Cherbourg: Entry of the Russian Sovereigns and the President of the Republic under the Hall

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience f...

Runtime

1m

Director

Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière

Cast

Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, Marguerite Lumière

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue a...

Runtime

1h 9m

Director

Walter Ruttmann

Cast

Paul von Hindenburg

In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 July 1968, the film shows the process of making Fromanger’s poster image, which is t...

Runtime

3m

Director

Jean-Luc Godard, Gérard Fromanger

A short documentary film made up of archival footage shot in 2003, which was reworked and edited in 2018-2019. The film shows a haphazardly shot, fragmented property viewing and inventarisation through the eyes of a child, featuring a voice over by that same child. Because of having unrestricted access to their family’s camcorder as a...

Runtime

23m

Cast

Jojanneke van Amesfoort, Fabiënne van Amesfoort-Salm, Dennis van Amesfoort

Cast

Marianne Hold, Walter Pause