I remember that as a child I thought you could see everything from here.
“FILMMAKERS ON HOLD” is a documentary film that celebrates the incredible individuals behind independent filmmaking in New York City. Filmed between March 2020 and March 2022, the film offers a unique perspective on the industry professionals. Through a series of personal stories, it delves into the passion, creativity, and resourcefulness of this community as they navigate the challenges and opportunities. The film also raises important questions about the future of the film industry as it continues to evolve, particularly in the wake of the challenges posed by the pandemic and lockdown.
Join acclaimed dance innovator, Margaret Beals, in her exploration of the art of improvisation. In this short documentary, Ms. Beals demonstrates the power and authenticity of improvisation as performance and also as a tool of discovery for any creative endeavor.
She has been called the Swedish nightingale, Jenny Lind – Sweden's first major music export success. Here, two late Jenny Lind fans make a pilgrimage to Nyckelviken to enjoy the same environment where the court singer once lived.
Images of Västerbotten.
The wild swans and their nest, eggs, kids.
The NYC Curbside Composting Program has expanded to Queens! Have you heard of it? The PSA shows a step-by-step process of how Curbside Composting works. This film encourages you to start composting too!
Interview with Ingmar Bergman by the Swedish Film Institute's then CEO Jörn Donner about the filming of Fanny and Alexander.
Swans, ducks and countless other birds.
Cityscapes from the capital of Latvia.
The world's most famous Swede in 1929 is undoubtedly Greta Garbo. Here the photographer has taken her when she returns to Hollywood after a short visit in Sweden.
The world-famous stars and married couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are warmly welcomed to Stockholm on the Midsummer weekend of 1924.
The film is a testimony of one of the few people who survived the concentration camps in Germany during the Second World War. Ferenc Göndör's story takes place when he was of school age. As a Jew, he was not allowed to go to school in the same way as his peers. He had to practice pointless and hard work during some lessons. He was not allowed in to his hairdresser, to whom he had been going for many years: "Forbidden to dogs and Jews".
In the midst of a personal and work crisis, I begin to film everything obsessively: my parents, grandparents, children, friends and lovers, but also myself and psychotherapy. Some footage is consensual, some is “stolen.” This way my personal-intimate becomes narrative: the recent separation, the pain of my children’s being apart, my parents’ separation, my inadequacy as a mother. But in this autobiographical process of “coming out” I inevitably clash with the privacy of those close to me. The result is a kind of intimate diary that, in becoming public, is perhaps shameless and obscene. But where are the boundaries between what should remain private, offstage, and what can be made public and shared?
Footage of a train station in Waterbury, Connecticut, a concrete lot where a factory once stood, and the city's famous clock tower - set to "Vencie Lockjaw" by the Calgary-based band Women.
When Irmy, a soon-to-be-dad comedian goes to his own father asking for money, he finds out that his only inheritance is a tiny piece of land in the occupied Palestinian territories. To make things worse, he also finds out that extreme-right-winged Jewish settlers have settled in his land and made a winery out of it. Together with his father, Irmy wages war on the settlers, army, and Israeli government and demands his land back! What begins as a personal quest to recover this contested piece of real estate quickly evolves into a humorous activist adventure that exposes the mechanisms of the occupation.
