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The Cigarette and the Weed (short,…

kinostr — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:09:06 GMT

The Cigarette and the Weed (short, 1981)
Director: Ralph Bakshi

Animated short film by legendary controversial animator Ralph Bakshi who is known for his animated projects such as the 1960s Terrytoons, Fritz the Cat, Coonskin, American Pop, Cool World, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and his guest appearance on Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon. The Cigarette and the Weed served as Bakshi's attempt to have a cartoon shown before a motion picture in movie theaters.

The short is about three minutes long and tells the story of a weed growing on a street corner and a discarded cigarette butt that rolls up to the weed. The two converse before the cigarette rolls into a puddle and is extinguished.[1]

Availability
The short has been screened at multiple film festivals[2], and a brief, audioless clip of it was featured in the 1982 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch.[3] On February 25, 2025, Bakshi himself released the entire short on his Twitter.

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The Frog (silent short, 1908)

kinostr — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:40:08 GMT

The Frog (silent short, 1908)
Director: Segundo de Chomón

A film by the pioneering Spanish film director and cinematographer Segundo Chomón. With his innovative use of early splice-based tricks and a penchant for optical illusions he is often compared to the slightly earlier Georges Méliès, and indeed has been dubbed "The Spanish Méliès" by some. Though the similarities are clear, Chomón departs from Méliès in his variety of subjects and his use of animation, an art form he played a key role in developing. In this surreal short a sprightly frog circles various come-to-life fountain tableaux, as well as a giant version of itself, an enormous head being drenched by water, and some multicoloured fire thrown in for good measure.

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Haunted Indiana (short, 1981)

kinostr — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:31:00 GMT

Haunted Indiana (short, 1981)
Directors: Michael White, Frank Haney

zero-budget short made by brothers Michael (Director) and Stephen (Writer, Editor, Narrator) White in conjunction with the Indiana University Department of Folklore and local independent TV station WTTV 4 and was later shown in heavy rotation on the cable access channel.

#short #horror #folklore #fortean #cult

Documentary Shorts by Vittorio De Seta

kinostr — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:12:20 GMT

Documentary Shorts by Vittorio De Seta

The Age of Swordfish (1955)

A short anthropological documentary from 1954. Director De Seta was fortunate enough to document swordfish fishing; by 1956 it no longer existed.

Islands of Fire (1955)

This prize-winning short is a poetic portrait of life on the coast of Sicily before, during, and following a volcanic eruption.

Sea Countrymen (1955)

Sicily, Granitola, 1955. At the first light of dawn, the fishermen set out in their boats for open water, timing the rhythm of their oars to murmured chants. They set their nets in the sea, regulate the cords, organize the boats in a square. The men’s work becomes increasingly harder as the tuna are hoisted onto the boats, wriggling, beating their tails until death arrives and the water is tinged with blood.

Easter in Sicily (1955)

Vittorio De Seta captures the music and pageantry of an Easter celebration in Sicily.

Golden Parable (1955)

Filming amid the flaxen wheat fields of Sicily, Vittorio De Seta documents the everyday rituals of farmers during harvest time.

Solfatara (1955)

Harshness and beauty exist side by side in this look at the lives of sulfur mine workers and their families in southern Italy.

Fishing Boats (1958)

The unpredictable nature of the sea governs the world of Sicilian fishermen as they work, rest, and seek refuge from a storm.

Orgosolo’s Shepherds (1958)

The striking landscapes of rural Sardinia provide the backdrop to this lyrical look at the hardscrabble lives of the region’s shepherds in winter.

A Day In Barbagia (1958)

From sunrise to sunset, Vittorio De Seta chronicles the lives of Sardinian women who look after both home and fields while their shepherd husbands are away tending their flocks.

The Forgotten (1959)

Vittorio De Seta travels to a remote province in southern Italy to capture a unique celebration known as the “Feast of Silver.”

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Film (short, 1965)

kinostr — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:47:15 GMT

Film (short, 1965)
Director: Alan Schneider

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts. This was Samuel Beckett's only venture into the medium of cinema.

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Whistle and I'll Come to…

kinostr — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:28:23 GMT

Whistle and I'll Come to You (TV short, 1968)
Director: Jonathan Miller

Whistle and I'll Come to You is a supernatural short television film which aired as an episode of the British documentary series Omnibus. Written and directed by Jonathan Miller, it is based on the ghost story "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" by M. R. James, first published in the collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), and first aired on BBC1 on 7 May 1968.

It stars Michael Hordern as Prof. Parkin, a Cambridge academic who, whilst on holiday at a coastal East Anglian village, happens upon a strange whistle whilst exploring a Knights Templar cemetery exposed by coastal erosion. When blown, the whistle unleashes a frightening supernatural force.

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The Haunted House (short, 1921)

kinostr — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:02:15 GMT

The Haunted House (short, 1921)
Directors: Edward F. ClineBuster Keaton

A bank teller who becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.

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Capybara Walking (short, 1887)

kinostr — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 23:02:30 GMT

Capybara Walking (short, 1887)
Director: Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge photographs a capybara in motion.

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TV as a Fireplace (1968/69)

kinostr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:35:40 GMT

TV as a Fireplace (1968/69)
Director: Jan Dibbets
Duration: 23mins

On the last eight evenings of 1969, WDR 3 television marked the close of transmission by broadcasting in colour the picture of a burning coal fire. There was no mention of the artist or the art character of the broadcast. It represents perhaps the first example of the now commercialized ’TV fireplace.’

