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1. Pas de deux (1968)
G | 13 min | Animation, Short, Musical
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren
Votes: 1,762
2. Le tempestaire (1947)
22 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
In a village in Brittany, a young maid and an old woman are spinning while the wind blows threateningly outdoors. In spite of the bad omen, the young maid's boyfriend decides to sail away. ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Epstein
Votes: 761
3. Berlin Horse (1970)
7 min | Short
manipulations of stock footage featuring a horse.
Director: Malcolm le Grice
Votes: 212
4. Makimono (1974)
38 min | Short
An experimental short film that depicts habitable and uninhabited locations in a dizzying fashion.
Director: Werner Nekes
Votes: 49
5. 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
6. Four Motion Studies (1974)
13 min | Short, Music
Charlemagne Palestine, holding a cheap black-and-white video camera, rides four of the rides at Coney Island, including the world-famous Cyclone roller coaster and, with his voice, keens ... See full summary »
Director: Charlemagne Palestine | Star: Charlemagne Palestine
Votes: 10
7. Impatience (1928)
36 min | Short, Fantasy
Director: Charles Dekeukeleire | Star: Yvonne Selma
Votes: 111
8. L'invitation au voyage (1927)
40 min | Short, Drama
Tired of being ignored by her husband, a young woman heads off to a nautical-themed nightclub, frequented by rowdy sailors. Her attentions is caught by a handsome naval officer.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Raymond Dubreuil, Emma Gynt, Robert Mirfeuil, Paul Lorbert
Votes: 334
9. Das Wolkenphänomen von Maloja (1924)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Arnold Fanck
Votes: 161
11. S: TREAM: S: S: ECTION: S: ECTION: S: S: ECTIONED (1971)
42 min | Short
Streaming, scratched lines continuously appear two at a time over images of flowing water.
Director: Paul Sharits
Votes: 57
12. Barn Rushes (1971)
36 min | Short
Eight camera passes across the barn, each the length of roll of film, the light and the relationship to the foreground changing with each pass.
Director: Larry Gottheim
Votes: 48
13. The Sun and Richard Lippold (1966 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary examining the work of sculptor Richard Lippold, particular his sculpture of the sun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Director: Leo Hurwitz
Votes: 39
14. 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: 15,180
15. Ming Green (1966)
7 min | Short
An experimental short from Gregory J. Markopoulos which acquires it's title from the color of the walls of the apartment where it is filmed.
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos
Votes: 159
16. Adebar (1957)
2 min | Short
An early experimental short film produced by Peter Kubelka.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 732
17. 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: 948
18. Passage à l'acte (1993)
12 min | Short, Comedy
An avant-garde sonic and visual reediting of a short clip from the classic 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Director: Martin Arnold | Stars: Phillip Alford, Mary Badham, Gregory Peck
Votes: 365
19. Bent Time (1983)
22 min | Short
One-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy locations as the home of an ancient sun ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 32
20. Stadt in Flammen (1984)
5 min | Short
In "Stadt in Flammen" the scenes melt due to overheating, producing an infernal image impression of disappearance. The images no longer show a figuratively represented scene, but rather its dissolution as a temporal process.
Director: Schmelzdahin
Votes: 160
21. Serene Velocity (1970)
23 min | Short
An experimental short film which shows a time-lapse in the basement hallway of a Binghamton University building.
Director: Ernie Gehr
Votes: 444
22. Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
11 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Stars: Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mariya Vinogradova, Aleksey Batalov
Votes: 8,064
23. 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: 3,011
24. Natural Features (1990)
30 min | Short
Displays a rawness that undercuts a sensual beauty, which is also secreted there. Shows the filmmaker beating up a rose as he purports to "put Nature in its place." Sequences from the ... See full summary »
Director: Gunvor Nelson
Votes: 6
25. Time Being (2007)
8 min | Short
Gunvor Nelson stares intently at her mother Carin, a woman whose body has been devastated by the challenges of her last days on this earth. In three astute shots, Nelson looks with honesty ... See full summary »
Director: Gunvor Nelson
Votes: 23
26. Pièce touchée (1989)
16 min | Short
Arnold's original material is a piece of found footage from the 1950s; 18 seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: a living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Arnold
Votes: 289
27. My Name Is Oona (1969)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short
A 9-year-old girl approaches self-awareness in a hauntingly dreamlike frolic in the great outdoors.
Director: Gunvor Nelson | Star: Oona Nelson
Votes: 255
28. Chanson d'Armor (1934)
42 min | Short, Drama, Music
Ballad-type drama-documentary spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a fisherman and the lady of the manor.
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Yvon Le Mar'hadour, Francis Gourvil, François Viguier, Georges Prieur
Votes: 163
29. Vertical Features Remake (1978)
Not Rated | 44 min | Short, Comedy
Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An attempt is made to "reconstruct" a proposed, but never made, film ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Greenaway | Star: Colin Cantlie
Votes: 677
30. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (1955)
6 min | Short
Adaptation of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Director: Margaret Tait | Star: Margaret Tait
Votes: 61
31. La glace à trois faces (1927)
45 min | Drama, Romance
Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day, Raymond Guérin-Catelain
Votes: 964
32. Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992)
41 min | Short
An experimental short in which San Francisco is viewed from an elevator moving up and down 24 floors.
