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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

September 1927 •German

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

November 2023 •English

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.

Man with a Movie Camera

May 1929 •Russian

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Migajas

October 2023 •Spanish

Fed up with surviving on social crumbs, he takes a surreal flight to find a hidden truth. In a dull world, we need color, but what if this colorful idealization turns against you?

Downtown

November 2024 •English

A girl comes to the city for studying for the first time.

Monks

November 2016 •

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

Broadway by Light

January 1958 •French

An experimental meditation on Times Square's marquees and iconic advertising that captures the concurrently seedy and dazzling aspects of New York's Great White Way.

Bodies of Desire

August 2021 •English

Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, it follows the journey of a poet as they rediscover love, passion, and identity after encountering their muse.

Dreamtale

May 2019 •English

An experimental visual poem about a sick lonely old man stays in his big empty house, dreaming of a glorious life that he could have. In this dream, he plays a Rubik's Cube, which connects the memories of his prime in a paralleled universe, the chapters of love and pain.

I Am Belfast

April 2016 •English

Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself.

Symphony of a City

August 1947 •Swedish

A short film about Stockholm. Sweden's first Oscar, 1949 Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

Pretty Land And Green Its Sighs

September 2024 •English

A short anecdotal documentary about the nature of destruction, a debilitating deadlock of humanity.

Last of a London Summer

September 2017 •English

The last days of summer captured on 16mm.

New York Portrait

June 1990 •English

Peter Hutton's New York trilogy. An act of urban archaeology, a chronicle of indelible impressions of the city.

If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat

January 2014 •English

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the people who spend time with them. Centered on the story of the legendary Goat Man - a nomadic figure who spent most of his life walking the roads of Georgia with a wagon pulled by a herd of goats - this experimental documentary weaves together an interview with a goat farmer, footage of the daily rituals Johnson enacted with her own herd, and a poem about the Goat Man’s experimental and spectacular life.

The Hart of London

November 1970 •English

"The Hart of London" is an endlessly layered tour de force. It explores life and death, the sense of place and personal displacement, and the intricate aesthetics of representation. It is a personal and spiritual film, marked inevitably by Chambers’s knowledge that he had leukemia. The late American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage said of Hart, "If I named the five greatest films [ever made], this has got to be one of them." Even this high praise falls short of hyperbole. The Hart of London is at the centre of Chambers’s extraordinary achievement.

De Wind

November 2014 •Dutch

FALL

November 2023 •French

the poem exists, the book does not

September 2022 •English

In this short from James Knight, a collection of Paul Celan's poetry is subjected to an electrical atomisation. Its words are severed from their material form. Knight composes through decomposition, pages disintegrate and reintegrate, and all the while the traces of their words remain fixed.

Longing for Spring

June 1984 •Japanese

A visual poem where a woman visits various Buddhist temples in Nara and winter turns to spring.