Top 50 Greatest Short Films

How horrible that people think The Red Balloon is better than Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story!!!

Superstar is not a short

also, it's hard to see if you don't watch online bootlegs

It's on the list! ... My copy is a dub from a rental video cassette. ... way less illicitly obtained than some of the other items in my collection

i missed this. love a few of these, but would've likely voted Wavelength.

Haha, three red balloons.

Has any ILXor ever actually watched The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes? I have it the first Criterion Brakhage collection, but am too much of a wuss to view it.

― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Monday, July 3, 2017 8:17 AM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly once, after a few beers. found myself numb to the death/body shock fairly quickly. striking but obviously not something i'm itching to run back to.

I saw it in college (there was an experimental film class that let anyone in for the screenings), and it left its mark on me, I think in a good way. Hard to explain but I would say I thought about human bodies differently afterwards. **Trigger warning** One image has stuck with me; when they run a scalpel down the person's chest and the skin peels back, exposing yellow fat rather than the red "guts" I was expecting. Also the sawing for brain removal.