FAVOURITE SHORT FILMS

By: Kenji

The Pearl (d’Ursel)

As some favourites (e.g Revolucion, A Danca dos Paroxismos) are not on Mubi, here’s a longer list. I’m counting some 3/4hour featurettes like A Day in the Country, Twilight of a Woman’s Soul, Simon of the Desert, L’Ordre, A Visit to the Louvre, The White Bus, though some might set a limit at 1/2 hour.

1895 Arrival of a Train (Lumiere bros)

1897 Liverpool Scenes (Promio)

1900 Little Tich (Guy-Blaché)

1901 Man with the Rubber Head (Melies)

1902 A Trip to the Moon (Melies)

1904 Westinghouse Works: Exterior Panorama (Bitzer)

1905 Danses Gitanes (Guy-Blaché)

1906 Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Porter)
A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (Miles)
L’Emeute sur la Barricade (Guy-Blaché)

1907 La Saucisse (Guy-Blaché)

1908 Moscow in the Snow (Mundwiller)

1910 The Abyss (Gad)

1911 The Lonedale Operator (Griffith)

1912 The Land Beyond the Sunset (Shaw)
How a Mosquito Operates (McCay)

1913 Bout de Zan Vole un Eléphant (Feuillade)
Two Girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort (Chrispijn)

1914 Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (Bauer)
A Child of the Big City (Bauer)

1915 Daydreams (Bauer)

1916 The Rink (Chaplin)

1918 A Dog’s Life (Chaplin)

1920 One Week (Cline, Keaton)
The Scarecrow (Cline, Keaton)

1921 The Goat (Keaton)
Manhatta (Strand)
The Idle Class (Chaplin)

1922 Cops (Cline)

1923 The Smiling Madame Beudet (Dulac)
Le Retour a la Raison (Man Ray)

1924 Entr’acte (Clair)
Ballet Mécanique (Leger)

1925 Jerry the Troublesome Tyke (Bilby, Griffiths)

1926 Five Minutes of Pure Cinema (Chomette)
Town Rat, Country Rat (Starewicz)
Ménilmontant (Kirsanov)
Now You Tell One (Bowers)

1927 L’Invitation au Voyage (Dulac)

1928 The Bridge (Ivens)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Watson, Webber)
The Little Match Girl (Renoir)
Celles qui s’en Font (Dulac)
Etoile de Mer (Man Ray)

1929 The Pearl (D’Ursel)
A Danca dos Paroxismos (do Canto)
Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel)
Detective Story (Dekeukeleire)
Brumes d’Automne (Kirsanov)
Tusalava (Lye)

1930 Aimless Walk (Hammid)
Mechanical Principles (Steiner)

1931 Douro Faina Fluvial (Oliveira)
The Light Penetrates the Dark (Vavra, Pilat)

1932 The Music Box (Parrott)
Visions of Lourdes (Dekeukeleire)
Betty Boop, M.D (Fleischer)

1933 Night on Bald Mountain (Alexeieff, Parker)
Zéro de Conduite (Vigo)
Betty Boop’s Snow White (Fleischer)
Land without Bread (Bunuel)

1934 The Mascot (Starewicz)
Song of Ceylon (Wright)
The Seahorse (Painlevé)

1935 Composition in Blue (Fischinger)
Colour Box (Lye)
Das Stahltier (Zielke)
Vibracion en Granada (Val del Omar)

1936 Partie de Campagne (Renoir)
Rose Hobart (Cornell)
Birth of the Robot (Lye)
Allegretto (Fischinger)

1937 Clock Cleaners (Disney)
Trade Tattoo (Lye)

1938 Mickey’s Trailer (Sharpsteen)

1940 Themis (Grant)
Swinging the Lambeth Walk (Lye)

1941 Moods of the Sea (Hoffman, Vorkapic)
A Face from the Past (Naruse)

1942 By Night with Torch and Spear (Cornell)

1943 Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)

1944 Jammin’ the Blues (Mili)
The Private Life of a Cat (Hammid)
A Girl at Dozo Temple (Ichikawa)
At Land (Deren)

1945 A Diary for Timothy (Jenings)
Visual Variations on Noguchi (Menken)

1947 L’Ecole des Facteurs (Tati)
Gente del Po (Antonioni)

1948 In the Street (Agee, Levitt, Loeb)
Inspirace (Zeman)
Cat Concerto (Hanna, Barbera)
They Caught the Ferry (Dreyer)

1949 Begone Dull Care (Mclaren)

1951 Panta Rhei (Haanstra)

1952 Neighbours (McLaren)

1953 White Mane (Lamorisse)
Les Statues Meurent Aussi (Resnais, Marker)
Duck Amuck (Jones)
The Towers (Hale)

1955 Blinkity Blank (McLaren)
One Froggy Evening (Jones)
Night and Fog (Resnais)

1956 Toute la Mémoire du Monde (Resnais)
The Artist and the City (Oliveira)

1957 Amelia and the Angel (Russell)
What’s Opera, Doc? (Jones)
Mirror Animations (H.Smith)
The Seine Meets Paris (Ivens)
Glimpse of the Garden (Menken)

