Hospital Fragment (2000)

Two magicians, Mr.Schwarzwald and Mr.Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.

An impressionistic retelling of Dostoyevsky's "A Gentle Spirit"

City lights contrasted with total darkness in this experimental short film.

A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.

Clever and mildly entertaining short from Plympton shows us the point of view of a tree throughout its life. The film gives us various vignettes dealing mostly with sex and violence.

El médico Carlos Cristos, que a sus 47 años padece una enfermedad terminal, llama a un director de cine amigo suyo y le propone que registre su lucha por vivir y morir dignamente, sin dramatismo, y "si es posible con una sonrisa", acompañándolo en el tránsito entre la vida y la muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)

A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.

Pintor abstracto, miembro y teórico del grupo Dada en Zúrich y más tarde próximo a la órbita del surrealismo, la obra cinematográfica de Richter experimenta sobre todo con contrapuntos rítmicos y variaciones formales de secuencias de figuras geométricas y abstractas.Este largometraje cuenta la historia de Joe / Narciso (Jack Bittner), un joven con mala suerte, quien renta una habitación y se pregunta cómo pagará el alquiler. Descubre mirándose al espejo, que puede ver el contenido de su mente creando sueños y pone en marcha un negocio vendiendo éstos a la medida para una serie de frustrados y neuróticos clientes.Los “sueños” que vende a son las creaciones de algunos de los más importantes artistas del siglo XX. El resultado es por momentos divertido, hipnótico, satírico, encantador y pesadillesco.Dreams that money can buy es una película en siete segmentos:

Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Ivan is released a day early from a treatment programme for alcoholics due to a doctors' strike. He returns to his wife Sonja and his sixteen year old son Robi. The first afternoon he spends at home is very pleasant. The next morning Sonja sends Ivan to a shop to get bread and milk. On the way back Ivan runs into Armando, his high school classmate, and through their conversation at a bar, Ivan finds out that long before Sonja became his wife, Armando spent a night with her. Ivan has his first drop of the hard stuff...Kruh in mleko is a bitter-sweet tale of loneliness, estrangement and the glowing embers of love, where there once used to be a fire.

Widow Paramo has lost her husband in the plague. Their daughter Dolores is considering suicide with El Muerto preparing himself to welcome her into the darkness. Paramo must triumph over Death in the boxing ring if she wishes to save both her husband and daughter.

One of the first color films in Europe, made with the Gaspar Color process.

The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an artistic rendering of this soundtrack.

A mischievous man plays an assortment of extreme practical jokes on unsuspecting victims - like replacing one man's razor with a chainsaw.

Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.

En este documental Marker disecciona los movimientos sociales que surgieron en muchos países del mundo a finales de la década de 1960, además de reflexionar, una vez más, sobre las imágenes y la memoria.

An animated film drawn entirely in pastels. Various fantastical plant-like things "grow" from the ground, eventually launching five spheres. The spheres drift in space while changing shapes and come back down to another setting, which eventually becomes more fantastical and symbolic than the opening one. The soundtrack has a jazz slant, with an ensemble of four saxophones and synthetic sound (i.e. sound created by drawing directly on the soundtrack).

Veinticinco cineastas, uno por cada estado de la Unión Europea, realizaron una película sobre sus respectivos países. Todas tenían el mismo presupuesto, debían estar ambientadas en el presente o en un futuro inmediato y durar cinco minutos. No había otras limitaciones, de modo que los autores tenían plena libertad para expresarse. Entre los directores figuran tanto nombres consagrados como voces nuevas dentro del panorama cinematográfico. Cada corto tiene su propia identidad, por lo que es posible establecer comparaciones fascinantes; pero, además, juntos ofrecen una imagen global de la Comunidad Europea a través de la fusión de esas distintas visiones conceptuales y creativas.

En la Eslovenia rural, Pero (Gregor Bakovic) es un treintañero sensible e inteligente que vive muy cerca de la muerte: su trabajo consiste en escribir y pronunciar los discursos fúnebres en los funerales de su ciudad. Sus discursos no son simplemente panegíricos de los fallecidos porque Pero, consciente o inconscientemente, aporta al texto su propia percepción del curso de los acontecimientos y su propia filosofía de vida. Pero vive con su padre, Dedo, y sus dos hermanas, Ida, que es sordomuda, y Vilma, que tiene un hijo. Shooki, el vecino de Pero, es su mejor amigo y está muy unido a la familia de Pero.

Three wordless rituals: birth, between, and rebirth. A woman lies at the bottom of a swimming pool, alone. The camera pans her body. She starts to rise, then sinks; convulsions follow and then she rises and hovers above the pool. A shirtless man in white pants stands in an asphalt lot, a car visible on either side. Convulsions begin. The cars back up, still facing him and each other. They pause; they race toward him. He leaps. A youth, shirtless and in white shorts, stands in front of a tall building. Doors open, he enters and walks to an elevator. Convulsions strike him as he rides to a top floor, exits the elevator, pauses, and runs toward a window. He crashes through.