Please note that these short films have no English titles. Some of the films contain little dialogue, and the director will be present to respond to questions.

Nature Morte (Still Life)
In a series of sketches, professional film extras come before the camera one by one to recite the text printed on the back of the resumé photos sent to film producers. If some of these presentations elicit laughter, don't blame the extras, victims of their own illusions, obliged to take part in these cheap displays. A film about the cinema and about life, Nature Morte goes beyond cruelty to create a comi-tragic human document.

• Produced and Directed by Jacques Richard. Photographed by Michel Fournier. Sound by Francis Bonfanti. (1978, 10 mins, color, 35mm, in French, Print Courtesy of Jacques Richard)

La Maison Qui Pleure (The Crying House)
“Toward the end of an autumn afternoon, a car filled with a traditional family rolls through the countryside. It stops to pick up a female hitchhiker dressed in a ball gown. No sooner does she get in the car than she begins to fill the family with terror. Stopping at the first inn they find, the family discovers that the occupants are familiar with the story they recount.
“It seems there was once a girl found dead in an auto accident. And there was also the house that cried....” -J.R.

• Directed by Jacques Richard and Jacques Robiolles. (1979, 16 mins, 35mm, In French with minimal dialogue, Print Courtesy of Jacques Richard)

Le Catch Du Samedi Soir (Saturday Night Catch)
“‘Catch' is a little different than other sports. Each Sunday afternoon or Saturday night, catch brings several hundred people to Elysée Montmartre in Paris. In this film, you can see different kinds of ‘catch': catch with four fighters, catch with women, catch with masks.... A film shot with a certain sense of humor, both fun and pathetic.” -J.R.

• Directed by Jacques Richard. (1979, 8 mins, 35mm, color, in French, Print Courtesy of Jacques Richard)

Frankenstein (Pfalz)
“Our story is set in the small village of Frankenstein, in the German region of Pfalz. A hapless young man runs out of gas, which unfortunate accident leads him to the heart of this village. Is it the late hour, between the dog and wolf, or his arrival which is the cause of the strange events in which he is to participate? The fact remains that it is thanks to the benevolence of a young and pretty woman that he succeeds in the early morning to leave the accursed place. Nevertheless, since his short stay in the village of Frankenstein, not a soul has seen the young man again.
“On the other hand, we can consider our story as an optimistic tale of life, love, and death.” -J.R.

• Directed by Jacques Richard. (1979, 14 mins, 35mm, color, in French, Print Courtesy of Jacques Richard)

Albert Londe
Albert Londe, assistant to Charcot at the Salpetriere, friend of Freud and of Marey, invented in 1880 a camera capable of taking twelve exposures per second. For over ten years, Londe paraded in front of his camera epileptics, hysterics, convulsives, monsters and psychopaths.

• Written and Directed by Joel Farges. Photographed by Jean Lou Alexandre. Edited by Anne-France Lebrun. Music by Anton Webern. (1978, 15 mins, 35mm, in French, Print Courtesy of Jacques Richard)