Directed by Chris Marker • Drama • 1973 • 21 minutes

One of Chris Marker's few fiction films, THE EMBASSY shows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country. Over the next few days, more and more people fleeing the military assa...

Directed by Dominga Sotomayor • Drama • 2014 • 6 minutes

León plays a tennis match while a farewell takes place behind him.

Directed by Roberta Cantow • Documentary • With Jacob Gaymon and Africa, his cat. • 1983 • 28 minutes

If This Ain't Heaven offers a portrait of an African American man that may very well challenge any number of sterotypes and assumptions about masculinity and African American men. The film shows...

Directed by Nora Claire Miller, Peter Miller & Amy Linton • Documentary • 2020 • 15 minutes

EGG CREAM is a short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor cream – it was a product of necessity an...

Directed by Peter Gessner • Documentary • 1966 • 13 minutes

Compiled from American news film, Vietnamese National Liberation Front combat footage, and unreleased material filmed by Japanese Television camera units, this now classic film by Peter Gessner provides one of the strongest treatises ag...

Directed by Bill Morrison • Documentary • 2005 • 9 minutes

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90-foot rolls he created were edited to together to complete the journey from Manhattan t...

Directed by Jacqueline Frank • Documentary • 1996 • 10 minutes

In a witty mix of rare archival footage and sound bites from religious and political leaders, filmmaker Jacqueline Frank takes a fast-paced look at 100 years of the fight for birth control and legalized abortion. Featuring a concise ...

Directed by Chris Marker & François Reichenbach • Documentary • 1967 • 26 minutes

"If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side."— Zen proverb

On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam...

Directed by Hu Bo • Drama • With Tieguang Gao, Xiaoqian Zhang, Yiji Zhao • 2017 • 16 minutes

Apocalypse. Two starving kids find a dead body in the ruins… Notes from Bela Tarr during 2017 FIRST training camp “They asked me to choose a ‘best student’ from these participants. But I don’t like the w...

Directed by Sari Gilman • Documentary • 2014 • 30 minutes

During the 1970s and 80s, thousands of New York’s primarily Jewish senior citizens migrated to Kings Point, a retirement community in Florida. Lured by blue skies, sunshine and the promise of richer social lives, they bought paradise for ...

Directed by Dorothy Fadiman • Documentary • 1993 • 28 minutes

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short

The era of illegal abortion, roughly the period between the turn of the century and the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, has been a sealed chapter in women's history. 

The prof...

Directed by Mario Ruspoli • Documentary • 1958 • 25 minutes

A vanguard short that displays the range of Mario Ruspoli’s insatiable curiosity and the depth of his talents: The Whalers, an influential portrait of the last whale fishermen, living in the Azores, to work with harpoons.

Directed by Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly • Documentary • 2021 • 15 minutes

Built entirely by women filmmakers, THE GIRL WITH THE RIVET GUN is an unconventional animated documentary short based on the adventures of three real-life 'Rosie the Riveters' - Esther Horne, Susan Taylor King and Mildred ...

Directed by Eric Stange • Documentary • With Vikiana Petit-Home, Manuel Oliver, Gerald D. Givens, Jr., Eric Liu, Gail Weinstein, Elizabeth Cavazos, Keith Sellars, Daphne Frias and Aylett Colston • 2019 • 38 minutes

Activized follows the stories of ordinary Americans who, for the first time in t...

Directed by Terence McSweeney, George Lee • Documentary • 2019 • 30 minutes

For a huge number of people around the globe the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become "America's story". Films like the Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker (2009) and the commercially successful and culturally impa...

Directed by Dieudo Hamadi & Divita Wa Lusala • Documentary • 2009 • 24 minutes

Taking in the wives of the unemployed, of unpaid government employees, the Kitambo maternity clinic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo has to cope with its patients' lack of money. And negotiations are tough be...

Directed by Alain Resnais • Documentary • 1957 • 13 minutes

Recently restored and digitized in 2K!

THE SONG OF STYRENE is the perfect example of how to turn a commissioned industrial film into a lyrical, satirical film masterpiece. When the young Alain Resnais was asked by the Péchiney plastics...

Directed by Alice Arnold • Documentary • 2005 • 30 minutes

TO BE SEEN is a study of visual culture, of urban culture and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art.

The subculture of street art is significant because it is an embodiment of subversive content, which is r...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes

Filmmaker Lynne Sachs shoots Super 8mm film of the first Women’s March in 2017 in Washington, D.C. and intercuts this recent footage with archival material of early 20th Century Suffragists marching for the right to vote, 1960s antiwar act...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2017 • 4 minutes

A year’s worth of to-do lists confronts the unavoidable numbers that are part and parcel of an annual visit to the doctor. The quotidian and the corporeal mingle and mix. Family commitments, errands and artistic effusions trade places with...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2015 • 5 minutes

Poetry watches film. Film reads poetry. Paolo Javier’s text is a catalyst for the digital sculpting of an 8mm Kodachrome canvas. Syntactical ruptures and the celebration of nouns illuminate twenty-five years of rediscovered film journeys. ...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 1997 • 35 minutes

In a lively mix of narrative, collage and memoir, A Biography of Lilith updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman. Lilith’s betrayal by Adam in Eden and subsequent vow of revenge is recast as a modern tale with a p...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2019 • 14 minutes

In 1998, experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer took part in a one-month residency at a Cape Cod dune shack without running water or electricity, where she shot film, recorded sound and kept a journal. In 2018 she gave all of this material...