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Narrative
see all genres ›As short story is to novel, the narrative short is to the fiction feature: a storytelling miniature that can deliver maximum potency and detail within a minimalist expanse.
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145 W. 21
One of photographer/filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt's earliest 16mm films, 145 W. 21 plays very much like an amateur movie, albeit one featuring an especially notable cast (Burckhardt pals Paul Bowles, Aaron Copland, Edwin Denby and Virgil Thomson, among others). A romantic pair leaves their flat for a desultory burlesque show and...Start your free trial to watch
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Above Below
Cam Archer's hypnotic short film takes form as a letter into the void. A middle-aged woman reads a note to a lost friend while slowed home movies of an adolescent boy flash across the screen. With movements blurred and the picture flaring with light, the image seems to register the uncertain memory of one left behind. "Have...Start your free trial to watch
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Accomplice
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. Featuring Jordana Maurer and an ersatz appearance by Jean-Luc Godard along with the voices of DJ Mendel, Professor David Poeppel and David Bordwell.Start your free trial to watch
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Acholiland
Northern Uganda, 1999. War has raged for thirteen years. Thousands are killed, millions are displaced and everyone is starving. Set in the heart of this turmoil, four UN workers must embark on a frantic food delivery to a mass of desperate villagers. But when the militia strike and the situation explodes, these men will face...Start your free trial to watch
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Acid Redux
When commissioned to make a Futurist-inspired film for the New York Biennial, George Kuchar responded in his characteristic way with this madcap vignette. Knocked out in a weekend (filmed Friday and edited Saturday), ACID REDUX was shot with his Electrographic Sinema class at the San Francisco Art Institute and features his...Start your free trial to watch
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The Actor's Children
The first Thanhouser release about the disappearance of an actor's children, their thrilling adventure and how they return to their parents. Remarkably for a movie studio’s first release, THE ACTOR'S CHILDREN is well up to the state of the art for early 1910. Intertitles announce, in a few words, what will...Start your free trial to watch
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Adoration
This dazzling yet graphic and unsettling film, shot in 35mm black-and-white, features a young Japanese man (Takashi Matsuo) lovingly filming and recording the voice of his female companion (Catherine Aymerie) before proceeding in a harrowing direction. Among the best-known works of acclaimed Belgian filmmaker Olivier...Start your free trial to watch
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The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
The ninth installment in the twelve episode OCTAVIUS AMATEUR DETECTIVE series (of which THE ADVENTURES OF THE WRONG SANTA CLAUS is or perhaps is not a part). Octavius is a bumbler who "never fails" to solve the crime due to an endless array of good luck and coincidence. He goes in search of local car...Start your free trial to watch
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The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus
Amateur detective Octavius agrees to portray Santa Claus for his friends. Unfortunately, a burglar appears and puts on a Claus costume of his own. Two is one too many. The other St. Nick gets away with the loot and its up to Octavius to track down the culprit.Start your free trial to watch
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The Adventures of Dollie
D.W. Griffith's cinematic debut was already laced with dramatic irony, dynamic staging and deft parallel editing. The film opens with mother and daughter enjoying a summer day by the water. A gypsy merchant disrupts their idyll, first offering items for sale and then trying to make off with the woman's...Start your free trial to watch
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Africa, F.O.B.
Featuring Monty Banks and William Blaisdell. This film features actors performing in blackface. Fandor does not condone racist stereotyping, but blackface is nonetheless a significant aspect of American history in general and film history specifically. Early cinema was deeply rooted in vaudeville, where blackface was a...Start your free trial to watch
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After the Ball
Georges Méliès' fantasy films and his re-enactments of current events shared an important quality: both offered audiences images they could not have seen outside the cinema. There's something of this in the appeal of a pornographic or erotic film as well. Featuring a scenario so trite it has become timeless (a woman removes...Start your free trial to watch
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Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane
A smoldering car wreck moves two brothers to ask their mother about a significant difference in their upbringings. The Zellners’ knotty dialogue touches upon Pilgrims, foreskins, European sexual preferences and smallpox, a welter of neurosis and shame. If the script seems unlikely, an autobiographical...Start your free trial to watch
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The Agony of Byzance
An unusual period-piece from legendary French director Louis Feuillade, set near the end of the Byzantine Empire, THE AGONY OF BYZANCE chronicles the assault on (and the subsequent fall of) the city of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks. Costume drama at its finest!Start your free trial to watch