American shorts on 16

In this combined programme

• Little lieutenant

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  Rapid dance film and multi-media spectacle evokes Weimar Republic to music by John Zorn.

• The curve of a smile

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  Sensitive film about a tragic incident in the childhood of a young woman.

• Robert Manholecoverman

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  Office clerk drowns in the chaos of his surroundings and meets flamenco dancers.

• Gone

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  Graduation film. A boy ends the world and becomes a man.

• The strange case of Balthazar Hyppolite

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  Bizarre, intriguing and fictitious reconstruction of a film from the 1860s.

• Sour death balls

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  –A very amusing experiment: film-maker gives acid drops to friends and to a group of children 3 and 4 years old. The sweets are painfully…

• One single life

  • main programme

  Début about neighbours who fry potatoes and daydream to dispell loneliness. After story by Jane Bowles.