
26 May 1998

Silence
A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.
Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film.









26 May 1998

A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.

10 Jul 1969

Shot in four days during the 1968 National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City, this lyrical documentary takes you inside the arena atop a 2800 lb bull. Watch Freckles Brown, a legendary cowboy, conferring with a young Larry Mahan, the previous year's champion and see crowd favorite Myrtis Dightman trying to hold his own in a dramatic ride. "Rodeo" shows the classic struggle of man against beast, a matter of life and death. Dick Rosmini's hypnotizing folk-fusion soundtrack and an intricate sound mix add to the climatic result.

22 Jan 1931

Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.

15 Apr 1931

Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in shooting a golf instruction film. Louise Fazenda however has no knowledge of golf and her ongoing commentary disrupts Jones's attempts to practice. While Cagney and Bushell hold Louise's mouth shut, Jones demonstrates his approach to golf. Later, upon arrival of director George Marshall, Louise is sent off "to practice" alone while the cast and crew go about shooting the film.

06 Sep 2019

Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously composed portrait of intergenerational trauma, grief, and secrets in this cathartic documentary about things left unsaid.

06 Sep 2019

In this documentary by Asia Youngman, Indigenous artists throughout Canada strive to reclaim their cultures and identities through a reawakening of tattoo practices, both traditional and contemporary.

31 Dec 1897

Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different dancer?).

18 Mar 2017

For the past 4 years a devout Catholic Andre Levesque has been performing dance shows inside the trains of Montreal's underground metro. Using old school pop and rock music hits as the accompaniment to his amateur dances, he devotes his performances to Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary.

02 Feb 1968

This short animation transports us from the farthest conceivable point of the universe to the tiniest particle of existence, an atom of a living human cell. The art of animation and animation camera achieve this exhilarating journey with a freshness and clarity. Without words.

01 Feb 1958

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.

07 Dec 1964

Mario Montez in drag eats a banana.

13 Feb 1974

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

06 Dec 2018

A beautiful collection of pictures ties Frank Cancian, an elderly photographer and retired professor of anthropology, American with origin from Veneto, to the people of Lacedonia, a small town in southern Italy. Thanks to the rediscovery of the photos taken in 1957 by the young Cancian in that rural village where he had arrived almost by chance, the story resumes there where it was interrupted 60 years earlier. And the thread of memories ties back to people and places, bringing with itself some essential reflections on how photography can become an ethnographic look at small communities.

31 Jul 2019

An intimate look at the creation of Autumn, a unique tour by the notoriously cryptic band Bon Iver.

01 Jun 1993

Between 1993 and 1995, artist and photographer Louis Jammes took pictures of people on the streets of Sarajevo under siege and gave them angelic face and wings. Then he put his huge portraits on destroyed city walls. Suddenly, it seems as life is getting back with their arrival, because they brought a sense of peace, beauty, nostalgia...

21 Apr 2021

Miguel has been dedicating himself to the pulque craft for more than 25 years, however an addiction to drinking almost ends his life.

21 Apr 2021

Motivated by family memories, a filmmaker returns to the land of his mother to reflect on his identity and deep cultural heritage.

08 Apr 2021

The unfathomable police murder of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020, sparked a global uprising, the epicentered in a Minneapolis neighborhood. An immersive observation of unrest in the five days between the murder of Mr. Floyd and the charges filed against police officer Derek Chauvin.

08 Apr 2021

After the killing of George Floyd, a queer black woman in Los Angeles is determined to capture the spirit of a mass social movement, so she hits the streets, camera in hand.
08 Apr 2021
An Ohio woman's COVID story is revealed.