Origins of the 21st century (Jean-Luc Godard)
Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel)
The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin)
My Dad is 100 years old (Guy Maddin)
Time of the Buffons (Pierre Falardeau)
One Week (Buster Keaton)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Bronswik Affair (Robert Awad)
Windows (Peter Greenaway)
Darkness/Light/Darkness (Jan Svankmajer)
Great idea!
1. The House is Black (Farrokhzad)
2. The Pearl (D’Ursel)
3. La Femme 100 Tetes (Duvivier)
4. Spectator (Zwartjes)
5. Toby Dammit (Fellini) [segment: Spirits of the Dead]
6. Oramunde (Etting)
7. The Seashell and the Clergyman (Dulac)
8. The Centaurs (McCay)
9. The Clock Store (Jackson)
10. Darkness/Light/Darkness (Svankmajer)
11. Monkeyshines no.1 (Dickson & Heise)
12. Rabbit’s Moon (Anger)
13. Blood of the Beasts (Franju)
14. By Night with Torch and Spear (Cornell)
15. Thorvaldsen (Dreyer)
16. Shelagh Delaney’s Salford (Russell)
17. Danse Serpentine (Lumiere)
18. The Hand (Trnka)
19. Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)
20. Premonition Following an Evil Deed (Lynch) [segment: Lumiere and Company]
Oh, and those are some beautiful stills Clockworkdaisy…
City of Contrasts (1969) Djibril Diop Mambéty
Coffea arábiga (1968) Nicolás Guillén Landrián
Copy of Coralie (2008) Nicholas Engel
Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and the Moon (1907) George Méliès
Este es mi reino (2010) Carlos Reygadas
Fantasmagorie (1908) Émile Cohl
Hablando del punto cubano (1972) Octavio Cortázar
The House Is Black (1963) Forugh Farrokhzad
I Am So Proud of You (2008) Don Hertzfeldt
La Jetée (1962) Chris Marker
Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944) Friz Freleng
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Mindscape (1976) Jacques Drouin
Night and Fog (1955) Alain Resnais
Ociel del Toa (1965) Nicolás Guillén Landrián
Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) Maya Deren
Tale of Tales (1979) Yuriy Norshtein
The Three Little Bops (1957) Friz Freleng
Un Chien Andalou (1929) Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí
Vincent (1982) Tim Burton
Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Bailie)
The End (Christopher MacClaine)
Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage)
Glimpse of the Garden (Marie Menken)
Fake Fruit Factory (Chick Strand)
Flaming Creature (Jack Smith)
Bimbo’s Initiation (Dave Fleischer)
One Second in Montreal (Michael Snow)
Gasman (Lynne Ramsey)
Wide Angle Saxon (Owen Land)
Der Rechte Wag (Fischli & Weiss)
Hold Me While I’m Nake (George Kuchar)
The Life and Death of 9413 a Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich)
By Night With Torch and Spear (Joseph Cornell)
Tomatos Another Day (James Sibley Watson)
Trying to stay away from short films made by already acclaimed, well known directors, here’s my personal favorites list.
I’d say Heavy Metal Drummer is my favorite short film at the moment. Exchange Morocco for Brazil and music for cinema, and that kid is me.
As there are too many great shorts, and I have absolutely no idea how to decide which 20 i love the most, I’ll just list 20 great ones, that I think are as good as any other 20. :-)
Mobilier fidèle (Èmile Cohl, 1910)
Jön az öcsém (Michael Curtiz, 1919)
L’étoile de mer (Man Ray, 1928)
Harry Warren: America’s Foremost Composer (Ray McCarey, 1933)
Listopad (Otakar Vávra, 1935)
The Door in the Wall (Glenn H. Alvey Jr., 1956)
Odds & Ends (Jane Conger Belson Shimané, 1959)
Um 8 Uhr kommen die Schweine wieder (Hansjürgen Pohland, 1959)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
Alouminion tis Ellados (Roussos Koundouros, 1965)
John MacFadyen (Margaret Tait, 1970)
Supertramp Portrait 1970 (Haro Senft, 1970)
Nach langen Jahren ein Wiedersehn mit meinem Bruder aus Bulgarien während einer kurzen Zwischenlandung in München (Marran Gosov, 1973)
Sylvia (Ernst Crantzler, 1983)
Foutaises (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1989)
Black Ice (Stan Brakhage, 1994)
Wohnhaft (Bernhard Marsch, 2004)
Mobile Men (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2008)
10:15 Saturday Night (Grey Daisies, 2010)
Der Mond (Klaus Schneider, 2010)
May this be the best thread ever on Mubi?
Thanks for all the lists, all the links, and all the inspirtion this thread causes wading through it.
Just watched Sanjinés “Revolución” and it was a very good experience.
