Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (excerpt). Jonas Mekas, 1964-1969.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #1164 The Velvet Underground, released 2022. No dialogue track. Runtime of this excerpt approximately 8 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Venus in Furs. Piero Heliczer, 1965.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #1164 The Velvet Underground, released 2022. No dialogue track. Runtime approximately 22 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol. Jonas Mekas, 1965.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #1164 The Velvet Underground, released 2022. No dialogue track. Runtime approximately 12 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Haida Carver. Richard Gilbert, 1964.
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Edition screened: Included in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Volume 2, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 13 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Haida Carver accompanies the feature film Edge of the Knife and explains the contemporary Haida custom of carving in soft slate.
Swimmer. Carter Lord, 1973.
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Edition screened: Included with The Enchanted (disc 2) in Severin Blu-ray box set All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Volume 2, released 2024. English language. Runtime approximately 24 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A documentary about artist Don Seiler’s creation of a concrete sculpture for the International Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale.
Portrait of Jason. Shirley Clarke, 1967.
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Edition screened: Milestone Blu-ray, released 2014. English language. Runtime approximately 107 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Total Pixel Space. Jacob Adler, 2024.
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Edition screened: Watched online. English language. Runtime approximately 9 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
A short film that reminded me how simple a wonderful thing can be and what the word wonderful means.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAeygE4d1A&t=1s
Satan and the Virgin. Unknown director, 1948.
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Edition screened: Included on Something Weird DVD Satan in High Heels, released 2001. Scored and with an introductory scrolled text; no dialogue. Runtime approximately 5 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
A quaintly ambitious solo dance performance that is worth watching once on YouTube.
Ballerina. David Lynch, 2007.
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Edition screened: Included on Criterion Blu-ray #1175 Inland Empire, released 2023. Scored, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 13 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Colette. Yannick Bellon, 1950.
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Edition screened: Included on Icarus DVD Remembrance of Things to Come, released 2008. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 26 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Remembrance of Things to Come (Le souvenir d'un avenir). Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, 2001.
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Edition screened: Icarus DVD, released 2008. Dubbed English naration. Runtime approximately 42 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Icarus DVD of this remarkable and transcending film also includes Bellon’s Colette (1950, 26 minutes).
The Flicker. Tony Conrad, 1965.
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Edition screened: Included on Yellow Veil Blu-ray Lux Æterna, released 2022. Title card and audio effect track; no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 30 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Ray Gun Virus. Paul Sharits, 1966.
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Edition screened: Included on Yellow Veil Blu-ray Lux Æterna, released 2022. Audio effect track; no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 14 minutes.
Summary: No animals or references to animals in the film.
Climax. Gaspar Noé, 2018.
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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray, released 20198. Mostly French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Arrow Blu-ray also includes Noé’s 4-minute film Shoot from the 2014 “Short Plays” project, which invited prominent directors to contribute short films about soccer. Noé gives us the tumbling perspective of the ball during a casual street game.
The Pleasure of Love in Iran (Plaisir d'amour en Iran). Agnès Varda, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set The Complete Films of Agnès Varda (disc 7) released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 6 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Two Street Artists: Jérôme Mesnager & Miss.Tic. Agnès Varda, 2012.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set The Complete Films of Agnès Varda (disc 6) released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 6 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Women Are Naturally Creative (Les femmes sont de nature créatives: Agnès Varda). Katja Raganelli, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set The Complete Films of Agnès Varda (disc 7) released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 47 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Mur murs. Agnès Varda, 1980.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set The Complete Films of Agnès Varda (disc 6) released 2020. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 82 minutes.
Summary: Prolonged and depressing implications.
While there are no actual depictions of pigs being murdered and butchered, there is a lengthy scene depicting an enormous mural that wraps around the entire exterior of a slaughterhouse/meat processing center, beginning around 1:02:00. The painting depicts the lives of pigs ranging from bucolic normalcy to their being herded into livestock trucks, also interjected with that creepy commercial tendency to depict pigs standing erect like humans and smacking their lips about bacon or leering lustfully into a barbecue pit. The focus is on the mural, intercut with brief interviews with indifferent employees, a scene of workers sharpening their butchering knives, and several quick images of carts of meat.
I thought this long scene ruined the movie. Prior to viewing I was rather indifferent to Mur murs’ topic but then enjoyed the somewhat tedious film to some degree up until this “Farmer John” sequence, which pushed me back to No.
7rm., kitch., bath., ... for sale (7p., cuis., s. de b., ... à saisir). Agnès Varda, 1985.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray box set The Complete Films of Agnès Varda (disc 8) released 2020. English languages. Runtime approximately 29 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
