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- DirectorKen JacobsStarsKen JacobsJack SmithAn experimental short film that variously features singing and storytelling, touching upon topics such as nations, death, religion, sex, and evil.
- DirectorJack SmithStarsFrancis FrancineSheila BickJoel MarkmanAn experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorGeorge KucharStarsDonna KernessGeorge KucharStella KucharA independent director is faced with artistic difficulty when he asks his actresses to show nudity.
- 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.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageJane WodeningAn experimental film from Stan Brakhage in which a man and his dog ascend a wooded mountain.
- DirectorJack SmithStarsTally BrownTosh CarilloDoris DesmondWillkie was a liberal Republican who ran against FDR in the 1940's. It mixes B&W footage of Smith's creatures with old campaign footage of Willkie. The climax of the work appears to be the "auctioning" of the candidate at the convention.
- DirectorJean GenetStarsBravoJean GenetJavaTwo prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
- DirectorBruce ConnerA compilation of selected bits of archival footage put to a narration of news reports describing the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
- DirectorBruce ConnerStarsTheodore RooseveltClips of atomic explosions, pornography, and B-movies are spliced together to evoke certain emotions.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageJane WodeningThe first part of Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerBobby BeausoleilBill BeutelExperimental short, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
- DirectorChuck WorkmanStarsWoody AllenJulie AndrewsFred AstaireCommemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century.
- DirectorSuzan PittAn animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsJohn CageMaya DerenAlexander HammidSilently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
- DirectorRon OrmondStarsEstus W. PirkleRobert G. LeeJack HylesWhile holding a sermon for his followers, the real-life fire-and-brimstone preacher Estus W. Pirkle portrays what Christian Heaven looks like, according to his interpretation of the Bible.
- DirectorSaul GilbertAlejandro JodorowskyRuth MichellyStarsDenise BrossotRolande PolyaAlejandro JodorowskyA short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsKlas-Gösta OlssonAnne TubinLennart BjörklundAn educational film about AIDS contracted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, later to be withdrawn due to its controversial content.
- DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsDominique PinonChick OrtegaMarie-Laure DougnacA 9 minute comedy starring Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen). Featuring muted colors with a sepia black and white, Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes". The music is by Carlos D'Alessio and Special Thanks is given to Claudie Ossard.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsCarmilla SalvatorelliA woman dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este.
- DirectorJean PainlevéExamines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright. We watch it use its prehensile tail to wrap around plants and other sea horses. A frontal bulge houses organs including an air ballast. Three fins propel this fish. We see a female place her eggs in a male's pouch where they are fertilized and nurtured until birth in violent contractions. Inside the pouch are nurturing blood vessels. We then follow the growth of an embryo, greatly magnified: we examine its heart beating and its dorsal fin moving. Young sea horses attach themselves to each other. The film ends with images of many sea horses moving on the ocean floor, superimposed on a horse race.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerGordon GrayBill SeltzerA dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
- DirectorPierre ÉtaixStarsLidia BinaghiGabriel BlondetLaurence GallimardA man tries to cure his insomnia by reading a book about vampires !
- DirectorJohn HoffmanSlavko VorkapichA recently unearthed experimental documentary of the crashing sea set to Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave." An example of the filmmakers' "new cinema" theory which held that film should be more like music than literature. This film is based solely on its arrangement of images.
- DirectorEvelyn LambartNorman McLarenAbstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
- DirectorGuðmundur Arnar GuðmundssonStarsÁgúst WigumEinar Jóhann ValssonValdimar Örn FlygenringThe film shows a strong bond between two brothers who live in a remote fjord with their parents. We look into their world through the eyes of the younger brother and follow him on a journey marking a turning point in the brothers' lives.
- DirectorYôji KuriA desolate landscape contains a series of surreal creatures, some humanoid while others completely alien. Their lives intermingle, with interactions ranging from docile and symbiotic to excruciatingly violent.