“May this be the best thread ever on Mubi?”
I believe it is. :) And I second the thank you’s. I hope more people post!
can i post a youtube link?
The River (Frank Borzage / 1929 / US)
Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo / 1933 / France)
Mirror of Holland (Bert Haanstra / 1950 / Netherlands)
La Jetée (Chris Marker / 1962 / France)
Diary of a Yunbogi Boy (Nagisa Ôshima / 1965 / Japan)
The Night it Rained (Kamran Shirdel / 1967 / Iran)
Manhã Cinzenta (Olney São Paulo / 1969 / Brazil)
Shuffle (Sogo Ishii / 1981 / Japan)
Elephant (Alan Clarke / 1989 / UK)
Isle of Flowers (Jorge Furtado / 1989 / Brazil)
Lodz Symphony (Peter Hutton / 1993 / US)
The Little Girl who Sold the Sun (Djibril Diop Mambéty / 1999 / Senegal)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky / 1999 / US)
The Skywalk is Gone (Tsai Ming-Liang / 2002 / Taiwan)
A Tree in Tanjung Malim (Tan Chui-Mui / 2004 / Malaysia)
About Love (Darezhan Omirbaev / 2006 / South Korea)
The Marker Variations (Isaki Lacuesta / 2007 / Spain)
Respite (Harun Farocki / 2007 / Germany)
Artemis’ Knee (Jean-Marie Straub / 2008 / France)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul / 2009 / Thailand)
Balance (Lauenstein Bros. / 1989)
Barfight (Karacas, Warbick / 2001)
Dinky Duck, It’s A Living (Hoskins / 1957)
For My Crushed Right Eye (Matsumoto / 1969)
Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job (Prehn, Wagner / 2000)
He Restoreth My Soul (White / 1975)
Hold Me While I’m Naked (Kuchar / 1966)
Inspirace (Zeman / 1948)
Kardinal (Muehl / 1967)
Kitchen Symphony/Musical Office (Kovacs / 1961)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Anger / 1965)
La Ricotta (Pasolini / 1962)
Limbo, The Organized Mind (Henson / 1974)
Mongoloid (Conner / 1978)
Mutilator: Hero of the Wasteland (Fogel / 1991)
No. 11 Mirror Animations (Smith / 1956)
The War of Jan-Ken-Pon (Terayama / 1971)
Tabeta Hito (Obayashi / 1963)
Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage / 1962)
Word Movie (Sharits / 1966)
In the order they came to mind………
Love Me or Leave Me Alone, Duane Hopkins
Tale of How, Blackheart Gang
Elephant, Alan Clarke
Poet of the Castle, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Joao Cesar Monteiro
La peur, petit chasseur, Laurent Achard
Cindy the Doll Is Mine, Bertrand Bonello
Hotel Chevalier, Wes Anderson
The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, Stan Brakhage
Pas de Deux, Norman McLaren
Ver Llover, Elisa Miller
Kara: the Daughter of A Tree, Edwin
Small Deaths, Lynne Ramsey
Rocket, Ulrich Kohler
Ylang Ylang Residence, Hachimya Ahamada
B’Yerushalaim, David Perlov
Boy and A Bicycle, Ridley Scott
Hi There Cubans, Agnes Varda
Tales of the Golden Age (the first film), Christian Mungiu
Saute ma ville, Chantal Akerman
The Star Eaters (Peggy Ahwesh)
Desire Management (Noam Toran)
The Cloud Door (Mani Kaul)
The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Whispering Pines 8 (Shana Moulton)
Video Game (Vipin Vijay)
Exterior Night (Mark Rappaport)
(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton)
WGG Test (Paul McCarthy)
Dan Carter (Alison S.M. Kobayashi)
Streamside Day (Pierre Huyghe)
Kalighat Fetish (Ashish Avikunthak)
The Dangerous Thread of Things (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The American Desert (for Chuck Jones) (Mungo Thomson)
Imperfecto (Harry Gamboa Jr.)
