1. Clouds and Trees
An Eternalism film.
2. Playground
A battle between nature and culture, between organic rye-grass and artificial turf. American football is played on rectangular fields, 120 yards long and 160 feet wide. These dimensions defined the framework for this film. Made with images found in Google Earth. With music by Michel Banabila.
3. Maria Maculada (Maria Maculada)
Maria tells her stories and, on the chords of experience, make us listen to her like a song. Maria, how many Marias. Her strenght is on the flaky skin that the existence insists on flaking. Macula, maculate, Maria.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
4. Grüße von Rosita aus Peru (Grüße von Rosita aus Peru)
Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, about 300 km south of Lima. Specific social and economic problems as well as ways of coping with them become visible.
5. Katzen im Haus (Katzen im Haus)
In twelve short episodes, which are interwoven into the course of a day, the film depicts situations that arise from keeping and caring for two cats for a family with six children in a suburban home. In addition to aspects of animal care, the film also addresses social problems and conflicts that arise from dealing with the animals in this family.
6. Ivan Hellberg, Baggerführer in Kiruna (Ivan Hellberg, Baggerführer in Kiruna)
Short documentary about an excavator operator in sweden
7. Neapel (Neapel)
Short documentary about Naples, Italy.
8. Können Analphabeten lesen? (Können Analphabeten lesen?)
The short film answers the question of whether illiterate people are able to read.
9. Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions about the condition and treatment of its subjects. “Abstract: This film describes and demonstrates four types of schizophrenia. Filmed at various New York institutions, it shows patients singly and grouped in large, outside recreational areas. Some patients are blindfolded. Symptoms shown include: social apathy, delusions, hallucinations, hebephrenic reactions, cerea flexibilitas, rigidity, motor stereotypes, posturing, and echopraxia.”
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. The Colour of His Hair
Based on an unrealized film script written in 1964 for The Homosexual Law Reform Society, a British organisation that campaigned for the decriminalization of homosexual relations between men, "The Colour Of His Hair" merges drama and documentary into a meditation on queer life before and after the partial legalization of homosexuality in 1967.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
11. St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha
St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha, the diamond that illuminates the Atlantic Pearl.
12. Hay Que Ser Paciente (Hay Que Ser Paciente)
(Hay Que Ser Paciente)
13. Meg's Jaw - A film essay
This is Meg. She has TMJ and not a lot of time to work on it.
14. The Wind in the Wires
This documentary recounts the history of modern aviation from roughly 1900 until the inter-war period, using old monochrome footage of original aircraft, contemporary color footage of replica planes in flight as well as a number of photographs of famous aviators.
15. Seven Times a Day We Bemoan Our Lot and at Night We Get Up to Avoid Our Dreams (Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen)
A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer , living in the East German countryside. Who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up into several nightmares.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
16. The Costume Designer
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.
17. The Dream Machine
A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine. Jarman's contribution is a version of his 1977 Art and the Pose , refilmed at 3fps, with a musical soundtrack. Jarman planned The Dream Machine as a commemoration of William Burroughs and Gysin's 1982 visit to the UK, and received initial funding from the Arts Council in 1983, then rethought the project as a portmanteau film featuring Gysin alone. The production remained in limbo until 1986, when James Mackay obtained completion funding from the British Film Institute.
It has an average vote of 4.4 on TMDB.
18. Gently Down the Stream
GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM is constructed from fourteen dreams taken from eight years' worth of my journals. The text is scratched directly on to the film so that you hear your own voice as you read. The accompanying images of women, water, animals and saints were chosen for their indirect but potent correspondence to the text.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
19. Salvador Dalí at Work
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
20. H.P. Lovecraft - Ipotesi di un viaggio in Italia (H.P. Lovecraft - Ipotesi di un viaggio in Italia)
A documentary about the possible ties between H.P.LOVECRAFT and the Polesine region , stimulated by the casual discovery of a mysterious manuscript attributed to the great American horror writer died in 1937.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.