Hitler: A Career
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how…
Hitler: A Film from Germany
Documentary film that examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich, incorporating puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. The director, who grew up…
11 x 14
65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple’s Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man’s journeys, the story of a man who may be having an affair.
Pumping Iron
Pumping Iron is a 1977 documentary film about the run-up to the 1975 Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition. The film focuses on Arnold Schwarzenegger and his competitors, Lou Ferrigno and Franco…
Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World
Nikola Tesla has not been given his place in the history books. However, with the video “The Genius Who Lit The World” he is getting the credit which he deserves….
Ganamos la paz
Propaganda documentary in which the Armed Forces try to justify the military coup d’Ć©tat.
In the Shadow of Bigfoot
Investigative Bigfoot documentary made by Ivan Marx & C. Thomas Biscardi. Features alleged Bigfoot footage which has later found to be hoaxed.
Aliens from Spaceship Earth
Tries to prove that all great men of the past were actually aliens. While the aliens in this film may seem to be quite human, one must realize that this…
One Way Boogie Woogie
Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between…
Parliament Funkadelic – The Mothership Connection
The Mothership has landed! Parliament-Funkadelic plays an out-of-this-world set at The Summit in Houston, Texas on Halloween night 1976.
Harlan County U.S.A.
This film documents the coal miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when…
Riches of a City
“Documents the development of the Skidmore District (Old Town) in downtown Portland, Oregon, and recounts the struggle to bring this neighborhood into the modern era while preserving its cultural and…
Fireworks
This film uses the image of fireworks (as points of light) superimposed in the camera and in the optical printer until the surface of the film begins to bleach out.
The Football Incident
A short film on an ideological debate between a teacher and a pupil regarding an incident with a football.
Freewheelin’
Stacy Perlata and Camille Darrin share a passion for their lifestyle of skateboarding. Camille narrates the film, and the two of them travel to various places in California with his…
F for Fake
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works…
I’m a Stranger Here Myself
A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.
The Love Epidemic
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone ā whether young or old,…
Who’s Out There?
Orson Welles ā with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others ā examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien ‘martians’ from…
Venus on the Half-Shell
Borowczykās portrait of the painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis and her erotic fusions of men, women and molluscs.
Cracked Actor
The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of documentary sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert footage. Most of the concert footage was taken…
NOVA
PBS’ premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific…
The New Ice Age
De Nieuwe IJstijd is the third part of the triptych Noord-Zuid (North-South), in which the director focuses on the relationships between rich and poor countries. The film draws a parallel…
A Voyage on the North Sea
Marcel Broodthaersā film and book, both titled A Voyage on the North Sea which were distributed together as part and parcel of the same publishing plot. The ostensibly related subject…
And Still I Believe…
Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks,…
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi/Heraklea
The film introduces the history of one of the oldest towns in Macedonia: Heraklea Linkestis, which has been built in the IV century B.C.
A Bigger Splash
A fictionalised biopic about the end of David Hockney’s relationship with Peter Schlesinger which was named after Hockney’s pop-art painting ‘A Bigger Splash’.
Pourquoi Israƫl
Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. This movie concentrates on Israelis going about their business…
A Story of a Man Who Filled 552% of the Quota
A movie quintessential to Wiszniewski’s artistic output. Its protagonist, Bernard Budgol, is a miner and a legendary leader of socialist labour in the 40s and 50s. Structured around a dissonance…
The Last Grave at Dimbaza
Made clandestinely by a group of exiled filmmakers known as Morena Films, The Last Grave at Dimbaza is an unflinching document of Apartheid at its height.
Born to Boogie
By 1972, the seminal English glam-rock band T-Rex was at the height of what came to be known as “T-Rexstacy:” they had already scored three of their soon-to-be ten straight…
Scarborough Bluffs
A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.
Chinese Ping-Pong
An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players’ exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of…
An Examination of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
An examination of Kubrickās āA Clockwork Orangeā on Camera 3 (1972)
200 Motels
“Touring makes you crazy,” Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by…
We Have Come for Your Daughters
Documentary of a 154-person bus and truck tour that set out to spread the gospel of flower power to the hinterlands of the U.S.
Blue Streak
An adroit expansion on the notion of a “blue” movie, Mark Rappaport’s early short BLUE STREAK contrasts the rarified realm of classical composition with an unspoken assortment of words predisposed…