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  1. Czech Film Avant-Garde

    Director
    Libor Nemeskal
    Subject
    Film studies

    This history of the Czech avant garde and independent film movement in the 1920s and 1930s is an in depth look at the work of Vít zslav Nezval, Jaroslav Seifert, Alexander Hackenschmied, Jan Ku era and...

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  2. Useful Life, A (2014)

    Director
    Federico Veiroj
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 67 minutes), £9.99

    Fiction film about a film-programmer who is forced to change his way of life when the cinémathèque where he works is closed down. The character of Jorge is played by real-life film critic Jorge Jellinek.

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  3. Story of Children and Film, A (2014)

    Director
    Mark Cousins
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £15.99

    Mark Cousins tells the story of children in film through a selection of clips from 53 films from 23 different countries.

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  4. See What I See (2015)

    aka: Shakespeare on Film

    Producer
    Richard Paul
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies

    Podcast. Episode 26 in the series. Professor Samuel Crowl Professor of English at Ohio University and the author of A Norton Guide to Shakespeare and Film, Shakespeare at the Cineplex, and Shakespeare...

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  5. Friendship’s Death (1987)

    Director
    Peter Wollen
    Subject
    Film studies

    A British war correspondent discovers a strange being known as Friendship when covering the bloody conflict between the Palestinians and Jordanians. She looks human, but who is she? An alien? A spy? The...

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  6. Christopher’s Movie Matinée: Haphazard Adventures in Flower Power Cinema (1968)

    Director
    Mort Ransen
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    In 1968, in Yorkville (Toronto), the NFB provided a group of hippies with cameras, film and a few NFB film crew members so they could make a film illustrating their lives and their world. The footage they...

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  7. Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

    Director
    James Sibley, Jr. Watson
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    This 1928 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s story is the most well-known and technically accomplished example of the avant-garde school of American film-making which flourished in the 1920s.

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  8. Freestyle (2018)

    Subject
    Film studies; History; Politics & government

    The Peterloo Massacre (16 August 1819) began as a peaceful demonstration in Manchester for rights and representation, with thousands gathering to express their views. This short film explores its legacy from...

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  9. Symmetry (1966)

    Director
    Philip Stapp
    Subject
    Film studies; Mathematics

    Philip Stapp was one of the greatest animators working in the 1950-1975 era, using stylized, often pointillist abstract imagery, in a floating world sometimes surrealist, at other times reminiscent of...

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  10. Cinequarium (2010)

    Director
    Mico Tatalovic
    Subject
    Biology; Film & television production

    How can we use film and aquariums to save the world’s fish stocks? This film is an artistic exploration of similarities between cinema and aquariums and their role in saving the fish. The film was produced...

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