Claude Chagrin

Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni

David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

The Concert

Claude Chagrin

In this Oscar nominated short film punctuated by cartoonlike sight gags, a self styled soloist performs a concert outside The Royal Albert Hall in London by "playing" the black & white stripes of a crosswalk which resembles a piano keyboard; he wins over passersby, including a constable and a group of more traditional musicians.

The Morning Spider

Claude Chagrin

Theresa Watson, Julian Chagrin

The Morning Spider is a 1976 comedy/fantasy film directed by Claude Chagrin, starring Julian Chagrin, Lucy Fawcett, and James Hayes. It follows a spider and his travails in a garden. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

The Christmas Tree

Claude Chagrin

Julian Chagrin, Gerard Benson

Three lucky pine trees, with human faces, are cut down in order to enjoy the holidays with human families.