Le Franc (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
In Order Not To Be Here (Deborah Stratman)
Fiasco (Albert Serra)
The Devil’s Streams (Keren Cytter)
The Boy From Mars (Philippe Parreno)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold)
The General Returns from One Place to Another (Michael Robinson)
Anticipation, Ou L’amour en L’an 2000 (Jean- Luc Godard)
Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers)
Observando el Cielo (Jeanne Liotta)
The Cat of the Worm’s Green Realm (Stan Brakhage)
Arnulf Rainer (Peter Kubelka)
The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage)
Outer and Inner Space (Andy Warhol)
Slow Action (Ben Rivers)
Hold Me Now (Michael Robinson)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)
Failed States (Henry Hills)
All Through the Night (Michael Robinson)
These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (Michael Robinson)
Black and White Trypps Number Three (Ben Russell)
Piece Touchee (Martin Arnold)
Unsere Afriakareise (Peter Kubelka)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Ménilmontant (D. Kirsanoff)
Brumes d’automne (D. Kirsanoff)
Arrière-saison (D. Kirsanoff)
Entr’acte (R. Clair)
The Heart of the World (G. Maddin)
Father and Daughter (M. Dudok de Wit)
La rivière du hibou (R. Enrico)
Le voyage dans la lune (G. Méliès)
Pay Day (Ch. Chaplin)
Un chien andalou (Buñuel & Dalí)
Le petit soldat (P. Grimault)
Král Lávra (K. Zeman)
The Little Island (R. Williams)
La cabina (Antonio Mercero)
A Grand Day Out (N. Park)
The Wrong Trousers (N. Park)
Eat (B. Plympton)
Visions of Europe: Prologue (B. Tarr)
Big Business (James W. Horne & Leo McCarey)
Eaux d’artifice (Kenneth Anger)
Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
Gonzales’ Tamales (Friz Freleng)
La morte rouge (Víctor Erice)
Le sang des bêtes (Georges Franju)
Le tempestaire (Jean Epstein)
Listen to Britain (Humphrey Jennings)
L’ordre (Jean-Daniel Pollet)
Neighbors (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
Neighbours (Norman McLaren)
Now (Santiago Álvarez)
Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais)
Partie de campagne (Jean Renoir)
Powers of Ten (Charles Eames & Ray Eames)
Ruka (Jirí Trnka)
The Cure (Charles Chaplin)
The Forgotten Faces (Peter Watkins)
The Night Before Christmas (William Hanna & Joseph Barbera)
Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel)
This was harder than I thought! Ok, one per director, max 2 per decade and max 1 per year, in chronological order:
Le chaudron infernal [The Infernal Caldron] (Méliès, 1903)
Entr’acte (Clair, 1924)
Un chien andalou (Buñuel, 1929)
À propos de Nice (Vigo, 1930)
Komposition in Blau [Composition in Blue] (Fischinger, 1935)
The Cat That Hated People (Avery, 1948)
Inspirace [Inspiration] (Zeman, 1949)
Spiegel van Holland [Mirror of Holland] (Haanstra, 1950)
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Anger, 1954)
Khaneh siah ast [The House Is Black] (Farrokhzad, 1963)
Pas de deux (McLaren, 1968)
Street Musique (Larkin, 1972)
Vremena goda [The Seasons] (Peleshian, 1975)
Skazka skazok [Tale of Tales] (Norshteyn, 1980)
The Fourth Dimension (Rybczynski, 1988)
Cavallette [Grasshoppers] (Bozzetto, 1991)
Rispondetemi (Pool, 1992)
The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000)
The Ground (Beavers, 2001)
Day & Night (Newton, 2010)
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Missed the cut due to poll’s restrictions:
H2O (Steiner, 1929)
L’idée [The Idea] (Bartosch, 1932)
Las Hurdes [Land Without Bread] (Buñuel, 1933)
Allegretto (Fischinger, 1936)
The Old Mill (W. Jackson, 1937)
Trade Tattoo (Lye, 1937)
Radio Dynamics (Fischinger, 1942)
Motion Painting No. 1 (Fischinger, 1947)
A Phantasy (McLaren, 1952)
Feed the Kitty (Jones, 1952)
Magical Maestro (Avery, 1952)
Neighbours (McLaren, 1952)
Eaux d’artifice (Anger, 1953)
Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (Kimball/ A. Nichols, 1953)
The Legend of Rockabye Point (Avery, 1955)
Let nad mocvarom (Petrović, 1956)
Le merle [Blackbird] (McLaren, 1959)
High Note (Jones, 1960)
Lines: Vertical (McLaren, 1960)
Munro (Deitch, 1961)
Istoriya odnogo prestupleniya [Story of One Crime] (Khitruk, 1962)
Prelude: Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1962)
Zoo (Haanstra, 1962)
The Critic (Pintoff, 1963)
Bassae (Pollet, 1964)
