A cruel anecdote on a subject of optical obsession: a glass eye which a young man cannot manage to get rid of.
László Moholy-Nagy tests the medium's potential in this portrait of France's largest and most populous port city, Marseille.
When the sunny Amsterdam is startled by a sudden weather change, its appearence changes drastically. Ivens' city symphony explores the lived experience of a rainstorm.
The New Babylon is set in the spring of 1871 during the time of the Paris Commune, immediately after the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Louise is employed as a salesperson in a wholesale store in Paris named "The New Babylon".
« Sur cet îlot d’où les tempêtes d’hiver balaient toute vie, quatre hommes, deux équipes, viennent passer l’été, séparés du monde, pour pêcher le goémon. »1
An impressionistic composition filmed in Ostend. The viewer’s gaze is guided by sensual impressions in which the light, compositions, textures and rhythms of the water, the sand and the waves become filmic elements themselves.
« Un film de montage du début du parlant où toute la terre était jetée sur l'écran en un puzzle d’images visuelles et sonores, l’une des toutes premières réussites du nouvel art. »