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A lyrical tour guide takes the viewer on a trip down the Wakulla River in North Florida. Although the camera remains relentlessly fixed on him, his vivid, near-musical descriptions of Southern flora, fauna, and wildlife gives a better view of things than total visual mobility could ever allow.
1972 short Spanish experimental film
The culmination of a controversial war. The troops return home and aid in disaster relief.
The Key West Picture Show is a fast-paced satire of the 1950's travelogues, exploring the unconventional island with honesty and humor. Winner of three Gold Medals at the Miami International Film Festival. The Filmax Award from the L.A. International Film Expo. The Cine Golden Eagle award for film excellence.
When you cannot afford a photo safari in Kenya, nothing like filming in Super 8 the habits and customs of Brittany.
In a dance class, a group of ten year olds is led through a series of exercises which increases both in complexity and imaginative involvement. Dancing is presented as a physically beneficial and creative experience.
A special documentary takes a look at the youth gangs of Helsinki using a multivocal approach.
Use of wastewater for agriculture and environmental health.
Tour of the Mantaro Valley where a procession, archaeological ruins, handicrafts and the Chonguinada dance are shown.
Ian Nairn takes a critical look at the townscapes and landscapes in which we live
It is a vision of the human groups that live in the deserts of the northern coast of Peru, of the desertification processes and the reforestation work in the area.
For the residents of the Aleutian island of Akutan in Alaska, the seasonal and industrial king crab fishing industry coexists each summer with traditional activities. Young people work at various stages of the processing chain: from preserving the crabs to removing the shells and cooking them.
Amateur film depicting what is arguably the first Moss Side Carnival, in Alexandra Park, Manchester. Now one of the largest community events in the North of England, this early Carnival is packed with floats, fashion, football and dancing, plus Rita Fairclough from Coronation Street lending her support.
Views of the city of Kiselyovsk, located in the Kuznetsk coal basin: streets, buildings, and people on the city streets.
The labour of film-making is reflexively spliced into a portrait of the steelworks where the filmmakers work.
Destined for the rail transport workers as an audiovisual help for trainings, the film deals with irregularity of passenger trains shuttling. It presents the causes of actual train delays resulting from neglects, lack of proper training and qualifications as well as bad work organization. The film presents staged events, which served as examples of incorrect actions leading to train delays.
The documentary is dedicated to the Ukrainian Soviet propagandist, writer, and Sovietophile. The film consists of three parts: “Halan's Violin,” “Courage,” and “Until the Last Minute.”
Festival of Popular Solidarity with Latin America, held on 12 October 1977 at the San Blas football ground (Madrid, Spain)
An ethnographic documentary filmed among the Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific, directed by Yasuko Ichioka for Japanese television. The film documents the Kula exchange system, a ceremonial network of inter-island gift exchange that structures social relations, travel, and status among participating communities. Produced within the context of Japan’s Our Wonderful World ethnographic television series, the film presents sustained observational footage of ritual activity and daily life associated with the Kula cycle. (Note: Although produced for television within the Our Wonderful World series, the film is consistently cited in ethnographic filmographies, festival programs, and scholarly sources as a self-contained work with a distinct title, director credit, and runtime, supporting its treatment as a standalone film.)
Political short film made during Ongania's dictatorship.
Short documentary exploring transport and town-life in the icy climes of Kolyma in the Russian Far East, where gold is mined and villagers hold a festival to say farewell to the winter.
Short documentary exploring the town of Dubna, home to the Joint Nuclear Research Institute and a proton synchrotron.
Travelogue of the South Urals, showing forests, wildlife, caves and the town of Ufa.
The film begins as a cultural reportage of the most conventional kind, with a series of frames filmed around Peleș Castle, set to classical music and accompanied by a commentary describing the museum's ceramic collection. What is surprising in this construction is the unusual effect that the natural setting, chosen as the original backdrop of the presentation, has on the exhibits. Removed from the museum and displayed outdoors, the objects fail to resonate with nature and stand out like anomalies in the wintery, postcard-like landscape. But the romantic surplus of Chopin's music, which is added to the increasingly abstract visual compositions, with vases, trinkets and precious tableware fancifully placed in the water of a stream and among snowy fir trees, represents an at least extravagant attempt to deviate from the aesthetic norm.
The attitude of young employees toward the older staff—the dairy workers.
A textile factory is closed in Sweden, hundreds of seamstresses are laid off with few opportunities for new work. However, the employer continues to make profits. Now in Holland, in a newly built factory, with a young, underpaid, female workforce. The film, which was made in 1970, was then a statement against Sweden's accession to the EC. But the pattern is recognizable. Today, it is the women in Korea and India, among others, who sew our clothes.
Documentary about the EEC debate in Norway.
