Spock's Beard: Don't Try This at Home

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

Runtime

5m

Director

D. A. Pennebaker

The Tortoise composed a song and the Lion cub learnt it by heart and they sang it together.

Runtime

9m

Director

Inessa Kovalevskaya

Cast

Oleg Anofriev, Rostislav Plyatt

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud i...

Runtime

12m

Director

Jørgen Leth, Ole John

Cast

Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

This film features unreleased concert footage of Elvis Presley's afternoon performance at the 'Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show' held at the Fairgrounds in Tupelo, Mississippi on September 26, 1956. The professionally filmed black and white newsreel footage was synchronized with an amateur audio recording of the concert that had...

Runtime

13m

Cast

Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, Bill Black

Critics seldom agree upon anything so much as they do with Bernard Allison. The son of the blues legend Luther Allison is regarded as one of the most important and creative representatives of 21st century blues. This live concert was recorded in August 1999 at the W.C. Handy Festival in Henderson, Kentucky.

Runtime

58m

Director

H. Russel Farmer

Cast

Bernard Allison