''Rien que les heures'' (English: ''Nothing But Time'' or ''Nothing But the Hours'') is a 1926 experimental
silent film by Brazilian director
Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti".
Early life
Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a ...
showing the life of
Paris through one day in 45 minutes.
Other noted examples of the
city-symphony genre include
Charles Sheeler
Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the avant-garde film, ''Manhatta'', which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand. Sheeler is recognized ...
and
Paul Strand
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century ...
's ''
Manhatta
''Manhatta'' (1921) is a short documentary film directed by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand.
Production background
''Manhatta'' documents the look of early 20th-century Manhattan. With the city as subject, the film consist ...
'' (1921),
Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for dir ...
's ''
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis'' (1927), Andre Sauvage's ''Etudes sur Paris'' (1928), and
Dziga Vertov's ''
Man With a Movie Camera
''Man with a Movie Camera'' (russian: Человек с киноаппаратом, translit=Chelovek s kinoapparatom) is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, an ...
'' (1929).
See also
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List of films made in France 1919-1940
This is a list of films produced in the French cinema, ordered by year and decade of release on separate pages.
Before 1910
*List of French films before 1910
1910s
* List of French films of 1910
* List of French films of 1911
* List of Fren ...
References
External links
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1926 films
French silent feature films
Films directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Documentary films about Paris
1926 documentary films
Black-and-white documentary films
French documentary films
French black-and-white films
1920s French films
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