All Films

A documentary about the XVII Estonian song festival, a celebration of 100 years of song festivals. Shown are the lighting ceremony of the song festival fire, the procession, the choirs, singers and the public, including performance of the Mart Saar song Leelo led by Gustav Ernesaks.

Lowell Bodger, 16mm, silent, black & white, date unknown.

This classic BP archive film follows Malcolm Davis, a professional Motocross rider, as he travels to across Europe during the season and it's a great insight into the routine of a racer with long hours of travelling between rounds, machine prep, driver introductions and interviews and the main event to keep a rider busy!

An autobiographical film ballad about dodging dog dung in New York City.

A film poem built on rhythmic reflex movements in water and correspondingly realistic but freely processed water sounds.

"Speech about cleanliness" according to its author. Two characters cramped in bathroom. Glamour trash. While Anne talks about her cats, and her mother, making up, Hans Christian tells while blowing into bathroom sink a scene film Boudu sauvé des eaux during which Boudu (Michel Simon) who has the mania to spit on the floor lenght of time in bookseller shop who saved the life of Boudu, is reprimanded by this one ; Hans Christian is recreating to his girl friend the dialogue between two characters' Jean Renoir film.

The film is dedicated to the beauty and majesty of its homeland, the traditions of the Kyrgyz people, and the everyday life and work of its people. The story is narrated by an old man who has lived a long life. As if looking back with a thoughtful gaze, he remembers all the cherished moments and beauty he will soon have to leave behind. Yet despite the looming tragedy, there is no sense of pessimism — every memory, every frame shines with a hopeful warmth, like life itself. The old shepherd’s character and spirit, reflected in his eyes, will live on in his grandchildren, preserving both the beauty of the land and the deep love he felt for it.

An explosion of Delilah myth. A biblical super-spectacular in the Bizet-De Mille grand opera tradition, with torrid ballet sequence.

In 1970 Graves made the first of five films. Each one was preceded by travel and research, and though the images are "representational", the films are fundamentally abstract in their exploration of color, light, form, and surface. She considered 200 Stills at 60 Frames and Goulimine, her earliest films about the camel, as study projects.

Devensky's evolutionary theory... is considerably more subtle. The same man as in CATERPILLARS and ANTS is sitting alone in an apartment with an immerse accumulation of debris, listening blackly to a fragile Kreisler-like melody on an old gramophone. During the film the camera peers at him and his junk and even swoops around in lengthy tracking shots. At times it rests solely on close-ups of his craggy face (another Devensky preoccupation). The man begins to freak out as "phantoms" appear and collapses amid the rubble. The melody appears once more and this time he reacts to it. If the film's title indicate a continuation of thinking in "Proof" then what is seen is modern man surrounded by his accumulation of things, at first fulled and insensitive to beauty (the fragile melody) but finally becoming responsive to it after harrowing rite de passage" –Richard Koszarski, New York American

Focusing on aerial and terrestrial scenes, it shows the urbanization of Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, according to a project by urban planner Lucio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer.

An adventure story which introduces rational numbers. Tells about the visit of the first rational number to a community of natural numbers.

Music tv movie, featuring performances by Tamara Miansarova — People's Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of Ukraine, and laureate of international festivals.

Krzysztof Gradowski presents the story of Eleonora Tomczyńska from Łódź - beaten and rejected, in the end abandoned by her family and starving to death. The filmmakers skillfully combine features of a shocking intervention reportage with a documentary with a universal message.

After early silent black-and-white short films, this is the author's first more experimental film. She shot it during the summer film school in Koper in 1968. It is already sound and colorful and also shows various expressive procedures and also greater knowledge of editing. At that time, she and her colleague Tone Rački were in charge of film education at the Pionirski dom in Ljubljana, where they had a camera and 8mm films, and it was also possible to edit them.

Tokelau is a New Zealand territory, spanning three small South Pacific atolls. In the 1960s the New Zealand Government expressed concern about overpopulation, and instigated the Tokelau Islands Resettlement Scheme. This National Film Unit documentary surveys Tokelau society and culture from a New Zealand perspective, and follows the journey of a group of Tokelauans who chose to migrate to Aotearoa (where they adapt to telephones and horses near Te Puke). It was one of three NFU documentaries directed by Derek Wright on Pacific Island subjects.

A documentary on the tomb of Imam Reza, the 8th Imam in Shia Islam. The film shows the various rituals performed by visiting pilgrims alongside "behind the scenes" footage of the management of such a heavily trafficked facility, including spectacular images of the laborious and ceremonious process of sorting piles of money and objects (letters, human hair) that devotees throw inside the tomb for good fortune.

A nine-year-old boy, Ken, alone in the city of Kobe during the port festival and holding on to the image of his absent mother, encounters people who speak different languages, or are from different countries or environments.

The film shows how community run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other. Focusing in the need for childcare and what good childcare could be, the film interviews women who express their desperation to find a safe environment for their children, and shows them taking positive action. Filming in daycare centers, it records what good parent-controlled daycare could mean for children as well as parents. Filmmakers Bonnie Friedman and Karen Mitnik said, "Being activist filmmakers, we were interested in showing everyday people taking control of their situation by utilizing empty community space to set up their own daycare centers. Using equipment shared amongst several projects within the Newsreel collective, we shot mostly on the streets of New York City with a Bolex and Nagra for sound."

A BAFTA award nominated animation showing what biophysics and biochemistry now perceive as the facts of life concerning evolution and the genetically determining factor of the DNA molecules.