Archive Footage Movies

Vs the Real World chronicles the inner thoughts of a person trying to rationalize everything that's happening around him with a series of small...

Neither the skin nor the filmic material is exempt from the temporal becoming and its consequent growing degradation. Both have such a fragile...

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life,...

In the fall of 1986, Richard Fung made his first visit to his father's birthplace, a village in southern Guangdong, China. This experimental...

An ambigious “love story” told through the 1930’s archive of a British archaelogist who took a camera on his digs in the British...

It's as if the world and the pain are reflected in the pool's water, but I still swim in it to stir up my memories.

The second part of the trilogy consists of three short movies: Adresseavisen (1967), Vinter i Bymarka (1952) & Trondheim i går, i dag, i...

In an audiovisual collage of nostalgia and magnetism, “Prelude to a Flash” fuses images from early cinema with elements of contemporary...

This is a Labour Party film from 1938, featuring footage from around New Zealand pre 1938. This film predates the National Film Unit and is part of...

A short concerning the excavations in Herculaneum.

After she discovers canisters of undeveloped film shot by her late father, Elene sets out on a journey to collaborate with him on a special project. ...

An undocumented immigrant explores his and his family's immigration trauma while grasping hope through a voicemail.

Four punk friends from Alchevsk travel to a winter camp in Burshtyn, where they pull off a series of absurd prykoly – sawing apart a wardrobe,...

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

The creation of the atomic bomb did not only unleash a destructive force—it transformed the imagination of the nation that made it, haunting...

Deaf artist Seo Hye Lee gives new subtitles to a selection of archive films about pottery, ones which playfully examine the disparity between how...

An ethereal trip, created using archival footage, subverts past expectations and defines the road ahead for two adventurous sisters. A tender...