Aimee Mann - Save me

The music video, shot during the filming of Magnolia, was directed by the film’s director, Paul Thomas Anderson, and uses many of the film’s actors including Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Tom Cruise. The video inserts Mann into various scenes from the film as she performs the song. Unlike in many such music videos, there was no digital manipulation involved; the scenes were shot at the end of filming days with Mann and actors who were asked to stay in place.

Placebo - Protège-moi

Controversial director Gaspar Noe created this homage to the orgy scene from Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999) for a single from Placebo’s greatest hits album. In one fluid take the camera follows a pair of young girls through various sexual pairings before having sex in a corner.

Noé later stated in an interview that this video was the only short film where he had been given complete creative control. Not surprisingly the video was never officially released as it was too sexually explicit to be shown.

Making 'The Shining'

Stanley Kubrick allowed his then 17-year-old daughter, Vivian, to make a documentary about the production of The Shining. Created originally for the BBC television show Arena, this documentary offers rare insight into the shooting process of a Kubrick film.

Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair (Guy Maddin, 2009)

The basis for Guy Maddin’s Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair  is blasting Isabella Rossellini out of an electric chair over and over again. Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair, part of the Urban Screens series at the festival, which is projecting three works onto office buildings throughout the city. It’s an archetypal Maddin film, conflating sex, death and film history in a manic seven minutes.

Eva (Gaspar Noe, 2005)

3 Short films made by Gaspar Noe starring Eva Herzigova and created for le Grand Journal de Canal + at Cannes Filmfestival 2005.

No One Will Play with Me (Werner Herzog, 1976)

A short film by Werner Herzog. The film focuses on a boy, Martin, who is outcast from the other children at his school. The film was made with pre-school children in Munich, and is partially based on true stories which Herzog heard from the children themselves. The use of a raven as a central plot element was inspired by the story of the raven from Herzog’s earlier film The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner.

The film can be seen below:

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog, 1989)

Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (German: Wodaabe - Die Hirten der Sonne) is a documentary film by Werner Herzog. The film explores the social rituals and cultural celebrations of the Saharan nomadic Wodaabe tribe. Particular focus is given to the Gerewol celebration, which features an elaborate male beauty contest to win wives.

Although the film may be considered to be ethnographic, Herzog commented that: "[My films] are anthropological only in as much as they try to explore the human condition at this particular time on this planet. I do not make films using images only of clouds and trees, I work with human beings because the way they function in different cultural groups interests me. If that makes me an anthropologist then so be it." The opening shots of the film depicts a celebration of male beauty, showing males dancing in elaborate costume, accentuating their height and whites of their eyes and teeth to attract females, as we hear "Ave Maria" in the background (a 1901 recording made by the last castrato of the Vatican).