A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some knowledge of the subject is essential in order to understand the film, which is entirely visual.

Musa and his friends, all men, all young, all from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on China's northwestern border, now wander great cities in the East talking, shooting up, remembering home and practicing the one true skill they have: they steal.

"The first months of marriage, with moments of mutual awareness, frightening understandings, lovemaking." -S.B.

另一个世界线里大鱼和少女的故事，带你进入一个原电影剧组员工眼中的“大 海“”，向史诗级动画长片电影致敬作品。来自西瓜一块一人制作委员会的《一条大鱼叫海棠》。PS这个夏天要去看看《大。海》,因为里面有无数动画人的青春，还有，说不完的梗。

2016 animated short film by Alan Barillaro

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

所有的青梅竹马都会在长大之前走失，所以是否该珍惜那些随时都会消失的存在呢？拥有自来卷头发的小女孩玛丽十分可爱，嘴角的一颗痣让她显得格外俏皮。玛丽曾有一次溺水的经历，在此之后她所看到的世界都呈水纹状。喜欢玛丽的小男孩蘑菇希望能跟对方学游泳，他因为不下水而被同学骂成胆小鬼，其实是他的妈妈担心出事禁止他游泳而已。玛丽也喜欢蘑菇，因为在她的眼里蘑菇就如同哆啦A梦一样可爱。
男孩女孩两小无猜，他们出走，坐在大海边聊着彼此的心事。远去的童年，彼此最为珍贵的回忆深藏心底……

1924 film by René Clair

Though James Williamson had already made at least 122 one-shot films since 1897 (mostly comedies such as Washing the Sweep or actualities like Early Fashions on Brighton Pier, both 1898, Attack on a China Mission - Bluejackets to the Rescue (1900) was a quantum leap forward in style, content, technique and ambition.
In The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, historian John Barnes claims it had "the most fully developed narrative of any film made in England up to that time". While most dramatic films of the era consisted of one or two shots and single-figure casts, Williamson's film had four shots (including a reverse angle cut, showing the entrance to the mission from two different perspectives) and at least two dozen performers.
It was based on the Boxer Rebellion of the early months of 1900, with the secret 'Boxer' society attempting to expel of foreigners in general and Christian missionaries in particular from their native China. Williamson was following in the footsteps of Georges Méliès, whose eleven-scene dramatised documentary L'Affaire Dreyfus (1899) was very influential on British film-makers, many of whom made similar dramatisations of the events of the ongoing Boer War. But Williamson's film comfortably outstripped them in scale and ambition.
Though the Warwick Trading Company had distributed moving images of China that same year, there was no actual footage of the Boxer Rebellion. In order to meet perceived public demand, Williamson made his film in Hove at a derelict house called Ivy Lodge (which would also be the main location for Fire!, 1901). He went to considerable lengths to ensure that his film appeared to be authentic, kitting out the house with a bilingual Anglo-Chinese 'Mission Station' sign and drawing on his background as a chemist in order to fake gunshots and explosions.
The full film ran 230 feet, or roughly four minutes at contemporary projection speeds. Just under half of this footage survives, though thankfully it includes material from all four shots. Despite some obvious trims (the initial forcing of the gate is missing, and the wife's appeal on the balcony to the sailors must surely have lasted more than one second), enough remains to give a good account of what the original audience must have seen.
The premiere was held on 17 November 1900 at Hove Town Hall, and was such a success that the audience (fruitlessly) demanded a repeat screening there and then.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Inspired by the isolated beauty of tropical islands and the explosive allure of ocean volcanoes, Lava is a musical love story that takes place over millions of years.

一个多年的吉祥物扮演者面对突如其来的解雇危机，他会如何面对呢？

他在《水窗中的颤动婴儿》（Window Water Baby Moving，1959）中，以倒叙和一连串的主题元素画面，描绘珍•布莱凯吉（Jane Brakhage）怀孕和生产的情景。

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. "S. Brakhage, entering, WITH HIS CAMERA, one of the forbidden, terrific locations of our culture, the autopsy room. It is a place wherein, inversely, life is cherished, for it exists to affirm that no one of us may die without our knowing exactly why. All of us, in the person of the coroner, must see that, for ourselves, with our own eyes. It is a room full of appalling particular intimacies, the last ditch of individuation. Here our vague nightmare of mortality acquires the names and faces of OTHERS. This last is a process that requires a WITNESS; and what 'idea' may finally have inserted itself into the sensible world we can still scarcely guess, for the CAMERA would seem the perfect Eidetic Witness, staring with perfect compassion where we can scarcely bear to glance." – Hollis Frampton

1952 film directed by Norman McLaren

这是一个喧嚣的繁华都市。华灯初上，霓虹闪烁。故事的主人公毫无惭愧地走在路上，这时他看见了民工老张，带着两个残疾的同伴四处和人打听，“请问哪有为人民办事的地方？”他操着外地口音，辛辛苦苦干了一年却讨不到工钱。他找到相关执法部门，谁曾想执法人员如豺狼虎豹，凶狠非常，不由分说将其赶了出来。老张又找到工地，仗势欺人的包工头更如蛇蝎般恶毒，找来一群地痞流氓将其揍了一顿。老张挨不住揍，只得告饶答应不要工钱。失望伤心的老张彷徨无助，摇摇晃晃走在回家的路上。
黑暗中他点燃主人公递来的香烟，想起了他的儿子，心中满是苦涩……

1998 short film