Cinema 16

British Short Films

1) About a Girl (Dir. Brian Percival, 2001, 10 mins.)
2) Boy & Bicycle (Dir. Ridley Scott, 1958, 27 mins.)
3) Dear Phone (Dir. Peter Greenaway, 1976, 17 mins.)
4) Doodlebug (Dir. Christopher Nolan, 1997, 3 mins.)
5) Eight (Dir. Stephen Daldry, 1998, 13 mins.)
6) Gasman (Dir. Lynne Ramsey, 1997, 15 mins.)
7) Girl Chewing Gum (Dir. John Smith, 1976, 12 mins.)
8) Home (Dir. Morag McKinnon, 198, 11 mins.)
9) Joyride (Dir. Jim Gillespie, 1995, 10 mins.)
10) Inside-Out (Dir. Tom & Charles Guard, 1999, 7 mins.)
11) Je T’aime John Wayne (Dir. Toby Macdonald, 2000, 10 mins.)
12) The Sheep Thief (Dir. Asif Kapadia, 1997, 24 min.)
13) The Short and the Curlies (Dir. Mike Leigh, 1987, 17 mins.)
14) Telling Lies (Dir. Simon Ellis, 4000, 4 mins)
15) UK Images (Dir. Martin Parr, 1997, 6 mins.)
16) Who’s My Favorite Girl? (Dir. Adrian J. McDowall, 1999, 15 mins.)

American Short Films

1) The Lunch Date (Dir. Adam Davidson, 1990, 11 mins)
2) Five Feet High and Rising (Dir. Peter Sollett, 1999, 29 min)
3) Freiheit (Dir. George Lucas, 1966, 3 mins)
4) Daybreak Express (Dir. D.A. Pennebaker, 1953, 5 mins)
5) Vincent (Dir. Tim Burton, 1982, 6 mins)
6) Terminal Bar (Dir. Stefan Nadelman, 2002, 22 mins)
7) Terry Tate: Office Linebacker (Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2003, 4 mins)
8) Necrology: Roll Call of the Dead (Dir. Standish Lawder, 1969-70, 12 mins)
9) The Discipline Of D.E. (Dir. Gus Van Sant, 1982, 13 mins)
10) The Wrath of Cobble Hill (Dir. Adam Parrish King, 2005, 15 mins)
11) George Lucas in Love (Dir. Joe Nussbaum, 1999, 8 mins)
12) Meshes of the Afternoon (Dir. Maya Deren, 1943,15 mins)
13) Carmen (Dir. Alexander Payne, 1985, 18 mins)
14) Feelings (Dir. Todd Solondz, 1984, 4 mins)
15) Paperboys (Dir. Mike Mills, 2001, 41 mins)
16) Screen Test: Helmut (Dir. Andy Warhol, 1964, 5 mins)

European Short Films

1) Bara Prata Lite Talk (Dir. Lukas Moodysson, Swedish, 1997, 14 mins.)
2) Le Batteur du Bolero The Drummer of Bolero (Dir. Patrice Leconte, France, 1992, 8 mins.)
3) Charlotte et Veronique, ou tous le garcons s’appellent Patrick Charlotte and Veronique, or all the boys are named Patrick (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1957, 21 mins.)
4) Copy Shop (Dir. Virgil Wildrich, Austria, 2001, 12 mins.)
5) Epilog (Dir. Tom Tykwer, Germany, 1991, 12 mins.)
6) Fridge (Dir. Peter Mullan, Scotland, 1996, 20 mins.)
7) Il Giorno della Prima di close-Up The Opening Day of Close-Up (Dir. Nanni Moretto, Italy, 1996, 7 mins.)
8) Gisele Kerozene (Dir. Jan Kounen, Holland-France, 1999, 4 mins.)
9) Harlig Ar Jorden World of Glory (Dir. Roy Andersson, Sweden, 1991, 16 mins.)
10) L’Homme sans tete The Man Without a Head (Dir. Juan Solanas, France, 2003, 18 mins.)
11) Koncert Zyczen Concert of Wishes (Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1968, 16 mins.)
12) Jabberwocky (Dir. Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic, 1971, 13 mins)
13) My Wrongs#8245-8249 and 117 (Dir. Chris Morris, 2003, UK, 12 mins)
14) Nocturne (Dir. Lars von trier, Denmark, 1980, 8 mins.)
15) El Secdleto de la Tlompeta (Dir. Javier Fesser, Spain, 1995, 18 mins.)
16) Election Night (Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark, 1998, 11 mins.)

About Donato Totaro: Donato Totaro has been the editor of the online film journal Offscreen since its inception in 1997. Totaro received his PhD in Film & Television from the University of Warwick (UK) and is a part-time lecturer in Film Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). He has published on recent Asian cinema, the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, the horror genre and is currently preparing a manuscript entitled Time and the Long Take in Narrative Cinema.

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