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1944 - THE BATTLE OF SAN PIETRO. U.S. Army Pictorial Service. Always the iconoclastic troublemaker, filmmaker John Houston even managed to upset the powers that be with this war time documentary about the battle over a small Italian town. Originally 50 minutes, the version commonly shown is 32 minutes but there is at least a 40 minute version floating around.

1950 – THE FILMS OF CHARLES AND RAY EAMES: POWERS OF TEN / TOCCATA FOR TOY TRAINS

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1953-2002 – THE WORKS OF STAN BRAKHAGE: By Brakhage: An Anthology - DVD

1953 - DUCK AMUCK. Warner Brothers. Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese take apart cinematic construct all of semiotics, the French, the theorists, their American followers, their complex ideas, summed up by Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in one cartoon.

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1954-2001 - STAN BRAKHAGE FILMS. Working completely outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly 380 films, each lasting between 9 seconds and 4 hours. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” Brakhage turned his camera on lovemaking, childbirth, and even actual autopsy. Many of his most famous films pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Brakhage pioneered the art of making images directly on to film itself- starting with clear leader or exposed film, then scratching, drawing, and painting on it by hand. Though his films were rarely seen outside the experimental film community, there is one bit of film that Brakhage is supposed to have made that practically everyone in America has seen-- the original shot of a Downy fabric softener bottle falling in slow motion into a plump pile of towels. – Found on the Criterion Collection “by Brakhage.”

1956 – THE RED BALLOON, 34 minutes; French; Albert Lamorisee.

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1958- THE SHORTS OF ROMAN POLANSKI: 1) Two Men and a Wardrobe. 1958. Not one of my favorites, but very Cold War satire. It's funny, as T.S. Eliot said about something else, once you see the essential horror of it. (From George Wead & Louis Black)

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1958 - LES MISTONS. 1958. Francois Truffaut’s amazing ode to love and those too young too understand it but who are still haunted by it. As La Jetee is defined by 3 seconds of motion in a movie of stills, this film is defined by a few freeze frames as the boys sniff a bicycle seat.

1958 - NIGHT AND FOG. 1958. Alain Resnais demonstrates the evocative and disturbing power of film to emotionally convey the most horrific of stories.

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1959 -THE RUNNING, JUMPIN STANDING STILL FILM. 1959. Not just every trick and idea in the frenetic cinema of Richard Lester (as opposed to his more contemplative works) but most of MTV defined in one short made by the Goon Show gang.

1960-1990 - CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN SHORTS: GLASNOT FILM FESTIVAL – BLACK SQUARE AND DIALOGUES (1960-1990)

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