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Light Is Calling

Bill Morrison

Light Is Calling
2004|USA|8 min|Col|Live Action

- ...from a very long distance.

Avant-garde/Formalism
Decasia, by Bill Morrison

I looked out the window,
	Saw myself burning,
		In the wind,
			Like a straw hat,
		With no strings,
	And no straws.
Empty,
	As it were,
		Gave fire the space,
			To burn and wither,
				As it were meant to be. 

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Jonathan Rosenbaum 1000
Brief Encounters
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Report

Bruce Conner

Report
1967|USA|13 min|BW|Live Action

- The reporter forgot his report.

Avant-garde/Documentary
JFK, by Oliver Stone

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363

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A Poet's Life
(Shijin no shougai)

Kihachiro Kawamoto

A Poet's Life
1974|Japan|19 min|BW|Animation

- A touch for a prose.

Social Commentary/Psychological Thriller
Ugetsu, by Kenji Mizoguchi




	Nothing SAYS it all

			NOTHING says it all

					Nothing says it ALL

364

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Balloon Land

Ub Iwerks

Balloon Land
1935|USA|7 min|Col|Animation

- How not to blow up!

Family Comedy/Surrealism
Beauty and the Beast, by Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale

Buying rubber animals
	Is a business that
		Requires no animals or rubber.
		However that,
			Selling the same
			Would be a stretch
			For most kids
			Who aspire to dominate
			either rubber or animals.
It is also known that
	There are no rubber ever found on animals.

365

TSPDT 1000
Brief Encounters

A Diary for Timothy

Humphrey Jennings

A Diary for Timothy
1945|UK|38 min|BW|Live Action

- The baby that destined to grow up.

Documentary/Mini-Biography
, by

An innocent look > who would look away?
	A gentle step > who would turn away?
		He was laughing at the planes,
		That set the buildings on fire.
	Oh, mama said,
		Don't play with fire,
			Or you will get burnt.
	But he looked and looked,
		And saw nothing but little beads,
			That shone like glaring pearl...
And nobody was there to play with him. 

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Death Mills
(Die Todesmühlen)

Billy Wilder, Hanus Burger

Death Mills
1945|Germany/USA|22 min|BW|Live Action

- Destination departed.

Documentary/History
Kapò, by Gillo Pontecorvo

A D is Ded
	And K is Kept
		Where M is Med
			By the E to the Er
		C no longer Cees
			L no longer Lees
				But T
					Continues to Tees
	X is Xing
		W is all Wept
			And D is all Ded

367

Brief Encounters

Children's Party

Joseph Cornell

Children's Party
1938|USA|8 min|BW|Live Action

- Miniature of happiness.

Avant-garde/Documentary
, by

Ah, life!
	Don't give it up so easily!
		What's more than a night's day
			To a day's night?
		Like a child,
		Dancing freely,
		Drinking on the ground,
		Playing by the fire.
But then,
	No illusions shall be traced,
		Like those passed onto each other.

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The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope
(Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje)

Jan Svankmajer

Pit Pendulum Hope
1983|ČSSR|15 min|BW|Live Action/Anim

- A poe for a cause?

Surrealism/Mystery
Pit and the Pendulum, by Roger Corman

Steps looms outside doors
	It stops
		A man knocks
Nobody responds
	The clock ticks
		As the man kicks
			Through the frame that stands
				Upon everything lands
				Ah ~ He sees
				At the final's notices
				That his wife no longer sits.

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Table

Ernie Gehr

Table
1976|USA|16 min|Col|Live Action

- Neurotic dining.

Experimental/Structuralism
, by

Red Oranges
	Orange Silver
		Silver Plate
			Plated Cup
				Cup Holder
Blue Tea
	Tea Pot
		Pot Full
			Full of Water
				Water Cup
					Cup Handles

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Toss Me a Dime
(Tire dié)

Fernando Birri

Tire die
1960|Argentina|33 min|BW|Live Action

- A dime for a home.

Social Issues/Documentary
Oliver Twist, by David Lean

Every time
	a pensioner ponders policies,
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	a child chills for charities.