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About Cinecouch

About Cinecouch

What's Cinecouch?
Cinecouch is a website dedicated to short films and long shorts(or short features). It is a comprehensive list of short films released or unreleased, film or video, animation or live action, all time periods, all countries included.

How's your list compiled?
It is compiled half-based on existing lists, and half-based on my own research and taste. Detailed metrics can be found here

When's the next release of list?
As soon as I have time...

Statistics

Films By Type:
Animation=383
Live Action=576
Both=34
Other=7

Films By Color:
Color=503
B&W=463
Both=32
Either=2

Films By Country:
(Films with a multi-country production wil be counted as one for each country)
USA=371
France=143
Soviet Union/Russia=77
UK=71
Canada=67
Poland=42
Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic=39
Japan=35
Germany/West Germany=32
Austria=19
Belgium=18
Netherlands=15
Italy=12
Spain=10
Hungary=9
Yugoslavia=8
Switzerland=7
Australia=5
Cuba=7
Iran=6
China/Hong Kong=4
Denmark=4
Sweden=3
Portugal=3
India=3
South Africa=2
Norway=2
Argentina=2
Brazil=2
Mexico=2
Ireland=2
Armenia=2
Chile=1
Estonia=1
Luxemberg=1
Greece=1
Colombia=1
Venezuela=1
Senegal=1

Reference

Images used from: (also recommended DVDs):

Avant-garde Films
Avant Garde Experimental Cinema Vol2 Vol3
Unseen Cinema
Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film
Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Experiment in Belgian Cinema 1927-1937 Euro(€)

Director's Set, Live Action
Georges Melies: First Wizard of Cinema
Maya Deren: Experimental Films
Norman McLaren: The Masters Edition
By Brakhage: An Anthology
Films of Kenneth Anger
The Chaplin Revue
Buster Keaton - Short Films Collection
The Films of James Broughton
Joris Ivens Collection
The Complete Jean Vigo
The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Alvarez
Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painleve
Listen to Britain and Other Films By Humphrey Jennings

Director's Set, Animation
Jan Svankmajer: Collected Shorts The Ossuary and Other Tales
Films & Videos by Zbig Rybczynski
Oskar Fischinger: Ten Films
Animated Classics by Frederic Back
Cameraman's Revenge & Other Fantastic Tales
The Animation of Alexeieff
Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
The Films of Georges Schwizgebel
Winsor McCay - The Master Editio
Extreme Animation: Films By Phil Mulloy
Jiri Barta: Labyrinth of Darkness
Bitter Films: Animated Shorts by Don Hertzfeldt

Shorts Compilations
Anthology of Polish Animated Film
Anthology of Polish Experimental Animation
Masters of Russian Animation 1-4
Cinema 16: European Short Films
Cinema 16: American Short Films
Pixar Short Films Collection

Special Editions
La Jetee
Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection
Harvie Krumpet

Special Thanks

Center for Visual Music
Academy Film Archive
Pacific Film Archive
California Institute of the Arts
National Film Board of Canada