Ephemera
see all genres ›Ephemeral cinema refers to films produced outside the conventional contexts of art and entertainment: home movies, advertising, newsreels, industrial and educational shorts.
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The Smell of Burning Ants
THE SMELL OF BURNING ANTS is a haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness. Through formative events of...Watch Movie
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RocketKitKongoKit
This kaleidoscopic, amphetamine-paced tour de force uses a barrage of found-footage images and rapid-fire narration to trace a history of Zaire since its independence in 1960. The CIA, German munitions manufacturers and American popular culture are all indicted in this comic...Watch Movie
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Wild Gunman
Mobilizing wildly diverse found-footage fragments, obsessive optical printing and a dense "musique concrete" soundtrack, a maniac montage of pop-cultural amusements, cowboy iconography and advertising imagery is re-contextualized within the contemporary geopolitical crisis in this scathing...Watch Movie
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Effigy in Emulsion
EFFIGY IN EMULSION is a study in exposure change to uncover/un-develop a stolen memory. The concept is conceived in the musing: who took the photograph that washed out a frame of this film? A hybridization of mediums and tools (8mm, 16mm, optical printer) are used to...Watch Movie
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Otto Asks a Riddle
Otto the Auto, Winky the Traffic Light and the local pedestrian Safety Patrol all agree on one thing: getting kids safely across intersections is their number one priority. But what happens when a storm temporarily knocks out Winky's green, yellow and red lights? Lesson: look...Watch Movie
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Inky and Blinky
Produced by leading auto insurer AAA, this exercise in simple animation is aimed toward very young children. Otto the Auto, "as friendly a car as there ever has been," is best friends with Blinky the Owl and Inky the pitch-black kitten. When the latter is nearly mowed down by a car at night, he...Watch Movie
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Jews
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families from the 1920s through the 1940s. Much as in similar found footage soliloquies by Péter Forgács, Jay Rosenblatt and Ken Jacobs, director Roger Deutsch wrings unexpected pathos from mundane traces of...Watch Movie
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The Car Ahead
This instructional short from the National Safety Council (a now century-old non-profit advocate for injury prevention at home and the workplace) and Pilot Productions is part of their series on "Techniques of Defensive Driving." After illustrating the six likeliest accident-causing situations,...Watch Movie
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Passing and Being Passed
The road is a perilous place, in part because there are so many jerks behind the wheel. As the narrator informs us, "Do anything you can to rid yourself of schoolboy competitiveness...driving in today's traffic is not for children. Fortunately, even the most infantile...Watch Movie
