Documentary Short Movies

A program on the relationship between the filmmaking couple Larisa Sheptiko and Elim Klimov.

1906, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A herd backs into a dusty courtyard. The sheep, on the ground with their four legs bound, are quickly and skillfully shorn. The animals, now without...

Travelogue released on the 5th of June, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

A promotional short for Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973).

Travelogue released on December 11th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

1909, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The traditional and modest life in deep rural Crete. A film on the verge of traditional documentary film and an attempt to find a new direction in...

Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground,...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

In the heart of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, there's a grocery store unlike any other. A down-to-earth, high-energy, family-run institution where the...

Joseph Vallot and his team of guides and porters climb Mont Blanc in 1906. Their ascent will take three days. They spent their nights at the Grands...

A picture of life in the West Australian capital of Perth in the mid 1960s. The social, business, sporting and other activities of an average...

"A series of films taken during a difficult and dangerous ascent of the Jungfrau;, showing views of the climbers at an height of over 13,000 feet....

This short documentary tells the story the once-thriving town of Okak, an Inuit settlement on the northern Labrador coast. Moravian missionaries...

1. Jaffa from the Sea. The Port of Jerusalem. 2. Through the Rocks and Surf. The Syrian boatmen shooting the narrows. 3. The Landing Stage. Showing...

A man and a woman climbing the Grinnell Point in Glacier National Park. They start from the Many Glacier Hotel and progress on an easy terrain first...

A frenetic Santiago gives me space to reflect on depression, loneliness and home in an attempt to piece together my past. Pandemic revelations and...

Travelogue produced by Burton Holmes. Released on May 20th, 1918.