Discover Movies

A film about the living of an artist, an avant garde painter. It takes place in a town like Roma, beautiful, baroque but stifling and dull.

1972 short Spanish experimental film

Film that encourage cyclists to lock there bike.

8mm film by Bojan Jovanović.

The culmination of a controversial war. The troops return home and aid in disaster relief.

A pilot recounts his experience of being rescued by the Jolly Green Giant helicopter.

Produced at the Motovun Video Meeting in Croatia, 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

A reconstructed view of the surroundings I had as a child. I place the camera in the space at different levels corresponding to different stages in my life as I grew up. Constant camera movements show objects from extreme close-up, a perspective alien to the eye opening up a microcosm which remains hidden to the normal observer.

Full film record explores a pre-Columbian tradition of folk therapy known as in northern Peru. Based on seven years of ethnographic research by Douglas Sharon, the footage documents the activities of Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian fisherman, ceramacist and (healer). Scenes of the healer in various daily interactions with members of his family and local community illustrate the impact of Eduardo's charismatic personality and serve to underscore the importance which a specific cultural context has upon the diagnostic and healing process. Also explored is the importance of the local pre-Columbian ceramic art and iconography to Eduardo's healing practice; the use of herbs (including the San Pedro cactus), divination with the use of a live guinea pig, and the various ritual manipulations of the healer on his (table). Featured are scenes from a number of "seances" or curing ceremonies. The edited film EDUARDO THE HEALER was produced from this footage.

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.

Speaking Directly is an essay-film making for a kind of State of the Nation address, from the perspective of someone other than the President of the United States, circa 1973-5. This film addresses both the political and cultural situation of the US at the height of the Viet Nam war, Watergate and its aftermath, and likewise addresses the personal life, in this context, of the filmmaker, at that time thirty years of age, recently out of two plus years in federal prison for refusal to accept military service.

Time-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray. "'All that is is light.' – Dun Scotus Erigena. 'To see the world in a grain of sand.' – William Blake. These are the primary impulses while working on this film. It is dedicated to Jim Davis who showed me the first spark of refracted film light." - S.B.

Kim's first moving-image work, made between 1971 and 1973 with an 8mm movie camera.

Documentary insight into the crofting life on the island of North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

A profile of the community on the Isle of Lewis where religion is still a dominating force and the Sabbath is strictly observed.

A special documentary takes a look at the youth gangs of Helsinki using a multivocal approach.

A documentary on the preservation of the arts and culture of Bolivia.

A review of Antun Motika’s glass sculptures.

On the visit of L.I. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, to Tula for the festivities marking the presentation of the “Gold Star” Medal to the Hero City in January 1977.

Using the village of Ulyakhino in the Gus-Khrustalny District of the Vladimir Region as a case study, the filmmakers chronicle the changes taking place in rural life: year-round employment for residents, diversified economic activities, increased crop yields and milk production, and the desire of young people to remain in the village to live and work; they also depict the daily duties and concerns of the collective farm chairman, Stepan Petrovich Ginin—a Candidate of Economic Sciences.

This film is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region; it portrays the daily working lives of the region's inhabitants alongside the breathtaking nature of this land.

The film tells the story of the Khanty-Mansiysk National Okrug, its natural resources, and the people who, through their hard work, contribute to the region's further development.

The promenade is a characteristic feature of everyday life in most Bulgarian society.

Interviews with 18 year old women in an unwed mothers home. Also: Hear the thoughts of the young pregnant women staying at the Florence Crittendon Home in Sioux City, one of 5 Iowa homes for unwed mothers.

Views of the city of Kiselyovsk, located in the Kuznetsk coal basin: streets, buildings, and people on the city streets.

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.

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.)

Explores the area of Krasnoyarsk where Lenin was exiled in 1897.

TV Favorites Gather!! was a celebration of Japanese TV shows including tokusatsu.

Short film made by psysisist Septimio Tesone. An experiment made in his laboratory for his students to see multiple chemical reactions.

Short documentary exploring the town of Dubna, home to the Joint Nuclear Research Institute and a proton synchrotron.

A short film about books in the USSR.

A film about anti-authoritarian kindergartens.

A film commissioned between two municipal elections, St Leu, l’enjeu d’un quartier, tells the story of the neighborhood and what it means for its residents.

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.

The stove is the saddest altar to which half of humanity sacrifices its abilities, strength, and satisfaction. This critical portrait bitterly comments on the double-edged meaning of emancipation in post-war society, which built up the image of the working woman, but did not abandon the cult of the housewife. Labour market reform is not complete without reform of the household.

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”.

Commissioned by the German Book Traders’ Association, Lotte Thiel follows the preparations for the 1971 International Book Art Exhibition, prominently supported on screen and on the soundtrack. The tradition of this fair is recalled, from its predecessor BUGRA 1914 to the first IBA in 1927 and the subsequent events that took place every five to six years starting in 1959. Award-winning illustrations can be viewed in detail.

Through an interview with Professor Leonid Abalkin and the Anikeev family, the documentary's proposal is to present the quick improvement of life felt by the Soviet population, obtained with the increase of the population's income and expansion of social rights. With still dynamic growth, the Soviet economy was consolidating mass production in several economic sectors. The examples used in the documentary, the ZIL, KamAZ factories and the construction of the Baikal-Amur railway (BAM) seek to demonstrate the development of this centralized economy. Attention was also paid to the new technologies of integrated circuits, which enabled economic calculations, previously impossible to be processed manually. The automation of industries was also addressed by the documentary. The marxist idea presented was that the automation of industries in Soviet Union don't promoted layoffs, as a result of the contradictions between work and capital, which occur in capitalist countries.

A documentary describing the successful struggle of millworkers to unionize the Oneita Mill in Andrews, South Carolina, in 1973.

A daring escape attempt. Kittens.

A profile of architect and planner Warnett Kennedy.

Turkish women in the Federal Republic of Germany work on the assembly line, provide for their families and are isolated. In Remscheid, a group from the Protestant Clarenbach congregation has taken on this problem. Their offer: language and sewing courses, cozy get-togethers.

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.

What to do in case you have to deal with a bomb threat at work.

A film about the construction of a monument to the heroic defenders of Leningrad on Victory Square in St. Petersburg.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

Promotional/tourism video for Disneyland.

Footage from the shoot/editing of Her Love (Excerpt).

Staging of the battle. Scenes of extras running through the fields.

British Public Information Film about the importance of removing the door when throwing a refrigerator away.

What more understated, and yet more effective, ode to urbanization than Mesaroș’s film, which consists entirely from dynamic black&white photographs connected by a voice-over commentary written from the perspective of a naughty pre-teen boy who enjoys to the full the benefits of modernization? His village (Nehoiu, in Buzău county) is about to become a town; the boy writes a letter to his cousin from the capital, Bucharest, to tell him about his daily life. As in Red Flag, humour is a crucial element employed to smooth down the otherwise transparent political ‘message’ of the film: when the boy swallows a button, the mother takes him to the “new” hospital, where the doctors take an x-ray picture “to see if it’s from the shirt or the pants”; the machine is “so good” that they can clearly see what sort of button it is.