Yma Sumac Movies

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.

A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair. The special was a pilot for a weekly series.

Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century,...

Interview, newsreel & performance footage of this twilight zone exotica princess. Includes substantial material documenting her Russian tour of 1961.

Film clips of songs by performers from around the world.

During a shoot with an Eagle K4 camera, a failure caused freeze-ups with abstract shapes.

Meanderings through a city and associations between sequences of animals enclosed in zoos and their depiction in furniture and objects. Notes on...

This two-part documentary series made for regional television captures a crucial moment in Cali and Ospina's relationship with its city: a crossroads...

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a...