Silent Film Movies

Film number 3 of the British Avantgarde BFI tape is a tricky crime short where you never get to see the faces of the actors or any conclusive idea wha...

A young woman sitting on a bench in the public park is annoyed by an old man sitting next to her and paying her persistent attention. Resenting this r...

Maru-san and Kaku-san have grown complacent in the long peace. They go to view a military parade, but it turns into a comparison of the military stren...

This film is about the risk of tuberculosis and the importance of disease prevention; produced by the Home Ministry Public Health Division Health and...

Comical interaction between a little girl who comes to buy sweets and a candy man.

Early Gaumont short by an unknown director

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but r...

Parody boxing from Denmark. The fat clown keeps getting beat up, but he's got a trick up his sleeve.…

A little girl's caretaker is distracted by her suitor and in her absentmindedness fails to look after the child, who happily went after a butterfly…

With a beautifully painted Arabian backdrop and some vivid colours, this is one of the more visually impressive pieces.

Silent film about five girls, dealing with the dream of beauty, despair of revolution, broken Gretchen love, absurd self-discovery, and on the heels o...

An ordinary man wakes up in a world upside down! Illegible newspaper, people backing up, cars backing up: nothing is the same anymore, but everything...

A nervous, careless recording of a trip through India and Nepal at the beginning of the 1970s. Fleeting impressions of faces, landscapes, temples, peo...

Man is trying to find himself by doing circles around with his skateboard.

In 1916, twenty-year-old Marion Wong wrote and directed The Curse of Quon Gwon, the earliest example of an Asian American film. What initially appears...

A film of a dreary, empty campus and all that comes with it.