6.4.13

An Odyssey









- The Sick Kitten, by George Albert Smith, a 1903 British short silent comedy film, performing one of the first close-ups in the history of film.
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, a 1928 French silent film, starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti
- Zéro de conduite, by Jean Vigo, made in 1933 but banned in France until 1946.
- Minamata: The Victims and Their World, by Noriaki Tsuchimoto, a 1971 Japanese documentary about the mercury poisoning incident in MinamataJapan

This last film is an excerpt from the documentary I just saw: The Story of Film: An Odyssey, narrated brilliantly by the Irish director Mark Cousins. 
Dozens of epic afterimages after 15 hours of film...