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Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship…

kinostr — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:17:06 GMT

Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship (short, 1906)
Original title: Le dirigeable fantastique
Director: Georges Méliès

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

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#kino #experimental #film #dirigeable #doot

Thanatopsis (short, 1962)

kinostr — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:07:34 GMT

Thanatopsis (short, 1962)
Director: Ed Emshwiller
Duration: 5mins

Introducing some innovative film techniques, Emshwiller won a Special Award at the Brussels Experimental Film Festival for this expression of internal anguish. He described the film as "The confrontation of a man and his torment. Juxtaposed against his external composure are images of a woman and lights in distortion, with tension heightened by the sounds of power saws and a heartbeat."

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Sei Still, wisse ICH BIN / Sinai…

kinostr — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:25:29 GMT

Sei Still, wisse ICH BIN / Sinai Desert (short, 1981)
Director: Florian Fricke
Music: Popol Vuh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6km-c4VFTNg

A movie directed by Florian Fricke in 1981. It was inspired by the bible, filmed in the Sinai desert. The movie had been released on VHS only in the 90's and it is now out of print again. The soundtrack, played by Popol Vuh and produced by Klaus Schulze, is available on CD. The part of the messiah was played by dutch actress and model Vera Von Lehndorff.

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Melancholia (short, 2003)

kinostr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:16:48 GMT

Melancholia (short, 2003)
Directors: William Basinski, James Elaine
Duration: 3mins30s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_pi8fhWfw

Super-8/video, USA, 2003

"All the world is melancholy, every member in it."
–Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy.

"Melancholy is a way of thinking, a way of thinking about thinking, and it needs to consume the sufferer and thus needs layers and strata and veneers in perpetuity in which to cloak and conceal itself." –Rick Moody, The Black Veil.

In Melancholia, one is immediately transfixed by the lilting, repetitive piano melody of Basinski's "The Saddest Melody Ever Heard". Drawn slowly through the dark veil of a lonely tunnel of trees, eventually the world is revealed, shining deceptively. Immediately one begins a bumpy journey around a dull and hollow shell, before being drawn back, away through the encroaching black veil that cloaks and colors all perception. Shot in Super-8 at the World's Fairgrounds in Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY, Elaine & Basinski's Melancholia is a concise, darkly romantic psalm, an elegy, a love letter to a broken world.

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The Life and Death of 9413,…

kinostr — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:31:46 GMT

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (short, 1928)
Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich

A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.

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A Trip To The Moon (1902)

kinostr — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:18:31 GMT

A Trip To The Moon (1902)
Director: Georges Méliès

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

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Free Fall (short, 1964)

kinostr — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:00:44 GMT

Free Fall (short, 1964)
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Duration: 10mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zd8NcYI9JA

An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca)

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Welcome to Hell (1996)

kinostr — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:28:20 GMT

Welcome to Hell (1996)

Welcome To Hell is the second full-length skateboarding video released by Toy Machine in 1996, featuring notable riders such as Elissa Steamer, Templeton, Brian Anderson, Donny Barley, Jason Acuña (Wee Man), Mike Maldonado, and Jamie Thomas.

bonus:

Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLInlnfWUc

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Outer Space (short, 1999)

kinostr — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:34:27 GMT

Outer Space (short, 1999)
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Duration: 10mins

A premonition of a horror film.
A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her. The woman tries to fight against the film itself as it starts to cause the world to collapse.

The Austrian found footage auteur masterfully reworks sequences from Sidney J. Furie’s ’80s horror film The Entity to craft this tactile and immersive examination of cinematic space. Tscherkassky creates a maelstrom of audiovisual fragments and shards that delightfully destroy narrative norms.

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Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (short, 1999)

kinostr — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:07:54 GMT

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (short, 1999)
Director: Mark Leckey
Duration: 15mins

a compilation of found footage from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s underground music and party scene in the U.K. It follows on the path of several previous appropriative art video artists and critics have remarked on its similarities with William S. Burroughs' technique of cut-ups, a literary technique whereupon a text’s sentences or words are cut up and later randomly re-hashed into a new text. Through “found and original footage of discos and raves across Britain during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s” he “chronicle[s] the rites of passage experienced by successive generations of British (sub)urban youth”.

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore patches up several videos of young people dancing, singing and partying. It starts with the disco scene of the 1970s, touches upon the Northern soul of the late 1970s and early 1980s and climaxes with the rave scene of the 1990s. One underlying soundtrack plays during the whole video, giving a sense of unity and narrative to the video. At one point an animated element - a bird tattoo image - appears as if released from the hand of a dancer, then carried into the next shot finds its place on the arm of another of the film's nightclubbing subjects. Some dance moves are played on loop for a few seconds, some are played in slow motion. Writing about Leckey’s first few video pieces, which in addition to Fiorucci… include We Are (Untitled) (2000) and Parade (2003), the art critic Catherine Wood said that they “represent the human subject striving to spread itself out into a reduced dimensionality. His subjects dance, take drugs and dress up in their attempts to transcend the obstinate physicality of the body and disappear in abstract identification with the ecstasy of music, or the seamlessness of the image.”

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Engram (short, 1987)

kinostr — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:01:35 GMT

Engram (short, 1987)
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Duration: 12mins

Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos movies inside of movies photos inside of movies movies inside of photos and (even) a film director inside a TV set.
Composer: Takashi Inagaki.

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