Our Lady of the Sphere
Larry Jordan, USA, 1969-1972, 10 min
A 10 minute colour collage of rococo imagery juxtaposed with symbols and images from antiquity to the space age. The film draws its theme from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Synchromie
Norman McLaren, 1971, 7 min 33 s
Court métrage d’animation présentant des jeux de couleurs, de formes et de sons. En guise de musique, Norman McLaren a dessiné des sons synthétiques et il les a photographiés sur la bande sonore en conservant un parallélisme absolu entre le son et l’image. Synchromie est un film de « son animé » dans le vrai sens du terme.
How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels
Craig Welch, Canada, 1996, 11 min 5 s
The main protagonist of this short, surreal film is a man obsessed with control. In an automated world drained of all emotion, he is tortured by vague longings.
The Phantom Carriage
Victor Sjöström, Sweden, 1921, 93 min
The Phantom Carriage (Swedish: Körkarlen) is a 1921 Swedish romantic horror film, generally considered to be one of the central works in the history of Swedish cinema. Released on New Year’s Day, it was directed by and starred Victor Sjöström, alongside Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg and Astrid Holm. It is based on the novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (Körkarlen; 1912), by Nobel-prize winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf
The film is notable for its special effects, its advanced (for the time) narrative structure with flashbacks within flashbacks, and for having been a major influence on Ingmar Bergman. – WIKI