1958 A Day in Barbagia (De Seta)
A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw (Munk)
Shepherds of Orgosolo (De Seta)
L’Opéra Mouffe (Varda)
Bridges-Go-Round (Clarke)
Two Men and a Wardrobe (Polanski)

1959 The Lion and the Song (Pojar)
Astronauts (Borowczyk, Marker)
Poet of the Castle (Andrade)
Science Friction (Venderbeek)
Pull My Daisy (Frank, Leslie)
The Lamp (Polanski)

1960 L’Amour Existe (Pialat)
Universe (Kroitor, Low)
The Musicians (Karabasz)
Tire dié (Birri)

1961 Railway Station (Karabasz)
Made of Clay (Del Omar)
Very Nice, Very Nice (Lipsett)
Salut les Cubains! (Varda)

1962 A Valparaiso (Ivens)
Antoine et Colette (Truffaut)
The House is Black (Farrokhzad)
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Enrico)
La Paresse (Godard)- section of The Seven Deadly Sins
The White Eye Bird (Nguyễn Văn Thông, Trần Vũ)
Le Poulet (Berri)
Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage)
La Jetée (Marker)

1963 Revolucion (Sanjines)
The Existentialist (Prochnik)
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Rohmer)
En un Barrio Viejo (Landrian)

1964 Noviciat (Burch)
Cast Iron (Iosseliani)
Blind Child (Van der Keuken)
Go! Go! Go! (Menken)
Bassae (Pollet)
Bosphore (Pialat)
Nadja in Paris (Rohmer)
Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Baillie)

1965 The Mistral (Ivens)
The Hand (Trnka)
Boniface’s Holiday (Khutrik)
Elegia (Huszarik)
Window (Kuri)
The War Game (Watkins)
The Koumiko Mystery (Marker)
Simon of the Desert (Bunuel)
White Morning (Teshigahara)
Film (Schneider)

1966 Lapis (Whitney)
Romance (Jires)
Borom Sarret (Sembene)
Castro Street (Baillie)
My Green Crocodile (Kurchevsky)

1967 The White Bus (Anderson)
Beginning (Peleshian)
The Night it Rained (Shirdel)
Les Amours de la Pieuvre (Painlevé, Hamon)
Anticipation (Godard)

1968 Film-Tract No.1968 (Fromanger, Godard)

1969 79 Springs (Alvarez)
Georgian Ancient Songs (Iosseliani)

1970 Corridor (Lawder)
Grandmother (Lynch)
El Fin (Garcia)

1971 Synchromy (McLaren)

1972The Brickmakers (Rodriguez, Silva)
Acera, or The Witches’ Dance (Painlevé)
Our Lady of the Sphere (Jordan)
Ballet Adagio (McLaren)
The Inner Eye (S.Ray)
Butterfly (Khrzhanovsky)

1973 Krystyna M (Karabasz)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Herzog)
L’Ordre (Pollet)
Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen (Jarman)

1974 They Do Not Exist (Abu Ali)
Jaime (Reis)

1975 Hedgehog in the Fog (Norstein)
A Historical Sketch of Indian Women (Kaul)
Arabesque (Whitney)

1976 Quasi at the Quackadero (Cruikshank)
Nobody Wants to Play with Me (Herzog)

1977 Agarrando pueblo/The Vampires of Poverty (Mayolo, Ospina)
Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa (Leaf)
Le Film a Venir (Ruiz)

1978 Ten Minutes Older (Herz)
Les Mains Negatives (Duras)
Liquid Crystals (Painlevé)
Ring/Krag (Kucia)
Afterlife (Patel)
Krik (Sesic)

1979 Tale of Tales (Norstein)
Document (Kalina)
White Hole (Matsumoto)
Asparagus (Pitt)

1980 Fly (Rofusz)
Carabosse (Jordan)

1981 Sredni Vashtar (Birkin)
Deliverance (S.Ray)
Junkopia (Marker)

1982 Dimensions of Dialogue (Svankmajer)
Reassemblage (Trin T Minh-ha)
Block (Neumann)

1983 Down to the Cellar (Svankmajer)

1984 Rue Fontaine (Garrel)
Jumping (Tezuka)
NabelFabel (Mattuschka)
Paradise (Patel)

1986 Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros)
Krakatau (Grzegorzek)
Night Music (Brakhage)

1987 The Way Things Go (Fischli, Weiss)
Breakfast on the Grass (Parn)
Something Happened (Andersson)

1988 July (Omirbaev)
Sciany (Dumala)
Looking for Langston (Julien)
Feelings of Mountains and Water (Te Wei)

1989 Mind the Steps (Orosz)
The Cow (Petrov)
Darkness/Light/Darkness (Svankmajer)
Balance (Lauenstein)

Ilha das Flores (Furtado)
Foutaises (Jeunet)
Kitchen Sink (Maclean)

