Do you accept short films that were part of a larger whole? Like the films in Aria or New York Stories or Paris, Je T’Aime?
and Great Idea
To get things started:
1. Tale of Tales (Norstein)
2. A Day in the Country (Renoir)
3. Street of Crocodiles (Quay brothers)
4. The Pearl (D’Ursel)
5. Sherlock Jr (Keaton)- listed as 45 mins on mubi
6. Heroine (Guy-Blaché)
7. A Valparaiso (Ivens)
8. Heart of the World (Maddin)
9. Mickey’s Trailer (Sharpsteen, Disney)
10. They do Not Exist (Abu Ali)
11. July (Omirbaev)
12. Brickmakers (Rodriguez)
13. A Tree in Tanjung Malim (Tan Chui-Mui)
14. Outer Space (Tscherkassky)
15. The Wrong Trousers (Park)
16. The Musicians (Karabasz)
17. Turbulent (Neshat)
18. The Abyss (Gad)
19. The Passing (Viola)
20. The Street (Leaf)
bubbling under; a few Painlevé shorts, Neumann’s Brick and Pialat’s L’Amour Existe, among many others. Take your time cos i think it’ll be easy to overlook some, as i may find i regret doing myself
@ Ulicain: yes films as part of a whole can be included: i was thinking of Erice’s Lifeline for instance.
I’ll get on this in a bit!
—DiB
Well, I really did to think about this, but here is my short list.
Quais de Seine (from Paris, Je T’Aime) – Gurinder Chadha
The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers – Nick Park
And Documentary shorts?
Any genre. Take your time, you have a month, which means time to catch up on films not seen that might be worth including.
So please try to avoid voting in dribs and drabs: it will be easier for me if they come as a block, must be between 10-20 films. I must see Quais de Seine, but once the list is submitted it can’t be changed later (just within the 30 mins edit allowed)
La Soufriere. I think it is one of the best things Herzog has done.
my near misses; The Goat (Keaton), L’Amour Existe (Pialat), Worldly Desires (Apichatpong), Block (Neumann)
The House is Black (Farrokhzad), The Night it Rained (Shirdel), The Hand (Trnka), Song of Ceylon (Wright),
Katatsumori (Kawase), Flatworld (Greaves), Fast Film (Widrich), Acera, or the Witches’ Dance (Painlevé), Bout de Zan Vole un Eléphant (Feuillade), Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor (Yamamura), Manhatta (Strand), One Week (Cline, Keaton), White Mane (Lamorisse)
Kenji, those three are the top three, when I complete the list, they’ll still be the top three
Fine, it’s just that i was thinking if they come in bits it’s harder to keep track
Have you seen White Mane by Lamorisse? I prefer that to Red Balloon
Here’s mine:
La Jetée (Chris Marker, France 1962)
Street of Crocodiles (Stephen & Timothy Quay, Great Britain 1986)
Skazka skazok (Tale of Tales, Yuriy Norsteyn, Soviet Union 1979)
Khaneh siah ast (The House is Black, Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran 1963)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, USA 1943)
Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog, Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, France 1929)
Elégia (Zoltán Huszárik, Hungary 1965)
Partie de campagne (A Day in the Country, Jean Renoir, France 1936)
Méditerranée (Jean-Daniel Pollet, France 1963)
Chircales (The Brickmakers, Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva, Colombia 1972)
Obreras saliendo de la fábrica (Women Workers Leaving the Factory, José Luis Torres Leiva, Chile 2005)
Postava k podpírání (Joseph Kilian, Pavel Jurácek, Czechoslovakia 1963)
Pikoor Diary (Pikoo’s Day, Satyajit Ray, India 1981)
Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, Japan 1994)
Teheran, payetakht-e Iran ast (Tehran is the Capital of Iran, Kamran Shirdel, Iran 1966)
I Am So Proud of You (Don Hertzfeldt, USA 2008)
Praėjusios dienos atminimui (In Memory of the Day Passed By, Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania 1990)
Protokoll einer Revolution (Transcript of a Revolution, Günter Lemmer, West Germany 1963)
Kafka – Inaka Isha (Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor , Koji Yamamura, Japan 2007)
Agarrando pueblo (The Vampires of Poverty, Carlos Mayolo & Luis Ospina, Colombia 1977)
I’m glad you picked a few of my near misses! and given me some more to be going on with
To avoid a Brakhage/Beavers massacre I limit the list to two films per director.
