Panorama des rives du Nil, [I] (1897)

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

A tramp heads home drunk on a Saturday night, finding it hard to make it to his room. When he finally does, he cannot make it to his bed.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he leaps. The sides of the box fall to the ground, but instead of containing the magician a lively clown steps forth who further mystifies the audience by causing the box to disappear, and in its place is seen a fully laid table with a smoking dinner, to which the clown applies himself. The table, however, suddenly disappears much to the astonishment of the clown, who is confronted by the magician in the garb of Mephistopheles. This he suddenly changes to that of a sculptor, and in the background is seen a pedestal with the bust of a young lady, which comes to life as the sculptor applies the mallet and chisel.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an angelic woman emerges from the pot. The devil and the pot vanish as the woman performs a dance, waving about her diaphanous sleeves until she conjures forth another fire, then she rises amongst the smoke into the air.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Tras ser mordido por un zombi, un padre hará lo posible por poner a su bebé a salvo antes de acabar convirtiéndose en un muerto viviente

El legendario científico Albert Einstein abandona por un tiempo sus teorías físicas para encontrar a un hombre perfecto para su intelectual sobrina, Catherine. El elegido es Ed, un atractivo mecánico lector habitual de revistas de ciencia. Sin embargo, la chica, que ya está prometida, no muestra ningún interés por Ed. Así que Einstein, con la ayuda de sus colegas científicos, hará todo lo posible para convertir al mecánico en una eminencia en física.

Karen is a tough, corn fed, outspoken, farm manager who cares about the people she works for and the migrant people who work for her. When one of her farmhands approaches her about a little girl that has recently disappeared, she becomes closer to her employees than she ever thought possible. But, when her lover, Annabelle, disappears, the bubble Karen lives in bursts and she begins an investigation only to uncover something dark in the little town she grew up in.

A young person's increasingly desperate fixation on social networks does little to help them socially.

A casual gesture of friendliness quickly spirals into a paralysing moment for a woman on a train.

A boy in a cadet's uniform paints a statement on the top of the frame and then tips his cap to the audience.

Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The sponsor was horrified by the music and suspicious of the way a worker was shown winking at the camera; although Rhythm won first prize at a New York advertising festival, it was disqualified because Chrysler had never given it a television screening. P. Adams Sitney wrote, “Although his reputation has been sustained by the invention of direct painting on film, Lye deserves equal credit as one of the great masters of montage.” And in Film Culture, Jonas Mekas said to Peter Kubelka, “Have you seen Len Lye’s 50-second automobile commercial? Nothing happens there…except that it’s filled with some kind of secret action of cinema.” - Harvard Film Archive

A little boy celebrates his frog catch in this short film by Hollis Frampton.

It is a tale of a seamstress, her thread, and a deal gone bad.

Una mujer lucha contra las manifestaciones físicas de sus miedos y deseos reprimidos...

Lewis es un tipo aparentemente normal, pero en realidad está ocultando una obsesión, una venganza contra Cathy. Lewis secuestra a Cathy a plena luz del día y la lleva a su casa, donde la encierra en una celda insonorizada e intenta extraer un oscuro secreto de su pasado.