Silent Movies

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

A Gaumont Mirror newsreel showing a party of climbers setting out to climb the Great Gable. They appear drinking from a mountain stream and climbing...

An alternative version of the film 'Southern Peaks', shortened in this case to be included in an episode of the series 'Glimpses of New Zealand'....

"While The Salvation Army on the Job is listed in film databases without a full plot summary, it is closely associated with the 1919 short comedy A...

Expeditions in the Western Canadian Arctic

The first known film directed by Guido Seeber and the oldest surviving German animated film. A white piece of chalk first draws a clock on a screen....

Two friends, hiking in the Yorkshire Dales, take the Cove Road home. But is the Cove Road out to take them?

Beloved textures left to their own devices. 1 of

An educational film showing three different ways artists can make money. And spend money...

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...

Abstract short.

Government travelogue depicting New Zealand's West land's scenery: Lake Manapouri, Fox Glacier Hotel, and Franz Josef Glacier. From the Fox Glacier...

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

A clay-smothered sculptor tries to make something of themself at the behest of a cryptic and unfeeling prompt engine.

In September 1932, a party of climbers composed of Bruno Detassis, Gino Corrà and Nello Bianchini completed the first ascent of the Paganella...