Together with other prisoners, Vidocq once again escapes from penal servitude. He refuses to obey Salambier, the leader of the Bandits of the North, and refuses to join the gang because, despite all his adventures, he has never shed blood. Vidocq escapes again and meets a young widow named Annette, whose husband was executed on false charges and who saves him from persecution. But he is soon confronted again by his former cellmates, who suspect that he has denounced them to the police. The film is based on the life story of Eugène François (Jean-Louis in the film) Vidocq, a nineteenth-century French adventurer, a criminal who became one of the first private detectives and the "father" of criminal investigation in its modern form.

Painted pictures of castles, knights and flowers to a poem by Karl Vennberg.

Travelogue depicting a road trip from Stockholm to the Berlin Wall. The film is mostly shot from a car window but includes found footage as well.

In the film Ultramarina, Edefalk has placed paintings and objects in the ocean to show describe the infinite space.

An art film contrasting a cat and broken glass with a masked naked woman and her lover.

An animation based on pixels from an image taken with the Hubble telescope, which is in orbit 600 kilometers above the Earth. Pixels from as far away from Earth as humans can see.

Sound film experiments by Swedish engineer Sven A:son Berglund. The sound strip, unlike sound film today, covers almost the entire film strip.

Landscape is Söderquist’s first minimalistic film. Together with Passages – Portrait of a city (2001) and Labyrinth (2013), it forms a trilogy exploring space by means of the landscape and the city. The slow camera shots show the inertia of nature and the temporality of thoughtfulness. The film is cut in motion to give a coherent structure of movement, a kind of course of events, through a multifaceted landscape of rich ferns, swaying treetops, winding roots alternated with reflections in a rippling stream. Landscape is a focused and tightly formed panorama, whose masterly projection of natural sound and cyclical construction are manifested in seasonal color- and light variations and in flowing water.

Le génie civil consists of numerous etchings and photogravure prints from an engineering journal, illustrating the advancement of industrialism in the late 1800’s. The filmed illustrations are allowed to speak for themselves as still images during a prolonged cinematic time, a kind of viewing time. In a reciprocal and dense interaction with a collage of noise from trains, rain, thunder, a ticking clock and organ music, the material is brought to life and the narrative of the film slowly emerges. Because the images in Le génie civil are taken out of their original context and placed in another time and space, they link the past with an ongoing present.

In Söderquist's first film [I frack] In Tuxedo, playfulness and improvisation are combined with absurd humor. An artist steps into an empty studio and begins assembling objects into a tree-like sculpture. The sculpture is adorned with small white paper clouds, puppets and undefinable items; all the while, the studio fills up with new things: a suitcase, a mirror and formal attire. The artist, now wearing a top hat and tuxedo, paints the paper clouds and the wall in a frenzy of activity, ending with his sitting exhausted in a corner surrounded by the mess he has created. The growing chaos, the various layers of narrative and the music of the soundtrack, which was improvised and recorded live during a viewing of the final film cut, interact in counterpoint.

While her father was in his deathbed, she and her nieces were playing in the rain.

Iwate Prefecture, Ohasamacho. In the foothills of Mt. Hayachine, the kagura (devotional dance) offered to the mountain goddess by the mountain priests is still performed today nearly unchanged from mediaeval times. This dance, which has been handed down along several lines of succession in the villages of Take and Otsugunai, has its origins in prayer. Take’s kagura and Otsugunai’s kagura are said to be closely related. The film shows the people who lovingly continue to perform these two types of dance and the transition from ancient tradition to modern life. Even from the first moment that director Haneda was charmed by Hayachine’s kagura, the mountain villages that were home to the gods had already begun to disappear

A documentary film about the leader of the band "Зоопарк" (Zoo Park) Mike Naumenko.

Perestroika. Gorbachev is travelling around the country. When the next local party conference ends and the general secretary leaves, the first secretary of the regional committee, Makhonin, holds a talk with the party members. He reproaches them that at the meeting they talked a lot about local problems, such as bad concrete pavement at the airport, fish contaminated with mercury, or a three-storey dacha with a helipad and Arab furniture found in the taiga by geologists. A murmur rises in the hall, as these issues do concern people. The crew of the Vremya programme, which was filming a meeting with Gorbachev in the same room, had not yet had time to assemble all the equipment and accidentally filmed this episode of the ‘showdown’. The director of the programme ‘Vremya’ thinks that this is a very interesting material and it should be shown on the Central Television. They are boarding a plane to Moscow.

Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as a means to revive stories of a pre-colonial past. Appropriating a global cinematic language to tell local (hi)stories, Horror in the Andes pays testament to the craft of filmmaking and its community.

About the fate of the Afghan warrior Ivan Koval, who experienced all the horrors of captivity.

