This is a compilation/list of ten of my favourite movies with titles starting with P. Some of them are in a very low resolution, in the spirit of an impromptu answer to such an interesting challenge. This is my response to Catherine Grant's call for such things on Audiovisualcy: Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies (facebook.com/Audiovisualcy), in which she announces the "Ten Favorite Films Beginning with the Letter..." video game! The rules: please request a letter, and edit together very short sequences from your ten favorite films beginning with the allocated letter. Feel free to use a soundtrack excerpt from another film beginning with that letter. Keep the whole thing well under 5 minutes. Credit all your sources. Share a link to your video in the comments. The Fair Use/Dealing context is that of experimental compilationism. Some scholars/critics say they don't make film studies video essays because of the pressure of having to "argue something discursively" in audiovisual forms. Film scholars, why not just create an "audiovisual argument" in favor of associative connection by joining up movie sequences you already know and love? In this way, you might get to explore, indeed to *feel*, if you haven't before, one of the biggest advantages, and tools, of videographic film studies: compilation. [Also see Sjöberg, Patrik. 2001. The World in Pieces: A Study of Compilation Film]. Stockholm: Aura Forlag.]

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