Canon (McLaren/Munro, 1964)
The Pink Phink (Freleng/Pratt, 1964)
Lapis (Whitney, 1966)
Ruka [The Hand] (Trnka, 1966)
In the Pink (Pratt, 1967)
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I (Brakhage, 1967)
Skizbe [Beginning] (Peleshian, 1967)
The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye (Pratt, 1967)
Byt [The Flat] (Švankmajer, 1968)
Synchromy (McLaren, 1971)
Frank Film (Caroline Mouris/Frank Mouris, 1973)
Plamuz [Music Art] (Rybczynski, 1973)
The Bead Game (I. Patel, 1977)
Nowa ksiazka [New Book] (Rybczynski, 1976)
Lmno (Breer, 1978)
Satiemania (Gasparović, 1978)
Mein Fenster [My Window] (Rybczynski, 1979)
A Légy [The Fly] (Rófusz, 1981)
Tango (Rybczynski, 1981)
Narcissus (McLaren, 1983)
Charade (Minnis, 1984)
Fountain of Dreams (Belson, 1984)
Lev i byk (Khitruk, 1984)
78 Tours (Schwizgebel, 1986)
Imagine (Rybczynski, 1987)
Manipulation (Greaves, 1992)
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993)
Mysterious Journey (Belson, 1997)
The Old Man and the Sea (Petrov, 1999)
When the Day Breaks (Forbis/Tilby, 1999)
Au bout du monde [At the Ends of the Earth] (Bronzit, 2000)
Le chapeau [The Hat] (Cournoyer, 2000)
Adazhio [Adagio] (Bardin, 2001)
Veter vdol berega [Wind Along the Coast] (Maksimov, 2004)
9 (Acker, 2005)
Sshtoorrty (Snow, 2005)
Battements solaires [Solar Beats] (Bokanowski, 2008)
Tsumiki no ie [The House of Small Cubes] (Katô, 2008)
O.K, I’M CLOSING THE POLL
A bit early but i’ll be busy tomorrow morning, on the move….
Thanks for all the votes. I’ll do the counting, expect to post the results in a week or so.
sincere good luck kenji. this’ll keep you fairly busy for a bit i imagine…
come on, not yet. i am always late.. but..okay
Membrane de săpun 1972 – Constantin Flondor
Întoarceri – 1980 , Constantin Flondor
Cernere și plămădire – 1985, Constantin Flondor
Impressions en haute atmosphere – 1989, José Antonio Sistiaga
Les nuits electriques – 1928, Eugene Deslaw
Long horns – 1951, Hilary Harris
L’araignelephant – 1968, Piotr Kamler
Naturaleza Muerta – 2010, Amanda Mora Klein
Autumn Fire – 1931, Herman G. Weinberg
Esperalia – 1983, Jerzy Kalina
1.35 – 2003, Milan Balog
The woman who powders herself – 1972, Patrick Bokanowski
Island of flowers – 1989, Jorge Furtado
Focus – 1987, Lutz Mommartz
Memory Fade – 2009, Carl E. Brown
Deeparture – 2005, Mircea Cantor
The effect of gravity on naive beings – 1984, Miroslav Bata Petrović
In the dark – Sergey Dvortsevoy
The film to come – 1997, Raul Ruiz
Precursor – 1988, Grzegorz Królikiewicz
Energie! – 2007, Thorsten Fleisch
Ok, well i don’t want it drifting on in the New Year, it’s just that i may not have time to close the voting tomorrow morning as intended.
a lil’ mistake on my part : Cernere şi plămădire – 1985
The Scarecrow – 1920 (Keaton)
Sherlock Jr – 1924 (Keaton)
Neighbors – 1920 (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
Neighbours -1952 (Norman McLaren)
Big Business – 1929 (Leo McCarey, James W. Horne)
The Music Box – 1932 (James Parrott)
Meshes of the Afternoon – 1943 (Deren)
Dimensions of Dialogue – 1982 (Svankmajer)
Down to the Cellar – 1983 (Svankmajer)
The Apartment – 1986 (Svankmajer)
Simon of the Desert – 1965 (Bunuel)
How Wang-Fo was Saved – 1987 (Laloux)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor – 1936 (Fleischer)
Josef Kilián – 1965 ( Pavel Jurácek, Jan Schmidt)
Kitchen Sink – 1989 (Alison MacLean)
H is for House – 1973 (Greenaway)
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers – 1993 (Park)
Copy Shop – 2001 (Wildrich)
Lakomá Barka – 1987 (Vlasta Pospísilová)
Rooty Toot Toot – 1951 (John Hubley)
and if you like it, you could mention Dorin Moldoveanu’s “My name is…”, which is here, in Garage. thank you. i am ready to sacrifice thorsten fleisch in my list and replace it with the above mentioned. cheers and happy new year to everybody!!
Happy New Year, everyone.
Right, this poll is firmly CLOSED now, no more votes accepted. Thanks to all who’ve taken part and look for a results thread and list in a week or so.
Weaving Wave
Also Nuit et brouillard and La jetée (I’m pretty sure they will be in the final top 5 without my help)
I omitted The House is Black and La jetée for the same reason.
Now I am waiting for a huge combined list as an after New Year present, to explore, I love every unknown title.