The short films:

One week

  • Year: 1920
  • Country: United States
  • Director: Buster Keaton
  • Duration: 20min

Two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in “one week”. But then Seely’s ex renumbers a few boxes.

El Hotel eléctrico

  • Year: 1908
  • Country: France, Spain
  • Director: Segundo de Chomon
  • Duration: 8min

A classic that was thought lost until recently. An absurd clip, containing the very first stop-motion animation in the history of film, invented by the director Segundo de Chomon.

The Flying House

  • Year: 1920
  • Country: United States
  • Director: Winsor Mccay
  • Duration: 15min

Winsor McCay’s last animated film, the 1921 classic “The Flying House – Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” follows a woman’s dream about escaping foreclosure, taking to the skies with her husband – using their own house as a vehicle!

Extra info

Enjoy these slapstick shorts from the beginning of cinema. With their foldable houses and electronic gadgets, these are real pioneers in moviemaking, and they were years ahead of their contemporary rivals, on all levels.