



images that haunt us









Hans Richter :: Film still from Filmstudie (Film Study), 1928. | src YouTube

Jetta Goudal in The Road to Yesterday (Cecil B. DeMille, 1925) | src and hi-res Dr Macro

Mary Binney Montgomery in Oramunde, experimental film directed by Emlen Etting in 1933 / full short film on YouTube / source:
A study on the theme of ‘Pelléas et Méllissande’. A female figure, her face hidden by a long veil, dances, twirls, and runs on the shore. She leaps on rocks along the edge of the sea, her veil wafting behind her.

Aelita, silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov (1924), aka Aelita: Queen of Mars.
Costume Designer: Alexandra Exter.
In the United States, Aelita was edited and titled by Benjamin de Casseres for release in 1929 as Aelita: Revolt of the Robots.

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Gemini / The Twins, from “The very eye of night”, short film by Maya Deren. 1958. / GIF by

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in a publicity still for Night Owls (James Parrott, 1930) / src: