Alexander Hammid Movies

A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S....

We accompany the 90-year-old filmmaker Alexander Hammid on a stroll through New York, wandering with him through the outer and inner landscapes of...

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...

A school boy cannot think what to write in an essay assignment about spring. His father cannot come up with any new ideas either.

Film on the refugee situation in Austria as a result of Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge,...

Promotional film extolling the wonders to be seen at the New York World's Fair.

The River of Life and Death captures the slow time in the well-known Indian pilgrimage place of Benares, the act of purification by water, the...

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

One of the great artistic forces of the 20th century, performer, choreographer, and teacher Martha Graham influenced dance around the world....

Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away.

About a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next...

Youth in Canada learning to come to terms with the world in which they have to live. A picture of the journey to adulthood - a composite of many...

Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a...

1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

Four episodes on the theme of human hope and survival set in Santambrogio, Italy; Fermathe, Haiti; British Columbia and Kjeller in Norway.

Madame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances...