Window Water Baby Moving or Lucifer Rising
What’s the one by Kenneth Anger, where there are lots of fountains in a park, with what looks like a duchess moving through it, with classical music on the soundtrack? It has a French title, I think; saw it on tv about 8 years ago – love to see it again. My favourite cartoon, well, I have 2: it’s not called “Father’s Day” but Chuck Jones’ fans can give it its correct title – a family of bears living in a cave, with Junior being a huge – in every sense – idiot (voiced by Stan Freberg, if I remember); it’s Father’s Day and the efforts of Junior to honour his grumpy dad end in total chaos. A comic masterpiece. The second one might be Jones as well: an all-dancing all-singing frog is found, who refuses to do anything but act like any other frog when confronted by anybody but the guy who discovered him and wants to play Svengali (could have worded that better, but you get the drift). Must trawl Youtube.
@ Neil McCauley, I think you mean “Eaux d’artifice” for the Anger one.
Maya Deren’s ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’
For animated, a little piece called ‘Kick Me.’
Deren admirers may enjoy her husband Alexander Hammid’s earlier Aimless Walk
my faves, chronological order:
Land Beyond the Sunset (Shaw)
Bout de Zan Vole un Eléphant (Feuillade)
The Goat (Keaton)
Manhatta (Strand)
Fall of the House of Usher (Watson, Webber)
Song of Ceylon (Wright)
Mickey’s Trailer (Sharpsteen)
Las Statues Meurent Aussi (Resnais, Marker)
L’Amour Existe (Pialat)
The House is Black (Farrokhzad)
The Hand (Trnka)
Tale of Tales (Norstein)
Street of Crocodiles (Quay bros)
The Wrong Trousers (Park)
Heart of the World (Maddin)
Lifeline (Erice)
Fast Film (Widrich)
Connections (Gabor)
They Caught the Ferry (Dreyer) may surprise some, as he goes flat out with young speedsters on the road, trying to catch- guess what- on time. Oh and i like lots by Alice Guy-Blaché
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
(2004) Director: Marçal Forés
tangential, energised and surreal short
La Jetee by Chris Marker.
2 documentaries i’ve seen today on youtube by Otar Iosseliani: Cast Iron (1964) and Georgian Ancient Songs (1969).
camera – david cronenberg
hedgehog in the fog – yuri norstein
http://vimeo.com/4626809
Chris Milk’s short film Last Day Dream. It was made for the 2009 Beijing 42 second dream film festival. (42 directors, 42 seconds, 42 dreams).
i just saw “last day dream” and it was fantastic.
my shorts are nowhere near the quality of all these but i just posted my latest up on the web here:
http://vimeo.com/4723738
I haven’t paid that much attention to short films, but two of my favorites are Chris Marker’s LA JETÉE and Atom Egoyan’s EN PASSANTE, which he made for the omnibus film MONTREAL VU PAR.
Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Bugcrush – Carter Smith (Wish it was myself, although “The Ruins” weren’t much of anything. I really like this though.)
http://vimeo.com/2124951
I Met The Walrus – Josh Raskin (And now I see someone has posted it as well)
http://www.vimeo.com/3003057
If you haven’t seen The Bloody Olive you need to youtube it now. Excellent little noir short.
Do Sherlock Jr. and Simon of the Desert count? If they do they are my favorites.
Any short film by Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage—they are truly the 3 Masters of the avant garde and the experimental and you can get all their major work on Criterion. Thanks, Bobby.
Definitely The Grandmother by David Lynch. Cliche but get over it.
Here’s a funny short. This is a good example of making the low budget work for you.
la jetee
Darwin – Peter Greenaway
Vertical Features Remake – Peter Greenaway
Hubert Bals Handshake – Peter Greenaway
26 Bathrooms – Peter Greenaway
Stille Nacht – The Brothers Quay
Glory At Sea - I’m glad someone named that one. Saw it at SXSW. Being from the New Orleans area – I was very moved.
“College” by Buster Keaton – if that one counts (about 60 min.)
La Jetee of course.
Window Water Baby Moving? Why? I’m all about open expression, but Geez that was hard to watch.
i’m surprised no one posted “More” by Mark Osbourne yet. such a beautiful piece of film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRMfDbm7nFo
@AHNMIN LEE: That’s beautiful. Thanks for posting. Perfect that it was scored to New Order.
“All boys are named Patrick” – Godard (done in 1957) – written by Eric Rohmer
is another one
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo
La Jetee
i saw someone wrote ‘night and fog’ (nuit et brouillard) but that is actually a feature, and also one of the best films ever. Mine would be les statues meurent aussi, toute la memoire du monde, almost any Warhol, and Marker and Pollet in the 60s.
Prologue (from Visions of Europe) by Bela Tarr
Dans L’Obscurite by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Phantoms of Nabua by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A Girl, She is 100% by Naoto Yamakawa
The Red Balloon
witkacy
- Flex – Chris Cunningham – www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb2kKjnCA6A
- In Absentia – Brothers Quay
- Little Fugitive – Ray Ashley, Morris Engel
- I Met the Walrus – Josh Raskin – http://www.vimeo.com/3003057
- Ryan – Chris Landreth – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvfgLBMmtVs