Rien que les heures (1926)
- Directed by
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 45 min
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Alberto Cavalcanti's silent film shows a day in the life of Paris. It captures people, streets, and everyday scenes over 45 minutes.
experimentalobservationalpoeticcontemplativerhythmicurbandocumentary-like
What happens
Rien que les heures (English: Nothing But Time or Nothing But the Hours) is a 1926 silent city symphony film by Brazilian director Alberto Cavalcanti showing the life of Paris through one day in 45 minutes. Other noted examples of the city symphony genre include Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), Andre Sauvage's Etudes sur Paris (1928), and Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera (1929). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Paris Cinéma (1929)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.