Surveillance camera footage is recontextualized within a genealogy traced back to a Lumière film depicting workers leaving a factory.
In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images.
Between 2013 and 2023, Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the period of socialism (1945-1991), but mostly outside the prevailing state production.
A film shot in 1957 in at the Maudsley Hospital, London, captures the movements and behaviour of children under observation for atypical behaviour. In the present day, three autistic respondents watch the footage, bringing new insightful interpretations of the children’s behaviour as they explore the sparse environment of the clinic.
In 1968, Brazil’s military government passed a law that ushered in the most violent period of the dictatorship. The meeting was recorded, but remained secret for decades.
Through a collage of personal archive footage and photographs, the history emerges of a small, metaphorical city where all the streets are named after poets.
A gentle hypnotic journey through the VHS archives of the (post-)Soviet figure skater who toured the West in the 80s and 90s.
The film, created from archival materials of the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.
In 1952, Anita Conti, France's first female oceanographer, embarked on a trawler to share the hard life of Atlantic cod fishermen.
The film tells the singular experiences of violence and torture to women during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation. Based on the 1946 essay by George Orwell and read by Tilda Swinton.
Mature women speak about their marriage, their first time, their intimate relationship with sexuality.
Antarctica (1988): a ship must escape from the grip of the ice to reach Terra Nova Bay.
A fictional journey constructed from small body movements as portrayed in melodramas and war movies of the 30s and 40s in Hollywood cinema.
In 1962, Yann Le Masson filmed Algerian women activists as they were being released from prison in France. A film-investigation that tells their silent story.
An archival documentary about three men making images of women, in Romania, from WWII until the Revolution.
