on Piano Überfall (Erno Metzner, Germany, 1929). (Accident). This experimental short reverses expectations when its bourgeois hero, who is lured into the shadowy night life of the streets by an "accident," refuses to return, repentant, to his former existence. "Who is the guilty one?" asks the film's one intertitle. Überfall "makes a remarkable use of subjective camera and mirror images to create an atmosphere of emotional intensity. It was banned by the Nazis as 'brutalizing and demoralizing,' and the original negative was burned." (Eileen Bowser, The Museum of Modern Art)