Discover Movies

Film by Paul Sharits presented as double projection theatrically and quadruple projection in galleries.

Ningiuksiak, an Inuk who lives in the settlement of Cape Dorset, is on a hunt with his family. On his way back to Cape Dorset, Ningiuksiak's snowmobile breaks down. Since he does not have the money to fix it he decides to leave his family and fly to the town of Frobisher Bay to make some money. Ningiuksiak's cousin in Frobisher Bay, Ashoona, a somewhat urbanized Inuk who makes his living as a construction worker or as a cab driver, has drifted away from hunting and the traditional way of life of the remote settlements. Ashoona takes Ningiuksiak in hand and helps him to get a job driving for the Nanook Taxi Company. Increasingly unhappy and bewildered, Ningiuksiak takes to spending his money on liquor and his time in seedy nightclubs. One night, half-heartedly trying to show that he is having a good time, he looks up and sees his wife. She has come to take him home to Cape Dorset.

Chronicles the experiences of four immigrant families as they experience the Lower East Side of New York during the early twentieth century.

Chris Robinson plays an eyepatched Vietnam vet named Ross Archer, who comes home to find that his wife had left him and become involved with some shady business dealings.

This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the Volcano. But while Lowry fought a winning battle with words, he lost his battle with alcohol. Shot on location in four countries, the film combines photographs, readings by Richard Burton from the novel and interviews with the people who loved and hated Lowry, to create a vivid portrait of the man.

Filmmakers Tom Palazzolo, Jeff Kreines, and Bernie Caputo attend the annual Chicago Senior Citizens Picnic hosted by the Democratic Party. Shot in the style of direct cinema, they spend the afternoon in a Chicago park following the seniors as they have a musical revue, hula dance, listen to speeches, play organized games and generally seem to have an all around fabulous time.

This episode from Histories of Love and Carnage, the first adult-oriented animated feature in Spain, offers a scatological, decidedly unsentimental view of sexuality and old age.

Experimental film by Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch.

A man seeks for satisfaction from a prostitute working in a revue. He pays for the whole night and discovers a saddening truth about her.

The Morning Spider is a 1976 comedy/fantasy film directed by Claude Chagrin, starring Julian Chagrin, Lucy Fawcett, and James Hayes. It follows a spider and his travails in a garden. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Tom dreams of being a writer while working in his father's shop in a small seaside town. He's too shy to realise that the girl he loves is waiting for his approach.

Opening with a classic image of Chairman Mao spewing red star tears, this animation is a masterful example of Beckett’s distinctive technique as he continuously develops a cycle of six drawings, culminating in their transmutation via the optical printer. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

The story of two girls. Saadia was raped after fierce resistance, which allowed her to take revenge by killing her attacker, but the village men's council felt she had been provocative and sentenced her to death. She is shot and the women of the village, transgressing the tradition, follow her funeral procession. As for Selma, who loved Hedi, she sees her father forcing her to marry another man. His lover comes back hastily but drowns. Became crazy, she succumbs in turn.

A man travels to another city for his sister's funeral to try to find out why she killed herself. He discovers that she is actually a vampire and returns from the dead to take revenge on her family.

Presented in the interest of chain saw safety by the Oregon Saw Chain Division, Omark Industries. (Ft. Chainsaw Charlie)

An abstract animated film in which colored, richly textured light moves in a black, three-dimensional space. The pictures and the electronic score are unified in a strict structure made of three main sections which progressively develop three subsections. The film may look like it was made using computers or video to the unaware, but it is purely the result of animation and much optical printing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

Keep On Rockin', aka Little Richard: Keep On Rockin' (USA video title) is a film of a 1969 Little Richard concert at the Sweet Toronto Peace Festival, originally released in 1970. Richard performs a number of his greatest hits, including "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Long Tall Sally," and "Tutti Frutti." The film is in color.

All of Universal's greatest classic monsters gather at the Transylvania Astoria Hotel for Frankenstein's monster and his bride's Friday the 13th midnight wedding.

Set after the unification of the Three Kingdoms, the film opens with a description of some of the lawlessness due to the threat of the Tang Dynasty, which was involved in the violent unification. During this time, a messianic prophecy arose in the countryside of an infant warrior that would be born that could overthrow the conquering Tang, heralded by a flying horse. Into this situation we meet a peasant, A Sadal, who we first discover stealing a Buddha statue from temple and stealing food from an old man dying of hunger. We then meet his wife, Sae Onyeo, and the happily married pair soon conceive and bear a child. However, reports of a flying horse abound and the Tang start a campaign to find the infant warrior, with potential consequences for the new parents in addition to the rest of their village.

"...WORDS was a Curt McDowell work covering the gamut of cinematic profanity."

During a field trip to the zoo, a little boy learns the dangers of striking out on his own.

Haunted by a mysterious super-pilot, a young glider pilot first flees, then confronts his challenger. Nominated for an Academy Award. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

The Strawbs perform tracks from their 1972 concept album accompanied by strange and often surreal imagery.

Buba introduces us to a Braddock entrepreneur who has failed at twelve businesses and is busy teaching would-be entrepreneurs self-confidence.

This short documentary takes you on a tour of one of Montreal's first health food stores. The camera scans shelves stocked with all manner of natural foods to which nary an additive has been added: soybean and sesame seed products, wild honey, and even eggs from hens fed on blackstrap molasses. But the real eye-openers are in what you hear between the aisles, from the store's owner and his customers.

Hector Heathcote invents things, only to have his neighbor steal his ideas. After a few funny routines, Hector steals the neighbor's idea, causing the neighbor some problems.

Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing relationship with a PBS affiliate (WXXI). Portapakers interviewed Sinclair Scott, a member of the negotiating team that went into Attica when the prisoners' rebelled at the federal prison in September 1971.

Richard Harrison is Mike Spencer, a cop whose girlfriend is killed by drug dealers after she stumbles onto their operation during a fashion show. He goes undercover as a photographer to catch the people responsible.

Horizon investigates whether first contact with aliens has already occurred. The publication of 'Chariots of the Gods?' by Erich von Daniken is central to this documentary and some of von Daniken's claims of evidence of extra-terrestrial visitations.

Child Wonder Niño Muhlach plays Pepe, a smart but mischievous boy who was abandoned in a church when he was still a baby.

A short story of paralysis and waste set in Colfax, Louisiana.

In a nearly bare loft space, Weiner's performers cluster around an octagonal pink table, enacting a series of what seem to be choreographed exercises or processes: playing patty-cake, grappling for possession of rectangular blocks, kissing and embracing, engaging in bizarrely coded conversations.

Examples of virtually every possible way that people can fall and injure themselves.

A re-edit of Bosnick's "Imago", it starts out as the story of the personal conflict of a young girl whose traditional upbringing gives her such sexual hang-ups that she must seek psychiatric help. But, it gradually and unexpectedly evolves into another story of a fraudulent psychiatrist into whose hands she has the misfortune to fall.

A portrait of an African American working-class family, this stage production depicts an elderly grandmother's flashbacks to the affairs she had as a young woman and a hard-working father's current conflict with his two unhappy sons.

Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.

The gang genuinely believe they have helped a farmer - even though he has been bad-tempered with them and does not deserve help - by rounding up what they suppose to be his stray cows.

Eleven one-act sex comedies, involving wife swappers, a bored housewife, a young virgin, and an orgy in Kilburn.

Film notable for being created by physically "cooking" the film stock, similar to his other 1973 work, "Curried 7302". The name likely references this process of using heat, as well as the "structural film" methods Conrad employed to alter the film's physical properties and the resulting image.

His father a hardcore Southern Baptist, J.C. rebels during his teen years, joining a biker gang and becoming their leader. While day-tripping, he has a prophetic religious vision and leads an LSD-fueled pilgrimage back to his home town, where he challenges the local church leaders, even knocking down chairs and tables in righteous anger, just like ... you know. Is Jesus Christ born again on Earth?

Documentary of the making of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1977)

The marriage of Robert and Elizabeth is collapsing, both concentrating on their jobs (journalist, mother) rather than each other. The film looks at a week in their lives. Robert sleeps with their babysitter, Marianne, while Elizabeth talks with their friends, Juliet and Alex.

1973 Gitai super8 short

The James Brown Story

Based on Ambrose Bierce short story. Not Polish version, this one is produced and directed by Alan Beattie: https://www.worldcat.org/title/boarded-window/oclc/5550563 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnL5Cig6ONM

3-colour separation film.

This was the first of two one-hour musical specials which were part of CBS' 1968 multi-million-dollar contract with Doris Day's production company, a contract that Day insists to this day was negotiated by her husband and manager Martin Melcher without her knowledge. When Melcher died suddenly in April 1968, Day chose to go ahead and honour the contract, appearing in both specials as well as starring in her eponymous sitcom for five seasons, from 1968-1973.

Short film about the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Fanny tries to make Marius jealous by flirting with the much older Panisse. Although Marius admits he has strong feelings for her, his first love is the sea.

The Jefferson’s honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Bouddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that Cal Jefferson is a top American boxer.

Ukrainian American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky demonstrating the process of creating his classic woodcut “Two Rams” – from sketching the concept to producing the artist’s proof print.

There But For resembles a soap opera; its characters—a couple whose relationship has seen better days, a ball-and-jack playing adult/child, and a couple that comes to visit the family—are in the midst of their day-to-day lives (an imitation of life). The music was composed and performed live on the set as the play unfolded. There But For is a free-form chance operation within the defined boundaries of place (an apartment) and the assigned roles of the players: the mother (bitch), the father (jerk), their kid (retard), and their visitors. The players continually argue as they feel their way through this structure, where ambiguity is the form. The kid asks, “Is mediocrity its own reward?” Perhaps the clue for the viewer is in the tape’s title: There But For (the grace of God go I)."

"Montréal under the snow and the cold winter. It is the period of the year when the garage owners strike it rich. The automobile at the service of man? This small opus would rather show the contrary. This is one in a series of eight films titled “Chronicle of Everyday Life,” a project that filmmaker Jacques Leduc took four years to realize, and whose goal was to revisit Direct Cinema at a moment when it was already heavily “contaminated” by mainstream TV." - Anthology Film Archives

An actress gets the lead in a movie, not aware that the director specializes in nudies and intends to use drugs on her during the filming.

An Oscar-nominated film with no narration showing the Exploratorium (The Palace of Arts and Science) in San Francisco. It shows many of the exhibits and the reaction of visitors to many of these. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet is a 1970 short film directed by John D. Hancock. It follows a group of Madison Avenue touch football buffs who are beaten by a teenaged boy and begin to feel their age. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Documentary about notorious actor/director Erich Von Stroheim.

Mark 12:31 instructs, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." After Hours 69:69 suggests, "Do unto thy neighbor as she likes it." Choose your words to live by...

Yes: Live In Philadelphia 1979

Crazylegs Crane gets an amnesia and Toro and Pancho tricks him into thinking he's a frog. They use him to guard them from the Blue Racer, the fastest snake in the west, who wants to have them for a meal.