Homage to Eugen Shuftan: Two short narrative films that convey their stories sans dialogue, in the luminous images of cinematographer Eugen Shuftan. Georges Franju's La première nuit deals with a young boy's first encounter with love-and separation-in the maze of the Paris Metro. This mundane setting is transformed into the stuff of fantasy as the boy follows the girl of his dreams through its corridors and cars. Phantom trains, fleeting faces, and the finalty of automatic closing doors are seen less through the eyes of a child than through the vulnerable child in all of us. In The Crimson Curtain Alexandre Astruc set out to make "a cinematographic illustration of a literary text"--retelling a short 19th-century mystery story using only the eloquence of visuals.