Silent Movies

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.

Peter Hutton's New York trilogy. An act of urban archaeology, a chronicle of indelible impressions of the city.

Silent cartoon.

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

Follows a fictitious account about Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, known as Johann Orth, after he renounces his titles.

Anna Q. Nilsson plays a shy telegrapher who foils a gang of train robbers in this vintage short subject directed by J.P. McGowan.

In an attempt to reignite their relationship, a couple goes on a vacation to a waterpark where they argue incessantly about even the most menial...

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

Kupferberg Gold ad by Pinschewer.

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

Consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across Elam's lawn.

One man. One church. What could possibly go wrong?

USPS workers go bowling.

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

Prym ad by Pinschewer.

German propaganda film that mocks the expansion of the British colonies in South Africa, Egypt, India and Jamaica. The film is true to a more serious...

Following an argument two roommates learn to forgive each other.

A woman goes to a cold and inhospitable abandoned cove to try to summon the spirit of her only son, who passed away during the war.