Afghan Alphabet (2002)

A dadaist explosion that starts as a typical Hollywood travelogue of Stockholm and ends in the city's total destruction by fire and dynamite. This is a hilarious anarchist film; made by the then unknown Hulten now director of Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art. In a particularly subversive scene, the fire engine, arriving at a fire, goes up in flames.

«Фильм из большой серии… Нелегко назвать главного героя «Советской элегии». В картине проходит более ста лиц наших соотечественников. Однако, конечно, не случайно в фильме выделена судьба известного политического деятеля Бориса Николаевича Ельцина… При всей типичности путей, которыми Ельцин шел к власти, его выделяет незаурядность характера, что, по мнению автора фильма не в последнюю очередь определяется незаурядностью натуры. Наш герой — в ряду трагичной советской социалистической жизни. Он и ее персонаж и драматург одновременно. Документальность «Советской элегии» весьма условна. Конечно, автор отвечает за точность хронологии… однако настаивает на форме художественного мышления, а не полит–исторического расследования».

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

Documentary short film showing the production of cars at a Chevrolet factory in the mid 1930s.

In Side/Walk/Shuttle, he takes to the glass elevator attached to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and rides its 24 stories up and down, constantly shifting the orientation of his camera to offer images of the city as a site of flux, freed from gravity to rearrange itself in perpetuum. While the sensual and emotional experience of all these new views is enough to make one's life richer (the phrase "city symphony" has never seemed quite so apt), Gehr's film is also a deeply visceral reminder that the world contains so much more than we can ever know. -- Slant Magazine

One of Klahr's masterpieces, Altair is an 8 minute collage color -noir culled from late-40s pages of Cosmopolitan, which induces a sense of claustrophobia and dread through its use of Stravinsky's The Firebird.

An expedition leaves Ushuaia for the Antarctic circle. Pierre Huyghe, along with six other artists, is brought aboard Jean-Louis Etienne's boat in search of an uncharted island inhabited by a strange creature. Imprisoned by ice floats, they come across an albino penguin that they capture with their recording station. Six months later, on the Wollman Ice Rink in New York's Central Park -- another sea of ice -- Joshua Cody conducts his orchestral score inspired by the expedition's topographical records.

This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva worked on this documentary from 1966 to 1972, establishing a relationship with the family which allows the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.

A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions.

WWI comes to a small Serbian village of Kumodraz, disturbing its residents' quiet life.

A Greek documentary by Takis Kanellopoulos about wedding traditions in western Greece and Macedonia. It was filmed in the village of Velvendo.

This labor advocacy film is about diseases plaguing miners in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Sponsored by the Tri-State Survey Committee, "Men and Dust" is a stylistically innovative documentary and a valuable ecological record of landscapes radically transformed by extractive industry.

Part of the "Through Navajo Eyes" series of seven short documentaries, along with Intrepid Shadows (1966), The Navajo Silversmith (1966), Old Antelope Lake (1966), Second Weaver (1966), The Shallow Well Project (1966), and The Spirit of the Navajos (1966).

A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. Based on John Collier's short story “Youth from Vienna”.

Alfred Clah was a Navajo artist from a community outside Pine Springs, AZ. He said: "they making films about things out there, the trading post, things you can see; I'm making films about inside: I like to see scenes that people never expected, the legends, the gods."

Документальный анимационный фильм, описывающий историю освоения бассейна реки Святого Лаврентия в Канаде. Ее воды в былые времена изобиловали животным и растительным миром, по берегам росли пышные леса, в которых водились различные представители фауны, но все они пали жертвой беспощадной эксплуатации и индустриального загрязнения. К сожалению, не одна только эта могучая река пострадала из-за действий человека.

This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned upon by police and adults, skateboarding gave youngsters a thrilling sensation of speed and freedom. This film - the first Canadian documentary ever made about the sport - captures the exuberance of boys and girls having the time of their lives in free-wheeling downhill locomotion.

This spoof of 'Apocalypse Now' has health inspector Will Dullard travelling by car "uptown" with two friends to have a meeting with a certain Mertz, the owner of a meat processing shop, to "investigate with extreme prejudice."