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Aleph

Wallace Berman

Aleph
1966|USA|8 min|BW/Col|Live Action

- Onscreen offwards.

Avant-garde/Film Collage
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		H o w close are we?
		
		
		WHEN 
		    your eyes feel so cold.

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Cosmic Ray

Bruce Conner

Cosmic Ray
1962|USA|4 min|BW|Live Action

- Fast sex to the point.

Avant-garde/Film Collage
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Light spurs in all directions,
	Initiating a circular movement,
		In an uncomfortable position.
	But it is mediated,
		By a twirl as loud
			as an after-dinner invitation,
				To a unprotected exhibition.
					Wide angles,
					Short takes
					on a narrow canyon,
All lights cannot be seen from the same lumination.

273

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Groteszk

Zoltán Huszárik

Groteszk
1963|Hungary|11 min|BW|Live Action

- Life is strange, living it is grotesque.

Surrealism/Avant-garde
Damnation, by Bela Tarr

I just opened my stomach on a train,
	There is no ticket, nor a brain.
		I started to vomit,
			Like a Siberian hermit,
				Finally melt down,
					And going to the summit.
THE GIRL SIT BY ME IS CURIOUS
					more than she needs to be
					more than I ought to see
Are we going to be on time? She asks,
		Sure, I say, no lunch is slowing down the train.

274

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The Sandman

Paul Berry

Sandman
1991|UK|10 min|Col|Animation

- How the devil trained the fairies.

Horror/Fantasy
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	Moms tell us,
			That
					Eyes are the windows
					     to our souls.
						 
						
						
						 
And everybody knows that.

275

Narcissus

Norman McLaren

Narcissus
1983|Canada|22 min|Col|Live Action

- The man who killed his reflection.

Dance/Mythology
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I see your face
	Hidden in shadows
		Engulfed by smoke
I gently blow past the surface
	With my invisible arrow
		Made from a deep-aged oak
			By my legs!
			By my arms!
I start to see
	Your face start to wallow
		Like that my own I see myself gallowed.

276

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The Night It Rained
(An shab ke barun amad)

Kamran Shirdel

The Night It Rained
1967|Iran|35 min|BW|Live Action

- The truth is personal?

Investigative Documentary/Social Commentary
Rashômon, by Akira Kurosawa


Comedian:
	The only wish I have before I die
		is to
			survive a plane crash.
			
Tragedian:
	The only wish I have right before I die
		is to
			survive a place crash.

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Le Horla

Jean-Daniel Pollet

Le Horla
1966|France|38 min|Col|Live Action

- Fear of fear of out-there.

Horror/Psychological Thriller
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It's almost nap time,
	You sit by the clock,
		Look at the lock,
			On your door to an uncommitted crime.
And here comes the chime,
	Nobody is around,
		For the unseen to be drowned,
			Like a young man in his prime.
						Run!

You are out there...awake in your nap time.

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The Pilgrim

Charles Chaplin

The Pilgrim
1923|USA|39 min|BW|Live Action

- Fun in a touch time.

History Satire/Comedy
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IF
	I were a lawyer,


				ALL my clients would be
						BROKE
							by now.

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The Smiling Madame Beudet
(La souriante Madame Beudet)

Germaine Dulac

The Smiling Madame Beudet
1923|France|38 min|BW|Live Action

- Waterfall in a long river, flows and flows.

Drama/Romance
La notte, by Michelangelo Antonioni


- She's back, monsieur.


- ...
  Okay, now you put this away.
  Remember each bullet has its own slot.


- Oui, monsieur.

280

Annecy 100

The Hat
(Le chapeau)

Michèle Cournoyer

Le Chapeau
2000|Canada|6 min|BW|Animation

- Speak the unspeakable.

Transformism/Avant-garde
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It was hard to swallow,
	Objects looks bigger in the mirror,
		You know,
			But the stranger moves along,
		It is no longer a memory
	Of the same night
That nothing else should have happened.

			Where were you?
		Hiding in your hat,
				Or Hand in your hat?