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One Week

Two newlyweds receive a "do-it yourself" house as a gift. According to the enclosed instructions, the house can be built in one week, but a refused suitor changes the numbers on the boxes containing the pieces of the house.

Les 400 coups

The 1950's in France. Antoine Doinel, a misunderstood adolescent in Paris who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a troublemaker. Filmed on location in Paris and Honfleur, it is the first in a series of five films in which Léaud plays the semi-autobiographical character.

Il processo di Frine (Episodio di Altri tempi)

Subtitles in french done by the students during ABCinema project. Final episode based on the story by Scarfoglio.
Mariantonia Desire is a country girl with a name that says it all. Brought to court on charges of having poisoned his mother-in-law, she will be successfully defended by his lawyer.

Fantasmagorie

A stick man moves around and finds many morphing objects, such as a wine bottle that turns into a flower. There are also some live action sequences, where the animator’s hands appear.

Genre: Animation

Cinderella

A pair of scissors cut out Cinderella from a piece of black card. Then, the famous fairy tale comes alive on the screen thanks to the silhouettes realized by Lotte Reiniger, which represents the classic story quite faithfully.

Genre: Animation

Animated matches playing volleyball and cricket

A group of matchstick men play a game of volleybal and cricket.

Genre: Animation

The Development of the Bicycle

How to ride a bike with a very large front wheel and a tiny rear wheel? Could you cycle on wooden ties? This documentary gives a demonstration of the development of bicycles. Until 1915, of course.

Genre: Documentary

Les Kiriki, Acrobates Japonais

An ‘Early Cinema’ hand colored short film starring 11 acrobats testing out the limits of gravity. Segundo de Chomón experiments with the new possibilities of theatrical performance through film and film tricks.

Hra S Kameny (Game with Stones)

A short animation movie by czech director and artist Jan Švankmajer, who experiments with materials from everyday life (stones, a water tap, a clock). In 5 acts various ‘games with stones’ are played.

Genre: Animation

Artème Opérateur

Arthème decides to become a film projectionist. That can’t be difficult, can it?

For a Fistful of Dollars

In a frontier village between Mexico and USA, two families fight for supremacy. The fragile balance is broken by the arrival of a lonely stranger.

The Great Dictator

A Jewish barber, back from the WWI front, finds his country oppressed by Adenoid Hynkel's dictatorship. Thanks to the incredible resemblance between he and Hynkel, he replaces the dictator and makes on of the most powerful and famous speeches in cinema history.

Chromophobia

This animated film shows the attempt of a black-and-white army to impose its dictatorial rule on a free, happy and colourful society. Where the grey légions pass, all colours disappears. But a small girl nurtures one red flower that eventually takes the shape of a scarlet jester...

Genre: Animation

Le Canard Géométrique

The Geometrical Duck is the story - in the guise of an abstract tale - of an impish little man who felt from the sky (as a reference to the artist's divine breath). Once on "earth", the man will create a duck that will experience a world of sensations and feelings, including love...

Genre: Animation

Alice in Wonderland

Alice dreams that she sees the White Rabbit and follows him down the Rabbit-hole, into the Hall of Many Doors. This first-ever film version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, made over 100 years ago, dramatises key scenes in Lewis Carroll’s story and is based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations.

Jeu de dés

The film doesn't tell a story properly, it shows people playing with some magic dice of different sizes, which create constructions and break up autonomously. Dice columns become soldiers, and viceversa. From an arch-shaped dice structure, some people appear and start a choreography, which ends up in a complete catastrophe...

A trip to the moon

The possibility to reach the Moon with a space capsule in the shape of a bullet and a huge cannon to shoot it into space has been imagined by the cinema pioneer Georges Méliès. A dream come true for the audience too.

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station

This 50-second silent film shows the entry of a train pulled by a steam locomotive into a train station in the French coastal town of La Ciotat. Like most of the early Lumière films, L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat consists of a single, unedited view illustrating an aspect of everyday life.

Genre: Documentary

Schatten

The short-documentary is an audiovisual study, that records occurrences and people on the streets. But unlike other ordinary filmic street sceneries, Pohland, cofunder of the movement around the famous 'Oberhausener Manifest', shows objects and people exclusively through their shadows.

Genre: Documentary

Virtous Virtuell

This film consists of animated and handmade ink-paintings, inspired by the music from Louis Spohr (overture to the opera ‘the Alchymist’), that are playing with transitions from concreteness to abstraction and hence open up a wide room for associations.

Genre: Animation

Alice's Wild West Show

A girl named Alice and a couple of friends put on a performance, that gets disturbed by annoying neighbourhood kids. Her friends are afraid to perform with such an audience so Alice decides to tell an exciting story by herself. While she is telling her story, the film turns into an animation film with Alice as the main character.

Genre: Animation

Les six soeurs Dainef

A hand-colored silent film in which six women perform acrobatic tricks. There performance is extraordinary. Some of the acts look unrealistic and manipulated with special effects.

Combat de Boxe

Avant-gardist short film playing with overprints, the use of alternated negative and positive to feel like as we are in the heart of the boxing match.

Genre: Avant-garde

La Perle

A waking dreamer goes in search of a pearl which constantly disappears in a string of bizarre encounters - sneak thieves in a hotel, a beautiful fiancée on a bycicle and a somnambulist walking the rooftops in a night-shirt.

Genre: Avant-garde

The Amazing Adventures of Morph: Grandmorph’s Home Movies

Morph is embarrassed by Grand Morph’s screening of his home-movies, which include early footage of Morph as a tiny baby. This series was first created back in 1980 and was shot on 16mm film using the same stop-frame animation technique for which Aardman is now world-famous.

Genre: Animation

Le Avventure di un Uovo

An egg tries to escape from the kitchen and gain its liberty. It won't be easy but it will finally reach its goal.

Genre: Animation