All Films

Based on a story from Nizami Ganjavi’s poem "Seven Beauties". It tells the tale of Shah Bahram Gur and a young woman named Fitna, who, during a hunt, refused to express admiration for his masterful archery, stating that it was merely the result of many days of practice.

A report on historical buildings, legends, and traditions along the route from Isfahan to Shiraz. Including Mahyar, Shahreza, Ziaratgah, AminAbad, and IzadKhast.

Animated advertisement for ADAS, the State Administration of Insurances.

Luanda, the capital of Angola. The city, its people, and everyday life. Traditional aspects and the challenges of the future, presented in a brief yet dynamic overview.

Seemingly, nothing happens in the film; At most, a man forgets something at home and must return. The viewer watches his train journey, the rhythm of the soundtrack determined by pylons whooshing by his cabin window.

a Owe Gustafson Cartoon

A short documentary exploring the enduring (and erotic) appeal of the female circus performer.

Six films by photographer Paul Nadar in 1896 were combined into a program in 1970 by the Cinemathèque Francaise. It contains four dance routines and two Paris-based actualities.

Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.

Time Is Running Out is a 1970 West German short documentary film directed by Robert Ménégoz. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

‘A beautiful, mysterious yet satisfying optical illusion…celebrates the early passing of a steam on the Thames. Using freeze-frame techniques, elaborate dissolves, and most of the resources on the optical table, this picture is, amongst other things, a Turner come to life. Rimmer’s concern with the surface nature of the film is most evident in this work which, in spite of its filmic complexity, is incredibly simple.’ — Donald Richie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Cinematheque in 2013.

Kurt Kren films an anti-war poster in extreme close-up moves to subvert the quick responses of viewers to its loaded imagery.

A poet's eulogy to his beloved mode of transport.

King George V (1970) charts the history of the celebrated locomotive, which was taken out of service in 1965 but offered a length of siding at Bulmers of Hereford to continue running, in steam.

In Discs, originally made as installation for a set of monitors, the creators experiment with the phenomenon of horizontal drift trhough the indtroduction of purposeful time error. The result is the repetitive abstract pattern of a distorted magnetic field. Furthermore, this horizontal stream also travels thorugh a set of TV screens stacked on top of each other, giving the work a vertical dimension as well. The image thus demonstrates the flexibility of the frame in video.

A walk through the countryside in Tangiers with two friends.

A woman kisses Acconci's body, covering him in red lipstick traces. Acconci then rubs his body against another man (Dennis Oppenheim), transferring the stains onto him.

The laugh-out-loud adventures of a drug dealer and his customers struggling with a joint, filmed in the hippy commune of Terrasini, near Palermo.

Avant-garde picturesque vision to the music of Béla Bartók. Motifs of an abandoned farm evoked in haunting tones: a galloping horse, a thatched house, a hoe, crockery...

Rounding off the collection is 'Raoul', whose subject is the painter Raoul Middleman, captured at work in the studio using time lapse photography while an improvised soundtrack (performed by the filmmaker and subject in collaboration) accompanies the rapid influx of images.

Yanomamo feasts are ceremonial, social, economic, and political events. They are occasions for men to adorn their bodies with paint and feathers, to display their strength in dance and ritualized aggression; for trading partnerships to be established or affirmed; and for the creation or testing of alliances. In the feast filmed in 1968, the Patanowa-teri had invited the Mahekodo-teri to their village. The two groups had been allies until a few years before this event, when they had fought over the abduction of a woman. They now hoped to renew their broken alliance, which they did successfully. Soon after the filmed feast, the two villages together raided a common enemy. A detailed discussion of this feast, and of the significance of feasting among the Yanomamo, is found in chapter 4 of Chagnon's Yanomamo: The Fierce People. The film's graphic representation of reciprocity and exchange may enrich (and be enriched by) a reading of Marcel Mauss' The Gift.

A story of an artist entertainer who swallowed razors, glasses, records, light bulbs, nails, forks and everything else hard to swallow. Cannibalism and auto-cannibalism included.

Some activities of Christian B.