Bocal aux poissons rouges
[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnessed a struggle between the objective and subjective camera and the optically distorting lenses like the fisheye lens has been a powerful tool for the subjective camera. Here it is at the start.
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Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.
Apotheose
The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at both sides of an empty screen. The scene was shown in continuity, at the end of the session, as if the producers and directors of the session were beading the public a farewell.
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In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching them from the nearby pier.
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In Single File on Glaciers With Snowshoes, l. Montée
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A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
Box
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Welcome in Vienna
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Re-Cycling
Short animated film.
The Confession
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Re-re-repeat
Re-re-repeat A rhythmic dialogue between sound and image: exploring space, corporeal phenomenology and chance outcomes, which alter perceptions of time and memory.
Gothalo
Story about a farmer.
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Re/cycle
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