(nostalgia) (Frampton)
Bedsitters (Zwartjes)
Bleu Shut (Nelson)
Bouquets 1-10 (Lowder)
By Night with Torch and Spear (Cornell)
Christmas U.S.A. (Markopolous)
Everything Will Be OK (Hertzfeldt)
Film (Schneider)
Filmarilyn (Gioli)
Hynningen (Nekes)
Lovesong (Brakhage)
NOEMA (Stark)
Patriotism (Mishima)
Ruskin (Beavers)
Signal – Germany on the Air (Gehr)
The General Returns from One Place to Another (Robinson)
The Ground (Beavers)
The Hand (Trnka)
The Last Trick (Svankmajer)
The Machine of Eden (Brakhage)
The brilliant short “Agarrando pueblo” can be watched with English subs on www.cinepata.com/peliculas/agarrando-pueblo, one of the most relevant Colombian films as far as I’m concerned.
NOTE: This is not necessarily my top 10, but I think some of the following will not be included in the poll if I don’t include them now:
Chronologically…
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902)
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903)
The Black Devil (Georges Méliès, 1905)
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin, 1915)
Steamboat Willie (Ub Iwerks, 1928)
The Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1929)
A Letter from Home (Carol Reed, 1941)
The Snowman (Dianne Jackson & Jimmy T. Murakami, 1982)
A Grand Day Out with Wallace & Gromit (Nick Park, 1989)
The Bear (Hilary Audus, 1999)
Ah hell, I can’t resist: The Night Before Christmas (William Hanna & Joseph Barbera, 1941)
Okay, here it is, I’m just going with eleven.
Quais de Seine (from Paris, Je T’Aime) – Gurinder Chadha
The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers – Nick Park
Liebestod (from Aria) – Franc Roddam
The Umbrella Man – Errol Morris
Nothing in the Dark (Twilight Zone) – Lamont Johnson
The Cutest Evil Dead Girl – Brad Peyton
Sredni Vashtar – Andrew Birkin
The Hand (from Eros) – Wong Kar-wai
Nightmare at 20,000 Fee (from Twilight Zone: The Movie) – George Miller
Street of Crocodiles – Quay Brothers
The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran 1963)
Elephant (Alan Clarke, UK, 1989)
…REMOTE… REMOTE… (Valie Export, Austria, 1973)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, France 1962)
Wavelength (Michael Snow, Canada, 1967)
Spiral Jetty (Robert Smithson, USA, 1970)
Anamnesis (Frans Zwartjes, Netherlands, 1969)
I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much (Pipilotti Rist, Switzerland, 1986)
The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, USA, 1971)
Passage (Shirin Neshat, Morocco, 2002)
Your Shining Eyelashes (Costas Ferris, Greece, 1961)
Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, Austria, 1966)
Marvo Movie (Jeff Keen, UK, 1970)
Piece Touchée (Martin Arnold, Austria, 1989)
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Hans Richter, Germany, 1928)
Tramway (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland, 1966)
Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, Japan 1994)
Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice, UK, 1970)
Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria, 2002)
Nymphomania (Tessa Hughes-Freeland & Holly Adams, USA, 1993)
I should ideally think over this longer, and also watch many more short films (which I will, eventually), but I need to get this out of my system right away. Great idea, by the way!
