Gehri Chaal

Snack Bar Special The lower level of Lichtenberg Station in Belin in early October 1989: the beginning of the end for the GDR. In the snack bar, the staff are catering for travellers of every kind while in the background the authorities maintain a flow of triumphal statements, but those months between August and October come to feel like sitting out the death throes. Careful observation of people and their work as the current of history suddenly becomes perceptible.

L’Homme la tte de veau... A mischievous boy steals the calf's head from a drunk man, who has been sent by his wife to buy it. The boy then places the ruminant's head on the man's shoulders.

Seaman's Widow The morning after one of those stormy nights when everything is raging and howling in the darkness outside, two customs officers visit Marie-Jeanne's cottage to carry out the sad mission about the fisherman's body washed up by the tide, buried in the beach. The body of her husband Alain.

Calino: Public Sprinkler A film from 1910

Hollywood Dog A cartoon dog entertainment promoter manipulates a naive newcomer to be his headline act for an upcoming show.

The Rape of Czechoslovak... Weiss’s classic B&W agitprop short made after his escape to London just ahead of the Nazis. He carried with him three reels of material for his unrealized film ‘Dvacet Let Svobody’ (‘Twenty Years of Freedom’) i.e. 20 years of the existence of independent Czechoslovakia from its 1918 founding to 1938 when the Munich Agreement dissolved it. In English with poetic narration written by C. Day-Lewis (father of Daniel Day-Lewis).

Wessen Aurach, dessen Tr... "Stuck out, but not puked" was the movie, so Arnold Schicker. Inventory of an area in sharp-edged, with eye and Ohrenkwinkern produced sound-image scissors. They tell of contradictions, trivialities and petty wars on the garden fence, of a too small world, which filmically exploded finds to new size.

Microcultural Incidents ... Film by Ray L. Birdwhistell produced by the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute

Wonders of the Sea The ocean depths are explored with the aid of a submarine chamber of Williamson's invention and a few hardy souls. The construction of the device is examined; but most of the footage is given to plant and animal life, a girl swimming among the coral growths, and two divers who encounter a moray and an octopus.

A garrote limpio A series of murders have occurred in the uppermost circles of society. Detective Felipe Fierro vows to solve the killings, or die trying (which is a strong possibility).