A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic

A simple filmed performance featuring Cantor, done up in his stage minstrel makeup, allegedly at the Ziegfeld Theatre Roof Garden, but actually filmed on a soundstage at the Paramount Astoria studio.

The Ride to the Abyss

‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.

Base Brawl

At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.

Mardi Gras

The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would continue into 1948, and then were reissued in the early 50's. Songs included "All the Way" and "At the Mardi Gras."

The Gay Parisian

The Gay Parisian is an American short film produced in 1941 by Warner Bros. featuring the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo and directed by Jean Negulesco. The film is a screen adaptation, in Technicolor, of the 1938 ballet Gaîté Parisienne, choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Jacques Offenbach. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 14th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).

So This Is Harris!

The film is a series of comical musical numbers and skits following Phil Harris around, starting with him performing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, which is listened to by Dorothy on the radio whose home-brewing husband Walter hates Harris. The action then moves to the country club where Walter unknowingly encounters Harris while being aggravated by his music. Walter then pretends to be Phil to meet a woman while Harris "entertains" her friend, Dorothy. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, in 2012.

Portrait Serie - Jonas Mekas

A short film portrait of legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, talking about the Buddha and the meaning of life.

Big Bill Blues

This is the only film about Big Bill Broonzy, you can see him playing the blues in a Brussels cellar.

To be Near You

Centers on a boy named Osamu who receives an umbrella as a gift from Sayu, but it goes missing. That umbrella transforms into a girl who goes gallivanting around town on a rainy day.

It's in the Stars

Musical short about a fraternity and a sorority that call a halt to dating between their houses to improve their grades.

Kamasi Washington - As Told To G/D Thyself

The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.

Nine Inch Nails: Behind The Scenes Of Closer

Behind the scenes footage of the making of the music video for "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails, directed by Mark Romanek.

Générique du 26e festival de Saint-Paul Trois-Chateaux

Golden Tresses

A whirling animated choreography, full of joy and melancholy, on a marvellous piece of 17th century Claudio Monteverdi music.

Strings

The hands of a puppeteer control the bodies of two dancers who compete with each other.

I Am Easy to Find

A life in one-hundred-sixty-four moments.

Colombina Star y su baile del terror

Misery Loves Company

As Seolgi is lying on a grass field with friends, a shooting star falls, and dark, intrusive thoughts hit her. Her melancholy blooms into bright and colorful "flower people," dancing and wishing for a meteorite to end the world.

Nocebo

A series of ten black and white shorts.

Zombies

A journey between hope and dystopia in a hallucinated Kinshasa, from the culture of the hair salon to futuristic solitary clubbing, from an urban parade to a dictator's sense of glory to a modern western in the style of Takeshi Kitano.