TSPDT's Brief Encounters
by thierry-05295 | created - 7 months ago | updated - 7 months ago | PublicThis list is a ranked list of the top 250 shorts as compiled by the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They website as a companion to their Top 1000 films. This follows a project originally started and abandoned in 2009 to do the same, the preliminary list for which was the original source of this list.
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1. La Jetée (1962)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Drama, Romance
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Étienne Becker, Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Votes: 37,072
2. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Passed | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
Votes: 57,054 | Gross: $0.98M
3. A Day in the Country (1946)
Not Rated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello
Votes: 7,102
4. Un chien andalou (1929)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Pancho Cossío
Votes: 53,819
5. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,475
6. Wavelength (1967)
Not Rated | 43 min | Short, Drama
Claimed by some to be one of the most unconventional and experimental films ever made, Wavelength is a structural film of a 45-minute long zoom in on a window over a period of a week. Very unconventional and experimental, indeed.
Director: Michael Snow | Stars: Hollis Frampton, Lyne Grossman, Naoto Nakazawa, Roswell Rudd
Votes: 3,018
7. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
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.
Directors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Stars: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Votes: 15,210
8. Zero for Conduct (1933)
Not Rated | 47 min | Drama
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.
Director: Jean Vigo | Stars: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre, Du Verron
Votes: 9,367
9. Listen to Britain (1942)
Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short
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.
Directors: Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister | Stars: Leonard Brockington, Joseph Macleod, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen
Votes: 1,856
10. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet
Votes: 55,812
11. The House Is Black (1963)
20 min | Documentary, Short
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.
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad | Stars: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
Votes: 5,568
12. Las Hurdes (1933)
30 min | Documentary, Short
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.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Votes: 6,264
13. The Tale of Tales (1979)
29 min | Animation, Short
Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Star: Aleksandr Kalyagin
Votes: 4,135
14. Scorpio Rising (1963)
28 min | Short, Music
A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell
Votes: 5,710
15. Song of Love (1950)
Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
Director: Jean Genet | Stars: Bravo, Jean Genet, Java, Coco Le Martiniquais
Votes: 3,709
16. Flaming Creatures (1963)
45 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial.
Director: Jack Smith | Stars: Francis Francine, Sheila Bick, Joel Markman, Mario Montez
Votes: 1,663
17. Four Seasons (1975)
29 min | Documentary, Short
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.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 928
18. The Red Balloon (1956)
Not Rated | 34 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov
Votes: 20,129
19. Blood of the Beasts (1949)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Bucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral, Alfred Macquart, Maurice Griselle
Votes: 2,596
20. The Mad Masters (1955)
36 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
A documentary short depicting a Hauka ceremony where young workers are possessed by British colonial officers.
Director: Jean Rouch | Star: Jean Rouch
Votes: 1,773
21. Simon of the Desert (1965)
Not Rated | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Hortensia Santoveña
Votes: 10,841
22. A Diary for Timothy (1945)
40 min | Documentary, Short
This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration ... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud, Frederick Allen
Votes: 752
23. Elephant (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 39 min | Crime, Drama
A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle, Danny Small
Votes: 2,931
24. Outer Space (1999)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Horror
Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky | Star: Barbara Hershey
Votes: 2,809
25. Mothlight (1963)
4 min | Short
A "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 2,859
26. Unsere Afrikareise (1966)
13 min | Short
A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 771
27. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
Not Rated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,665
28. Rose Hobart (1936)
Unrated | 19 min | Short
Footage selected from 'East of Borneo' and other films is arranged and edited so as to highlight actress Rose Hobart.
Director: Joseph Cornell | Stars: Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Noble Johnson, Georges Renavent
Votes: 1,007
29. The Arrival of a Train (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
A train arrives at La Ciotat station.
Directors: Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière | Stars: Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière
Votes: 12,874
30. Water-Mirror of Granada (1955)
21 min | Documentary, Short
As stated in the film, Jose Val del Omar presents a brief audiovisual essay of lyrical plastic art.
Director: José Val del Omar | Stars: Pepe Albaicín, Juan Gómez Leal, Señorita Chon, Julián Goya
Votes: 394
31. Night Mail (1936)
Approved | 25 min | Short, Documentary
Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.
Directors: Harry Watt, Basil Wright | Stars: Arthur Clark, John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Robert Rae
Votes: 1,458
32. Leaving the Factory (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 7,555
33. A Portrait of Ga (1952)
4 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A short film from Margaret Tait capturing the daily life of her mother, Ga.
Director: Margaret Tait | Star: Margaret Tait
Votes: 544
34. À Propos de Nice (1930)
Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
Directors: Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
Votes: 4,632
35. Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Not Rated | 20 min | Animation, Short
Inside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Star: Feliks Stawinski
Votes: 3,084
36. Duck Amuck (1953)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 9,436
37. 79 primaveras (1969)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Documentary
An agit-prop documentary marking the death of Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chí Minh, using found footage to link his work to worldwide political movements including the Cuban revolution and resistance within the USA to the Vietnam war.
