Videobotschaft anlässlich der "Carte Blanche"-Reihe von Helge Schneider im Deutschen Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main im Oktober 2013.
"NimmerMeer" erzählt eine märchenhafte Parabel um das Erwachsenwerden und die Macht der Träume: Nachdem sein Vater gestorben ist, wird der kleine Jonas von Pfarrer Ekdahl aufgenommen. Doc...
Der arbeitslose Jurist und Familienvater David nimmt notgedrungen einen Job an, der ihm auf moralischer Ebene eigentlich zuwider ist: Er soll eine Firma "liquidieren". Im Klartext bedeutet d...
Im oberschwäbischen Weingarten findet alljährlich die größte Reiterprozession der Welt statt. Dabei steht eine Reliquie im Mittelpunkt, die der Legende nach einen Tropen vom Blut Jesu Christi...
Dritter Teil von Miguel Gomes' Filmtrilogie, in der er die Struktur der Märchensammlung von "1001 Nacht" für eine zeitgenössische, poetische Parabel auf die aktuelle Situation Portugals nutzt: Sche...
Im dritten Teil der Pferde-Saga begibt sich die Hauptfigur Mika auf eine Spurensuche nach den Wurzeln ihres Pferdes Ostwinds. Nach einem Streit mit ihrer Großmutter verlässt sie in einer Nacht- und ...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.