Limbs of Sun

Alternate Spaces

December 2022 •English

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.

Belgrade

August 1945 •Serbian

Documentary, black and white.

Maalesh Ya Zahar

April 1950 •Arabic

Saber Effendi is a simple employee suffering from financial pitfalls. A new manager comes to the company who had an old friendship with Saber's wife, which strengthens his relationship with Saber's family. But it causes a rumor that there is a relationship between the manager and Saber's wife.

Raqsat Al Wadah

April 1954 •Arabic

A poor maid loves her wealthy young master and she becomes pregnant. The head of the family seeks to make her marry a lawless man to give the newborn girl his name. Time passes and the girl becomes a dancer in nightclubs, and falls in love with a wealthy young man who knows who is her real father .

Saa La Qalbak

March 1950 •Arabic

After his wife dies, Taysir Bey marries the promiscuous woman, Kawthar Hanim, who always deludes her husband that he is sick. His son Ahmed loves the girl Ne'amat, but his stepmother wants him to marry her daughter, so she frames Ne'amat with the help of her lover, Farag.

What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?

April 2004 •English

Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when she begins to question her role in life, her relationships with her career and men and what it all means. As the layers to her everyday experiences fall away insertions in the story with scientists, and philosophers and religious leaders impart information directly to an off-screen interviewer about academic issues, and Amanda begins to understand the basis to the quantum world beneath. During her epiphany as she considers the Great Questions raised by the host of inserted thinkers, she slowly comprehends the various inspirations and begins to see the world in a new way.

Beyond Me

December 2010 •English

Is there a possible common link between the migration patterns of Monarch Butterflies and Personality Disorders? Beyond Me takes a look at the mechanism in place that, through the process of reincarnation, retains traits and tendencies from one lifetime to the next. This film provides the missing link between Darwin's Theory of Evolution and the theory of Intelligent Design and offers a simple and practical solution to lifting mankind out of it's collective misery.

Aqueducts

September 2021 •Spanish

Aqueducts transport water. Images transmit the memory. Images of aqueducts are useless.

Ténérife

September 1932 •French

Top Hat

August 1935 •English

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

The Navy Is a Thing For Men

December 1967 •Polish

"Marynarka..." is a story of a painter who went on a cruise on a navy ship, framed by a musical film. It features Anna German, Piotr Szczepanik and the Szczecin band Filipinki.

Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

March 1998 •English

This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the dominant themes like that of the outsider, the outspoken American patriotism, and rooting for the underdog in society.

Opa sein Berlin

January 1981 •German

Rare documentary footage from around 1900 depicts the mood of life in Berlin at the turn of the century.

My Heart is My Guide

October 1947 •Arabic

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

January 2004 •English

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge...

New York Portrait, Chapter III

March 1990 •English

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of rural landscape. The very fact that Hutton is dealing with older footage, with archives of memory more than immediacy, gives it a different texture than his earlier New York films. Hutton always found the presence of nature in the city, not only in his many shots of sky and vegetation, but also in the geometry and texture of the city itself, which seemed to project an independence from the human." (Tom Gunning)

Melpómena

Invalid date •Portuguese

Leila, ghadet el camelia

April 1942 •Arabic

A night film adapted from the story of Ghada al-Kamiliya produced in 1942 and directed by Togo Mizrahi

New York Portrait, Chapter II

January 1981 •English

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the second part of an extended life's portrait of New York.

Dreamers: Cleo Ice Queen feat. Tio Nason

January 2021 •English

Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are never too old to do it! Don’t wait for another year older for you to learn something new. JUST DO IT