Silent Movies

A lonely young woman becomes obsessed with the sex lives of her next door neighbors, unaware that appearances are not what they seem.

A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls....

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a...

A man marks everything he encounters with an X, from telephone poles to fruit and books he fondles in markets to a woman he pursues who lies on the...

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.

A man mourns a loss and confronts a deadly foe.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it.

Silent cartoon.

A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film...

Two women find companionship in emptiness.

At the center are takes which do not change - a tree in a field in Vermont, U.S.A. Since the film was shot over a period of fifty days, the single...

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

Elam's husband prepares vegetables at the sink.

Florence is a contemplative study of light and shadows, textures and planes, that makes beautiful use of the tonal qualities of black and white film....

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

A silent student short film with lots of drama. Courtesy of Collège Ahuntsic, Montreal Qc.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

A young woman wakes up to a new morning.