Vowellet - An Essay by Sarah Vowell

Endeavour

Johann Lurf‘s film Endeavour slides between documentary, avant-garde film, and science-fiction. This highly singular combination of materials and tech

2011

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the firs

1895

Sprængning af Træer i Dyrehaven

A group of military men uses explosives to de-root trees.

1907

Københavnerbilleder

Various street scenes from Copenhagen in 1907.

1907

John Grierson

A BFI-produced documentary about documentary filmmaker John Grierson speaking about documentary.

1959

Street Art

A short news reel documentary about poster art.

1957

Hansa

Footage of the German airship Hansa over Copenhagen.

1912

Poor-Land

A documentary about unemployed workers in Walbrzych, Poland.

2004

Stravinsky

This documentary is an informal portrait of the great modern composer Igor Stravinsky. Proudly American, though still very much an Old World figure wi

1966

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal

1940

#Ya

First it's paint bombs, followed hard by riots. Tweets proclaim what is to be done. Resistance is everywhere. Something has to give. Two young activis

2015

The Ax Fight

The Ax Fight (1975) is an ethnographic film by anthropologist and filmmaker Tim Asch and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon about a conflict in a Yanomam

1975

Cleaners of Death

This is a story about people whose invisible job is to clean up the world that is hidden from our society.

2018

Island of Lemurs: Madagascar

The incredible true story of nature’s greatest explorers—lemurs. Through footage captured with IMAX 3D, audiences go on a spectacular journey to the r

2014

Satan's Choice

A rare "inside" view of a motorcycle club in Toronto, one of the network of such fraternal groups in the large centers across North America. The names

1965

Nice Chinese Girls Don't!

Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the a

2019

Im Reich Des Squatters

2020

DIYSEX

DIYSEX is a film that reflects on the use of the image and the language of mainstream pornography, and wonders how far this use can transcend when mak

2019

First, We Eat

An observational portrait of the California Chinese community through the eyes of a Chinese restaurant in Monterey Park and an LA-based recent graduat

2021

Bolaño, Up Close and Personal

Generously included as a bonus DVD alongside the 502-page Bolaño salvaje, a book of essays about and reminiscences on the Chilean novelist/poet publis

2008