Via Web Curios (lots more to explore there), we are directed to a curated list from the British Film Institute of recommendations from cinephiles and historians of 101 under appreciated masterworks of the medium. Though not entirely unseen with short pieces from John and Faith Hubley and Winsor McCay, there are a lot of neglected international classics—arranged in chronological order from the late nineteenth century to a few years ago—and is certainly a syllabus to assay for the coming year to round out one’s media diet. The pictured reel is a snippet from Gerdy, the Wicked Witch (zloฤesta vjeลกtica) from 1976 by Yugoslavian director Ljubomir ล imunić, a handcrafted Super 8 montage sampling of TV broadcasts with accompanying score by Vangelis’ progrock band Aphrodite’s Child.
synchronoptica
one year ago: the Year in Search, Germany’s Word of the Year plus more AI film stills
two years ago: US Surgeon General Dr Joycelyn Elders
three years ago: Terms of Endearment (1983), Trump’s stacked Supreme Court rejects efforts to reverse election outcomes plus the eradication of smallpox (1979)
four years ago: the reunification of Little Berlin plus more modernist gingerbread architecture
five years ago: the Mother of All Demos (1968), a bunker for safekeeping of German historic documents plus on this day in seasonal developments