Director: Ernie Gehr
Votes: 184
33. 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: 1,006
34. La perle (1929)
33 min | Short, Fantasy
A young man buys a pearl for his fiancée. He walks out of the jewelry store that opens onto...a forest. He counts the pearls and realizes one is missing so he gets back to the store. On ... See full summary »
Director: Henri d' Ursel | Stars: Georges Hugnet, Kissa Kouprine, Renee Savoye, Mary Stutz
Votes: 262
35. Blazes (1961)
3 min | Animation, Short
Rob Breer blazing the trail.
Director: Robert Breer
Votes: 309
36. The Dante Quartet (1987)
6 min | Animation, Short
Dante's Divine Comedy depicted as thousands of abstract paintings by Stan Brakhage himself.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,197
37. Inca Light (1972)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Interpretive documentary by Robert Fulton in Peru featuring Machu Pichu.
Director: Robert E. Fulton
Votes: 91
38. Bouquets 1-10 (1995)
11 min | Short
An experimental film that focuses mostly on single shots of flowers that are woven frame by frame into a single film.
Director: Rose Lowder
Votes: 100
39. Begone Dull Care (1950)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music
Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,731
40. Castro Street (1966)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Short
A visual documentary inspired by Erik Satie, showcasing the sights and sounds of the industrialized Castro Street in Richmond, California.
Director: Bruce Baillie
Votes: 600
41. By Night with Torch and Spear (1942)
8 min | Short
Montage of archive footage from industrial, nature and ethnographic documentaries -- a steelworks, caterpillars, Native American dances, camel trains -- made strange by juxtaposition and upside-down, backwards and negative printing.
Director: Joseph Cornell
Votes: 359
42. Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass (1971)
26 min | Short
A man and woman in conversation, arguing till roistering and we see gestures and words that are repeated with rough technique.
Director: Hollis Frampton | Stars: Frank Albetta, Barbara DiBenedetto
Votes: 305
43. 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
Votes: 318
44. Threshold (1972)
13 min | Short
The initial use of red and green filters gives way to a broad variety of colors and the introduction of abstract strips of light which are drawn through the printer begins to build an image which becomes graphically and spatially complex.
Director: Malcolm le Grice
Votes: 46
45. 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: 20,095
46. Corridor (1970)
23 min | Short
An unknown observer is seen traveling through a bleak corridor. At the end of the corridor they see a naked woman, whom the observer is unable to reach as his or her trip seems to become increasingly twisted and looped.
Director: Standish Lawder
Votes: 153
47. Themes and Variations (1928)
10 min | Short, Music
An avant-garde dance short, integrating slow motion, and cutting between the movements of a ballerina, close-ups of machinery and images of nature.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Star: Lilian Constantini
Votes: 125
48. Horizontal Boundaries (1997)
23 min | Short
An examination of certain aspects of the geography of California as the ground for cinematic disruption and restatement.
Director: Pat O'Neill
Votes: 57
49. One Second in Montreal (1969)
17 min | Short
Silent succession of black and white photographs reflecting nearly empty streets from the city of Montreal (Canada).
Director: Michael Snow
Votes: 77
50. Images d'Ostende (1929)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Belgian director Henri Storck presents a tribute to one of the most well-known spots in Belgium: the Ostende beach. Filming from everyone and everything, gathering a small collection of ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Storck
Votes: 126
51. Boston Fire (1979)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Roiling clouds of smoke consume the screen, the billowing white changing to heavy black. A single stream of water struggles to battle smoking ruins. The small lone engine's crew sits ... See full summary »
Director: Peter B. Hutton
Votes: 103
52. 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
53. A Divided World (1948)
8 min | Documentary, Short
A ten-minute study of wild animal life in a Swedish forest; stoat, fox, hare, and owl, who stalk and savage one another, are photographed with extraordinary vividness and intimacy. It is ... See full summary »
Director: Arne Sucksdorff
Votes: 66
54. Puce Moment (1949)
6 min | Short
A soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Anger | Star: Yvonne Marquis
Votes: 1,870
55. Menq (1969)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 460
56. Lovesong (2001)
11 min | Short
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 564
58. 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: 2,871
59. 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: 56,826 | Gross: $0.98M
60. 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
61. Generalrepetition för självmord (1963)
3 min | Short
A surrealistic montage of pop culture that attacks the followers of the genre.
Director: Åke Karlung
Votes: 24
62. Pond and Waterfall (1982)
15 min | Short, Adventure
An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments with viewing both the air, the water, and... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Hammer
Votes: 29
63. Prelude (2015)
13 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Haunted by a figure from his past, an aging criminal risks everything to protect a young man from the head of his organisation.
