Eureka
Ernie Gehr, 1974, US, 16mm, 30'
One of the great found footage films, Eureka was made by re-photographing a 1902 film travelogue shot from the front of a San Francisco street car. Extending the original nine and a half minutes to half an hour, Gehr makes the viewer a time traveler passing through a world thick with camera grain and redolent with temps perdu.
