The Sea Horse. Please see July 18.L'Etoile de mer (The Starfish) (Man Ray, France, 1928). Inspired by a Surrealist poem by Desnos, the film is constructed as a series of visual puns loosely connected by a fractured, dreamlike narrative. The starfish, which Man Ray commissioned Painlevé to film, is the recurrent motif. (15 mins, Silent, In French, 16mm) Methuselah (Mathusalem) (Jean Painlevé, France, 1927). Five film sequences originally projected on a backdrop of clouds for Methuselah, an avant-garde play by the German poet and playwright Ivan Goll. Antonin Artaud appears in dual roles as an African hunter and a Cardinal, and Painlevé plays both Hamlet and the chauffeur of a Bugatti hearse. (7 mins)Lobsters (The Life of the Lobster) (Lásló Moholy-Nagy, U.K., 1935). Originally commissioned by a documentary film company in London; the objective was to show the development of the lobster from a tiny "crab" to an old warrior. (17 mins, Silent version, 16mm)Blue Beard. Please see July 18.Catch of the Season (Mary Field, Percy Smith, U.K., 1937). Field and Smith, pioneers in instructional filmmaking, render the world of the brook trout. (10 mins, 16mm) People in the City (Mä;nniskor i stad) (Arne Sucksdorff, Sweden, 1946). The director's symphony to his native Stockholm has its roots in the filmmaker's brilliant studies of the natural world. (20 mins, 16mm)The Deformation of the Setting Sun (La Déformation du soleil au moment de son coucher) (Joseph Leclerc, France, 1935). Filming the setting sun at his house in Normandy, Leclerc captured a phenomenon known as refraction. (4 mins, Silent)Astronomical Models (Maquettes astronomiques) (Achile-Pierre Dufour, France, c. 1900-35). Painlevé's special effects designer Dufour was also an amateur astronomer, and in preparation for Painlevé's Voyage dans le ciel he compiled this turn-of-the-century astronomical film footage. (5 mins, Silent)