The Sitting Machine
This character-driven verité documentary about children, learning and creativity, follows eight fifth graders in Rheems, Pennsylvania, as they set out to design and build chairs that can hold their own weight using only
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This character-driven verité documentary about children, learning and creativity, follows eight fifth graders in Rheems, Pennsylvania, as they set out to design and build chairs that can hold their own weight using only
A vending machine that sells what?
"The Incredible Machine" takes viewers on a journey through the human body using groundbreaking medical photography and imaging techniques. Featuring microscopic footage, color X-rays, and rare internal camera views, the
H.G. Wells’ comic/deadly serious masterpiece will never be the same again as this hapless highly skilled group of actors embark on a journey of a lifetime! Will George and/or Dave persuade the others to stick to the scr
Dave, an idiosyncratic metal shop worker, steps out of his comfort zone to find new joy in life.
In a child's bedroom, a tattered puff toy appears somewhat melancholy. As tinkering sounds and footsteps echo throughout the room, a curious figure projects a shadow against a wall. In the midst of this cluttered environ
The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit.
Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor and knocks some good sense into friends and enemies alike. Rapists and ga
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Through his internal monologue, we learn about the mechanical life of Robb Connor.
Featuring an interview with frontman Tom DeLonge discussing the high-profile breakup of his ex-band, blink-182, this documentary takes viewers into the studio as supergroup Angels & Airwaves records their debut album, "W
In 1921, an untitled text reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's writings was discovered in Boston. It was made by unknown creators, perhaps a techno-spiritualist cult of enthusiasts, for an automaton, that would attempt to mo
The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But if the Machine stops, what then?
The Hello Machine is a short, wordless film-poem, in which the assembly of an electronic switching system is shown. It is a poetic musing on the connections between handwork and the act of communicating. The film chronic
Fifty years ago, history was made when the Miami Dolphins completed a perfect 17-0 season by winning Super Bowl VII in Los Angeles. Despite several teams coming close, the perfect record has stood the test of time and th
After her husband died, a mother buys a grinding-machine in order to make a living. Initially fascinated by the machine, her son starts getting irritated by its noise. He tries to destroy the machine to regain his childh
100 years in the future: Tom is both bored and worried in the humdrum, violent times. Also he is unable to remember what his job is and thus decides to leave. But everyone keeps telling him that is impossible ...
A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine. Jarman's contribution is a versi
From the discovery of huge oil fields off the coast of Scotland to their mass privatisation during the Thatcher era, The Oil Machine highlights how oil became the invisible engine driving UK economic and public policy. I