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An anthology in ten volumes of Russian filmmaking from the early years of the 20th century. The films were rediscoved at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 1989. This selection was made by Ian Christie...
Shows excerpts from films held in the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington DC, with annotations and critical commentary. David Mayer introduces the films, talks of their provenance...
Uses footage shot in 1910 by Italian cinematographer Luca Comerio (1894-1949) and reworks it into a montage of hand-tinted black-and-white images of exotic people and places, set to a minimalist musical...
In this film Maya Deren sought to represent the philosophical attitudes behind several closely-related forms of martial art. The film consists entirely of sequences of a Chinese boxer demonstrating the...
A trance-like film tracing the conflict between a woman and her environment. At the start of the film the woman (played by Maya Deren) is washed up on a beach and then goes on an anxious odyssey through a...
The film that Medvedkin himself considered his greatest achievement, HAPPINESS is a cinematic folktale in which a poor, idle peasant is sent out by his wife to find happiness. Unfortunately his quest his...
A montage of Moscow life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. Dziga Vertov used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal - dissolves, split...
Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...
Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 film follows the final days of the eponymous heroine as she undergoes the debasement and interrogation that accompanies her trial for charges of heresy, followed by imprisonment and...
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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