Menschen im Deutschland von 1932

A sound frame from the silent life

This black-and-white archival film outlines the importance of Canada's forests in the national war effort during the Second World War.

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.

A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.

Three young queer people share their experiences on what it’s like to deviate from the straight cis-norm. Throughout the film, painful experiences make room for a more positive perspective, such as the overwhelming sense of connection with millions of other queer individuals worldwide or the freedom that arises as one can relinquish certain expectations. This so-called ‘queer-joy’ is being discovered, providing inspiring and moving insights.

An overview of the ruins of Angkor, the former capital of the Khmer Empire.

Short documentary about social and economic situation in Galicia (Spain) in 1936

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

Leonardo da Vinci

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

L'album de famille de Jean Renoir

A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?

Hans Schilling, who emigrated to Chile shortly before World War 1, comes from Valparaiso to visit his old hometown of Stuttgart after an absence of almost 22 years. His brother Georg Schilling, who stayed in Stuttgart, picks him up at the train station. He proudly shows the homecomer the prospering, Swabian metropolis, followed by impressions of the city's architecture, economy and culture.

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera, also responsible for Gaucho Nobility (1915), the biggest blockbuster of Argentinean silent cinema. De la Pera was a talented photographer, always willing to try new gadgets and techniques. This film experiments with microphotography in the style of Jean Comandon's films for Pathé and it is part of a series which included a film about mosquitoes and paludism and another one about cancer, which are considered lost. Flies were a popular subject of silent films and there are more than a dozen titles featuring them in the teens and early twenties.

A discussion of the economic and political ideas presented in the book "The Incredible Bread Machine".

Herbst 1929 - Schatten über Babylon

A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé

Four unrelated moments following a young cat wandering the living room of her house.