A group of people perform local dances and prepare to have lunch outdoors in Playa Ancha.
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This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.
A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from this film.
Gilles Groulx's first film shot in 1955 with a camera borrowed from his brother and edited during his spare time when he worked as an editor at the Radio-Canada news service a few years before he joined the NFB. Silent film, presented as its author left it, where the soil and the dialectic of Groulx's work are already there: documentary realism, the social space to be explored, daily life, the relationship between individual and society, social disparities, the consumer society, seduction and happiness.
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
While most of Ken Russell's documentaries for the BBC's Monitor arts strand focused on a single creative figure, he would also occasionally make more wide-ranging surveys of the state of a particular art. The Light Fantastic (BBC, tx. 18/12/1960) was written and presented by Ron Hitchins, a Cockney barrow boy who has long been interested in a great many dance forms, and who has recently taken up Spanish dancing. Hitchins participates in some of the dance sequences, but his main contribution is an enthusiastic commentary that helps personalise what could have been simply a disparate collection of dance footage. He's not shy about expressing likes and dislikes, being none too keen on ballroom dancing (too choreographed), rock'n'roll (too monotonous) and Morris dancing (just doesn't like it), though anything genuinely spontaneous gets a thumbs up, even if it's a room full of people dressed in black swaying to the sound of a gong.
Canadas contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps performs Édouard Lock's "Human Sex" .
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
Documentary on the former border patrol sergeant Klein. Klein deserted in 1961, defected to the enemy and betrayed state and military secrets. He was caught by the security forces.
On a market day in Kernascleden, two Breton women exchange their hair for a few coins. The hair becomes hairpieces. Last scene, an elegant Parisian removes her hat and exposes her generous wig skillfully coiffed.
Documentary about the Protestant Church
Documentary about the "Kampfgemeinschaft für Rote Sporteinheit", a communist workers' sports association in the final phase of the Weimar Republic.
Short documentary about eels
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy
A reportage cross-cutting film about the development of Africa from 1900-1936, using archive footage and film material from earlier African expeditions.
A quickfire portrait of the New York City ballroom scene in the ‘80s.
The film shows the various stages of the Stahlhelm's integration into the NSDAP and the Third Reich.
