All Films

Cracovienne

1893 • 1 min • Poland

Actors from Warsaw's garden theatres dance a traditional Polish dance, cracovienne.

Blacksmithing Scene

1893 • 1 min • United States of America

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.

Horse Shoeing

1893 • 1 min • United States of America

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to drive the nail into the shoe of the horse's hoof, to change his position and every movement needed in the work was clearly shown as if the object was in real (life). In fact, the whole routine of the two men's labor and their movements for the day was presented to the view of the observer.

The Raven

1892 • 3 min • Vietnam

Eugene Breckenridge is astounded when a raven shows up at his window...

A Good Beer

1892 • 15 min • France

One of the first animated short films. A wanderer enters a cabaret in the countryside and asks a waitress for a beer. She comes back with a pint, as the wanderer begins to court her. However, the kitchen boy comes, drinks the beer and vanishes. The wanderer, misunderstanding, asks for another beer. Then a traveler enters and has an argument with the wandered. During the argument, the kitchen boy appears, sips the second beer and runs away. As the traveler quits, the customer finds his glass empty again. He calls the waitress, expresses his disappointment and leaves. The kitchen boy comes in and explains to the waitress what he did with the two beers. They make fun together of the wanderer and leave. A lost film.

Déplacement des globules de sang dans un vaisseau capillaire

1892 • 1 min

An early film by Étienne-Jules Marey, one of the first anatomical/medical recordings.

Man on Parallel Bars

1892 • 1 min • United States of America

Lost film directed by William K.L. Dickson. Presented by Edison Manufacturing Company.

Wrestling

1892 • 1 min • United States of America

A lost film, directed by William K.L. Dickson about two men wrestling.

A Hand Shake

1892 • 1 min • United States of America

William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.

Poor Pierrot

1892 • 5 min • France

One night, Arlequin comes to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away.

Clown and His Dogs

1892 • 10 min • France

Short film of 300 individually painted images. A lost film.

Fencing

1892 • 1 min • United States of America

Early Edison short showing two men fencing.

Men Boxing

1891 • 1 min • United States of America

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Newark Athlete

1891 • 1 min • United States of America

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

Dickson Greeting

1891 • 1 min • United States of America

William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the first film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company to be shown to public audiences and the press.

London's Trafalgar Square

1890 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square traffic, filmed with a kinesigraph.

Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea

1890 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Formerly lost film rediscovered in 1996, directed by William Friese-Greene.

Monkeyshines, No. 3

1890 • 1 min • United States of America

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1" and "Monkeyshines, No. 2". Once again, an Edison company worker moves around in front of the motion picture camera. Lost film.

Monkeyshines, No. 2

1890 • 1 min • United States of America

Experimental film that follows up on the results of "Monkeyshines, No. 1". Once again, an Edison company worker moves around in front of the motion picture camera.

Monkeyshines, No. 1

1890 • 1 min • United States of America

Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows a blurry figure in white standing in one place making large gestures and is only a few seconds long.

Scandal Over the Teacups

1900 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.

Projeto Closet São Paulo

2018 • 23 min • Brazil

In March 2018, a theater in São Paulo becomes a safe and shared space for seven LGBTQI people, born in other Brazilian states, to reflect on the city's contradictions regarding gender and sexuality intolerances.

Les soeurs de Nagasaki

2018 • 52 min • Canada

On August 9th, 1945, an atomic bomb explodes over Nagasaki. Held prisoner by the Japanese, a small group of religious missionaries, including many Canadians, survive the bombing. By forcing Japan to surrender, the bomb freed these women, yet jailed them in a prison of the mind through their traumatic memories of this nuclear holocaust.

The Ambassadors

2018 • 10 min • Thailand

Rivers and Suwichakornpong’s first collaboration, commissioned by the 2018 Thai Biennale.