Various Artists - Around China with a Movie Camera
Explore 50 years of Chinese history across a diverse range of footage from the BFI National Archive, including what may be the oldest surviving film to be shot ..(read more)
Label: BFI / 5035673020890
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Documentary, Film History.
Ernst Schmidt Jr. - Stones & 20 Action and Destruction Films
Ernst Schmidt Jr. died in 1988, leaving behind experimental documentary films, material films, expanded cinema, abstract films, project films, conceptual film..(read more)
Label: Index / 042
Artist: Ernst Schmidt Jr.
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, '70s, 16 mm, Actionism, Austria, Avant-Garde, Documentary, Experimental.
Mika Taanila - Time Machines – Aikakoneita
Bilingual edition of an exhibtion catalogue ('13/'14) presenting an inventory of Taanila's key works from the past ten years. Film-maker and arti..(read more)
Publisher: Kiasma / ISBN: 978-951-53-3503-6
Author: Mika Taanila
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Documentary, Video Art.
Stella van Voorst van Beest - Hoe Luidt het Land (The Hum of Holland)
Beautiful and unconventional documentary on the sounds of our country (yes, The Netherlands), and in general, how people experience noise, silence, the muzak in..(read more)
Label: Volya Films
Artist: Stella van Voorst van Beest
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Documentary, Field Recordings, Sound Art.
Harry Watt / Basil Wright - Night Mail
Night Mail (1936) remains one of the most popular and instantly recognised films in British film history, and was one of the most critically acclaimed films to ..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD833
Artist: Harry Watt / Basil Wright
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Classics, Documentary.
Various Artists - Roll out the Barrel
Roll Out the Barrel: the British pub on film is a unique and fascinating collection of 20 films, made between 1944 and 1982. From wartime documentaries intended..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIDV937
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Atmospheric, Compilations, Documentary, UK.
Gerd Kroske - La Villette
Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists, including Jürg..(read more)
Label: DEFA
Artist: Gerd Kroske
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Art, Documentary, Eastern Europe, History.
Timothy Corrigan - The Essay Film
Essay films are arguably the most innovative and popular forms of filmmaking since the 1990s”, Timothy Corrigan claims in his diligent new study, The Essay Fi..(read more)
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN 0199781699
Author: Timothy Corrigan
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Cinema, Documentary.
Joke Olthaar - Hier is Harry Merry
Very enjoyable and endearing, this portrait of the eccentric, one-of-a-kind musician/songwriter Harry Merry.The film follows Harry between stages in Europe and ..(read more)
Label: AS Film
Artist: Joke Olthaar
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: 1-of-a-Kinds, Documentary, Eccentrics, Songwriters.
