Fave Short Films
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- Terroristic Entomology (1998) [Short Film; Irene Moon]
- Burning Mountains That Spew Flame (2016) [Short Film; Helena Giron & Samuel L. Delgado]
- Du Côté De La Réalité Immédiate (2017) [Pierre Villemin]
- Facing The Waves (2016) [Short Film; Eva Kolcze]
- Holy Woods (2008) [Short Film; Cécile Fontaine]
- Image In-But-Not-Of Itself (Cum Ipsa Absentia) (2016) [Short Film; Adam Cloutier]
- John Mellencamp - Pink Houses (1983) [Short Film; Chris Gabrin] [Music Video]
- Krydset (2010) [Short Film; Marcelino Ballarin]
- Seagull's Eggs (2007) [Short Film; Abbas Kiarostami]
- Shades Of Safflower-Dyed Celluloid (2015) [Short Film; Kayako Oki]
- Snow Movies (1983) [Short Film; Caroline Avery]
- Titan (2010) [Short Film; Lior Shamriz]
- I Don't Think I Can See An Island (2016) [Short Film; Christopher Becks, Emmanuel Lefrant]
- Lanzarote (2014) [Short Film; Marius Schafranietz]
- Old Hat (2016) [Short Film; Zach Iannazzi]
- Apricity (2019) [Short Film; Nathaniel Dorsky]
- The Room Of Chromatic Mystery (2006) [Short Film; Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill]
- In Memoriam (2012) [Short Film; Tanya Lukin Linklater]
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- DirectorLarry JordanPart of a trio of films that also includes ADAGIO and WINTER LIGHT, IN A SUMMER GARDEN "draws much of its power from the way it is constructed and the ways it deals with images... [T]he camera pans and pauses, almost passively looks at the fields of flowers, and then plunges through them, carrying us through space." - Robert Haller
- 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.
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsMarguerite DurasFrom the end of a night to dawn. An uninterrupted traveling shot. From Bastille to the Champs-Elysees, by way of the Boulevard des Italiens, Avenue de l'Opera, and Rue de Rivoli, a depopulated Paris offers itself to Marguerite Duras' mysterious and profound voice.
- DirectorBruce BaillieStarsElla FitzgeraldA 3 minute pan to the left.
- DirectorMax HattlerOne of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954). Based on Lesage's painting A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World from 1923.
- DirectorPeter MettlerThe huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
- DirectorFrancis LeeIn December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer; red color with white and then blue dominates the frame. Blue paint runs; small bulbs float. The dark colors spread. White, red, blue, and black dominate the frame. Then comes fire. The bulbs burn and break. A broken bulb's filaments are exposed.
- DirectorArthur LipsettSnippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental film with various flashing lights, colors, and World War II footage. This is part of the Song series by Stan Brakhage.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental film by Stan Brakhage combining light, color, and various footage.
- DirectorKurt KrenA meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera, which finally reveals a complete panorama. The landscape changes with the advancing seasons and becomes slowly delirious in its technical alienation. (Claus Philipp)
- DirectorKurt Kren
- DirectorClu GulagerStarsMike HertelJack GrindleJohn McCaffreyA group of boys spend their day outdoors exploring, wreaking havoc and letting their imaginations run wild.
- DirectorÉmile CohlThe first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
- DirectorBeth BrickellStarsMariette HartleyCollin Wilcox PaxtonRobert WaldenA television star goes home to Texas for her father's funeral and spends time with her mother for the first time in five years. Reminiscing about her childhood allows the daughter to work through lifelong resentments and to forgive her mother.
- From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
- DirectorNorman McLarenDrawn in pastels, and scored with jazzy music, fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, launching five spheres in to space to create even more fantastical scenes.
- DirectorSándor ReisenbüchlerThe Sun and the Moon is stolen by a vicious creature. Can the humans get back, what they need for their life?
- DirectorSteve BarronStarsa-haBunty BaileyAlfie CurtisOfficial music video for "Take on Me" by A-Ha.
- 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.
