Short Movies (to watch online)

Víctor Erice's Lifeline (from Ten minutes older: The Trumpet)

Hieronim Neumann's Blok

THEY DO NOT EXIST

Directed by | Mustafa Abu Ali

Genre documentary | Length: 25mins | Year of production: 1974

Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic.

Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists “smuggled” the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'"

http://www.palestinefilm.org/resources.asp?s=libr&film_id=28

This one is amazing. I LOVE it.

You have to activate the subtitles (cc)... and of course watch it full screen (and with the lights off)



The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner
(by Werner Herzog)

Werner Herzog also recorded a documentary short movie for Ten minutes older: The Trumpet - see first post in this thread. But I don't remember much about it... although I watched in a cinema last autumn

One of Polanski's early works: LAMPA

The Fly
(by Ferenc Rofusz)