Sheep bound through a narrow opening, followed by a panoramic vista of the flock running through a meadow.
Barni tells a thought-provoking story about life and art.
Short documentary about social and economic situation in Galicia (Spain) in 1936
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.
Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms of the plastic work of a woman tormented by the elongated specters, originating from her obsessions and nightmares.
The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar. Franju combines sequences from theatrical performances with documentary images, creating links and confrontations between theater and the real world.
Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.
An evocative portrait of people having orgasms, lingering on the silent classical face of ecstasy.
This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print. More information is available on the film's page in the National Film Preservation Foundation's website, where this version can be found featuring original music by Michael D. Mortilla.
The remains of the Baltic Violence have been eroded away by the large steam excavator. There is a man standing at the railway cutting as trains pass. He throws something into the railway cutting. This person is seen in several of the recordings from 1913. It may be journalist Anker Kirkeby.
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Cinéastes de notre temps : Erich von Stroheim
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
Short film about performance, realized when Nam June Paik participated in Karlheinz Stockhausen's piece "Originale" in Cologne in 1961.
A short, early documentary work showing insects exhibiting extreme strength and agility.
Documentary short film by Mario Handler about the city of Prague as part of an internship to study film in Europe.
Gitanos sin romancero
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Barcelona. Ritmo de un día