“The essence of film is time. As a photograph stills the breath of life, the cinema implies its inevitable exhalation. That which moves, moves inexorably toward its dissolution. These films reflect the intersection of that un-narrative, and the artifacts of its realization: the “surface’ of the image, or rather the pane of that looking glass we call the movies. The figures which inhabit them are the raw stuff of history, bit players and understudies who, in moments of crisis, are called upon to abandon the wings of this grandest stage and hesitantly deliver their lines.

Mekas spent time with Jackie Kennedy and her sister\'s family and children in the years following JFK\'s death. Jackie wanted to give her children something to do to ease the transition to life without a father. A movie camera was suggested and Mekas was

PASSION is a personal film-journey in which Reble accompanies his unborn child through a ritual, following the seasons until his birth. Reble\'s unfamiliar chemistry generates slowly pulsating structures and colors

The author of more than 200 films of scientific research in the avant-garde spirit, Painlevé devoted his life to filming the infinitely small with state of the art equipment. This collection features Mathusalem, Hyas et Stenorinques, L'Hippocampe, Barbe Bleue, Le Vampire, Oursins, Histoires de Crevettes, Les Amours de la Pieuvre, Acera ou le Bal des Sorcieres and Cristaux Liquides.