Faites du cinéma

Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.

Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.

A filmmaker and rapper duo revive Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” protocols - a set of filmmaking “rules” with which groups of strangers can conceive, shoot, and screen a film in just two and a half hours. Against the grim backdrop of the stringent Shanghai lockdown, the event soon turns into a sanctuary for individuals to forge collective dreams.

A stunning trek from the vale of Kashmir, via Sind Valley and Kargil and Lamayaru Monastry.

A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani.

A noble English dance tradition is preserved in Hertfordshire.

Rare insight into the health work of Methodist missionaries in rural Shaoyang, Hunan Province, South Central China.

Grand buildings and missionary work come together in the 1947 Indian tour of construction magnate John W. Laing.

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.

A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.

Rare amateur footage of East India.

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.

A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.

Traditional games, dancing and music among the people of Sikkim - in vivid colour.

Millions of Muslims flee to Lahore in the newly created state of Pakistan, prompted by the partition of British India.

Vintage vehicles on parade in this amateur film record of the longest-running motor event in the world.

Find bric-a-brac and trinkets galore in this vividly colourful snapshot of Portobello Road Market.

Boys’ canoe trip on the Thames in London.