100 Greatest Short Films of All Time

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.

A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.

The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.

Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.

A "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.

A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.

Footage selected from 'East of Borneo' and other films is arranged and edited so as to highlight actress Rose Hobart.

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.

A train arrives at La Ciotat station.

A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.