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- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsVernon DouglasSteve McQueenBear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive issues about race, homo eroticism and violence. It depicts two naked men - one of whom is the artist - tussling and teasing one another in an encounter which shifts between tenderness and aggression. The film is silent but a series of stares, glances and winks between the protagonists creates an optical language of flirtation and threat.
- DirectorSteve McQueenA woman with a tightrope.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsJosh WhitehouseAmber AndersonTwo people are passionately in love and go off on a dirty weekend in London's Hotel Café Royal.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsAshesWe see footage of Ashes, a young Grenadian man sitting on the prow of a fishing boat at sea, at times smiling and grinning at the Super 8 camera filming him. The story on the soundtrack is told by Ashes' friends and was recorded by director Steve McQueen after he returned to the island in 2010 and found out that the young man had been murdered after he discovered a stash of drugs on a beach.
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- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsMargaret KinnonTwo actors, a black man and a white woman seem to be stalking each other but never meet. Their inquisitive glances could imply that they are pursuing each other, but could also suggest that they are just looking.
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- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsSteve McQueenSteve McQueen multiply remakes the most famous shot of Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), in which the façade of a house collapses and Keaton is saved by being in exactly the right position as a window from a multitude of different camera angles.
- DirectorSteve McQueenDirector Steve McQueen attached three cameras to the front and each end of an oil drum and rolled it through the streets of Manhattan. The results are projected onto three walls of an enclosed space.
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- DirectorDK WelchmanThe world's first painting animation in 3-D. A precociously fresh and appealing way of using 3-D, Little Postman tells a touching story set in World War II of a little boy who is delivering mail around war-torn Warsaw. In a bombardment our little postman finds assistance from a magic broken piano.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsTalley BeattyA man dances in several locations, edited to have a fluent effect.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsCynthia BarretTerry ChapmanFrank IonsonMaya Deren's unfinished short film from 1951, "Ensemble for Somnambulists", set to DeVotchKa's "How It Ends".
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsHector Luis BustamanteToy LeiChristopher AbramBased on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees' personal journeys.
- DirectorRowland JobsonStarsSteven ElderGeorgia BourkeMaria BurgessLucy is young, Lucy is damaged, Lucy likes to play. Everything changes for 13yr old Lucy when she sends sexually provocative text messages to an unknown 16 yr old boy and arranges a date.
- DirectorSean BakerStarsAbbey LeeClarence Williams IIIMary WoronovKenzo creative directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon have tapped independent American film-maker Sean Baker ('Tangerine') to write and direct an original short film featuring the brand's Spring collection for men and women.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsMurwarid AbdianiJaden AlexanderLance AndersonThe evolution of humanity, through countless eons.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsMarcel DuchampPajorita MattaThe surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman.
- DirectorMaya DerenStarsChao Li ChiThe setting with the low walls and river views is located in a private area of The Cloisters museum.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsRobert MayKarin AngerLily and Jim are interviewed about their disastrous blind date.