Director: Santiago Álvarez
Votes: 490
38. Arnulf Rainer (1960)
7 min | Short
An experimental short from Peter Kubelka in which the film flickers between periods of light and sound.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 949
39. My Childhood (1972)
Not Rated | 46 min | Biography, Drama
The First part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from... See full summary »
Director: Bill Douglas | Stars: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler
Votes: 1,395
40. Adebar (1957)
2 min | Short
An early experimental short film produced by Peter Kubelka.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 733
41. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
45 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Walter Steiner, Werner Herzog
Votes: 2,884
42. Schwechater (1958)
1 min | Short
A short film originally intended to be a commercial for Schwechater Beer, but along the way it morphed into something completely different.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 859
43. Valentin de las Sierras (1971)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Music
Skin, eyes, knees, horses, hair, sun, earth. Old song of Mexican hero, Valentin, sung by blind Jose Santollo Nadiso en Santa Cruz de la Soledad.
Director: Bruce Baillie
Votes: 382
44. Rain (1929)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Regen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
Directors: Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Votes: 1,914
45. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
TV-PG | 29 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Gromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.
Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins
Votes: 57,418
46. A Movie (1958)
12 min | Short
Clips of atomic explosions, pornography, and B-movies are spliced together to evoke certain emotions.
Director: Bruce Conner | Star: Theodore Roosevelt
Votes: 1,455
47. Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Stan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Votes: 2,459
48. Little Stabs at Happiness (1960)
15 min | Short
A film in four parts. In "In the Room", a man and a woman in outlandish garb are sitting in a claw-foot bathtub smoking, while the man abuses a doll in various ways. In "They Stopped to ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Jacobs
Votes: 452
49. Entr'acte (1924)
22 min | Short
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 4,198
50. Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971)
36 min | Short
Frampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
Director: Hollis Frampton | Star: Michael Snow
Votes: 730
51. Ménilmontant (1926)
38 min | Short, Drama
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff | Stars: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont, Jean Pasquier
Votes: 2,733
52. Der Lauf der Dinge (1987)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short
Inside a warehouse, a precarious 70-100 feet long structure has been constructed using various items. When this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues. Fire, water, law of gravity as ... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Fischli, David Weiss
Votes: 949
53. Toss Me a Dime (1958)
33 min | Documentary, Short
Everyday the children of the neighborhood known as "Tire Dié", in the city of Santa Fe, wait for the train to ask for money, shouting "Tire dié!" (toss me a dime!) to the passengers. Considered the first survey-on-film in Latin America.
Director: Fernando Birri | Stars: Guillermo Cervantes Luro, María Rosa Gallo, Francisco Petrone
Votes: 306
54. Puissance de la parole (1988)
25 min | Drama, Short, Romance
Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean Bouise, Laurence Côte, Lydia Andrei, Jean-Michel Irribaren
Votes: 322
55. Blight (1996)
15 min | Short
The destruction of a home for the building of a road is captured and contrasted with quotations from the residents.
Director: John Smith
Votes: 362
56. Blow Job (1963)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.
Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: DeVeren Bookwalter, Willard Maas
Votes: 1,163
57. A Corner in Wheat (1909)
G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama
An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 2,747
58. Free Radicals (1958)
5 min | Animation, Short, Music
Display the graph that follows traditional African music's voice strains of sway, between music and graphics so mix and so gave the impression of beauty in the melting pot of musical art and graphics.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 1,207
59. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
TV-G | 11 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes, Justus D. Barnes
Votes: 20,999
60. Statues also Die (1953)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary of black art.
Directors: Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | Stars: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII, Sugar Ray Robinson
Votes: 1,374
61. Report (1967)
13 min | Short
A compilation of selected bits of archival footage put to a narration of news reports describing the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Director: Bruce Conner
Votes: 1,513
62. Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 4,889
63. Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A independent director is faced with artistic difficulty when he asks his actresses to show nudity.
Director: George Kuchar | Stars: Donna Kerness, George Kuchar, Stella Kuchar, Andrea Lunin
Votes: 1,772
64. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
40 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which documents the lives of women in a rural Senegal.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 465
65. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
Not Rated | 43 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Karen Carpenter's battle with anorexia nervosa and the cultural influence of the Carpenters in the 70s.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Merrill Gruver, Michael Edwards, Melissa Brown, Rob LaBelle
Votes: 3,332
66. La morte rouge (2006)
32 min | Short, Drama
Spanish director Victor Erice discusses the first film he saw as a 5 year old and the impact it had on his life.
