Archive Footage Movies

Daniel Eisenberg's film (or "memory essay," as theorist Nora Alter referred to DISPLACED PERSON) is a challenge to a conventional view of history, a...

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

A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking...

An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep...

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

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a trans body dreams of the birth of night.

On the way to the supermarket, a family discusses the history of the old zoo in Poznan, Poland, and Darwin’s absurd fear of peacocks.

By asking the same question across generations of Southern Chinese in the UK, this film documents a vignette of two recent Hong Kong immigrants and...

"[T]he emotional climax of my larger work Gloria’s Stupid World 2: World Stupider. Told through a relentless barrage of 1-4 frame clips from...

A documentary showcasing the traditional Filipino way of eating, through a foreign, outdated lens.

While Susan B Anthony famously said the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world”, The Freedom Machine...

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

The film takes its title from a short documentary 'Diviner Water in Luppitt' (1976), housed in the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) in...

"It's very strange, on stage I always feel very good, but during the two hours before, there is fear, uneasiness, a great sadness" declared Yves...