Gastón (2010)

Luiz is a guy with a peculiar way of questioning the simple things in life.

"When death is inevitable... there is only one thing left to do."

오스트리아의 여름은 아름답지만 약간 서늘하다. 티롤계곡의 저녁은 예고 없이 어두워지곤 한다. 호숫가 별장으로 향하는 게오르그 가족의 자동차를 내려다보는 높은 카메라는 이들의 왜소함을 강조하는 듯하다. 그들은 헨델, 모짜르트를 좋아하고, 함께 휴가를 즐길 이웃이 기다리고 있다. 그러나 그들을 맞이한 이웃의 태도는 어딘가 냉랭한 기운이 감돈다. 이상한 느낌이지만 크게 신경 쓸 일은 아니다. 게오르그의 부인 안나는 짐을 대충 정리하고 저녁을 준비한다. 이때 찾아든 낯선 청년 피터, 이웃의 에바가 보냈다며 달걀 4개를 빌려 달라고 한다. 이웃 에바의 사촌이라고 나타난 피터, 청년의 행동이 어딘가 이상하다. 전화기를 물에 빠뜨리지 않나, 달걀을 깨먹질 않나, 달걀을 더 내놓으라고 태연자약하게 요구하질 않나, 낯선 청년 폴의 등장은 더욱 안나를 불쾌하게 하고 신경이 날카로워진 안나는 그들에게 나가라는 요구를 하게 된다. 악의라고는 찾아볼 수 없던 청년들의 태도가 돌변하고 안나와 게오르그는 어쩔 줄 몰라한다. 골프채로 가볍게 게오르그의 다리를 부러뜨리고 관객을 향한 눈짓과 함께 재밌는 게임이 시작된다. 도저히 상상할 수 없는 게임이 펼쳐진다. 폴과 피터는 안나가족을 내일 오전 9시까지 모두 죽인다는 전제 아래 게임을 시작하며 관객에게도 참여할 것을 요구한다. 객석을 향한 폴의 눈길이 한없이 불편하지만, 조종권은 이미 그들에게 있다. 그리고 차례차례 죽어가는 살인 파티. 왜 이들은 반항하지 않는가라는 의문은 쓸데없는 일, 리모트 콘트롤을 이용한 반전은 왜 이들이 무기력하게 죽어갈 수 밖에 없는지 설명한다.

“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)

A woman sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape.

A short film that took director Quentin Tarantino to task for failing to credit director Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1987 film) as an influence upon the making of Reservoir Dogs. It screened at the New York Underground Film Festival.

George Albert Smith's remake of Georges Méliès - Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) from 1896. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it online are actually a Méliès film.

Here we present a picture that simply convulses an audience with laughter. The scene opens in the bedroom of a hotel. A traveler appears, evidently a "little worse for wear." After stretching and yawning, he proceeds to disrobe. He throws off his coat and vest, but to his surprise and anguish, he suddenly finds himself clothed in a continental uniform. He throws this off in anger, but immediately a policeman's costume flies on him. This is in turn thrown aside in great rage and he finds himself clothed in a soldier's uniform. At last, thinking himself successful, he makes for the bed and finds a skeleton complacently resting on his pillow. The bed suddenly disappears, leaving him seated on the floor, and great quantities of bed clothes rain down from the ceiling. The picture ends leaving the audience simply convulsed in laughter. (Edison Catalog)

The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded, stand on opposite sides of the stage, and jump from one barrel into the other until they both land in the same barrel at the same time. They then jump backwards onto the stage over the two barrels. One table is then mounted upon another and the center barrel is placed on top. The brothers still blindfolded jump one each into a barrel and from them to the first to the second table and from the second table into the barrel on top of the second table. They then jump backwards onto the stage. This is pronounced by show people to be the most marvellous acrobatic feat that has ever been introduced. (Edison Catalog)

The Rolling Stones' record-breaking 1981 North American arena tour documented by director Hal Ashby. Featuring the biggest Rolling Stones songs from the first 20 years - in the words of Mick Jagger, "a feel of what it's like to be there", as 20 cameras take you onstage with the band in this groundbreaking, dynamic tour.

Several competitors take part in a friendly sack race, with widely varying degrees of success.

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real woman. He then continuous drawing the lady, one body part after the other.

An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.

Presented as loosely autobiographical, Hold Me While I’m Naked centres on the tribulations of an independent filmmaker, frustrated at every turn as he tries to make a film that pretends to artistic merit.

After the title, a white screen gives way to a series of frames suggestive of abstract art, usually with one or two colors dominating and rapid change in the images. Two figures emerge from this jungle of color: the first, a shirtless man, appears twice, coming into focus, then disappearing behind the bursts and patterns of color, then reappearing; the second figure appears later, in the right foreground. This figure suggests someone older, someone of substance. The myth?