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty.
- DirectorWarren Sonbert
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsPhetmongkol ChantawongKumgieng JittamaatMiti JittamaatA fluorescent tube illuminates an empty playground in the evening. Nearby a flash of light is projected on a makeshift screen. This outdoor movie is a portrait of a village repeatedly struck by lightning. As night falls, the silhouette figures of young men emerge, they are playing with a football raging with fire. They take turns kicking the ball which leaves illuminated trails in the grass. The lightning on the screen flickers amid the fire and the smoke rising from the ground. The game intensifies with each kick that sends the fireball soaring into the air. Finally the teens burn the screen and crowd around it to witness the blazing canvas, behind which is revealed the ghostly white beam of a projector. Phantoms of Nabua is part of the multi-platform Primitive project which focuses on a concept of remembrance and extinction and is set in the northeast of Thailand.
- DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireJoe KeatonA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
- DirectorPeter KubelkaA trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsPeter GreenawayA narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsCharles ManleyCountry rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsKent RogersTex AverySara BernerA man is murdered in an isolated mansion, and the detective tries to find out whodunit. But the house he's investigating is decidedly haunted, and he never knows just what's 'round the next corner.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraA documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Porto.
- DirectorBen RiversHerzog-influenced imagining of ecological possibilities for four locations, anticipating Earth's impending post-societal collapse.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsColin CantlieHypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary-style narration about the history of a fictional tribe in the distant past (or is it the far future?).
- DirectorMannus FrankenJoris IvensRegen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
- DirectorBruce BaillieStarsElla FitzgeraldA 3 minute pan to the left.
- DirectorMiguel GomesStarsGonçalo Félix da CostaAndré DelphimNuno OliveiraParents and teachers were absent. However, two boys and a girl form a love trio. Rui, Nuno and Rita cross three spaces and times to be alone: football game, party with pool, beach. Unstable equilibrium, the trio is too close to the triangle. However it is the time of suspension. Of gestures, of communication, of language. Impotence results from the lack of awareness to structure feelings and a language that allows them to communicate. One can only conjecture: Rui loves Rita, Nuno or the game? Nuno loves Rita and is dependent on Rui? Rita, passive owner of the game, will someone love? From her, the axial figure of the trio, we only know that she closes her eyes to take refuge in an ethereal interiority - the clouds are the reality, However it is the interval that suspends them.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsLuke WilsonOwen WilsonRobert MusgraveDysfunctional friends Dignan and Anthony plan and execute a robbery with their pot-growing friend, Bob.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsErnie AlloBruce ByronFrank CarifiA gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorForugh FarrokhzadStarsForugh FarrokhzadEbrahim GolestanHossein MansouriSet in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
- DirectorBoris KaufmanJean VigoWhat starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsCosey Fanni TuttiGeoffrey PalmerGreenaway's documentary short shows us...well, 26 bathrooms, some in use by their owners while we visit. Whee!
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsViktor KartashovNikolay KhmelyovBoris ZakhavaA Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.
- DirectorHarun FarockiThis experimental documentary on women's work focuses on the labor involved in creating a nude photograph of a woman for a slick Playboy type pornographic magazine.
- DirectorJoão Rui Guerra da MataJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsJialiang ChenLuís Rafael ChenChen JieChina walks towards the Martim Moniz district, in Lisbon. When she passes the children scream: "China, China!". China is going to fly. To escape far away at dawn. She just wants to be happy. But China drinks her own poison. She drinks it all. Sometimes the air seems loaded with evil and the purgatory is a kindergarten.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsGilles QuéantDirector Chris Marker begins by recounting his childhood dream of visiting the city of Peking, a city he was once only able to admire in books. The viewer is taken on a journey through this city, as if experiencing it from the mind and through the eyes of Marker.
- DirectorHollis FramptonA series of psychedelic, otherworldly visuals of all different colors and designs.
- DirectorLes BlankSkip GersonStarsNathan AbshireGlenn AllensanSavy AugustinePortrait of the Cajun lifestyle in Southwest Louisiana.
