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The Days Before Christmas

January 1958 •English

This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.

The Key Issue

February 2011 •Albanian

A mockumentary about four people and their idiosyncratic ways of saving the planet.

Presos del silencio

October 2004 •Spanish

The Costume Designer

July 1950 •English

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct for the film historically and geographically, and must be appropriate for the mood of the individual scene. We see famed costume designer Edith Head at work on a production. The Costume Designer was part of The Industry Film Project, a twelve-part series produced by the film studios and the Academy. Each series episode was produced to inform the public on a specific facet of the motion picture industry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Fourth Parcae

January 2019 •Italian

Sabina Cervoni, member of Exit, provides assistance to whoever chooses to take its own life legally.

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God

November 2005 •French

Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s close friends and collaborators.

Ocean Wonderland 3D

February 2003 •English

Shot on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Bahamas, Ocean Wonderland brings to you the amazing beauty of the many varieties of coral and the immense diversity of the marine life thriving there.

Load Runners

January 1966 •English

An overview of Osborn manufacturing equipment, in particular their load runners in utility plants and factory environments.

An Owl Is an Owl Is an Owl

July 1990 •English

From Chris Marker's collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire (1990), consisting of three video haikus.

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol

September 1965 •English

In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on stage and hand him the award. Andy said, no, he didn't want a public presentation.

About the Memoirs of a House

July 2022 •German

The life of a couple is observed through the home they have left behind.

Spring Fever

June 2019 •English

A glimpse into a refreshingly different sex education class in the Netherlands.

Somos animales

January 2023 •Spanish

Tania and Cocteau, a cat that comes from the not too distant future, tell the story of the passage of animals through the world and their relationship with humans.

In the Lost City

February 2009 •Spanish

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those who filmed and portrayed Madrid despite the dictatorship, censorship and the critical situation of industry and society.

The Incredible Bread Machine Film

December 1975 •English

A discussion of the economic and political ideas presented in the book "The Incredible Bread Machine".

Quarantine

May 2021 •Spanish

A short film of the first weeks of strict national lockdown, filmed in Barcelona on a classic home video camera Hi8. Narrates the story of three women who share a flat and who create a microworld not only to survive the global pandemic but also to survive themselves.

Haida Carver

January 1964 •English

On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the manner of his grandfather, who taught him the craft.

Crónica de un galgódromo

March 2020 •Spanish

Gardeners, veterinarians and breeders. And some imposing mammals capable of running at seventy kilometers per hour: the baths in the sun, the runway before the confrontation. And the money, the bets and the runners speed around a dizzying track.

Prosa y verso de una identidad

March 2020 •Spanish

A group of writers from Hidalgo get together to generate their works and create a community around literature.

Silencio

March 2020 •Spanish

Sound progression of two opposite landscapes.