The Art of Silence

The first documentary about the legendary mime Marcel Marceau. He inspired several generations of artists, including his grandson and his family, who shed new light on his life’s work.

2022-05-05 | fr

Jeppy Bass

Jeppy Bass is the story of a college student's struggles to make his thesis short film, entitled 'Damn Fine Cup'. After getting a behind-the-scenes look into the efforts taken to produce the film, we get a brief glimpse into the dark psyche of the filmmaker and perhaps the intentions behind the film.

2015-02-15 | en

Desorden en la vía pública

2018-02-22 | es

Meyerhold's theatre and biomechanics

Russian actor and pedagogue, Gennadi Bogdanov, presents the most important etudes and principles of Vsevolod Meyerhold's Biomechanics. Includes archival photographs and film of Meyerhold's original work and also recent scenic work from Europe and the U.S. developed on the principles of bio-mechanics.

2003-02-02 | de

Children of Paradise

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.

1945-03-15 | fr

Silent Movie

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

1976-06-17 | en

Shanks

Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.

1974-10-09 | en

Victory to the Mimers

A satirical dramedy loosely inspired by the infamous UK Miners' strikes; however this time, the fight isn’t in the pits, but on the stage. With his beloved family trade targeted by a right-wing government with a long-standing hatred for the arts, a Mime performer desperately rallies the troops for a silent revolution, vowing to save the art form from facing the final curtain.

2024-09-29 | en

Mime

A dimension-shifting mime player is disturbed in his peace by a student fraternity. His response is unexpected: by using the fourth wall, he turns their world on its head; literally. However, his powers are useless to achieve romance.

2020-10-01 | nl

The Last Butterfly

Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.

1991-01-01 | cs

Be Mime

15 year old Alister goes on a blind date with a boy she's been texting. But when she mistakes a street artist mime for her date, she’s faced with a choice: ditch the mime for her real date, or forget about her preconceived notions of love and come to terms with who he is.

2024-05-03 | en

Sing

Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was.

2016-11-06 | hu

You Missed a Spot

In a world where every single person is a clown, a mime escapes a cabin massacre and must find his voice to save the girl of his dreams.

2020-05-16 | en

Mime Your Manners

Mime Your Manners is an animated shirt film about an arrogant man is given a taste of his own medicine when he's transformed into a mime and in order to be freed must grow to be a better person

2020-10-09 | en

...In with the New

A passionate mime practices her daily rituals and performs for people, as well as being reminded of her insecurities.

2023-12-20 | en

Courtemanche On Tour

1994-01-01 | fr

The Art of Silence: The Cage

One in a series of twelve films in which the great French mime Marcel Marceau performs some works from his repertoire. In his introduction he describes this pantomime as having a theme that goes beyond time, an allegory showing a man trying to escape an enclosure of invisible walls. He also suggests that it stands for our freedom of choice, stating that for the limited span of our life on earth, we must struggle for the enlightenment of humanity and search for a way out of the cage

1975-01-01 | en

Tell Me About The Willy Wallies

Melvin, a writer, refuses to acknowledge his old characters at a job interview, prompting these characters to manifest themselves to complain.

2024-12-12 | en

The Art of Silence: Youth Maturity Old Age and Death

One in a series of twelve films in which the great French mime Marcel Marceau performs some works from his repertoire. In his introduction Marceau calls mime the essence of life and suggests that it can reach the soul through silence. In this pantomime he expresses life from the womb to the grave in a few minutes and illustrates one of the art's most notable characteristics - its ability to condense time and to create through time the pulse of humanity.

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Deburau

Jean-Gaspard Deburau is a very successful mime, the most famous in his category. One day, he falls head over heels in love with Marie Duplessis, a courtesan better known as "La Dame aux Camélias". But he soon realizes that he is but a number in her long list of lovers. He will find comfort in devoting his time teaching his art to his son Charles.

1951-06-29 | fr