All Films

A documentary made by Italian television with behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Federico Fellini's AND THE SHIP SAILS ON and extensive interview footage of Fellini.

Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.

Maurice Barrard and Liliane Bontemps met in 1973 in Peru. Four years later, they are married and start their life together in the Loire Valley. She is a physiotherapist, he is an educator. For them, although settled not far from Chartres, the mountains are never far away. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, they embark on high-altitude expeditions. First individually, then together. In 1982, they were at the top of Gasherbrum 2, an ascent filmed in this documentary prelude to other future ascents including the Nanga Parbat in 1984, after an aborted attempt a year earlier, which made Liliane Barrardi the first woman to climb this mountain. of Karakoram. The "tallest couple in the world" will not stop there. After the Makalu in 1985, in the spring of 1986 they will attempt the ascent of K2 and its 8,611 meters... Un Homme, Une Femme, Un 8000 was broadcast in the program Les Carnets de L'Aventure in 1983.

Experimental short narrating the love story of the bullfighter Bombita and his tragic final.

Women of the Arnait Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.

One of the earliest films from German splatter filmmaker Heiko Fipper (Das Komabrutale Duell, Ostermontag).

Adopting its title from a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, What’s Out Tonight Is Lost is an elegiac film sifting through the unrecoverable. The film is a reflecting pool where vision breaks up. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Instructional short for children about what to do when they're home alone.

Film shot on the edge of a river whose soundtrack is a text in French and in English said and written by Teo Hernández.

A fast-paced documentary about a second generation of punk rockers living in Toronto. It offers insight into this segment of culture by videotaping in the streets, bars, and homes of punks. Conversations are intercut with the music of the punk bands at the core of the scene.

A teenager who aspired to become one of the best swimmers, but was pressured by his father to abandon his interest and instead study hard for the examinations.

Julius-Amédée Laou's Open Mic Solitaire is about a Black Parisian who hijacks a radio station after his brother is murdered by racists.

A modern multi-media myth. To explore and expand the realm of eroticism. A mediation between Eros and Psyche: sexual politics, desire and consciousness. Love under will, to change power. Interrogation. Tenderness. Rage. Rapture. Questions. In search of the militant, androgynous-utopian hermaphrodite. A synthesis of live performance, film, edited images, singing, text, ritual and shadow magic.

A bird saves a little tree from withering.

About the cheerful adventures of Grandma Fox and her granddaughter Alice, about how they rescued an unlucky shepherd from trouble and deceived a stupid wolf.

An experimental documentary portrait of author J.G. Ballard. Ballard speaks about his life and work, and submits to a lengthy personality questionnaire; these sections are intercut with surrealist scenes inspired by Ballard's fiction, centering on a downed pilot wandering through various landscapes.

Follows the day of grandma and her poodle the dog.

Recorded Live in Dortmund Germany December 18, 1983. Setlist: "Long Stick Goes Boom", "American Woman", "Bedside Radio", "Heat Strokes"

A fairy tale about how capricious Maryana ordered to have a Firebird living with her.

Santa Claus, expelled from the Heavenly Council because of his alleged failure, finds work on Earth as a stoker in a children's hospital. His willingness to help soon makes him indispensable.

A mother has to take care of her wild baby.

Minnie Evans is the embodiment of the visionary artist. She is an African American painter of Wilmington, N.C., who has created a world of mythical animals, religious symbols and natural beauty. The film explores the sources of Minnie Evans' art--Airlie Garden, with its magnificent azaleas and swans, where Minnie worked as a gate keeper for 27 years and where she did most of her paintings. Angel That Stands By Me is part of the "Visions of Paradise" series on contemporary folk artists directed and produced by Irving Saraf and Allie Light.