Die italienische Küste des Mittelmeeres

In the Image of God

November 2020 •Italian

The fourth generation in his family to be born intersex, Jewish Rabbi Levi was assigned the female gender at birth and grew up thinking he was sick and defective. "In the Image of God" tells the story of his struggles and transitions, culminating today in a life as a religious leader and an LGBTQI+ activist living happily in Los Angeles with his wife.

Music in the Afternoon

January 2002 •English

Fellow violinist and artist Tony Conrad, in collaboration with software engineer Tom Demeyer, made for Steina the instrument seen in this title. Conrad and the Vasulkas all taught at the University at Buffalo in the Media Study Department from 1976 to 1979.

Alaska

March 1969 •German

Alaska is a wordless experimental film with a simple, droning soundtrack that sounds as if it is a piece for violin and refrigerator hum.

Kometen

January 2004 •Swedish

Stockholm 1965. A comet is heading towards earth. A man with a super-8 camera documents the city and its inhabitants the days before the end of the world.

Stranger in the City

January 1961 •English

Aspects of a London day, including prostitutes on street corners, a striptease show and the 2i's Coffee Bar.

Kristallwachstum

January 1952 •German

Experiments on the crystallization of various inorganic substances: crystallization from solution, crystallization from melt and vapour phase, mixed crystal formation, oriented growth, change from a metastable into a stable phase.

Bewegungsweisen bei Protozoen

January 1952 •German

Short film about the movement patterns of protozoa

Man Who Chooses the Bush

January 1975 •English

This short documentary follows Frank Ladouceur, a man who lives alone for months at a time, trapping muskrat in the vast, desolate wilderness of northern Alberta. He receives no visitors, and rarely voyages to his family home in Fort Chipewyan. What some may consider an unthinkably lonely, isolated existence is the calling of this fiercely independent Métis man. Remarkably determined and self-sufficient, Frank makes his home in the wild bush.

The Moebius Flip

January 1970 •English

A science fiction fantasy on skis with spectacular glacier skiing, extraordinary acrobatics, unique optical effects, and an original score. The world's polarity is mysteriously reversed, requiring the skiers to regain the realm of normal perception by performing maneuvers inspired by the ambiguous nature of the "Moebius Strip."

Moonwalk

April 2024 •Spanish

This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental musical track that accompanies the rhythm of the "walk" on the stage that the protagonist occupies, the sky.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth (but were afraid to ask)

January 2019 •English

The amazing story of how the Berkeley police department, the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, an Academy Award winner and Mr. Spock from TV’s Star Trek are all connected by “Sudden Birth”, one of the most unintentionally hilarious and disturbing educational films ever created.

Adrift by the Towers

May 2019 •Portuguese

Vila das Torres was a self-built community based on one of the largest urban gardens in Rio de Janeiro, below the energy towers of the Light Company and next to the train lines. Eight years after its removal for the construction of Parque Madureira, former residents report their memories.

Le Cuir

January 1937 •French

Short documentary about the Belgian leather industry.

Lettre à mon ami Pol Cèbe

January 1970 •French

A short "working class road movie".

La ruta de don Quijote

January 1934 •Spanish

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and his judicious squire Sancho Panza, the immortal characters of Miguel de Cervantes, which offers a candid depiction of rural life in Spain in the early 1930s and illustrates the first sentence of the first article of the Spanish Constitution of 1931, which proclaims that Spain is a democratic republic of workers of all kind.

Scum Manifesto

January 1976 •French

Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.

Chucky Lou - Story of a Woodchuck

January 1948 •English

Tells the story of a woodchuck which was taken to a state park to live and now entertains the park visitors by performing tricks. Shows the woodchuck's appearance, size, natural habitat, food, habits, and adjustment to captivity.

The Devil's Hour

October 2017 •English

The Devil's Hour is a short horror film with one character and one location: Grace finds herself awakened by an uninvited visitor.

African Adventure: Safari in the Okavango

May 2007 •English

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

March 2008 •English

Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.