La Seine a rencontré Paris (Joris Ivens, 1958)
Le Sang des bêtes (Georges Franju, 1948)
Pour le mistral (Joris Ivens, 1966) (CANCELED)
A Valparaiso (Joris Ivens, 1962)
L'Opéra Mouffe (Agnes Varda, 1958)

The Seine Meets Paris (31 mins, B&W) has an element of “kino eye” in its use of telephoto lens and hidden camera, but clearly, some shots were set up. Georges Sadoul had the idea, Jacques Prévert wrote the sinuous poem, and Joris Ivens shot it with humor and an economic lyricism. Agnes Varda's L'Opéra Mouffe (16 mins, B&W) is a poem of the fervors of erotic love and symbols of fertility in the guise of a portrait of a Paris neighborhood, the rue Mouffetard. In Blood of the Beasts (20 mins, B&W), in filming the work of an abattoir and the Paris suburb in which it is located, Georges Franju reveals the almost ritual nature of the slaughtering process; reality, Franju's films assert, is its own brutal poetry. Jean Painlevé, another scientific surrealist, wrote the narration. Joris Ivens's Pour le mistral (30 mins, B&W/Color) (CANCELED) is an impressionist portrait of Provence when the rhythms of life are set by the wind itself. Chris Marker wrote the poetic commentary for Ivens's A Valparaiso (28 mins, B&W/Color). It is a film of the tragic beauty of the Brazilian port town. “The elements of the city and its life-hills, sea, wind, blood-emerge and are thrown back and forth from eye to ear.” (R. Delmar)