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsEnrique RiveroElizabeth Lee MillerPauline CartonTold in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsMirjana VacicA young woman tries to make love to a park statue, but despite her passionate efforts, the monument remains cold and heartless. Don't Believe in Monuments is an early short, where Makavejev subtly ridicules Yugoslav state-sponsored monument and history worship.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonBartine BurkettCharles DoretyA drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
- DirectorRobert NelsonStarsWilliam GourleyDiane GleesonJim BactierSet during the Korean War, the film depicts the atrocities of battle. Sgt. Garth, an ego-maniacal, blood thirsty leader, neglects to tell his soldiers that there has been a cease fire. The Sergeant sends his unit into an enemy bunker, where they are fiercely attacked by the enemy. The few who survive secure the bunker, and Garth attempts to take credit for their actions. Further chaos ensues, resulting in the deaths of many in the platoon, as well as the mortal wound to the Sergeant himself.
- DirectorRobert NelsonStarsR.G. DavisSaul LandauAn short film which captures various activities with a watermelon while set to a catchy tune.
- DirectorSpyros RasidakisStarsZafiria Dimitropoulou-DelAngelAlexis KarpouzosAnna MenenakouA theatrical performance as a dreamlike journey into the world of poetry. The thematic axis focuses on the existential, social concerns as well as dead ends of contemporary living.
- DirectorKarpo Acimovic-GodinaTinto BrassMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsBrooke HaywardSonja HenieBranko MilicevicAt the 1971 International Film Festival of Belgrade, Yugoslav director Karpo Acimovic-Godina instructed seven other directors to shoot less than three minutes of film footage inside a bedroom with static shots that contained the phrase "I Miss Sonja Henie". This film is the result.
- DirectorJirí WeissStarsRobert McDermottDocumentary about coastal command's Czech squadron.
- DirectorFrançois AlauxHervé de CrécyLudovic HouplainStarsBob StephensonSherman AugustusAja EvansPolice chase an armed criminal in a version of Los Angeles comprised entirely of corporate logos.
- DirectorJohn SebertStarsBuster KeatonJack CreleyCec LinderAmateur journalist Buster covers a story about construction site safety regulations and gets first-hand experience in the process.
- DirectorAri GoldStarsKevin AbramsMargie StokleyDavid CreamerIn the aftermath of a helicopter crash, a young man tries to remember his mother's face. An autobiographical tale of love, rock'n'roll, and loss.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsChristoph RoserMarite GreiselisRainer Werner FassbinderTheo, Marite, and Franz cannot make any money selling magazines door to door, so they try a little robbery.
- DirectorKenneth MacPhersonStarsPaul RobesonEslanda RobesonHilda DoolittleA negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes.
- DirectorLaura MulveyPeter WollenStarsDinah StabbMerdelle JordineRhiannon TiseIn this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.
- DirectorFyodor KhitrukStarsAleksey PolevoyGeorgiy VitsinClassic Soviet cartoon about the film industry.
- DirectorSøren FrellesenStarsKim BodniaDavid DencikIben HjejleA boy who never dreamed any girl in the world would like him, discovers that his sparkling personality attracts the most beautiful girl in town when they meet at a rock and roll car wash.
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsGérard BlainBernadette LafontMichel FrançoisA group of five boys, the brats of the title, are all in love with an unbearably beautiful woman and so they spend their summer jealously harassing her and her boyfriend.
- DirectorLysanne ThibodeauIngrid MayeStarsOliver Maria SchützMaria ZastrowBlixa BargeldA Goth vampire struggles to find a virgin to sacrifice.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsWoody AllenJean-Luc GodardAnnette InsdorfRevolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.
- DirectorRobert NelsonThe film is broken down minute by minute, with a clock ticking away its duration to save the audience the trouble of craning their necks to see how much film is left on the projector. Comprising "a boat game and entertainments", this landmark film is ingeniously artful and extremely entertaining as it brilliantly toys with audience expectation and participation.