The material for this compilation guerrilla video was created thanks to the work of nearly thirty filmmakers who, using the then-new Portapak portable cameras, recorded from within the protest movement the mass demonstrations to end the Vietnam War that were held in early May 1971 in Washington, D.C. Footage of participants' discussions, strategy planning, and spontaneous happenings alternate with the documentation of police violence, stays at police stations, and improvised detentions. The first edited version tried in vain to get airtime on NBC, while the updated version of the original compilation adds informational subtitles for today's viewers and underscores the hope that the established order and repressive power can be overcome non-violently through solidarity and shared emotion.
While bringing examples of water pollution, the documentary gives a publicistic approach towards the environmental protection issues. Views of landscape: rivers, waterfall, lakes, polluted body of water. The film also shows Kaarma spirit distillery; potato flour department of Paljusi collective farm in Jõgeva county; views of the cattle farm of Triigi sovkhoz in Rakvere county; designing of biological small cleaners in EKE Projekt.
Various shipyards, factories, and industrial sites are shown on 16 mm film, many of which no longer exist: the blast furnace plant, the Flender Shipyard, the huge Villeroy & Boch ceramics factory. The film is a reencounter with them, along with the workers and some of the still-existing companies.
Digitization within the scope of the project “FILMar: Digitization of cinematographic heritage”. Landscape, tradition and development of Porto Santo.
Following a quarrel with the DEFA, the Sorbian animation and documentary filmmaker Jan Hempel established the independent IWT-Film studio in Dresden. Commissioned by the German Book Traders’ Association, these impressions of the 1977 International Book Art Exhibition were created there. Referencing Leipzig’s century-old tradition as a book city, the film presents production companies, publishers and, last but not least, the IBA itself.
The well-known illustrator Werner Klemke uses his drawings to teach the youngest bookworms about the value of reading. Taking this as a starting point, Lotte Thiel presents the GDR as a land of books whose capital is Leipzig. Figures and images from the 1971 International Book Art Exhibition underscore the significance accorded to books as a tool for shaping the “socialist personality”.
A man addresses the strangers on a street, he asks them to talk to him. The strangers refuse under various excuses, but later on they are looking for the people to talk to in a meetings club.
Reportage from Uppland, a center of settlement and power for the former Swedish tribes.
Seven elderly black people share their insight, faith and strength on the subject of aging.
A documentary about the first Ukrainian immigrants in Canada.
A documentary describing the successful struggle of millworkers to unionize the Oneita Mill in Andrews, South Carolina, in 1973.
1973. Giorgio de Chirico, by then 85 years old, is captured in his studio by the RAI program How a Work of Art Is Born by Franco Simongini. On the canvas, "The Sun on the Easel" gradually comes to life.
On a trip around Finland with seasoned travel photographer Axel Hald-Christensen. The trip starts on board the ferry Finlandia. On the way, the travel photographer and his travel companions pass Lahti, Mikkeli and Savonlinna, where he films sights such as Olavinlinna (Olofsborg) and the Kerimaki Church. Along the way, they stay overnight at campsites and both sail and swim in the many lakes and rivers. The landscape is characterized by forest and water. The trip also passes Helsinki and the various sights that the capital offers: the iconic station building, the market square, open-air theater and folk dancing in Finnish folk costumes. In addition, there are also recordings from, among other places, the Temple Square Church and the statue of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who is considered Finland's national poet. Finally, the trip heads home again with Finlandia.
The film about Nam June Paik, the pioneer of video art, provides insight into his multifaceted artistic work and at the same time paints a biographical portrait of the Korean artist.
This compelling film, combining both art film and documentary techniques, evolved out of the landmark Science magazine article Milgram wrote in 1970 that essentially established the field of urban psychology. In the film, Milgram introduces the concepts of urban overload and selective attention and delves into the research of social psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latane, who studied New York City in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Kitty Genovese.
Altai Kasim came to Germany as a guest worker and eventually brought his family with him. Today, they all have a job in Germany. Nevertheless, they are not happy. They miss their homeland.
Two reports on the housing situation of Turkish workers are juxtaposed, both edited from the same raw material. The film strings together evidence for two completely different claims.
During the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, the marginality of housing in a sector of Santiago contrasts with the violence with which groups of right-wing youths confront, with their “September Plan”, the popular activism that unfolds in the central streets of the city of Santiago.
This 1978 documentary classic is an inside look at the old-style Chicago Machine politics of the Richard J. Daley era, where Alderman Vito Marzullo ran his West Side 25th Ward virtually unchallenged from 1953-1985.
Kalle is a farmer. We follow him at work and he tells us about the living conditions of a farmer.
Ângelo de Sousa documents a protest five months and four dates after the carnation revolution.
Waiting for the moment you've been waiting for for 9 months: the birth of your child. A couple is faced with preparing for childbirth. Excitement and personal worries mingle, and even if a woman is surrounded during this so-called ‘magical’ moment, she finds herself alone in the face of her fatigue, contractions and pain. This unique moment is accompanied by medical explanations of childbirth, contractions, time management during labour and a discussion of contraception, making this film an educational documentary.
A German Film Award winning short documentary.