Documentary Short Movies

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The train leaving the Schiedegg station and entering the Eiger tunnel en route for the station Eigerwand.

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate...

Released in 1901

A journey to an island in the English Channel in pursuit of summertimes gone by.

In 2002, Sophie Constantinou and Bill Weir interviewed Padgett about his life and works, specifically his friendship and collaborations with the New...

Antti, a musher from Northern Finland, won't give up his way of life despite being advised contrarily. In the dogsled world there is no going back...

Travelogue released on November 6th, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

An octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a...

1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Released in 1901

What does it mean to be of a place? Of the sun and soil and bees, of the water and black ants and cowpeas. To be so entangled with an ecosystem,...

This very short documentary from the Hinterland Who’s Who series introduces viewers to the peregrine falcon.

Image production is fiction-weaving. Together with Sheena Absalud, we spent an entire day in Pride Month in my room documenting ourselves using...

"Michikha Is Not Afraid of Airplanes" is a visual essay about a journey - even one that is impossible, didn't take place, or was undertaken...

Nikos Theodoridis, a street magazine vendor, faces every day the difficulty of earning the money he needs to survive. In this harsh reality, his...

Travelogue released on the 22nd of January, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

On the 23rd of June 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. Who Are We? is a re-working of material from a BBC television debate transmitted...

Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios in 1985 to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.