Movies Similar to Cameras Pointed Straight into the Sun

Then a Year(2002)

An audio collage of snippets of narration culled from true crime TV shows, juxtaposed against serene Super-8 nature footage.

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Kaya(1967)

An experimental film about a peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the eve of the Italian occupation of the country.

7.2

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party(2019)

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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Bowl, Garden, Theatre, Marble Game(1970)

An animated short consisting of 4 segments: bowl, garden, theatre, marble game. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Harvard Film Archive in 2015.

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Whitney Commercial(1973)

Commissioned by David Bienstock, creator of the New American Film Series at the Whitney Museum of Art to raise funds for the second season of the series. The film was projected at the end of each program and a box to receive donations was placed at the exit of the theater. Whitney Commercial ran for two or three years until the Museum agreed to sponsor the series on its own which has continued to the present season. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

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Enter Hamlet(1965)

Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans during his “To be or not to be…” soliloquy recording.

3.5

Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls(1988)

A gang of women wreak havoc in the city, killing various men who have treated women poorly. And sometimes they do it just for fun.

3.0

A Thought of Ecstasy(2018)

August 2019. Frank recognizes his own story of twenty years ago in a recently published book. He remembers Marie, with whom he had a relationship before she moved to the United States and disappeared from his life. Frank sets out in search of her and finds himself in a USA petrified by a heat wave and lost in suspicion and political paranoia. He heads into the desert in pursuit of Marie.

4.4

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero(2011)

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia, on 22 December 2011. A special projector was constructed for the event which allowed the actual filmstrip to be burnt at the same time as the film was shown.

3.8

Night Shift

After a brutal robbery, a Shopkeeper sets out to get back what was stolen from him: his pride. Featuring a unique blend of fiction and reality.

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Stuck Together(2021)

A bus full of people on a trip is stopped by a policeman who isn’t satisfied with the bribe he is offered for granting the bus passage. To continue on their journey, the passengers will have to join forces.

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Frozen Image(1965)

A poetic essay. An Algerian soldier wanders through Algiers and the countryside, whilst a voiceover of the soldier's mother laments his death.

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Red Shoes(2021)

An unknown stranger appears, inviting Róza to dance, giving her a pair of red shoes. Thanks to them, Róza starts to dance, wildly and with great passion, quickly becoming the center of attention. Soon after she realizes that she can't control the shoes, the shoes are controlling her…

7.5

Shifting Waters(2008)

Two lovers in shifting waters.

6.0

Old Gramophone's Ghostly Tones(2022)

Two thieves are reluctant to steal but their evil boss doesn’t want to hear it. So the two clumsy burglars, who would much rather go dancing somewhere, have to break into an abandoned house. Once inside, they stumble across a gramophone and release a bunch of ghosts from it.

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Automatic Writing(2003)

Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).

0.0

Gondora(1997)

A short movie about a guy living in his own world.

5.0

Always Aching & Bending Back(2017)

Slowed, stowed, achingly retold.

10.0

Shirking; Shrieking Specter(2017)

Still it's really tall. Still it's really floundering/falling/fading.

10.0

Jelly Sunday(2009)

Gretchen unmoulds a jar of jelly in her room while her parents picnic in the garden. The jelly comes to life, the girl begins a frenzied dance with her new friend "Jelly".

5.5