Excess Will Save Us

Omelia Contadina

September 2020 •Italian

A farming community gathers on a plateau on the border of three regions for the funeral of traditional agriculture. It’s a film to ward off the disappearance of a millenary culture.

The Magic Sun

January 1966 •English

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-called negative post-process, while Niblock's camera focuses on microscopic details of hands, bodies and instruments. A brilliant tribute to the Sun King by another brilliant supra-planetary sovereign. (Eye of Sound)

Federsee

January 2013 •English

A anti-ethnographic film that looks at the traditional folklore surrounding the celebration of Fasnet (carnival) in the small Schwabian town of Bad Buchau which is haunted by the violent story of a father drowning his family in the nearby lake, Federsee.

Majestic White Horses

January 2001 •English

This equine odyssey travels such little-known turf as General George Patton's involvement in a daredevil World War II coup called "Operation Cowboy" that rescued 500 of Austria's famous white Lipizzans. It is a stunning behind-the-scenes production on the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, spiced with legends even linked to the prophet Mohammed.

Tchaïka

January 1994 •English

A still, highly overexposed shot of a car bridge and the river below. A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

Petite Ceinture

January 1994 •French

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

Terminal Bar - The Garbage Can

August 2012 •English

Fourth short film in Stefan Nadelman's look at the time his father spent at The Terminal Bar in NYC. This time Nadelman shows the pictures he took of the garbage can directly outside which serves as yet another portal into the streets at that time.

Wave Form

March 2015 •English

Psychedelic animated short capturing the spirit of surfing

Rue Campagne-Première

January 1923 •French

Man Ray shoots from a window on 31 bis rue Campagne-Première, in the heart of Montparnasse, where he rented a ground-floor studio.

The Gnomist

April 2015 •English

Deep in the forest of Overland Park, Kansas little gnomes made a home. But how did they get there? Experience the feel-good story of paying it forward, one tiny magical house at a time.

Island of Hope, Island of Tears

January 1989 •English

The story of Ellis Island and the American immigration experience. This film is a tribute to the 18 million men, women and children who made the torturous journey from the Old to the New World between 1890 and 1920, in the single largest migration in human history. The film radically tells the immigrants' stories as they braved the unknown, from the time they left their homelands, their journey across the ocean, to the moment the doors of Ellis Island opened, revealing the great promise of America.

Owl Gets in Your Eyes

January 1994 •English

A cinematic haiku by Chris Marker.

The United States of America

March 1975 •English

A conceptual bicentennial film dealing with spatial and temporal relationships between two travelers, their car, and the geographic, political, and social changes from NY to Los Angeles.

I.D.

October 2009 •English

A teenager finds her identity through the intimacy of the photo booth.

Golden Gloves

January 1961 •English

A classic NFB documentary about the Golden Gloves boxing tournament, the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world. This Gilles Groulx film shows three Montreal boxers in training. In behind-the-scenes interviews they talk about their ambitions and what prompted them to take up the sport. - NFB

Data for Decision

January 1968 •English

This short documentary is a portrait of the early era of computing and the process and implications of the digitization of large amounts of information. Examining the arduous work of assessing and documenting the geographical landscape, including sampling and analysis of soil, forestry, timber, wildlife, resources, industrial sites, and many other aspects, we see that human beings alone couldn't handle the vast amount of information that is collected. A new kind of computer (an “instant library”), the Canada Land Inventory Geo-information System, was developed to help manage and develop Canadian land. This film examines the workings of this new and mysterious machine.

Stay the Same

October 2013 •English

Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same place and same time, this experimental film-poem documents the desire to clutch and hold each moment.

Η αλήθεια για τα παιδιά της Ελλάδας

January 1948 •Greek

In the Labyrinth

April 1967 •English

"Labyrinth" is a groundbreaking multi-screen 45-minute presentation produced for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67 in Montreal, using 35 mm and 70 mm film projected simultaneously on multiple screens. A film without commentary in which multiple images, sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting, draw the viewer through the different stages of a labyrinth. The tone of the film moves from great joy to wrenching sorrow; from stark simplicity to ceremonial pomp. It is life as it is lived by the people of the world, each one, as the film suggests, in a personal labyrinth. Re-released in 1979 as "In the Labyrinth" by the National Film Board of Canada in a 21-minute single projection format.

Silver City Revisited

March 1969 •German

A series of ten shots, three minutes in length, of various locales in Munich.