September 1923
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
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Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
One of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954). Based on Lesage's painting A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World from 1923.
The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 marked a moment of unprecedented material destruction and cultural rupture in modern Japan. The disaster soon became subject to human interpretation and political manipulation as the ea
This award-winning film documents the only uprising of communists ever to occur in Germany. During the post-World War I period, Germany suffered from hyperinflation and the near-starvation of many working people. Working
A compilation of animated shorts restored by Thomas Stathes. A snapshot of the state of animated filmmaking 100 years ago. Includes several 1923 films.
Germany 1923: Inflation, starvation, unstable political conditions. During this time, 24-year-old Paula Schlier goes undercover at the “Völkischer Beobachter”, the Nazi Party’s official newspaper, and gets caught at the
A work that combines art, science, and culture. It is a project born from a dream come true, where knowledge and experience intersect with the aim of revaluing film as a common cultural asset. It is also a metaphor for t
Presented by DanceArts Foundation, Inc. with the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble and resident guest artist Bambi Anderson.
16mm black-and-white home movies from the collection of the Butler Family, depicting the family in the winter of 1923-1924. Made available through the Chicago Film Archives.
Includes all 32 of Keaton's extant silent shorts (thirteen of which were produced under the tutelage of comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle) These 2K restorations onto Blu-Ray promise to be the definitive representation of
Born in Philadelphia in 1890, Man Ray settled in Paris in 1921 to join in with the Dada movement. He was a radically experimental artist of genius who won immense critical acclaim for his photographic work. In the 1920s,
The documentary chronicles the genocide of the Greeks, and other indigenous Christians, at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks. Nearly a million Greeks were killed, while millions more were uprooted from their
Follows the Genoa Cricket and Football Club's 1923 tour to South America, in order to raise local football to an international level.
Views of the 1923 carnival celebrations in the streets of Lima's various districts. Includes records of dances, parades, float processions, the election of carnival queens, and official events.
This documentary film is based on the works done over the period from May 2005 to February 2006. It featured a homeless community named The House Living Together which attempted to squat as a way of demonstration of the
Portrait of the Hollandia film factory in Haarlem, where during the period 1912 to 1923, some sixty feature-length fiction films and hundreds of documentaries were made under the leadership of Maurits Binger. This laid t