- DirectorJørgen LethStarsJørgen LethKim LarsenAndy WarholAs a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA. With the one travelling shot (through a car windscreen) and one pan (across a landscape) the tableau principle is only breached on two occasions; exceptions that prove the rule, so to speak. The images or postcards may be viewed as a number of interlaced chains of motifs, varying from ultra close up to super wide, include pictures of landscapes, highways and advertising hoardings, buildings seen from without, mostly with a fluttering Stars and Stripes somewhere in the shot, objects such as coins on a counter, refrigerator with a number of typical food products, a plate of food at a diner or a bottle of Wild Turkey, and finally, people who introduce themselves (and sometimes the content of their lives in rough-hewn form) facing the camera: for example, the New York cabbie or the celebrities Kim Larsen and Andy Warhol. The film actually consists of 75 shots but in some cases several shots combine in one scene, thus ending on sixty six. Each scene is delimited by the narrator; at the end of each shot he pins down the picture content, often by a simple indication of time or place, but in some cases more playfully, often shifting our perception in a surprising fashion. Similarly the sound close-ups in some scenes are intended to alter the viewer's immediate interpretation of the picture content, while the mood-creating or interpretive use of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes (No. 5) provides the final component of the film.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsKing VidorAndrew WyethBetsy WyethA short documentary about painting.
- DirectorYuri AncaraniPietro SavorelliStarsFranco BarattiniMonte Bettogli, Carrara: in the marble quarries men and machines dig the mountain. The Chief manages, coordinates and guides quarrymen and heavyduty machines using a language consisting solely of gestures and signs. Conducting his dangerous and sublime orchestra against the backdrop of the sheer slopes and peaks of the Apuane Alps, the Chief works in total noise, which creates a paradoxical silence.
- DirectorBruce ConnerThe 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown from 27 different angles, and accompanied by avant-garde Western classical music composed for electric organ by Terry Riley.
- DirectorMaya DerenAlexander HammidStarsMaya DerenAlexander HammidA woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsAngelica PreziosiA haunting look at children watching television.
- DirectorClu GulagerStarsMike HertelJack GrindleJohn McCaffreyA group of boys spend their day outdoors exploring, wreaking havoc and letting their imaginations run wild.
- DirectorJoão César MonteiroStarsAntónia BrandãoCarlos FerreiroCarlos PortoThe tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes.
- DirectorRobert BreerAn experimental short film from Robert Breer with animated and live-action scenes cut together.
- DirectorBill ViolaStarsBill ViolaA man emerges from the forest and stands before a pool of water. He leaps up and time suddenly stops. All movement and change in the otherwise still scene is limited to the reflections and undulations on the surface of the pond. Time becomes extended and punctuated by a series of events seen only as reflections in the water. The work describes the emergence of the individual into the natural world, a baptism into a world of virtual images and indirect perceptions.
- DirectorClaude LelouchStarsGunilla FridenClaude LelouchA high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.
- DirectorRobert FrankAlfred LeslieStarsJack KerouacAllen GinsbergGregory CorsoA married couple vainly hopes that their irreverent beat poet friends will behave themselves when the bishop comes to visit.
- DirectorPeter FischliDavid WeissInside a warehouse, a precarious 70-100 feet long structure has been constructed using various items. When this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues. Fire, water, law of gravity as well as chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects - of things. It brings about a story concerning cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
- DirectorNorman McLarenStarsMargaret MercierVincent WarrenTwo ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsEva SimonetRobert DarmelSilke HumelA charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsRoger PigautA travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular railway elevators. The poorest residents on the hilltops have trouble obtaining water for drinking and washing. There are community dances, a travelling circus, a race course. Boys feed the harbour sealions; a fashionable woman walks her penguin. The ever-present onshore breeze provides fresh air and an ideal environment for kite-flying. The film's second half is in colour, making the switch with the tale of the city's bloody pirate past.
- DirectorJoan C. GratzStarsJean G. PoulotTwo-dimensional clay animations melding and merging the work of 35 famous artists.
- DirectorPeter KubelkaStarsFrederick PutnikJohann BayerMagda DenovA short experimental film by Peter Kubelka which edits film and sound clips together.
- DirectorJordan BelsonAn experimental short film by Jordan Belson which combines various colors and shapes.
- DirectorNicolas ProvostBy subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This physical audiovisual experience produces skewed reflections upon Love, its lyrical monstrosities, and a wounded act of disappearance.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayA short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static camera positioned in front of the walls; experimental editing techniques, no dialogue-just background music, and quick edits of blackness throughout.
- DirectorMarie MenkenA short experimental film made by New York visual and avant-garde artist Marie Menken.
- DirectorDan McLaughlinA short film in which 3,000 years of art are shown in 3 minutes while the score Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is played.
- DirectorPeter ThompsonStarsPeter ThompsonUniversal Citizen is a multifaceted personal travelogue that brings us to a real Universal Hotel, in Guatemala, and to the same public square in Siena that appears at the beginning of Universal Hotel; at the center of the film are Thompson's off screen meetings with a Libyan Jew and former Dachau inmate who works as a smuggler in Guatemala and refuses to be photographed
- DirectorJames AgeeHelen LevittJanice LoebImages of street life in New York's Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.