Samuel Beckett

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton... (imdb)

Breath was written in 1969 in response to Kenneth Tynan's request for a piece for his show Oh, Calcutta, which featured a series of risqué sketches. It lasts less than a minute. On a set full of rubbish, a person cries out, then breathes in again. (beckettonfilm.com)

One of Samuel Beckett's shortest plays. A director and his assistant prepare an aged man for a public spectacle for a political purpose. The play was dedicated to the Czech dissident Vaclev Havel and was recently revived by the director and scientist Stephen Armourae as part of his 'New Blood' Theatre Season... (imdb)

Written in English in 1965, this piece has only 121 words in all. Beckett's note to the text is almost twice as long. Three women meet in a softly lit place. Seated on a bench facing the audience, they reminisce about old school days. Each woman leaves the stage briefly, and during each absence an appalling secret is whispered about the third - which the audience doesn't hear. At the end the three hold hands with the cryptic comment 'I can feel the rings', though Beckett specifies that none are apparent. (beckettonfilm.com)

A serious case of originality, creativity and innovation coming from someone who is often considered cinema's boring old geezer, here adapting reputed early 20th century Portuguese poet and drama author José Régio's O MEU CASO. (imdb)

Three heads - a man, wife, and mistress - look out from urns, and relate the story of the man's affair and the wife's reaction to it, in a rhythmic, overlapping gabble, repeated twice to convey the idea of eternity. These lives, brought to crisis point by a very physical interruption - adultery -are condemned to a disembodied, inhuman, mechanical repetition of a previous existence. (imdb comments)

While waiting for a man named Godot, two tramps meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.

Stream of consciousness monologue

A production of Beckett's 1980 'playlet', as part of the Beckett on Film series.

A blind beggar and a wheelchair-bound man meet on a street corner in this filmed version of Beckett's play, produced as part of the Beckett on Film season.

Two possibly supernatural life-auditors examine the history of a potential suicide.

After being released from hospital, a man struggles through a life of poverty and alienation on the streets of St. Petersburg.

As the rain patters outside, an old man talks to himself about birth, death, funerals, lamps, missing pictures and "loved ones" - a term he perpetually avoids using. (imdb)

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach. (imdb)

On a strip of film exist a pile of clothes and two men in bags. The two men conduct their lives in isolation of each other: when one is awake, the other is asleep in his bag. (imdb)

There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to have said where. What Bam means is unclear, but he distrusts all. (imdb)

A "four scene" story of a woman walking 9 paces one way and then 9 paces back in front of the door of her mother who is an invalid. We never see her mother but hear their interior monologues and the conversation between them. (imdb)

An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she calls for more. (imdb)

The disembodied head of an old man with long white hair listens to three of his own voices: that of maturity, youth and old age. (imdb)

An old man listens to a tape of himself as a 39 year old. (imdb)

Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside. (imdb)

A middle-aged woman, half-buried in the earth, chatters away to a taciturn man, who lives in a hole behind her. Later, she is buried up to her neck, and the man does not seem to be about. (imdb)

It is Krapp's sixty-ninth birthday and, as has become his custom, he hauls out his old tape recorder, reviews one of the earlier years - in this case the recording he made when he was thirty-nine - and makes a new recording commenting on the events of the previous twelve months. (wikipedia)

The curtain rises on "[a] late evening in the future." It is Krapp's sixty-ninth birthday and, as has become his custom, he hauls out his old tape recorder, reviews one of the earlier years - in this case the recording he made when he was thirty-nine - and makes a new recording commenting on the events of the previous twelve months. He is described in the text as a "wearish old man. (wikipedia)

In Beckett's short stage play 'Not I', the main character is a mouth: a woman's disembodied mouth, framed in a tight spotlight that negates the rest of her body. (imdb)

Irene Worth stars in this production of Samuel Beckett's absurdist farce as Winnie, an impossibly optimistic woman who works diligently to maintain a sunny disposition despite the fact that she's literally buried waist-deep in a pile of dirt. Presented by the Broadway Theatre Archive series, this acclaimed televised adaptation staged by Andrei Serban also stars George Voskevec as Willie. (netflix)

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew. (imdb)

An absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot. (wikipedia)

Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters, written in a style associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. (wikipedia)

The protagonists of the play are Hamm, an aged master who is blind and not able to stand up, and his servant Clov, who cannot sit down. They exist in a tiny house by the sea, although the dialogue suggests that there is nothing left outside--no sea, no sun, no clouds. The two characters, mutually dependent, have been fighting for years and continue to do so as the play progresses. Clov always wants to leave but never seems to be able. (cinemageddon)

Cloaked, cowled figures wander in patterns to rhythm instruments. (imdb)

An unstable image that finally stabilizes to display quotes from Althusser and Beckett.

Many parts of the literary Samuel Beckett giant's life: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse. (imdb)