1991 The Passing (Viola)
In Titan’s Goblet (Hutton)

1992 Milk of Amnesia (Scher)
It Wasn’t Love (S.Benning)
The Sandman (Berry)
A Sense of History (Leigh)
Bolero (Maximov)

1993 The Wrong Trousers (Park)
Can’t Go Wrong Without You (Quay bros)
Ursa Minor Blue (Tamura)
Denko (Camara)

1994 Katatsumori (Kawase)
Felix in Exile (Kentridge)

1995 Altair (Klahr)

1996 Wind (Ivanyi)
The Georgetown Loop (Jacobs)

1997 Horizontal Boundaries (O’Neill)
Flatworld (Greaves)
Study of a River (Hutton)
The Film to Come (Ruiz)
The Story of the Cat and the Moon (Serrazina)
Feeling my Way (Hodgson)

1998 Turbulent (Neshat)
Glassy Ocean (Tamura)
Pieta (Baillie)
More (Osborne)

1999 When the Day Breaks (Forbis, Tilby)
The Little Girl who Sold the Sun (Mambety)
The Man with Beautiful Eyes (Hodgson)

2000 Heart of the World (Maddin)
Father and Daughter (De Wit)
Origins of the 21st Century (Godard)
The Boy who Saw the Iceberg (Driessen)
A Suspeita (Ribeiro)

2001 Down to the Bone (Castillo)
Copy Shop (Widrich)
Alone (Stonys)

2002 Letter from a Film-maker to his Daughter (Pauwels)
Lifeline (Erice)
11 9 01 (Loach)
The Skywalk is Gone (Tsai Ming-Liang)
The Milky Scab (Broca)

2003 Fast Film (Widrich)

2004 A Tree in Tanjung Malim (Tan Chui Mui)
A Visit to the Louvre (Huillet, Straub)
Light is Calling (Morrison)
Wind along the Coast (Maximov)
Pastoral (Barahona)
The Last Farm (Runarsson)
Michelangelo Eye to Eye (Antonioni)
Ryan (Landreth)
Forest (Leiser)

2005 Worldly Desires (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Honda Impossible Dream advert (Zacharias)
Kara: Daughter of a Tree (Edwin)
Haze (Tsukamoto)
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Tscherkassky)
Wayfarers (Strembitsky)
9 (Acker)
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (A.Lucas)
Trains (Hirata)

2006 Din of Celestial Birds (Merhige)
Everything Will be OK (Hertzfeldt)
Roads of Kiarostami (Kiarostami)
Deweneti (Gaye)
Tak Tic (Boddendijk)
Sniffer (Peers)
The Aroma of Tea (de Wit)
Madilena of the P7 (Nemescu)
Kiwi! (Permedi)
Peter and the Wolf (Templeton)
Sally Slapstick (Kosir, Krzic)

2007 Madame Tutli-Putli (Lavis, Szczerbowski)
A Country Doctor (Yamamura)
Feminine, Masculine (Foroughi)
The Biggest Flower in the World (Etcheverry)
Sleeping Betty (Cloutier)
Connections (H.Gabor)
Hotel Chevalier (W.Anderson)

2008 L’Itinéraire de Jean Bricard (Huillet, Straub)
Vem (Cvitkovic)
Mango (Ouedraogo)
Muto (Blu)
Presto (Sweetland)
The House of Small Cubes (Kato)

2009 Letter to Uncle Boonmée (Apichatpong)
Conversations with Nature (Hirabayashi)
Danse Macabre (Pires)
Arena (Salaviza)

2010 Textism (Hirabayashi)
The Backwaters (Karthick)
Free Fall (Nery, Gautier)
Cockroach (Hirabayashi)
Luv’in the Black Country (Carter)

2011 The Overcoat (Baig)
Petites Planetes: Nana Vasconcelos (Moon)

2012 Landscape Dissolves (Clipson)
Shelter: A Look at Manchester’s Homeless (Staniforth)

please note; 11.9.01 film is included on the list below for Loach’s contribution, Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet for Erice’s Lifeline

CLIPS

Westinghouse Works- Panoramic Exterior View

Bout de Zan Vole un Eléphant

Aimless Walk

Light Penetrates the Dark

Begone Dull Care

The Towers

A Day in Barbagia

L’Opéra Mouffe (part)

The Existentialist

Very Nice, Very Nice

Zhivaya Voda

They Do Not Exist

Tale of Tales (Part 1)

Block

Flatworld (part)

Turbulent

Pastoral

Honda Impossible Dream advert

Mango

Textism

Thanks to the internet, this list, general interest in the subject and familiarity with many films that would otherwise have remained largely unknown should all be growers