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see all genres ›Short films are exactly what their name implies: they're shorter than a feature! They can be as brief as a handful of seconds or they can approach as much as a half-hour (or more). Genres like silent comedy and avant-garde film thrive in the short format.
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Genres / Short
SUB-GENRES · Actuality · Documentary · Ephemera · Narrative · Non-Narrative · Performance · Trick
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Autour de la roue
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative productions of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE is a film of mythic stature. Poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars shot this illuminating behind-the-scenes footage in the midst of the film’s difficult location work. He captures the elaborate technical setups...Start your free trial to watch
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Autumnal Diptych
A muscular movement from a Sergei Prokofiev symphony commands our attention even against the blackness of a blank screen. The darkness eventually gives way to a roasted-pumpkin orange title card and images of a lovely nude running through the woods. Scratches in the film (celluloid!) correspond to...Start your free trial to watch
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Ave Maria
Ivan Ivanov-Vano’s condemnation of the American war in Vietnam trades in some of the crude images one associates with Soviet propaganda: a soldier gunning down a child; clamoring capitalists superimposed over the killing fields. And yet its animation style is surprisingly subtle and its tone more elegiac than one might...Start your free trial to watch
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Avenue de l'Opera
You aren't imaging things. This short, filmed on the aforementioned Avenue de l'Opera in Paris, is backward as intended. As a bit of excessive cleverness, the music (a recent addition) is scored (or, rather, recorded) back-to-front as well. If you'd ever wondered what things were like in the most famous...Start your free trial to watch
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Away We Go
Bobby Vernon was a talented comic actor during the silent era, who became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era arrived. Here Vernon stars with Duane Thompson, Lila Leslie and Victor Rodman in a 1924 classic originally released as RENO OR BUST.Start your free trial to watch
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Azole Dkmuntch
At an open microphone performance, a man in a blue tuxedo claiming to be named Azole Dkmuntch heaps transgression on transgression in his bargain-basement retelling of his clearly ludicrous but deceptively poignant personal history. He rips and roars though a bevy of outre afflictions from AIDS to spousal abuse to heart...Start your free trial to watch
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Babuba
Rock Ross described this breezy, frenetic work as "an original mambo-rap creation myth of chaos of vacation." Indeed, the film begins with the bold, declarative text, "In the beginning there was only Chaos." Nocturnal grown-up party scenes alternate with children posing, play-acting and frolicking on a beach. The chaos of...Start your free trial to watch
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Johann Sebastian Bach
The rare film to enter into deep conversation with a piece of music, in this case Bach’s “Fantasia in G Minor,” Czech animator Jan Svankmajer orchestrates walls, doors and windows as Bach does the different registers of the organ. In its luminous attention to surface texture, the film resembles an abstract...Start your free trial to watch
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The Back of Her Head
Josh Safdie made this assured comedy in and around his apartment building when he was still a film student at Boston University. The dioramic setup plays like a vertical REAR WINDOW: a shy daydreamer (played by Safdie) lives above an older Hindi man who lives above a reckless Brit who lives above a girl...Start your free trial to watch
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Bali: Paradise Isle
A mere handful of minutes in the Indonesian province of Bali. Enough? Never enough. We see (and hear) a few of the characteristics that make Bali such an enviable travel destination (and an even more enviable place to live). Part of Castle Films' "World Parade" series and, therein, seen in numerous...Start your free trial to watch
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A Ballad About Green Wood
Split logs dance in sunlight as soon as the axe has cleared away. Czech folk music and time-lapse photography focus animistic energy upon clouds streaming across the sky, rivers raging with melted snow and the earth bursting with raw life. A mythic being born of wood and a crow flies through winter and...Start your free trial to watch
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Balloonland
Balloonland has appeared in many video collections, often under its 16mm home-movie title THE PINCUSHION MAN. Blackhawk Films Collection holds the original nitrate red/blue Cinecolor negatives, and this astonishing film is presented here with restored pictures and prepared in collaboration with the UCLA Film and Television...Start your free trial to watch
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Band Drill
One of several films made from Charles Hoyt's musical burlesque "A Milk White Flag," which mocked the state militias that savored their snappy uniforms and male camaraderie (including free drinks at the regimental bar). In fact, their actual courage was questioned for the "milk white flag" (the flag of purity but also...Start your free trial to watch
