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P.M. 6.6

P.M.

1961 15 min Movie
P.M.
6.6 1961 15 min HD
Controversial cinéma vérité analysis of Havana’s lumpenproletariat in waterfront bars and cafés shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
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Genre: Documentary
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The Weavers of Nishijin 7.6

The Weavers of Nishijin

1961 25 min Movie
The Weavers of Nishijin
7.6 1961 25 min HD
The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.
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Genre: Documentary
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Serenity 6.8

Serenity

1961 70 min Movie
Serenity
6.8 1961 70 min HD
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and ...
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Genre: Drama, History
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Eyewash 4.9

Eyewash

1959 3 min Movie
Eyewash
4.9 1959 3 min HD
A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive
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Genre: Animation
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Elbow (As Such) 0

Elbow (As Such)

1959 17 min Movie
Elbow (As Such)
0 1959 17 min HD
A tale of two brothers from babies to adulthood told without words. One brother is upstaged by the other from the crib onward. Eventually the tables are turned.
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Genre: Drama
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The Very Eye of Night 5.9

The Very Eye of Night

1958 15 min Movie
The Very Eye of Night
5.9 1958 15 min HD
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Music
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Daybreak and Whiteye 0

Daybreak and Whiteye

1957 8 min Movie
Daybreak and Whiteye
0 1957 8 min HD
These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
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Fantastic Vision 4.7

Fantastic Vision

1957 66 min Movie
Fantastic Vision
4.7 1957 66 min HD
Footage filmed in Spain, subjected a new visual effects process. Deslaw devoted himself to the discovery of a new machine that enabled film to be developed while using a new method ...
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Genre: Documentary
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Ikebana 6.4

Ikebana

1957 32 min Movie
Ikebana
6.4 1957 32 min HD
The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director's father Sofu Teshigahara worked ...
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Genre: Documentary
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Nymphlight 5.5

Nymphlight

1957 8 min Movie
Nymphlight
5.5 1957 8 min HD
A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park at the New York Public Library as a ...
Genre: Documentary
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No. 10 5.8

No. 10

1956 10 min Movie
No. 10
5.8 1956 10 min HD
16 mm, color, 3:35 or 10 min. Study for No. 11. "An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Agaric mushrooms growing on the moon while ...
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Genre: Animation
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Orchard Street 6.8

Orchard Street

1955 27 min Movie
Orchard Street
6.8 1955 27 min HD
This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.
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Panta Rhei 6.2

Panta Rhei

1952 10 min Movie
Panta Rhei
6.2 1952 10 min HD
In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds reflect Haanstra's own moods.
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Swain 0

Swain

1950 24 min Movie
Swain
0 1950 24 min HD
Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer ...
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Genre: Drama
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Mirror of Holland 6.2

Mirror of Holland

1950 9 min Movie
Mirror of Holland
6.2 1950 9 min HD
In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again ...
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Genre: Documentary