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Short
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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Between Showers
BETWEEN SHOWERS was inspired by a series of torrential rainstorms that soaked Los Angeles. The comic situation for this violent, improvised film involves a display of gallantry toward a young woman (Emma Clifton) and an umbrella stolen from a policeman (Chester Conklin). This was the last Charles Chaplin film directed by...Start your free trial to watch
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Between 2 Deaths
Cross-dissolves become the stuff of séance in this uncanny contemplation of Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO. Expertly matching the film's San Francisco locations and camera positions, Wago Kreider visits a second layer of absence upon Hitchcock’s already haunting masterpiece.Start your free trial to watch
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Beyond Enchantment
Where all is static motion; where music and light become one; where change and motion become one; and where the end is the beginning. Black and white cut-out animation with touches of color. Ladies of the past encounter science and natural phenomena.Start your free trial to watch
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Billy Edwards and the Unknown
The only surviving round of a five-round contest (with each round a separate film lasting about 20 seconds). Billy Edwards was a middle-aged boxing instructor in 1895. Because the boxer "Warwick" bears a striking resemblance to Edwards, this film has often been identified (incorrectly) as a Glenroy...Start your free trial to watch
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Bimbo's Initiation
One of the all-time-great commercial cartoon mixes of the surreal and the silly, this Fleischer Studios short featuring Betty Boop's canine friend Bimbo has been a longtime favorite amongst animators, cinephiles and lovers of the simply strange. Minding his own business while walking down the street, Bimbo...Start your free trial to watch
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Black and Tan
RCA produced BLACK AND TAN to showcase its Photophone sound system. Director Dudley Murphy collaborated with Fernand Leger on BALLET MECANIQUE in 1924 and seasons this film with avant-garde sequences while also telling a story. The late Karl Emil Knudsen, well-known Danish producer of jazz records, purchased the original...Start your free trial to watch
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Black and White
This early effort by master Soviet animators Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Leonid Amalrik offers a devastating and concise picture of racism in America. The film’s moral outrage is inseparable from its graphic precision. BLACK AND WHITE makes especially forceful use of symbols: the minister’s cross and foreman’s whip are pictured as...Start your free trial to watch
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Black and White Trypps no.2
"A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of reversal at play involving black and white as well as reflection and overlap. These simple elements create a hurried maze of twisting antler branches, twigs, and...Start your free trial to watch
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Black and White Trypps no.3
The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience's collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.Start your free trial to watch
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Black and White Trypps no.4
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes.Start your free trial to watch
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Black Diamond Express
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the on-rushing express train was a symbol of American power and technological achievement. The Biograph Company had filmed the Empire State Express in September 1896, the fastest train of the New York Central Railroad. The Edison Company subsequently teamed up...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Eyes
As the feature film was becoming dominant over the course of 1915, Edison, like other American producers, had clearly mastered the one reel format (as BLACK EYES demonstrates). This is an enjoyable domestic comedy about marital discord and reconciliation. Nothing is allowed to get too serious and all ends happily. The story...Start your free trial to watch
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Blacksmithing Scene
That the old-fashioned blacksmith shop was the first subject to be shown in Edison's kinetoscope was a quiet kind of joke. The Edison Laboratory was the center of innovative technology in the late nineteenth century but here the laboratory staff takes some time off to play at blacksmithing and pass around...Start your free trial to watch
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Blue Blazes
There is a free-wheeling quality to BLUE BLAZES with plenty of scope for physical comedy in several set-pieces. Buster Keaton uses gags from THE GOAT, THREE AGES and THE CAMERAMAN, amongst others. The film also bears more than a passing resemblance to the Harry Langdon feature HIS FIRST FLAME. With little in the way of plot...Start your free trial to watch
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Blue Movie
Anais Nin's voice accompanies Mark Street's BLUE MOVIE, a mesmerizing formal treatment of what appear to be 1930s or 1950s 16mm porn movies whose original content has been optically zoomed into and then carefully augmented with color overlays and a post-production technique called step-printing. These detail the subtle facial...Start your free trial to watch
