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Cinecouch's Essential Films

Elégia

Zoltán Huszárik

Elegia
1965|Hungary|19 min|Col|Live Action

- The life unspoken for.

Documentary/Avant-garde
Au hasard Balthazar, by Robert Bresson

Last night I cried,
	Never knowing why,
		With no tears and eyes dry.
		I turned on the radio,
		And everything sounded like a lie.
		It hit me in the eye,
			With no room to give another try,
				For a simple way to die.
But then,
	I cried again,
		And tears were falling from the sky.

162

Brief Encounters

Rainbow Dance

Len Lye

Rainbow Dance
1936|UK|4 min|Col|Animation

- Lens of Lyet.

Visual Music/Experimental
, by

Smack the radio!
	You don't need music to dance!
Eyes
    and Movements
		Dance with that car who makes a turn
		Dance with that fire who starts to burn
		Dance with that flower with no fern
		Dance at a bus stop with no ticket to return
Now collect your radio in pieces
	Spray it like rainbow dusts
		For those kids to yearn.

163

Jonathan Rosenbaum 1000
Brief Encounters
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(Nostalgia)
(Hapax Legomena I)

Hollis Frampton

(Nostalgia)
1971|USA|36 min|BW|Live Action

- We can never reach *Now*, but only the moment before it.

Avant-garde/Documentary
Memento, by Christopher Nolan

Put down your journal!
	You are recording death!
Look at the world around you!
	It's hard to catch a breath!
Listen to the signal!
	Like a bird returning to her nest!
Run and catch the whistle!
	Don't forget to bring the jest!
Oh! Nostalgia!
	It's not the memorable past,
		But the immediate future!

164

Annecy 100
Cinecouch's Essential Films
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Broken Down Film

Osamu Tezuka

Broken Down Film
1985|Canada|6 min|Col|Animation

- The subversion of art is an art.

Comedy/Romance/Experimental
, by

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165

Annecy 100
Cinecouch's Favorite

Frank Film

Frank Mouris, Caroline Mouris

Frank Film
1973|USA|9 min|Col|Animation

- How easily things go by.

Experimental/Film Collage
, by

The our education visual is and rather audio a capacity
difficult is subject rather, just limited like as those 
the who mind started can school only and handle felt one 
that thing nothing at could a be time. explained However,
well it enough is, unless possible the to teachers have
and multiple the streams students of agree information to
from be the in outside a stimuli state when of our mutual
mind compliance is, which tuned is to rarely receive exem-
plified energy (by) subconscious the training nature in of
the education direction in of the our modern awareness society.
						- 10.26.2014

166

Annecy 100
Cinecouch's Favorite

The Big Snit

Richard Condie

Big Snit
1986|Canada|10 min|Col|Animation

- The best of life in absurdity, and the worst of it in life.

Social Satire/Black Comedy
When the Wind Blows, by Jimmy Murakami

You.
	Poor little stupid darling.
		Where is my chicken saw?
Me?
You.
	Sweet little shameless bastard.
		Let's have some fun.
Me?
You.
	Short little charming bonehead.
		We are going to have dinner today!

167

Cinecouch's Favorite

The Heron and the Crane
(Tsaplya i zhuravl)

Yuri Norstein

Heron and the Crane
1974|Soviet Union|10 min|Col|Animation

- Attraction's expiration cycle.

Comedy/Romance
, by

Oh sit on the stove.my dear
	at the couch.to sip a tea
everything is so fine.when it rains
	but the grass smells like fish.oh you cooked it
		brown.isn't it well done?Must be so
		make it snappy.on both sides
	maybe I'll go to your place next time.at night
when there is nothing to do.sleeping is a good exercise
	it must be told a million times.without you listening
		that is.my routine.going up and down
spend the better part of the day.sitting on the stove.my dear

168

Cinecouch's Essential Films
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Very Nice, Very Nice

Arthur Lipsett

Very Nice, Very Nice
1961|Canada|7 min|BW|Live Action

- The consistency of randomness.

Film Collage/Experimental
Venom and Eternity, by Isidore Isou

Nice.
	It's nice in Nice.
Nighs.
	It's nigh to sigh.
Naice.
	It's naive to be nice.
Nights.
	It's night in Nice.
Niece.
	It's nice to...
				...what is she doing in Nice?

169

Cinecouch's Essential Films
Cinecouch's Favorite

A Reason to Live

George Kuchar

A Reason to Live
1976|USA|30 min|BW|Live Action

- Pulp Fiction 18 years earlier, Touch of Evil 18 years later.

Social Satire/Romance
Desperate Living, by John Waters

The woman is getting desperate,
	It takes too long to dump the trash,
		In the middle of the night,
			When the neighbors have their lights on,
		Every Thursday or so,
			When there are special guests,
		Inviting themselves over,
			To stay up all night in the garden,
		Ready for some serious scenary,
	On the rumor that was spreaded,
That the woman is getting desperate.	

170

TSPDT 1000
Jonathan Rosenbaum 1000
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The House Is Black
(Khaneh siah ast)

Forugh Farrokhzad

This House Is Black
1963|Iran|20 min|BW|Live Action

- The gate to elephants.

Shockumentary/Horror
, by

Not Red
	Not Blue
		Not Yellow
			Not White
			
It stinks of flesh,
	On the afternoon of mesh,
		Clean or fresh,
			nothing goes unrefreshed.

This man is not back.