All Films

This video portrait by Prof. Gerd Roscher and Sünke Michel, Bergmann-Michel's daughter-in-law and photographer, explores the making of Ella Bergmann-Michel's experimental documentary films. It features still photographs from her films, which had not yet been recovered at the time, and handwritten intertitles are commented on by her son Hans Michel.

Discusses the main geographical features of South America including the Andes, the Guiana and Brazilian highlands, and the Orinoco, Amazon and Plata-Parana river basins. Show the relationship of these geographic factors to the people and their ways of life.

Experimental film by John Buchanan

Ilija is a night guard in a factory. One night he oversleeps and is awoken in the morning by a radio report of his death. He tries to contact his employers to clear up this misunderstanding but the world around him starts breaking apart.

An educational cartoon about what to do when mom is not at home and dad is in charge.

Germaine Dierterlen talks about Dogon mythology at a conference on the Bandiagara cliffs. The Songo canopy is a sacred site in Bandiagara. Its walls are covered with paintings depicting the different phases of creation. A little further on, in a cave near the village of Bongo, symposium participants are discussing the Tellem, the people who lived in the houses built into the cliffs before the arrival of the Dogon. The archaeological remains and migratory movements of these two peoples are discussed.

An overview of some ways to get creative with super8 filmmaking.

Relates the history of the Louisiana Purchase to the westward expansion of the United States, describing events leading to the purchase of the territory and its exploration, settlement and importance.

The twenty-minute film, divided into two parts, is made up of old newsreels and scenes recorded on the Budapest metro. The filmmaker places the celluloid tape, which is attached to the camera, on the trick table, examines the frames meticulously and cuts out individual details. The archival images are put into different contexts by different interventions.

An exploration of the changing seasons and changes in the way of life on Cape Breton Island, Song of Seasons was filmed and written by Grant Crabtree. Commissioned by DEVCO, a narrative of the film centres around the importation of sheep from Scotland to Cape Breton as part of a community economic development initiative undertaken by the corporation.

Illustrates the effects of hereditary muscle degeneration disease on a family.

About three neighbors who were constantly fighting.

The passenger enjoys herself in a parade of trees, even risking taking root there. The passengers of a boat, swept by a loving gaze, appear in sequence from image to image.

The wife of a depressed sailor explains what it is like to wait for her husband and then not be able to find any common ground.

March 1977. Just before the municipal elections, the people of Aulnay-sous-Bois, France share their expectations regarding the town, housing, urban planning and the start of deindustrialization in the suburbs.

A portrait of the spectators and press covering the dedication of Claes Oldenburg's "Batcolumn" sculpture on April 14, 1977, outside of the newly-built Social Security Administration Center at 600 West Madison Street in downtown Chicago.

A story about newlyweds Natasha and Gleb, who are spending their honeymoon on a hiking trip.

A clay figure sees its face reflected in the water of a river.

About glaciers and lakes of the Ural, about it's mysteries and discoveries.

Documentary about the life in the then newly completed city Halle Neustadt in the former DDR in East Germany.

On two hills, two fortresses are located opposite each other. Two enemy armies shoot arrows and cannons. At night, soldiers from one fortress dug a tunnel into another. They captured a nearby fortress. During this time, soldiers from another fortress captured the neighboring one by air. In the morning, it became clear that they had only exchanged fortresses. The war continues.

A compilation of the Wagner Brothers' first experiments in animation. Seven short films are brought together: "A casa da colina", "Bum!", "Boa-noite", "O halterofilista", "O espaço", "Garoto levado" and "O último bloco".

With a similar dreamy mood like its predecessor "Take the 5:10 to Dreamland" (1976) this clip starts with a boy getting into his bed. The camera zooms in into the boy's mind and a slow, sad waltz (i.e."Valse Triste") accompanies images of a locomotive, a miner, the globe, the sky, a sheep heard, etc. Disparate elements, but if one concentrates only at the movement of the figures, one can perceive a commotion, slowly livening up: The starting wheels of the heavy locomotive, the tired miner pushing the heavy cart of coal bricks, the globe smoothly turning around and around, the clouds imperceptibly floating in the sky, the sheep idly moving in the herd, etc. We reach the first climax when a mannequin opens her coat like a flower. The second big crescendo spurts out from a "water hose", after watching schoolgirls doing gymnastics for quite a while. A sad, but nostalgic aftertaste lingers in the end when funeral cars drive away through a flooded area…