A portrait of an art institution as a cinematic landscape: in a succession of static shots, James Benning explores the buildings and terrain of the California Institute of the Arts, where he teaches. A series of views of nature filmed in the surrounding park and woods transitions into images of floors, seating areas and other details of a public building not meant for show. In both parts, an uncanny feeling dominates: the geometries of nature, the dark green and brown tones, the rushing of the highway in the background on the one hand and the humming of halogen lamps, the sound of steps in an otherwise seemingly empty school on the other – it all seems to be hiding a secret. The camera’s gaze is almost always restricted; it rarely penetrates very far into the image. It discovers shabby corners, observing scenarios more reminiscent of a mystery novel than the campus of an art institution. More so than in the majority of James Benning’s longer works of recent years, a narrative lies concealed within the images; every shot creates an urge to move forward, a tension, almost as if the landscapes and interiors were the scenes of a crime.

吉尔•切恩（卡梅丽塔•杰拉蒂饰）是来应征天堂花园剧院的舞蹈演员，她和歌舞女郎帕齐•布拉德（弗吉尼亚•瓦利饰）成为了好朋友。后者说服剧院经理（格奥尔格•施内尔饰）给吉尔一个机会，吉尔凭借自己的勇气和才华被录取了，并成为了一位年长的俄国王子（卡尔•法尔肯贝格）的女友。吉尔的未婚夫休•菲尔丁（约翰•斯图尔特饰）和朋友莱维特（迈尔斯•曼德饰）来到剧院，然后休去远东淘金。帕奇被莱维特迷住想和他结婚，但莱维特抛弃她去找休。帕奇虽然难过，但得知莱维特生病的消息还是马上跑去照顾他，发觉他和当地一个女孩（妮塔•纳尔逊饰）住在一起。莱维特将女孩赶走要求帕奇留下，但帕奇拒绝了莱维特的无理要求，她转而照顾也在当地生病的休•菲尔丁。莱维特淹死了当地女孩，在幻觉中以为看到了鬼魂，当他用剑攻击帕奇的时候，为他们治病的英国医生及时用枪打死了莱维特。帕奇和休一起回到了伦敦。

腐烂的暗红色西红柿，布满虫眼的破败芽叶。扭曲的陶土泥人，惊恐地发现自己被牢牢地捆绑在肮脏的床上。他的整个身体正在被无数溃烂的食物所覆盖、侵蚀。他浑身散发着恶臭，生满密密麻麻的蛆。可是无论他如何挣扎，都逃不出这病态的死循环。直到警车鸣笛打破了这场疯狂的宰割与蹂躏。画面停留在一杯白水之上，悄然而终。 这部由捷克电影和动画大师杨·史云梅耶创作的超现实主义作品《花神》，收录在《杨·史云梅耶的短片集：早期篇》中。在快速蒙太奇的特写镜头下，这本该圣洁庄严的美丽代名词，正在不断地瓦解溃烂，坍塌崩溃掉的又何止是“花神”。

该片入围第二届“五四国际青年艺术节” 实验电影单元；                                                                      一部离开语言的作品，由一条公路展开回想，将细碎的记忆符合拼贴成一个独立的断章。在作家的镜头之下，这部作品更像一种黑白的心境，没有结论也没有疑虑，利用剧情式的外貌拒绝剧情。来自作家视野的荧幕素描，结构简洁、词韵无限。有时候，实验电影就是用简单线条勾勒出的一支短诗。@官方简介

酒代理商伏尔夫对大城市里一层不变的生活感到厌倦，他十分爱好社交。一天，他在街上偶然认识了一位配角女演员克丽斯特，两个人相谈很愉快，伏尔夫便邀请她星期天一起外出郊游。当晚伏尔夫与开出租汽车司机的朋友埃尔温在一起打牌，同样邀请了埃尔温带上女朋友安妮星期天一起外出郊游。可是安妮不喜欢外出，宁可一个人待在家里。碰巧的是，克丽斯特带来了一位女友布丽吉特，她是一个销售员。四个年轻人一起结伴到郊外坐船，散步，太阳浴，大家玩得非常尽兴。伏尔夫对布丽吉特简直就是一见钟情，他抛下了克丽斯特，与新结识的女友躲进了森林。傍晚四个年轻人又回到了城里，埃尔温发现安妮仍躺在床上，她睡了整整一个星期天。

This crime drama is composed of three acts of approximate 10-minute duration each. The story itself, shown in a long flashback style, leads us into the overall reconstruction of the crime, made by a mysteriously masked character.                                                                      The film was released 28 August 1916 in Finland. A fragmentary print was recovered in 2001 by the Cinémathèque Française; in 2002 the fragments were preserved, with Swedish intertitles and supplemented with production photographs, by the Svenska Filminstituet in 2002.                                                                      Writing about Victor Sjöström and quoted by Charlotte de Silva for the Embassy of Sweden in London, Jon Wengström of the Swedish Film Institute writes, "The pictorial compositions in Havsgamar/Sea Vultures (1916) and the complex narrative structure in the recently rediscovered Dodskyssen/Kiss of Death (1916) show a director in full command of the medium.

Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Buster Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father (Frederick Vroom) has just sold to a small country at war. Agents for the other small nation in the conflict decide to set the ship adrift that same night. When Betsy's father checks up on the ship, he is captured and tied up by the saboteurs. Betsy hears his cry for help and boards the ship to look for him, just before it is cut loose. The Navigator drifts out into the Pacific Ocean. The two unwitting passengers eventually find each other. At first, they have great difficulty looking after themselves, but adapt after a few weeks. At one point, they sight a navy ship and hoist a brightly-colored flag, not realizing it signals that the ship is under quarantine. As a result, the other vessel turns away. Finally, the ship grounds itself near an inhabited tropical island and springs a leak. While Rollo dons a deep sea diving suit and submerges to patch the hole, the black natives canoe out and take Betsy captive. When Rollo emerges from the ocean, the natives are scared off, enabling him to rescue Betsy and take her back to the ship. The natives return and try to board the ship. After a fierce struggle, Rollo and Betsy try to escape in a small dinghy. It starts to sink, and the natives swiftly overtake them in their canoes. Just when all seems lost, a navy submarine surfaces right underneath them and they are saved.