The Crunch Bird (1971)

When a 7-year-old son of the well-known businessman is kidnapped, he has no idea what awaits him! It turns out that the mysterious kidnapper does not need any ransom, but has only one claim: during the next day father must decide who will die of the two: his child or himself...

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.

O engenheiro Jan Sebek (Jan Kacer) está em tratamento num manicómio depois de sua tentativa frustrada de cometer suicídio. A sua terapeuta, através de discussões tanto com o paciente como com as pessoas que o conhecem, tenta descobrir o que fez o jovem e aparentemente satisfeito decidir terminar sua própria vida. A bela esposa de Jan, Jana (Jana Brejchová), afirma não saber de nada, mas ela está a viver um caso com um amigo da família, quase publicamente, e com a bênção de seus pais.

A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.

A meditation on eating people and quiet waitresses.

A man breaks into a large, seemingly abandoned old house to plunder the gold received. But the house is really abandoned?

Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.

Short film made in 1997 while David Gordon Green was attending the North Carolina School of Arts that formed the genesis of his feature film debut, "George Washington".

A young agoraphobic woman is tormented by malevolent visions that begin to bleed into reality.

The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.

Two creatures wonder, 'What is a hole?' They have different points of view. Their debate leads to an idea, an idea that changes the world. This is a story of practical magic. This film was made as part of the 5th edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

A kitten who is being tormented by a bulldog finds a savior in a black cat (from the "Black Cat Bad Luck Company") who merely has to cross the dog's path for something very unlucky to happen to the bully.

To prove he's a true Indian Brave, Big Heel-Watha decides to catch a squirrel - but wouldn't you know it; Screwy Squirrel is the first one he sees...

The story of Joe and Paddy, whose childhood friendship is shattered by the troubles in Northern Ireland. Twenty five years later they are reunited.

Three stories based on O. Henry novels.

Arnold's source material is a piece of footage from the 1950s, eighteen seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: A living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a camera pan, his wife follows after him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exciting tango of movements. But Pièce Touchée is more than just a matter of forms; The reflections, distortions and delays it displays challenge cinema's stable system of space and time.

A short segment of film is played with musical backing at various speeds for a jarring effect.

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.

Um homem e uma mulher caminham juntos ao longo de uma vereda. A mulher detém-se e puxa para cima a meia que lhe cobre a perna esquerda. O homem e a mulher sobem uma escada que os conduz a um quarto, onde a mulher começa a despojar-se das roupas, até ficar nua sobre a cama. O homem despede-se e parte. Mais tarde, o homem depara com a mulher que se encontra na rua a vender jornais e esta oferece-lhe uma estrela-do-mar encerrada num frasco.

Eggeling analisa objetivamente o movimento das formas enfatizando a linha em uma série de contrastes – vertical e horizontal, retas e curvas, claras e escuras, fortes e fracas, desaparecendo e emergindo – muito parecido com uma peça musical onde idiomas ou temas emergem.