Plum Tree / Gorilla / Ladder

Experimental video art pieces. Each a single choreographic move. The body’s interaction with tasks in the built environment—buying groceries, doing the dishes, changing a lightbulb.

The Ladder of the Other

Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

Known for his spectacular pyrotechnic displays, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang creates his most ambitious project yet: Sky Ladder, a visionary, explosive event that he pulls off in his hometown in China after 20 years of f

The Stool Becomes the Ladder

The Stool Becomes the Ladder was made in 1978, using techniques of video feedback, quantizing levels and chroma, and simple downstream text. The stool is transformed into a ladder.

Insanity! Asylum: Ladder Drills

Agility Ladder Drills to practice for future workouts.

Himalaya: Ladder to Paradise

A Tibet mountaineering school recruits qualified residents from the two counties at the foot of Mount Everest only, and trains them to be mountain guide of the Everest.

A Ladder to the Moon

1916. René Carpentier is a young French farmer who must leave his home behind in order to fight the Germans and serve his country. On the other side of the great ocean, Canadian Nick Irving leaves behind the woman he lov

Jacob's Ladder

An apocryphal tale from the Book of Genesis. Jacob, the son of Isaac, sees in a dream a staircase, the base of which rests on the earth, and the top reaches heaven; angels ascend and descend on it. Every step of the ladd

The Sled-Ladder

This film is a poem from Jean-Pierre Thiébaud, one of the workers participating in the Chris Marker-animated Groupe Medvedkine, and who took part in the 1967 Strike. It is a visual lyric, against war and capitalism, a ca

Angel's Ladder

Tenshi no Hashigo 2006 (Japan), also known as Angel's Ladder is Japan drama premiere on Oct 22, 2006 on TV Asahi

Jacob's Ladder

A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued his parents.

Ladder in the Lions' Den

The true story of 107-year-old Austrian Leopold Engleitner. He refused to join Hitler's army and to perform the "Heil Hitler" salute. Like a "ladder" lowered into the "lions' den," he was given a way out by the Nazis, bu

Ivan's Ladder

In a village untouched by time, so isolated that it is not on the map of Russia, Sysoy passes on the tradition of Byzantine chant to his son Ivan. Their hermitic family life finds its cadence in the movements of working

Party of Tourists Descending a Ladder

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Angel's Ladder

The 2012 Takarazuka Star Troupe production based on Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'.

Jacob's Ladder

This documentary film is dedicated to Yuriy Shukhevych, a long-time political prisoner in Soviet camps, Archbishop Lubomyr Husar of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and cancer surgeon Boris Bilinsky. They were classm

Hook and Ladder No. 1

An opera-singing firemouse rescues his lady fair. A stream of incongruous gags, including "ethnic" ones. A few Terrytoons employees were members of the real-life Larchmont (N.Y.) Volunteer Fire Dept. "The Flame" animated

Get Me a Step-Ladder

An old man attempts to hang a picture on the wall and asks for a step-ladder. His assistant takes a little too long to get it to him.

Escaping Esau - The Ladder to Heaven

Felix, the son of the Roman commander on the prison island of Patmos, is struggling to find meaning in life. Felix comes to John the Apostle for advice, and through the story of Esau and Jacob, John explains what is happ

The Last Tree Ladder Maker

Alois Diethelm-Signer from Sattel is the last Swiss tree ladder maker. He has been producing tree ladders for orchards since 1966. He used to make up to 300 ladders a year, but today he still makes a good 40. Despite dec