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In very different ways, all of these films deconstruct cinema into its inherited media, only to recompose them into something entirely new. They are all revolutionary aesthetically and, therefore, politically. On seeing Straub-Huillet’s Sicilia! for the first time, the Austrian writer and filmmaker Peter Handke exclaimed that it had “made me rediscover film, [has] shown me cinema again, made it explode in my heart as though for the very first time”. If these ten films have anything in common, it is this impact.