Silent Movies

Siren is a stone-cold bookie with a score to settle and a temper hotter than a .45 in July. When a slippery debtor tries to skip town with her money,...

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

A feud in the Adirondack Mountains develops when Randolph Shaw will not give up a shack and its acreage adjoining the estate of Lord Cecil...

A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest...

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It...

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on April 27th, 1919.

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes...

Mutt and Jeff fight with Indians.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on March 23rd, 1919.

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 young history student goes to his uncle’s mansion to find out what caused the old man descend into madness.

At a party, a girl tells a group of people an old tale about a boy who encounters a mysterious man carrying a lantern and a picnic basket on a rural...

An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards - symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we...

After using a mysterious hole to dispose of all his trash, a man faces unexpected consequences.

Nabil has to deal with his fear of water caused by a trauma he had, which he tries, day after day, to fight.

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

This short film follows the story of two gay men in Mumbai who meet and fall in love in regular train journeys. Burdened with the larger social (and...

A man finds his reality and dreams colliding as he is enticed by a heavenly figure.

This silent film from 1948 "The Creation of Life" briefly demonstrates how a fetus forms and graphically shows different types of births. It was made...