This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly
Social & External
Unknown Role
(as John B. Litel)
As a young couple discuss the idea of giving up smoking, the sounds of a neighboring argument spill into their flat. The argument makes them question their own marriage, while doing nothing about the neighboring situation. Meanwhile, a young teenager argues with his mother as he tries to sneak out to a party with friends. His mother blackmails him into staying home, using his guilt against him.
Young kids face off in a dance competition.
17-year-old Arend lives with his parents and hasn't come out of the closet yet. His first step into the gay world of love is on a date with handsome Michael, a guy he met on a gay dating site. They arrange to meet and Arend ventures to the other side of the country only to discover that Michael is not quite what he imagined.
A short film made for “Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded”. Masses moving across the sweltering concrete, to the glass towers and into the subway mouths, eyes glued to the little screens, inhaling the images from halfway around the globe, oblivious to the life at their own feet.
What started out as a simple holiday trip on the Swiss mountain lake, is beneath the surface an intense drama between a mother and her daughter.
A man hunts divine beings in a city that is falling into decrepitude. The society may have turned its back on him, but that doesn't stop him from moving forward in his endless search.
Nowadays, in Tristan da Cunha. 270 people live on this small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Nick and Anne, two teenagers, have known each other since their birth, and are lovers since childhood. But Anne's just made up her mind: she's going to study in England, 6152 miles away from Tristan.
A man has a panic attack in the street, at night. Because?
The day his computer turns into sand, Crassus, brilliant trader, goes insane. Counting the grains of sand like gold, it is lost in the Syrian desert where, as its namesake, the avid triumvir, he finds a tragic death.
Mandaue Landfill, The Philippines: the 50 families who call this home are the bottom of their society; the lowest of the low. But material wealth is not the only kind of riches, and where there is hope and resourcefulness there is always the chance of a better life.
Fifteen-year old Cihan accompanies his grandmother on a journey to Turkey, to attend a wedding. They have not much in common and have to spend a whole day together in Istanbul.
The story picks up after an unexplained disagreement between two brothers, Goat and Aaron. To work out their differences, they take a hike together. The beauty of nature brings them back together, but the violence in Goat's heart can't be controlled and it pulls him under.
Simon appears to be everyone's best friend, while in reality he is a jealous, manipulative schemer. He coldly focuses on destroying the only meaningful relationship his best friend Ken has ever had, with a girl called Heather. Will he succeed and what will he gain out of tearing them apart? Let the games begin...
1895 is a picture about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who have immortalized their names as inventors of cinematography. What inspired them?
An American pilot in the war falls asleep in his plane. His dream mixes up with reality.
A 40-year-old middle-class man who loves his domotics to toe the line will figure out, because of a water drop, that things you own end up owning you.
The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Pop Warner shows 1890s football equipment and explains to his modern 1931 team how the game was played.
In order to enjoy a romantic private swim together, Jo and Eddie hide when their local swimming pool is closing for the evening. But unknown to them, a killer is on the loose - and in the building with them.
A short dance film in Pathécolor, also know as stencil colouring. The editing cuts correspond with the dancers' costume changes. More about stencil colouring at http://zauberklang.ch/filmcolors/timeline-entry/1218/.