Director: Víctor Erice | Star: Víctor Erice
Votes: 349
67. Rainbow Dance (1936)
4 min | Short, Musical, Animation
The film was made by colorful printing of footage combined with drawing directly on film. The bouncy music drives home the message heard at the end of the film, promoting the GPO (General ... See full summary »
Director: Len Lye | Star: Rupert Doone
Votes: 774
68. Anticipation of the Night (1958)
42 min | Short
Notes of journey life of Stan Brakhage like a befits of a diary book in a very strong sense of experimentation, romantic, modernist and abstract.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 450
69. The End (1953)
35 min | Short
A short film which explores the last day in the lives of six different people.
Director: Christopher Maclaine
Votes: 371
70. At Land (1944)
15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman
Votes: 3,343
71. All the Memory in the World (1956)
21 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 1,584
73. The Music Box (1932)
Approved | 29 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dinah, Billy Gilbert
Votes: 8,026
74. Cops (1922)
Unrated | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Family
A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox, Steve Murphy
Votes: 6,948
75. Hôtel des Invalides (1952)
22 min | Documentary, Short
A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Michel Simon, Choeurs des Petits Chanteurs de St. François
Votes: 405
76. Valparaiso (1963)
27 min | Documentary, Short
A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular ... See full summary »
Director: Joris Ivens | Star: Roger Pigaut
Votes: 1,321
77. Afrique 50 (1950)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about the living conditions in a small Ivorian village during French colonization.
Director: René Vautier | Star: René Vautier
Votes: 321
78. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller
Votes: 2,491
79. All My Life (1966)
G | 3 min | Short, Music
A 3 minute pan to the left.
Director: Bruce Baillie | Star: Ella Fitzgerald
Votes: 748
80. Trade Tattoo (1937)
5 min | Short, Animation, Drama
Abstract animation drawn directly on Technicolor film, some with underlying real life footage of unrelated subjects. Various colorful shapes and patterns move and interact, set to upbeat music.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 561
81. Bullet Piercing a Soap Bubble (1904)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Pioneering chronophotograph of a bullet piercing a soap bubble in slow motion.
Director: Lucien Bull
Votes: 298
82. Par desmit minutem vecaks (1978)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.
Director: Herz Frank
Votes: 744
83. Borom sarret (1963)
20 min | Short, Drama
Boron Sarret is arguably the first film made by a black African. It illustrates poverty in Senegal, particularly for the working man.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Ly Abdoulay, Albourah
Votes: 1,521
84. What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 10,507
85. Borinage (1934)
36 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.
Directors: Joris Ivens, Henri Storck
Votes: 434
86. The Girl Chewing Gum (1976)
TV-PG | 12 min | Short, Comedy
A short film in which a director's voice appears to be directing all the action on a busy London street.
Director: John Smith
Votes: 972
87. Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
12 min | Short, Horror
Experimental short, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Bill Beutel, Harvey Bialy
Votes: 2,042
88. Ballet mécanique (1924)
19 min | Short
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, ... See full summary »
Directors: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy
Votes: 3,293
89. Weather Diary 3 (1988 Video)
25 min | Short
An experimental short film by George Kuchar in which a man documents storm patterns.
Director: George Kuchar | Stars: George Kuchar, Mike Kuetemeyer
Votes: 73
90. Spare Time (1939)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
A look at how industry workers spend their time when they are not at work.
Director: Humphrey Jennings | Star: Laurie Lee
Votes: 199
92. Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964)
Not Rated | 24 min | Short
A short experimental film about the Dakota Sioux directed by Bruce Baillie.
Director: Bruce Baillie
Votes: 201
93. Human Remains (1998)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Film clips of the 20th century's great dictators with narration in first person combine to form a fascinating portrait of power and evil.
Director: Jay Rosenblatt | Stars: Eva Braun, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin
Votes: 489
94. Satan's Rhapsody (1917)
55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, in return she must stay away from love. After the deal she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.
Director: Nino Oxilia | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Andrea Habay, Ugo Bazzini, Giovanni Cini
Votes: 844
95. Outer and Inner Space (1966)
33 min | Short
An experimental short film in which a copy of an interview is shown on a monitor next to the live interview creating the illusion that the two are talking to each other.
Director: Andy Warhol | Star: Edie Sedgwick
Votes: 215
96. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou
Votes: 2,286
97. The Music Lover (1903)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Music
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,939
98. Powers of Ten (1977)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Beginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.
Directors: Charles Eames, Ray Eames | Star: Philip Morrison
Votes: 2,371
99. Standard Gauge (1984)
35 min | Short
A film literally about film, not just its content but its physical form, as the director shares with us his collection of 35 mm leaders, off-cuts and test footage and tells the story behind each.
Director: Morgan Fisher | Star: Morgan Fisher
Votes: 93
100. Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice (1972)
31 min | Short
This Experiment is a Scenario who Have 4 Act titled (1-4) Tableau. Poetic Justice is story about lovers who holding camera, Third Tableau is have Middle Shot and other Tableau is on various camera shot.
Director: Hollis Frampton
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