- DirectorAl Razutis
- DirectorGarri BardinThe animated story of a leader and innovator who is undone by the distorted actions of the followers.
- DirectorMary Beth ReedAn abstract arctic exploration of the icebergs capturing variations of light and color before they melt into oblivion. Continues the conversation that Stan Brakhage's photographed film Creation began with Frederic Church's painting Icebergs.
- DirectorOskar FischingerShort colour animated film showing shapes moving and set to a musical score. The shapes are coloured and primarily geometric in nature.
- DirectorOskar FischingerMental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
- DirectorBill ViolaThis work deals with time as revealed in sound and image, and with natural and subjective time. It follows the structural orchestration of Johann Sebastian Bach's ideas on counterpoint.
- DirectorMarcel DuchampA spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
- DirectorPeter Kubelka
- DirectorBill ViolaStarsAmy Nomura"Anthem" originates in a single piercing scream emitted by an eleven-year-old girl standing in the hall of Union Railroad Station in Los Angeles. The original scream of a few seconds is extended and shifted in time to produce a primitive "scale" of seven harmonic notes, which constitute the soundtrack of the piece. Related in form and function to the religious chant, "Anthem" describes a contemporary ritual evocation centered on the broad theme of materialism - the architecture of heavy industry, the mechanics of the body, the leisure culture of Southern California, the technology of surgery, and their relation to our deep primal fears, darkness, and the separation of body and spirit.
- DirectorJohn Whitney Sr.
- DirectorStan BrakhageEntire Series
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsMarie-Anne MallevilleVisual structure composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman's smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair.
- DirectorRobert AltmanBruce BeresfordBill BrydenStarsJohn HurtTheresa RussellStephanie Lane10 short films by 10 different directors, set to arias by different composers.La Virgine Degli Angeli (1987 - Charles Sturridge)
- DirectorHans-Jakob Siber
- DirectorPeter KubelkaAn experimental short from Peter Kubelka in which the film flickers between periods of light and sound.
- DirectorMani KaulA CANDID STUDY OF THE BUSTLING METROPOLIS OF BOMBAY AND THE FACELESS CROWDS THAT CONSTITUTE ITS LABOUR FORCE.
- DirectorJoana PimentaThe rapid turning of a light draws a circle.
- DirectorCharles SturridgeStarsWill JacklinAnthony GopaulChristian McKayWhen a young boy gets locked in the Natural History Museum after closing, a mysterious guard gives him a magical ticket that allows him to visit a restricted area of the museum, where a professor and a guide show him examples of the wondrous new species of animals being discovered every day on Earth.
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsMarguerite DurasA girl evokes through an intimate scene - a passing river, a starving cat who meows and then dies etc. - the search for a communion with another person never named, foreign or unknown and yet intensely loved.
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsMarguerite DurasThe one who writes the text evokes her parents who died in deportation: her mother died giving her birth, her father was hanged for stealing soup for her, and sometimes she seems to speak to this father, sometimes to a young person. sailor to whom she offers herself.
- DirectorPeter LiechtiWhile on vacation, the director takes an excursion to an unfamiliar neighboring canton. There, in the alpine confinement, he finds an ideal echo for the rage he had brought with him: rage towards the mountains, civilization and mentality.
- DirectorHelmar LerskiThis documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state.
- DirectorPaul Sharits
- DirectorLev AtamanovA Graceful passenger charmes the seamen with a marvellous dance. And when the storm comes, she reaches coast in a jump-weed and helps the ship to throw an anchor and rescues it from destruction.
- DirectorIgal HechtBanished tells the story of the aftermath of the Gaza Disengagement. Director Igal Hecht completes his Disengagement trilogy which started with Qassam (2004) and Disengaging Democracy (2006). The film investigates in-depth what went wrong with the rehabilitation of those forcefully removed and why is it that the Israeli media has avoided the topic. True to his nature Hecht, does not shy away from asking the hard questions. The film has been in production since 2006 and includes interviews with Chaim Yavin, Gush Katif residents, Nitzan Chen and others. Israel's foreign minister (Tzipy Livny) is also featured.
