Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing

The Merry Widow Waltz A young man walks into a café and hears the Merry Widow Waltz being played for the first time. He immediately buys a copy. Music in hand, he forgets everything and hums along the way. Soon, he's amused to see two policemen start waltzing! He passes a house and hears a young girl playing the fashionable waltz on the piano. Irresistibly, he starts dancing, taking a lamppost as his partner. Then, in front of an organist, a horse tied to a cart also begins to waltz in a wild, unpredictable style. Finally, our young man returns to his room and sits down at his piano to play the tune. But he's barely begun when everything in the room starts waltzing wildly. Then, to his great surprise, the piano itself joins in, and as the boy continues to play the instrument, he finds himself lifted into the air!

Dust In a harsh and unpredictable natural environment where people have isolated themselves behind massive walled cities, a socially marginalized Tracker teams up with a black-market merchant to save the industrial society that has rejected his way of life.

Christmas Eve Tragedy Although it is very near Christmas, when everybody should rejoice, a sailor bound for a dangerous expedition takes leave of his wife, and the poor woman is seen following with dim eyes the departing ship, her heart apparently heavy with grief. After having cried and prayed on a cross, the grass-widow returns to the farm to resume her duties and takes a sack of wheat to the next mill. The miller, knowing of the sailor's departure, and finding the lass very agreeable and charming, after having seen to the wheat bag, gives his whole attention to the young woman, and he does not seem to mind very much the clumsy advances made by the workingman. They part after a rather excited confab, and have evidently made an appointment for the evening at the church, for it is a Christmas celebration. We follow the two young people in the chapel, then to a bonfire dance, and lastly we see them both driving away in a country cart.

The Two Sisters The story of two sisters and a tragic love affair.

The Tired Tailor's Dream A tailor falls asleep and dreams that the suit he needs to make is magically completed.

Earthquake Ruins, New Ma... A film by the Edison Company showing the devastation of the April 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

The Memory Booth A young man visits the memory booth to recall his childhood and the accident in which he lost his parents during a journey to a beach house.

The Warren Case Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.

DDR/DDR One in a series “ciné-constellations,” feature-length associative visual essays. Dream-like and propositional, works in this series mirror shared concerns of voyeurism, psychoanalysis, memory, surveillance and modernist architecture. These films engage in a self-reflexive inquiry into non-fiction film practices, including objectivity, authority and performance.

Booha Booha, a butcher coming from the countryside to Cairo to find the man whom his late father left his money with, gets tangled in the big city, finds love with Kotta, and gets exploited by Farag.