Stop for Bud

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

1963-12-17 | da

Gypsy Sweetheart

Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's estate where a lawn party is in progress. She brings along her friends and a whole caravan of gypsies take over the green, telling fortunes, singing and dancing. Most of the comedy is supplied by the kleptomaniac butler, Bellingham, and his employer who humors his nutty ways...as good help seems to be hard to find.

1935-03-30 | en

Perfect Image?

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful and black.

1989-01-02 | en

Sheik to Sheik

A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.

1936-10-10 | en

Lone Breaker

Follow Hot Feet as he break dances around the world and outer space, breaking his way into everyone's heart! Based on the video game BREAK DANCE created by Steve Beck and published in 1984 by Epyx. This Break Dance cartoon was made in 1985 with an Apple II computer and custom "moviemation" software developed by Steve Beck and his team at Beck-Tech in Berkeley

1985-07-01 | en

So Long

The life of two characters who follow each other beyond the walls.

2012-11-21 | fr

The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings

Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased sisters. A meditation on the precarious uncertainty of the American Dream and the role that uncontrollable forces play in our lives, The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings is inspired by a harrowing scene from the opera Proving Up, by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek.

2021-01-15 | en

How the Lion Cub and the Turtle Sang a Song

The Tortoise composed a song and the Lion cub learnt it by heart and they sang it together.

1974-01-01 | ru

Colombina Star y su baile del terror

2023-07-31 | es

Carmen

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

1934-06-10 | de

Main Street Follies

A New york producer sends a spy to a nightclub to report back on the musical acts.

1935-05-11 | en

Hoch der Lambeth Valk

A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.

1941-12-25 | xx

Bon Iver: Autumn

An intimate look at the creation of Autumn, a unique tour by the notoriously cryptic band Bon Iver.

2019-07-31 | en

On the Forest Stage

The animated film was created based on the fables of Sergey Mikhalkov "Cautious birds" and "Hare in the hops." Drake with his assistants arranges a performance on the forest stage for animals. He tells fables about forest dwellers from the stage.

1954-03-22 | ru

Remember me as Time

An experimental short film about a woman who feels stuck in time after experiencing some form of trauma.

2022-05-14 | en

Tap Tap

2022-05-07 | fr

Wishing Apple

Magic apples doing magic things.

2019-06-28 | en

So bad

After her brother is attacked, the slayer finds herself on a deadly mission to avenge her family.

2022-05-13 | en

The Music of Regret

Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objects—such as a house, birthday cake, and pistol—balanced on female legs, both human and fake, brings these characters to life in a three-act mini-musical. The film is inspired by three distinct periods of Simmons’s photographic work: vintage hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies and walking objects enact tales of ambition, disappointment, love, loss, and regret. Working with composer Michael Rohaytn ("Personal Velocity") and cameraman Ed Lachman ("The Virgin Suicides" and "Far From Heaven"), Simmons’s puppets come to life in miniature domestic scenes that echo real life.

2006-05-24 | en

All Star Melody Masters

Cole Porter times three! Al Kemp and His Orchestra swing "Begin the Beguine," Emil Coleman and His Orchestra sell us "Just One of Those Things," and Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra love some "(Let's Do It) Let's Fall in Love."

1943-05-22 | en