Affectionate portrait of Timothy "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses.
56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For a time she even lost the power of speech, and it was during this period that her drawings became extraordinarily articulate.
Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little rooster” by American folk writer Almeda Riddle. Then, two men roll around trash bins and lift them to the garbage truck. They do it several times. A woman shouts in the distance. At the end, the picture stops, and the woman sings the song. An early short by Piotr Szulkin.
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
Les voyages de L'Atalante
Gitanos sin romancero
Barcelona. Ritmo de un día
L'album de famille de Jean Renoir
The documentary tells the story of Uschi, a farmer living free and recluded in the bavarian alps. Shot in epic black and white pictures, Still follows Uschi's life over a ten year period. From an untroubled summer of making cheese through pregnancy and the uncertain future of the parental farm, Matti Bauer portrays Uschi's struggle to keep alive the dream of a way of life that has become rather untypical in this day and age.
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
A report on the work of a reservist collective from a factory of the Guben chemical fiber combine.
Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.
Leonardo da Vinci
Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nineteenth century, daughter of Dr. Andreu, famous for its pills and cough syrup.
Short documentary about social and economic situation in Galicia (Spain) in 1936
Voices from the past echo through the deserted, snow-covered stone houses in a village in the Caucasus Mountains.
Fortel
Dialogue-free short detailing the daily tasks of a man and his wife.
Expedition into the Amazon river and its rain forests
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.