The Black Hole of Calcutta (India, c. 1898)
Inasmuch as 'The Black Hole of Calcutta' acts as filmic pun-- very much doing what it 'says on the tin'-- this hand-scratched Super 8 short also plays on cinematic notions of structure and anticlimax. Created by an anonymous cineaste, the film can be said to exist in the same mysterious void mention