- DirectorMargaret TaitAn experimental film which touches on elemental images: air, water, earth and fire.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsErnie AlloBruce ByronFrank CarifiA gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStewart McAllisterStarsLeonard BrockingtonJoseph MacleodBud FlanaganA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
- DirectorTamar Simon HoffsStarsJohn CassavetesJoyce BulifantNicholas ColasantoA busy music executive takes a 15 minutes break to get the best haircut of his life.
- DirectorYukio MishimaStarsYukio MishimaYoshiko TsuruokaA Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri.
- DirectorAntony BalchStarsAntony BalchWilliam S. BurroughsDavid JacobsDramatizations, cut ups, and psychological experimentation based on the works of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin.
- DirectorBertolt BrechtErich EngelStarsBlandine EbingerKarl ValentinErwin FaberKarl Valentin plays a journeyman in a barber shop who prefers to stay in bed than to take care of his (already heavily bearded) customers. When he's at work, he removes boils with hammer, chisel and pincers, turns long-haired men into skin-heads and chops off people's heads.
- DirectorDonald RichieAvant-garde parable of war with small boys fighting over and killing a goat on a beach.
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsSophie HannahCory RobertsIan LerchThe movie is about an app called Somebody, if you sent a message through somebody it goes not to your friend but a user nearer to your friend and they deliver your message verbally for you when you can't be there. "When you can't be there, somebody can."
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsPolly BilchukPeter BordenEva RioseloA dark experimental, video narrative of intertwining people.
- DirectorHarmony KorineAn experimental film originally shown as an art installation in Manhattan by Harmony Korine. It involved left-over footage from his directorial debut "Gummo", projected on three separate screens side-by-side. Korine has at times called it a sequel or a companion, but it is more of an art project or one of Korine's experiments than a proper film.
- DirectorHarmony KorineGirls dressed as American Indians visit a good old boy for his birthday.
- DirectorHarmony Korine
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsLy AbdoulayAlbourahBoron Sarret is arguably the first film made by a black African. It illustrates poverty in Senegal, particularly for the working man.
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsDavid CubittNicole G. Leier"a man and a woman. one white, one black. what could possibly go wrong?"
- DirectorNeil LaButeStarsAaron EckhartJenny Wade
- DirectorJon RonsonStarsJon RonsonAnthony FrewinJan HarlanJon Ronson is asked by the widow of Stanley Kubrick to investigate the contents of about a thousand boxes left by Kubrick, shown to contain materials reflecting the work Kubrick did after the release of Barry Lyndon (1975) in 1975.
- DirectorB.S. JohnsonStarsWilliam HoylandBarry ColeGordon GridleyWilliam Hoyland stars in this legendary, multi award-winning short film directed by the modernist writer and film-maker BS Johnson. You're Human Like the Rest of Them is an adaptation of Johnson's decasyllabic poem about mortality. A teacher recites the poems lines first in a hospital surrounded by aging pensioners and then at work in a classroom, and finally in the school staff room. This title is also available on the DVD/Blu-ray 'You're Human Like the Rest of Them: The films of BS Johnson' in the BFI Flipside collection.
- DirectorNeil GaimanStarsJohn O'MahonyMarcus BrigstockeCarolyn BackhouseA documentary film crew takes a look at the inspirations behind artist John Bolton's paintings.
- DirectorNoël BurchStarsFrédérique FranchiniAndré S. LabartheAnnette MichelsonA peeping tom caught spying on a women's self defence class is taken captive by the class leader. At first the class uses to practice on, but his treatment steadily becomes more humiliating and fetishistic.
- DirectorSamuel R. DelanyA dance short that has kinship with sci-fi and with the late 1960s hippie sensibility.
- DirectorJean RollinStarsAdeline AbitbolFunny AbitbolCatherine HerengtLost in New York is a 1989 made for television film directed by Jean Rollin, which is one of his most personal films and has a runtime of just 52 minutes.
- DirectorBuster KeatonMalcolm St. ClairStarsBuster KeatonVirginia FoxJoe RobertsA series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsAaron C. ShangXiaodong GuoLei HaoAn ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth is still perceptible in their conversations. Is it still possible for us to love? Does youth really have an end? Like the networks linking the old city, what type of ecological existence does their culture require?
- DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsAleksandr PalamishevAleksandra ZhivovaEvgeniya KryukovaIn nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
- DirectorShigeru TamuraStarsShouhei AyukawaIchirô NagaiMasaharu SatôThis adventurous story of a boy named Uri and an old man takes place in the cosmic Milky Way where the starfish live. This is the tale of their fantasy journey in search of the mysterious monster fish.
- DirectorLarry JordanAn experimental film which overlays images of a woman looking out a doorway with footage of a sea coast and cliffs.
- 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.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsReza HashemiMehdi ShahravanfarA child carrying a bread is going home but in the alley on his way to home, there is a frightening dog and he doesn't seem to pass it alone.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsYoosef MoghaddamAli AsgariTeymourA deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can't hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.
- DirectorNam June PaikJud Yalkut
- DirectorVin DieselStarsVin DieselLewis SteidlCara GaffenA short film about the problems that accompany an actor as he auditions, due to his multi-ethnic appearance.
- DirectorYing Ning
- DirectorLarry JordanAn experimental short from Larry Jordan in which a horse rider and gymnast are filmed.
- DirectorBéla TarrDocumentary about a hostel for workers. An old worker suspected of stealing a motor gets fired from the factory and must leave the hostel.
- DirectorBéla TarrJános HollósStarsMiklós Székely B.Michael MehlmannLászló GálffiThe last ship (Utolsó hajó) is leaving the quay. Sirens are sounding.
- DirectorBéla TarrStarsMihály VigRevisits of locations on the Great Hungarian Plain - the puszta - that were used in Tarr's Sátántangó and Werckmeister harmóniák. Recitations of short lyric poems by Hungary's national poet Sándor Petofi. The film is shot in color.
- DirectorFatih AkinBarbara AlbertSharunas BartasStarsAlan ReesYohanna TroellAgneta Ulfsäter-TroellAn anthology film is a collection of short film projects by different directors for a common aim. Usually they are unified by a common theme - in this case, the European Union.
- DirectorRoyston TanStarsMelvin ChenErick ChunMelvin LeeFast, frenetic, and furious, 15 is story of five Singaporian teenagers who, abandoned by system.
- DirectorTobe HooperStarsTom BillupsNorris DomingueLarry RayTobe Hooper grew up in motels, hotels and movie theaters. He says he watched at least two films a day. Some of his favorite films were produced by the iconic British horror filmmakers at Hammer Films. THE HEISTERS (restored at 2K from a 35mm print) is Hooper's trippy, Looney Tunes send-up of those films. At the time Hooper was the only student in the University of Texas Austin film department. THE HEISTERS introduced him to Hollywood (he mixed the film at Todd-AO) and whetted his appetite for features. Five years later he would make his first narrative feature, EGGSHELLS.
- DirectorClaude JutraNorman McLarenStarsClaude JutraAn ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
- DirectorIshu PatelA psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsSylvia BatailleJane MarkenGeorges D'ArnouxThe family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
- DirectorAlexander HammidA young man sets out for an aimless stroll by tram from the center to the outskirts of Prague.
- DirectorAudrius StonysA sad child is going to pay a visit to her mother in prison. Her solitude is immense. Sitting in the backseat, she looks on in silence outside the window while the landscape passes in front of her eyes.
- DirectorAudrius StonysVisual meditation on ordinary human activities mainly seen from atop structures set to sacred music.
- DirectorJoão SalavizaStarsCarloto CottaRodrigo MadeiraRafael SardoA young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to find the kids who took his money and maybe give them a lesson. But with those actions, comes the reflection of how things were and are in this place filled with violence and hostility. Is change possible?
- DirectorAntónio ReisStarsEvangelina Gil DelgadoJaime FernandesA documentary about a deceased psychiatric patient, Jaime Fernandes.
- DirectorJacques DrouinAn artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.