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A look into the world of matches of all types. From the football match to the love match. From the boxing match to Britain's largest match factory.

A 1962 German TV movie.

A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "War and Peace," from conceptual sketches and costume design to cameras rolling.

Luca Cupiello lives with the wife Concetta, the son Tommasino, and a brother, Pasquale. The son is wild, living by gimmicks and stealing from his uncle; the daughter Ninuccia does not get along with her husband Nicolino and plans to run away with her lover Vittorio; the wife tries to hide her family's troubles from her husband. Luca, who silently suffers the family situation, takes refuge in setting up the Nativity scene.

Montage documentary, built on footage taken during an expedition with the participation of writer Enrique Zorrilla, photographer Roberto Montandón and Leopoldo Castedo. Synthesis of a journey of one hundred thousand kilometers between Mexico and Tierra del Fuego around the heritage of the native peoples of Latin America.

Nico D’Alessandria’s graduation film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome features the director himself and is inspired by T. S. Eliot’s poem of the same name, which is recited in a voice-over by Carmelo Bene and set to the music of Luciano Berio.

A look at reworking of the travel system in the Hyde Park area, including Marble Arch.

Directed by Walter Felsenstein in 1969, this production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera chronicles the tragic tale of Othello, a Moorish general whose inability to control his feelings of mistrust and jealousy lead to his dramatic downfall. The Berlin Komische Oper Chorus and Orchestra provide musical accompaniment throughout the live performance, which stars Hanns Nocker, Christa Noack and Vladimir Bauer.

An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.

Made in 1968, in which Ferrero revealed himself to be a great comedian. In Spettacolo, he dies hilariously on the stage, behind a half-naked young woman armed with a small silver phallus, and the almost fixed space of the 'spectacle' is revealed with an Eisensteinian clarity.

A young pickpocket gets in trouble after deserting the Spanish Legion.

Wild pony rustling on Dartmoor.

A psychedelic film showing swirls and bubbles of colours to the music of Soft Machine.

Gerard Malanga has been posed slightly off-centre against a black background and lit evenly from both sides, he has turned sideways to face the camera attentively. He holds very still, blinking only occasionally; at one point he licks his lips and swallows.

Paris, may 1968. In the streets, on the barricades, an insurrection of poetry.

The brother of a Spanish immigrant worker comes to Germany just to find out that his brother was the victim of a freak accident.

On the occasion of the »Construction Days« in the autumn of 1969, the Hamburg Building Authority commissioned five HFBK film students to film one Hamburg commercial each. Christian Bau opted for a critical portrait of Osdorfer Born, Hamburg's first large-scale, prefabricated housing estate, which had been built from 1967 by Neue Heimat, SAGA and other housing companies on the western edge of the city. The images, shot on 16mm, were accompanied by interview passages and a text taken from SAGA's housing construction program. The client was less than enthusiastic, the film disappeared into a closet for decades and can now be shown for the first time in the cinema.

Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?

After marrying a rich heiress, a young man from humble origins is dedicated to looking for coal in the surroundings of Gijón.

A young man who is constantly searching for relics from World War II and idolizes Hitler and Al Capone founds a criminal organization with friends and slides headlong into disaster.

An adulterous couple turn to murder, only to discover that a petty crook and blackmailer has already had his eye upon them.

The documentary analyzes the role of “leader” in different social contexts—in politics, industry, and organized crime—and seeks to answer questions about the characteristics of a leader. In particular, it focuses on the new figure of leader that characterizes the era of technocracy: the corporate executive, the manager.

A double projection of images of lapping water and the Battersea Power Station all transformed by negative positive superimposition creating a moving Bas-Relief effect.

In 1932, this crime moved the whole world. Colonel Lindbergh, the immensely popular Atlantic flight pioneer, had his son kidnapped and killed, although the parents met all the blackmailers' demands. A manhunt unparalleled in the history of the police remained unsuccessful for a long time. None of the many clues led to the perpetrator. Then the research assistant, Dr. Bernstein, had an ingenious idea...

A documentary analyzing how Italians enjoy themselves.

Three phases of the life of guerrilla priest Camilo Torres (the initial caption explains well how Camilo's mother distanced herself from the film, which falsifies in her opinion her son's life and ideology), told in such a way that it is difficult to read the same person in them; also because the protagonist of the first segment, a young bourgeois university student who is seduced by revolutionary ideals dying during a student revolt, is blessed on the lawn at the moment of his death by the very protagonist of the second episode, this one more obviously inspired by the Camilo Torres who felt his vocation and gave himself to the priesthood.

The Ruhr area in November of 1918. 13-year old Achim Wolters and his friends get their hands on some potatoes on the market. They want to surprise Achim′s father, who works on a mine sweeper boat, with a decent meal. But Achim′s father does not show up – an informer at the train station has betrayed him for his left-wing beliefs and has turned him over to the police. The priest tells Achim the sad news and advises him to pray for the release of his father. But when carpenter Stelzebein stresses that everybody has to take actions for himself, the devout boy at first does not believe in Stelzebein′s words. But then Achim witnesses in the prison how brutally the imperial police treat his father and the other inmates. Together with his loyal friends, Achim takes Stelzebein′s side. When the revolution starts, they stand together on the barricades.

A look at caravan holidays and the original residents of caravans.

A fascinating look at the advertising industry, with a focus on how it works and what it does

On August 12, 1961, eight people in three cars set off for Berlin from Leipzig. They want to go to the West. The initiator is the philistine Spiessack, who drives the others, who have embarked on the adventure with mixed feelings. It becomes a journey with numerous incidents and panic, which causes the different characters to clash. When they finally arrive in Berlin the next day, they are not allowed to cross the border. The only option is to return. At home, Spiessack is met by a policeman in his living room - with the slogan "We'll be back" written on the wall.

A look at the production of gold and its journey through London, the world's most important gold market.

The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory impetus. Export provides precise instructions for the use of a wrapped box of chocolate-covered candy produced by the renowned Viennese company Hofbauer. However, she has not made an advertisement for them and their presentation, but instead, she extols the packqge and confection as a work of art. Severe degradation of the surviving tape further blurs our perceptions.

Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.

A short film by Franz Winzentsen

Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After being abandoned in the woods with no food, a group of children takes refuge in a nearby house. However, the hungry ogre that lives there is about to come home...

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito Italiano V.E.R.D.I - displays his immediate attitude to thinking a cinematic language completely based on actor's movements and actions, and more specifically, on his presence and his schemes. Camouflaged or naked, still or moving, his body seems to play and be played at the same time, shifted by objective and subjective tensions, both metaphorically and visually speaking.

Cautionary drama, with vigorous attack on Germany's laws governing abortion.

A look at the fascinating work of the Earl Marshal of England and the College of Arms, who are behind every full state ceremonial.

Video containing a fragment of the journalistic reportage "Roma 4 - Passeggiate per la città" (1967) by Bernardino Zapponi and Stefano De Stefani, where attention is directed to Cinecittà and in particular to the sets where, in that period, numerous scenes were shot of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns".

Originally the work was presented as a pre-ordered sequence of 35mm slides showing two unknown people walking around the wall of a sea-side swimming pool. Switching between positive and negative focus on the mystery of the hidden and unresolved narrative between the ‘lovers?’. On occasions, this work was shown in superimposition with sections of the film Talla. Two sound tapes were mixed in improvisation. A digital video version has been made using the original slide sequence and audio tapes.

A glimpse at some of the people in Britain who have something to protest about, including a look at the Aldermaston marchers and Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park.