1. Lodz Symphony (Peter Hutton)
2. Film (Alan Schneider)
3. Roads of Kiarostami (Abbas Kiarostami)
4. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
5. Diary of a Yunbogi Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
6. The Film to Come (Raul Ruiz)
7. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century (Chuck Jones)
8. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
9. Earth of the Blind (Audrius Stonys)
10. White Morning (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
11. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
12. The Accordion (Jafar Panahi)
13. World of Glory (Roy Andersson)
14. Skagafjordur (Peter Hutton)
15. Reassemblage (Trinh T. Minh-ha)
16. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
17. Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)
18. Video Game (Vipin Vijay)
19. The Night it Rained (Kamran Shirdel)
20. Land without Bread (Luis Bunuel)
Basically any Loony Tunes cartoon featuring Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Pie. Most of the Speedy Gonzalez ones are great as well. And the Bugs Bunny opera spoof is totally a work of genius.
In Memory of the Day Passed By (Sharunas Bartas)
Wayfarers (Igor Strembitsky)
Wittgenstein Tractatus (Péter Forgács)
Earth of the Blind (Audrius Stonys)
Antigravitation (Audrius Stonys)
Alone (Audrius Stonys)
Illusions (Diana Matuzevičienė & Kornelijus Matuzevičius)
The Evening Sacrifice (Aleksandr Sokurov)
The Smell of Burning Ants (Jay Rosenblatt)
Phantom Limb (Jay Rosenblatt)
Diana’s Looking-Glass (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi)
Hedgehog in the Fog (Yuriy Norshteyn)
We (Artavazd Peleshian)
Crossroads (Bruce Conner)
Lost Avenues (Bill Morrison)
Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
The Train Stop (Sergei Loznitsa)
Krakatau (Mariusz Grzegorzek)
Masquerade (Larry Jordan)
I Am So Proud of You (Don Hertzfeldt)
Bataille de Boules de Neige (Louis Lumière, 1896)
The Boat (Keaton/Cline, 1921)
A Corner in Wheat (D. W. Griffith, 1909)
Le Coup du Berger (Jacques Rivette, 1956)
Factory (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1970)
Hollywood Steps Out (Tex Avery, 1941)
I, An Actress (George Kuchar, 1977)
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard, 1993)
Maniac Chase (Edwin S. Porter, 1904)
Ne Change Rien (Pedro Costa, 2005)
Power and the Land (Joris Ivens, 1940)
Railway Station (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1980)
Rhapsody Rabbit (Friz Freleng, 1946)
They Caught the Ferry (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1948)
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (Kimball/Nichols, 1953)
Toute la Mémoire du Monde (Alain Resnais, 1956)
Phew, quite a variety so far!
Las Hurdes (Bunuel)
Civil War (Ford)
The End (Maclaine)
Scotch Hop (Maclaine)
My Childhood (Douglas)
Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage)
Wedlock House: An Intercourse (Brakhage)
A Day in the Country (Renoir)
Bridges-Go-Round (Clarke)
Sherlock Jr (Keaton)
L’Amour Existe (Pialat)
Istanbul (Pialat)
Origins of the 21st Century (Godard)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (3b) (Godard)
Hannah and the Dog Ghost (Harrison)
Les Mistons (Truffaut)
Thursday’s Children (Anderson)
Speed of Light (Hansen)
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Rohmer)
A Hell of a Note (Pennel)
My Childhood is fantastic and i would have included it for sure, was in a panic for missing it out, but it’s listed on mubi (and imdb) as 46 mins. This is the trouble with setting a rule, but there would have to be some cut-off point
Yes, I deleted “My Childhood” from the first version of my list as well, the British Film Institute even lists its runtime as 48 mins (http://www.bfi.org.uk/distribution/my_childhood).
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20 random favorites -
The Pearl / La Perla (Henri D’ Ursel, Belgium 1929)
Danzak (Gabriela Yepes, Peru 2008)
Lucky (Avie Luthra, South Africa 2011)
Jumping (Osamu Tezuka, Japan 1984)
Toyland / Spielzeugland (J. A. Freydank, Germany 2007)
A propos de Nice (Jean Vigo, France 1930)
Easy Street (Charlie Chaplin, USA 1917)
Rita (Grassadonia, Piazza, Italy 2009)
Lonely Boy (Koenig, Kritor, Canada 1962)
A Song of Love / Un chant d’ amour (Jean Genet, France 1950)
Tragic Story with Happy Landing / Historia Tragica com Final Feliz (Regina Pessoa, Portugal 2006)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, Canada 2000)
La Jetee (Chris Marker, France 1962)
Neighbours (Norman McLaren, Canada 1952)
White Mane / Le cheval sauvage (Albert Lamorisse, France 1953)
The Spider and the Tulip / Kumo to churippu (Kenzo Masaoka, Japan 1943)
The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, USA 1971)
Land Without Bread / Las Hurdes (Luis Bunuel, Spain 1933)
The Seashell and the Clergyman / La coquille et le clergyman (Germaine Dulac, France 1928)
Simon of the Desert / Simon del desierto (Luis Bunuel, Mexico 1965)
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Alternate 20 -
Night and Fog / Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais, France 1955)
The Cow / Korova (Aleksander Petrov, Soviet Union 1990)
The Red Balloon / Le ballon rouge (Albert Lamorisse, France 1956)
In the Box / V kocke (Michal Struss, Slovakia 2001)
The House is Black / Khaneh siah ast (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran 1963)
China China (da Mata, Rodrigues, Portugal 2007)
Zero de conduite (Jean Vigo, France 1933)
A Trip to the Moon / Le voyage dans la lune (Georges Melies, France 1902)
Little Terrorist (Ashvin Kumar, India-UK 2004)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, France 1929)
Pictures of the Interior (Sean Garrity, Canada 2004)
Ent’acte (Rene Clair, France 1924)
Lost and Found (David Lean, New Zealand-UK, 1979)
79 primaveras (Santiago Alvarez, Cuba 1969)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, USA 1964)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren, Hammid, USA 1943)
The Great Train Robbery (E.S. Porter, USA 1903)
Pikoor Diary (Satyajit Ray, India 1981)
Tale of Tales / Skazka skazok (Yuriy Norshteyn, Soviet Union 1980)
Toby Dammit (Federico Fellini, France-Italy 1968)
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10 more -
Le petite marchande d’ allumettes (Jean Renoir, France 1928)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (Marv Newland, Canada 1969)
The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin, USA 1917)
Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir, France 1936)
The Mascot / Fetiche (Wladyslaw Starewicz, France 1934)
Dimensions of Dialog / Moznosti dialogu (Jan Svankmajer, Czechoslovakia 1983)
Le sang des betes (Georges Franju, France 1949)
Franz Kafka (Piotr Dumala, Poland 1992)
Dog’s Dialogue / Colloque de chiens (Raoul Ruiz, France 1977)
At Land (Maya Deren, USA 1944)
Kataku (Kihachiro Kawamoto, Japan 1979)
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….too hard picking only 20…as it is I know I’m leaving out many favorites
Hermes Bird – James Broughton
i’m not sure about the length though. honestly kenji, do you realise how stressful these polls are? i have to throw so many beautiful things out just for hitting 49 mins.
Kenji
Many great Short Films from round the world get overlooked as the multiplexes are filled with standard fare.
So here i think we could do with promoting little gems.
RULES:
I’m taking maximum length as 45 minutes (inclusive of 45 itself). As listed here on mubi. For films not on mubi, then check length with imdb.
Simply pick your favourite short films, with director named; 10 films minimum, 20 maximum.
You can place in preferential order if you wish, but all films selected will get 1 point
This will go on till Ist January 2012 (i was gonna say 31st December, midnight GMT, but i might well forget at that point- so it’ll be the next day). Then i’ll tot up the scores, and announce the grand result.