Director: Harry Law | Stars: Amelia Clay, Robert Goodman, Guy Remy, Anthony Sergeant
64. Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976)
30 min | Short
Two archive medical films of different patients having seizures are flickered quickly, accompanied by a brainwave sound.
Director: Paul Sharits
Votes: 54
65. A Walk Through H (1979)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Colin Cantlie, Jean Williams
Votes: 639
66. Fiddle-de-dee (1947)
3 min | Animation, Musical, Short
A film made without a camera, made by painting directly on the film.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 239
67. Quixote (1965)
Not Rated | 45 min | Drama
A short film by Bruce Baillie in which he documents his journey across North America.
Director: Bruce Baillie
Votes: 125
68. H2O (1929)
13 min | Documentary, Short
A study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty.
Director: Ralph Steiner
Votes: 772
69. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)
15 min | Short, Comedy
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland perform a hellish courtship in a nightmare of the American dream, created by manipulating old film.
Director: Martin Arnold | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Grace Hayes, Charles Winninger
Votes: 540
71. Dandanko (1957)
11 min | Short
A short scene of a mother and her little son playing ball games on a set of steps together.
Directors: Akira Hirata, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Seiji Dai, Akira Hirata, Inami Hirata, Reiko Nishi
Votes: 84
73. 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: 771
74. Scotch Hop (1959)
6 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which documents a Scottish dance festival.
Director: Christopher Maclaine
Votes: 170
75. World of Glory (1991)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Klas-Gösta Olsson, Lennart Björklund, Christer Christensen, Bernard Eiger
Votes: 2,794
76. Razor Blades (1968)
25 min | Short
A split-screen film consisting of rapidly flashing colors, shapes, patterns, letters, words, and images.
Director: Paul Sharits
Votes: 89
77. 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: 1,520
78. Worldly Desires (2005)
40 min | Short
A couple explores the jungle in search of a spiritual tree while a film crew shoots a musical number.
Directors: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pimpaka Towira
Votes: 198
79. Artificial Light (1969)
24 min | Short
A series of variations on a single minute-long sequence, including a negative reproduction, double-exposures, etc.
Director: Hollis Frampton | Star: Lee Lozano
Votes: 81
80. Skizbe (1967)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian | Stars: Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 341
81. New York Subway (1905)
Unrated | 6 min | Short, Documentary
In one long take, the camera shows us the journey of a subway train as it makes its way from Union Square to the old Grand Central Station.
Director: G.W. Bitzer
Votes: 811
83. Déjeuner du matin (1974)
12 min | Short, Animation
Director: Patrick Bokanowski | Stars: Daniel Bard, Thierry Doublet, Jacques Faure, Josette Lassaque
Votes: 128
84. The Riddle of Lumen (1972)
14 min | Short
An experimental short film by Stan Brakhage which contrasts images and lights.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 182
85. 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
86. Analogies: Studies in the Movement of Time (1977)
14 min | Short
Shots from a camera prowling the geometric corridors of a modern building, occasionally interrupted by people walking and running, and an unexpected sequence of a dancer, are multiplied on an optical printer with kaleidoscopic effect.,
Director: Peter Rose
Votes: 41
87. Daybreak Express (1953)
5 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Votes: 1,330
88. Trolldrycken (1915)
3 min | Animation, Short
When a happy old man with a hole in his head drinks the most incredible things happen. Simple and fun about reality versus fantasy. The first Swedish animated film.
Director: Victor Bergdahl
Votes: 68
89. Hynningen (1984)
20 min | Short
An experimental short film in which scenery and landscape are filmed from the viewpoint of secluded house.
Director: Werner Nekes
Votes: 93
90. Spacy (1981)
10 min | Short
Set of rapid telescopic images of a gym, in fast forward, traveling through itself, space and time.
Director: Takashi Itô
Votes: 423
91. Tung (1966)
5 min | Short
A late Beat, proto psychedelic short film in which Baillie captured a woman friend in dance, her shadow as a negative against a shimmering background.
Director: Bruce Baillie
Votes: 113
92. Combat de boxe (1927)
8 min | Short, Sport
Two boxers face off in a surreal boxing match.
Director: Charles Dekeukeleire | Stars: Pierre Bourgeois, Jean Demey, Henri Dupont, André Saint-Germain
Votes: 194
93. Film (1965)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based ... See full summary »
Directors: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider | Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed
Votes: 2,285
94. Trains Are for Dreaming (2009)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
A montage of image and sound representing the dreams of a light sleeper whilst travelling on a train.
Director: Jennifer Todd Reeves
Votes: 40
95. The Woman with Two Heads (1977)
16 min | Short
As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.
Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Pancho Meguro, Takako Nakayama, Keiko Niitaka, Yuri Okabe
Votes: 129
96. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Fantasy
An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook
Votes: 1,827
97. An Optical Poem (1938)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short, Music
Mental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 752
100. T, O, U, C, H, I, N, G (1969)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short
A subversive experimental short film in which the word "Destroy" is uttered constantly while images on an individual are show with changes colors and the letters T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G displayed.
Director: Paul Sharits | Star: David Franks
Votes: 422
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