- DirectorOwen Land
- DirectorJean-Daniel PolletStarsJean NégroniA poetic revision of Greek architecture focused on the temple in Bassae, which was peculiar given its isolated location unlike other major Greek temples.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEdward FlemingKirsten OlesenA German officer visits his Danish mistress the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.
- DirectorAndrew Thomas HuangStarsBjörkVideo promo for Björk: Mutual Core.
- DirectorStan BrakhageA lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
- DirectorRobert W. PaulAn actuality record of Blackfriars Bridge, London, taken from the southern end looking northwards over the Thames by R.W.Paul in July 1896. It was screened as part of his Alhambra Theatre programme shortly afterwards, certainly no later than 31 August, as it is included in a printed programme of that date (as 'Traffic on Blackfriars Bridge'). Two or three of the pedestrians seem aware of the camera's presence, though not to any particularly noticeable extent.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaThe city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.
- DirectorThorsten Fleischthe filmmaker put his own blood directly on the filmstrip. this results in abstract patterns flickering on screen.
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsPierre AssoA short film, forming part of a series of shorts looking at Turkey. This film takes in Istanbul; a city divided by the Bosphorus river and the effect this has on the culture and history of Turkey, Europe and Asia.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short by Stan Brakhage which overlaps various footage, focusing on rocks and ice boulders, with colors and lights.
- DirectorRose LowderAn experimental film that focuses mostly on single shots of flowers that are woven frame by frame into a single film.
- DirectorRose Lowder
- DirectorRoman PolanskiYouths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: everyone has a ticket, and a guy at the gate, wearing a formal shirt, tails, and shorts, makes sure only those with tickets gain entrance. Some are in costume, some dressed informally, some in fancy clothes: everyone is there to have a good time. A group of tough-looking guys watch through the high fence while the band plays jazzy rock and couples dance or kiss. With the party in full swing, as the band plays "When the Saints Go Marching In," over the wall comes the gang. Is there any chance they'll join in the festivities?
- DirectorShirley ClarkeEssential, integral experimental work from the late 1950s is an incredible dance of montage and super-imposition starring none other than New York City's various bridges, transforming them into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape (electro-acoustic version)
- DirectorWilliam KleinAn experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.
- DirectorJakobois
- DirectorPeter B. Hutton
- DirectorJoseph CornellMontage of archive footage from industrial, nature and ethnographic documentaries -- a steelworks, caterpillars, Native American dances, camel trains -- made strange by juxtaposition and upside-down, backwards and negative printing.
- DirectorDavid Gatten
- DirectorRob RayCanaries in the Coalmine is an investigation into the mystery and symbolism of the American landscape. Canaries in the Coalmine examines details in the American landscape to question the interconnectedness of desire and the intended and unintended outcomes of fulfilling that desire.
- DirectorJonas MekasOne day of the Cassis port filmed in one shot.
- DirectorTatsuo SatôMasaaki YuasaA young anthropomorphic cat goes on a psychedelic journey with his sister in order to save her soul.
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsMarguerite DurasA short film Marguerite Duras which documents the Tuileries Gardens.
- DirectorLouie SchwartzbergStarsLouie Schwartzberg
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelThrough paintings that operate on similar principles to those of nested Russian dolls, we follow the spiralling train of thought of a peregrine, a solitary stroller.
- DirectorBill ViolaChott El-Djerid is a large dried-up salt-water lake in the Tunisian Sahara, where according to the artist Bill Viola, "what you can see is the limit of what you could see".
- DirectorHerb RittsStarsChris IsaakHelena ChristensenA couple is depicted making love in a sexual way to each other while frolicking on a deserted beach.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsChris IsaakChris Isaak sings his song. Clips from the movie "Wild at Heart" are shown.
- DirectorPiotr KamlerStarsMichael LonsdaleWeary immortals inhabit a metropolis in the sky and amuse themselves with constructions as they kill time and await whatever comes next.
