Archive Footage Movies

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

A short concerning the excavations in Herculaneum.

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

Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of belonging, affirmation...

RERUM depicts a tense state in which creeping subterranean forces deform and consume images and memory. Shots of fiery processes beneath the...

Littlewoods was once the largest family-owned business in the UK, employing over 30,000 women at its peak. Using archive images, interviews and...

Two-volume programme featuring the woman widely regarded as France's greatest ever popular singer. An hour long documentary on Piaf's life and career...

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

Rare archive footage reveals what Singapore was like dating back to 1900, showing coolies sharing lunch, rickshaw pullers, a grand Peranakan funeral,...

An interactive 1973 educational slide presentation exploring personal finance and budget management, developed for a USDA Special Needs Project....

I Will Always Be Your Girl :P is a video-art piece made of archival footage documenting a specific part of the artist’s transition: the six...

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

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

The story of building the Golden Gate Bridge is as compelling as its ultimate success. Undaunted by treacherous tides, high winds, and predictions...

Intimacy is outside. Animality roars with fury, its symptoms expand over a territory. The horizon traces the gesture of its inhabitants. In the...

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

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