Heretic (1931)
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Runtime : 4M
Synopsis
Heretic is a modern dance work by Martha Graham performed to Tetus Breton, an old folk tune from Brittany.
A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.... well, who tries to rush home in his chauffeur-driven automobile.
Man's rebellion against the world of the digits.
Has to do with a consideration of one possible conceptual model for human existence: that of a primitive form of yardchair, upon which sits The Creator, impassively observing the inexorable flow of His mountains.
A short film by Hollis Frampton.
Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
Boys diving into a river.
A man and a woman converse at a cafe's bar in this animated short.
A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.
Moon Breath Beat is a hand-drawn experimental 2D film that depicts a woman and her two cats and how external forces such as birds and the moon impact their lives.
Six people are grouped in front of a wall as if for a photograph. The entire ceremony is supervised by a seventh person, who, like a photographer, looks at the group from different angles and rearranges the group by hand-signals.
A persistent trumpeter tries to join a string quartet that doesn't want him.
A short film in which pieces of paper fly off of an animated cube.
A high-speed view of Paris via train-track; Zooming down the Seine by boat. Chomette's first film, Games of Reflections and Speed, traverses tunnels and elevated railways to produce a disarming rhythm.
London to Brighton in 4 minutes BBC interlude. From the days when TV was all live and programming was hectic. Often when one program finished, the next one was not ready yet, and the gap had to be filled. So the BBC developed a number of interludes to fill these gaps, this being the most famous one.
Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.
A Berlin street scene.
