A Visit to Peek Frean and Co.'s Biscuit Works

Janko ide z hôr

January 1949 •Slovak

Pieseň strojov

January 1948 •Slovak

Behemoth

November 2015 •Chinese

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.

A Century of Energy

June 2015 •Portuguese

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.

Until the End of the World

February 2024 •Italian

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, along with other international organizations, is leading efforts to increase aquaculture by encouraging countries around the world to invest in its development. However, local communities strongly oppose the expansion of fish farms due to resource depletion and water pollution concerns. From Italy to Greece, Spain to Senegal, and all the way to Patagonia in Chile, their journey to uncover the truth extends to the ends of the earth.

Giant Coal Dumper

July 1897 •English

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal dust rise as each car is unloaded.”

Beyond Fordlandia

January 2017 •English

An environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1927, when the Ford Motor Company attempted to establish rubber plantations on the Tapajós River, a primary tributary of the Amazon. This film addresses the recent transition from failed rubber to successful soybean cultivation for export, and its implication for land usage.

Fordlandia

March 2014 •English

Fordlandia is a small settlement on the River Tapajos in the Brazilian part of the Amazon, where Henry Ford set up a rubber industry in the 1920s. Mainly due to the resistance of nature, the project failed and was abandoned some 20 years later. Fordlandia is a voyage of (de)colonisation whereby the drifts and detours of modernity in uncertain places are highlighted, turning away from whatever their historical imaginaries were. The tensions between industrial and natural landscape are levelled off in a certain horizontality of hierarchies between form and content, and at the same time the animal resignifies possibilities of the community of the living.

Der lange Abschied von der Kohle

September 2017 •German

The Last Word in Chickens

January 1924 •Dutch

This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print. More information is available on the film's page in the National Film Preservation Foundation's website, where this version can be found featuring original music by Michael D. Mortilla.

K-pop, les secrets du phénomène mondial

September 2024 •French

It's the musical phenomenon of the moment: K-Pop, short for "Korean Pop," has taken the world by storm in just a few years. But behind the powerful lyrics, elaborate choreography, and polished looks lies a ruthless industry.

Industrializácia Slovenska

January 1951 •Slovak

Poros Stands

April 2024 •English

Cattle Market in Derry

May 1902 •

Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold.

Woman at War

May 2018 •Icelandic

Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.

Totò e il Principe De Curtis. L'uomo oltre la maschera

October 2023 •Italian

彩虹

January 1981 •Chinese

A Reflection

October 2023 •English

The poetry of the passage of time is seen on the faces of the elderly and in the voices of a youth choir.

Ethan Lim: Cambodian Futures

October 2023 •English

This short film follows a chef with a mission to share and elevate Cambodian food using his family’s recipes.

Connie

September 2022 •English

An intimate look at the life of Connie, following her adventures through the acting world, parenthood and the sheer anarchic joy of survival.