1958 Short Movies

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Véronique and Her Dunce(1959)

18min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Véronique gives a mathematics lesson to a dunce who answers the prepared questions with disconcertingly sound answers.

Directed by Éric Rohmer - With Nicole Berger

A Movie(1958)

12min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 22 votes)

Bruce Conner's landmark experimental film consisting entirely of found footage edited to a new score.

Directed by Bruce Conner

Two Men and a Wardrobe(1958)

15min | Drama, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

A short Polish black and white silent movie directed by Roman Polański. The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town. Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths (one of whom is played by Polanski himself). Finally, they arrive back at a beach and then disappear in the sea.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Andrzej Kondratiuk, Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Roman Polanski, Stanisław Michalski

The Very Eye of Night(1958)

15min | Music

2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Directed by Maya Deren

Schwechater(1958)

1min

2.3/5 (with 22 votes)

In 1957, Peter Kubelka was hired to make a short commercial for Schwechater beer. The beer company undoubtedly thought they were commissioning a film that would help them sell their beers; Kubelka had other ideas. He shot his film with a camera that did not even have a viewer, simply pointing it in the general direction of the action. He then took many months to edit his footage, while the company fumed and demanded a finished product. Finally he submitted a film, 90 seconds long, that featured extremely rapid cutting (cutting at the limits of most viewers' perception) between images washed out almost to the point of abstraction — in black-and-white positive and negative and with red tint — of dimly visible people drinking beer and of the froth of beer seen in a fully abstract pattern.

Directed by Peter Kubelka

The Kiss(1958)

29min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The Kiss is a 1958 short film written and produced by John Hayes. The film was nominated for the 1958 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Directed by John Hayes

Amelia and the Angel(1958)

26min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model - the ANGEL. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot - supposedly to heaven-and reappears to restore Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.

Directed by Ken Russell

The Quest(1958)

36min | Drama

This short film is a re-enactment of the critical year in Dr. Frederick Banting's life when he discovered insulin for the treatment of diabetes at the University of Toronto. It depicts the odds against which he and his assistant, Charles Best, worked; the scepticism of other doctors and the final victory that gave thousands of diabetics hope for a healthier life.

Directed by Stanley Jackson

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1958 Short Movies

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Véronique and Her Dunce(1959)

A Movie(1958)

Two Men and a Wardrobe(1958)

The Very Eye of Night(1958)

Schwechater(1958)

The Kiss(1958)

Amelia and the Angel(1958)

The Quest(1958)

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