- DirectorRon FrickeCarefully picked scenes of nature and civilization are viewed at high speed using time-lapse cinematography in an effort to demonstrate the history of various regions.
- DirectorMarc Hurtado
- DirectorPeter BrosensOdo Halflants
- DirectorPiotr KamlerShort stop motion animated colour film using some cutout animation. The film has a musical sound track.
- DirectorKristen StewartStarsDarby DempseySullivan DempseyJosh KayeCome Swim is a diptych of one man's day; half impressionist and half realist portraits.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterA panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.
- DirectorGerardo PugliaStarsBrian DennehyCelebrating the natural beauty of the landscapes, seasides and pastoral settings that fostered and nurtured the birth of American Impressionism in Connecticut at the turn of the 20th. Century.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsOlivier CruveillerJean-Claude DreyfusAmong the aged master painter Wang-Fô's impeccable paintings, exists a mediocre and unflattering portrait of the pale Celestial Emperor that has merited him execution, nevertheless, how is this possible?
- DirectorPatrick DoanParticles of light choreograph themselves to reveal otherworldly beauty.
- DirectorOmer FastStarsIris BöhmAndré HennickeMilton Welsh
- DirectorRose Lowder
- DirectorStan BrakhageAn experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which captures various flashing lights, colors, and images.
- DirectorDavid AdamStarsMette Riber ChristoffersenJelena BundalovicAnders HoveBella is tormented both by her present and past life; she can't keep them separated, and seems to end up as an emotional looser both then and now.
- DirectorPiotr Dumala
- DirectorCynthia BeattStarsTilda SwintonIn 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is by turns idyllic, surreal, whimsical and depressing.
- Fifty years ago oil was discovered in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Today, at 2.1 million barrels per day, Nigeria is the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world and a major oil partner of the United States. Although its oil industry generates millions of dollars in revenues daily, the average Niger Deltan struggles to survive on less than $1 per day. The Curse of the Black Gold exposes the enormous costs and devastating impact of oil exploitation in the region. The impassioned voices of Nigerian environmental and human rights activists and Nigerian poets describe how the convergence of government corruption, irresponsible practices of Big Oil and abject poverty, has created a militant movement for redress.
- DirectorKenneth SciclunaStarsSean DecelisPolly MarchPhilip MizziInspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in the old city of Valletta, Malta; this is a short film that explores dark, liquefied decrepitude. A sailor's son is damned to row a rotting boat back and forth across a hemmed harbour. Numbed by ineptitude yet spurred by guilt and expectations, tormented by the enseamed union between overbearing mother and weaselly uncle, the boy spirals down a foredoomed path.
- DirectorAuguste LumièreAlexandre PromioA train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk along the track, tipping their hats when the train departs. When it approaches the station building more people are seen, people of different ethnicity and religion. Some men wear fezzes on their heads and canes in their hands. A Franciscan monk comes walking in the middle of a mixed group of people. The platform outside the station is crowded with people waiting for the next train. Among them is a man with a sword at his side. The big windows of the station are covered with shutters. After the station the train passes a long fence, enclosing a lumberyard.
- DirectorPatricia BirchStarsCatrine DominiqueCyndi LauperDavid WolffCyndi Lauper performs in the music video for "True Colors" from her album "True Colors" recorded for Epic Records. Lauper sings on a dark sound stage with a drum as a young girl explores a beach and sees women drinking tea on a boat. Lauper appears on the beach in an elaborate jeweled headdress.. She meets and kisses a long haired man and walks past a class of children.
- DirectorArnold Fanck
- DirectorD.A. PennebakerSet to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.
- DirectorNick WillingStarsDebbie GibsonDebbie Gibson performs in the music video "Foolish Beat" from the album "Out of the Blue" recorded for Atlantic Records. The music video begins with shots of a city. Debbie Gibson sits alone in a coffee shop and sings directly to the camera as she thinks of her old relationship.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageJane WodeningThe first part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageThe second part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageJane WodeningThe third part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageJane WodeningThe fourth and final part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.