Short Movies

A short early-sound comedy featuring the character Cohen speaking over the telephone.

Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands...

An experimental Paramount sound short combining construction imagery and industrial noises with words by poet Edgar A. Guest.

In this ten-minute documentary experiment, director Herz Frank films a group of children watching a puppet show, keeping the camera fixed on their...

An early De Forest Phonofilm performance short exhibited as part of a sound-film presentation at Riesenfeld's Rivoli Theatre in New York.

A spring morning on a countryside road. Two hitchhikers get acquainted. Sarah, a 28 years old bohemian lifestyle traveler meets and take under her...

Filmed surroundings, an apartment and then outside a rain begins.

Two best friends walk in the woods, discussing a mysterious stranger. When they encounter the subject of their conversation, they are forced to...

When a quiet young teen introduces a new mentor to his favourite pastime, she finds that breaking the rules comes with serious consequences.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 18th, 1919.

An official training film from the War department. In April 1942, a detail of five enlisted men and two officers, Capt. Paul Lafferty and Lt. John...

Ben Kinmont’s film Saints paradice (2024-25) draws on the 8mm film archive of artist Jilala Jet von Jalopy, among others, to portray the Angels...

As a burdened teen girl’s hallucinations intensify, she confides in her devout mother, unaware of a buried truth resurfacing to fracture the...

Released on March 16th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

En cordée is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in Aiguillette D'argentière. It was directed by Jacques Berr in 1942 and...

Two climbers progress on an alpine glacier and reach the top of a mountain by climbing a long and steep slope of snow and ice. They also have to...

A musical sound short featuring Guy Robertson and imagery related to the Mississippi River floods.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 15th, 1919.

Cimes is a drama about alpinism that takes place in Mont Pelvoux. It was directed by Jean Vernet in 1941 and produced by Films de Cavaignac. It...

Lucas, a laid-off Canadian steelworker, heads into the woods for a solo camping trip but winds up aboard a UFO. Face-to-face with a snarky alien...