Pwllheli Carnival

These Streets Will Never Look the Same

August 2024 •English

A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America in search of the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildife.

Confessions of a Burning Man

October 2003 •English

The experience shared by four first-timers demonstrates how Burning Man dissolves the barriers between races, nationalities and economic classes. A beautiful piece of film-making which inspires and entertains as it provides some understanding about why people return year after year.

American Thrift: An Expansive Tribute to the "Woman American"

January 1962 •English

Chevrolet presents this tribute to the American woman and her thrifty ways with money. The film also salutes the individuality of the Amerian citizen and the variety of choices we have in the marketplace.

Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft

May 2009 •English

Behind the fluffy towels and crisp white sheets of Berlin's finest hotels is a tale of seemingly brilliant entrepreneurship: A company takes the dirty laundry of German hotels to Poland - and brings it back clean the very next day. Outside of Germany, labor is cheaper and regulations are less constricting. But over and beyond this fascinating capital venture there remains the harsh reality of the everyday life of the hard-working Polish laundrywomen, through whose hands the white sheets pass. While Beata struggles to raise her three children on her meager salary, Monika reminisces about her unrealized childhood dreams of becoming a doctor, and is compelled to watch her teenage daughter Marta gradually follow in her footsteps.

Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man

December 2002 •English

Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man is a full-color book (which includes a DVD) based on the captivating images of Holly Kreuter, with contributions from an additional 90 Burning Man participants, offering the reader a taste of the Burning Man experience. The DVD includes an original Score by Sean Abreu, seven slideshows featuring 560 Kreuter photographs and video interviews with 8 artists including Larry Harvey.

Le soleil a pas d'chance

January 1975 •French

Richmond Historical Pageant

January 1929 •

Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

Alaaf - 200 Jahre Kölner Karneval

February 2023 •German

200 years of Cologne Carnival! The most colourful and loudest festival in Cologne celebrates a big birthday. In February 1823, a few men from Cologne's upper class founded the so-called 'Festordnende Komitee' - the forerunner of today's 'Festkomitee Kölner Karneval'. This 'big bang' was a reaction to the old festival getting out of hand in orgies and violence. Carnival was in danger. A ban by the Prussian rulers was imminent. The new committee wanted to control the wild goings-on, establish rules and organise the celebrations.

December 6, 1960

December 1960 •Finnish

Independence Day celebrations at the Finnish presidential palace December 6, 1960.

Dismissal from Mass in Ljutomer

December 1905 •Slovenian

1905 short film showing people walking down a Ljutomer street after mass.

A King Like Me

March 2024 •English

Follows members of the Zulu Club, New Orleans’ first Black Mardi Gras, as they work to bring the Zulu parade back to the streets for Mardi Gras Day 2022, in the face of a global pandemic, hurricane Ida and the loss of members due to COVID and gun violence.

Sunshine in Soho

January 1956 •English

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.

Die Maskenmacher von Venedig

December 2023 •German

Carna

May 1969 •Dutch

Although it was actually an impersonal commissioned film, the director's style is clearly recognizable. Once again he manages to make something that is normal very strange: the dancing people in costumes are filmed in such a way that they look bizarre and absurd. Jan de Bont's camerawork shows a series of color images of dancing people, edited to the rhythm of the music. Halfway through the film, a lonely clown can be seen among the dancing crowd, accompanied by sad music. This clown is played by Ditvoorst himself.

Alcools

March 2023 •French

Madras Mylapore - Tank and Religious Processions

February 1932 •English

The thronging streets of Chennai in festive mood are captured by this lively amateur film.

Carnival in Bissau

January 1980 •French

Documentary short that explores the meaning of the locals’ African identity through the Carnival festivities.

Procession of Elephants at Jaipur; Galta; Raj Mahal

August 1933 •English

Armoured elephants, sacred monkeys and a camel carriage from Rajasthan.

Indian Scene of Procession

January 1903 •English

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

Mysore

June 1940 •English

Two sides of Mysore: down to earth with the field workers and an Indian spectacle for the Maharaja.