Days of seriously wounded in the hospital in early May 1945.

A few miles from Els Gorgs lies the village of Argelaguer, where Josep Pujiula by himself is building (and re-building) his dream.

Guy is a Japanese street-brawler in New York who chooses to train under the famed boxer, Roman, with the hopes that he can raise enough money as a heavyweight to fund a life-saving operation for his father.

Lu Dahai and his shipbuilding team want the 10,000-ton ocean freighter "The East" to be given a sea trial. But the ship is made with domestic parts, and Chen Zongjie, a leader of the Party Committee of the Bureau of Foreign Transport, believes that the quality is not sufficient, and orders that the parts be replaced with imported ones before the sea trial takes place. In the end, the sea trial not only sets a successful new record, but also rescues a Taiwanese fishing boat in distress.

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness.

A film about architecture and our personal relation with it.

A seed from the Earth touches a distant planet.

When a wise man fails to deal with a flea, it starts a chain of events that leads to the destruction of his city.

The Eastern House is a video that rereads some key names and some key sequences from the film history: Antonioni (Blow-up), Coppola (Apocalypse Now), Don Siegel. As well it re-articulates the body and conceptual happenings performed in the Eastern European context. The video is a homage to Nesa Paripovic's happenings and body actions from the 1970s in Belgrade. The text is a political intervention in the field of theory regarding the question of global capitalism and the radical position of technology in the cyberworld with a clear reference to a cyberfeminist attitude and positioning. In this respect, the question of sex and empathy in the cyberworld is raised as well as the ethical and political questioning of cloning and hybrid identities. One of the key moments in the video is the re-reading of Bush’s US war against Iraq, 2003.

The introductory film to the Slovene Ethnographic Museum's permanent exhibition offers a brief insight into important aspects of daily life of the past. It covers the migration of the Slavs onto the territory of the current Slovenia, their dwellings and farming methods, the appearance of castles and towns, peasant revolts, the formation of Slovene language. There are few archeological finds, frescoes or books bearing witness to this time, so the film also makes use of animations and reconstructions of farming and handicraft tasks.

Originally filmed in 16mm in the remote Cyprus landscape, Chapters is a lyrical series of meticulously staged scenes, in which Epaminonda transforms her home country into a backdrop for a multitude of mythological identities with underlying narrative elements of love, longing, afterlife, and ritual. Epaminonda draws together a spectrum of cultural influences such as the frescoes of Renaissance artist Fra Angelico, the films of Sergei Parajanov, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alexander Jodorowsky as well as the Japanese Kabuki theatre and Dante’s Divine Comedy. The fixed frame of the camera shapes the film as a continuously evolving, never-static series of ‘pictures’ or ‘tableaux’. The viewer is led into an associative journey that is constantly altered and recombined by the action of chance, time, and the viewer’s gaze.

Presented by Eric Knowles, this fascinating program shows how the historic home was brought back to life in time for its opening to the public. 78 Derngate is a Georgian house in Northhampton, England, originally built in the 1820s. In 1916, the house's new owner commissioned Mackintosh to renovate the rather pokey and old-fashioned interiors into a modern and convenient home. The work was conducted from 1916 to 1917, and architectural historians consider the resultant interiors one of this period's most important works. "The House That Mackintosh Built" was originally a 15-episode half-hour series broadcast on Discovery Home and Leisure in 2003. The commercial DVD release has been edited into a single 93-minute program.

Flag Mountain records a vast flag, the insignia of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, painted onto the side of the Kyrenia mountains overlooking Nicosia, the divided capital of the former island nation. The flag, situated in what is officially understood under international law to be ‘Turkish occupied’ northern Cyprus, is accompanied by the legend ‘Ne mutlu Türküm diyene’ (‘How happy is he who can say “I am a Turk”‘). The statement, a quote from the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, is clearly legible from the south of the city and its surrounding countryside.

Island Race was filmed on the streets of the East End of London between spring 1994 and summer 1995. The film contrasts everyday events with actions of right wing extremists, counter anti-racist demonstrations, the funeral of a gangland leader and the jingoistic street parties celebrating Victory in Europe day. Using just picture and sound, and no added commentary, the audience are given the space to draw their own conclusions about the films portrayal of English national identity in the late 1990’s.

A film made between 1991 and 1993 as part of a (UK) Arts Council/Channel 4 series of commissions collectively entitled 'Eleventh Hour'. The film is a kind of personal reflection, in three linked sections, on cities and time, and on seeing, recording and the film medium.

Filmed from my flat in east London, it shows sunlight passing through rooms in the course of the day, and across buildings seen from the windows. Sometimes I would set the time-lapse camera running and leave the house while the camera recorded light moving through the empty rooms.

Fishing and agriculture, transport, the archaeology and scenery of the Shetland Isles.