The modern city is an accelerated, fragmented, geometrised and decentralised world, a world that scrolls past you and is broadcast all around you.Avant-garde film-makers searched throughout the twentieth century for a way to reproduce these qualities in film and to celebrate their rhythms. This is what we see in this selection of films from the Centre Pompidou collection.

7 short films by the following 7 directors:
- Henri Chomette
- Eugène Deslaw
- Joris Ivens
- Peter Hutton
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
- Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky
- Charles & Strand Paul Sheeler