Movies: Silent

Exploring the Anthropocene era characterized by human impact on the planet, this is an enlightening VR film that examines an emerging superpower undergoing mass urbanization, industrial development, and topographical changes....

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Death awaits the souls of those who perished and interviews them before they move on....

JoAnn Elam plants collards....

Two women gardening on a sunny day....

An outdoor gathering....

A covered bridge and the nature surrounding it....

Sprocket holes moving across the screen....

Two pumpkins....

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence of close-ups, Elam coyly records portions of several individuals practicing tai chi, primarily focusing on the practitioners’ extremities as th...

A young woman wakes up to a new morning....

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A young man races to deliver a letter in time for his mother's birthday....

An insoluble quest....

Register of the events which occurred between 9 and 15 April 1948 in Bogota as a result of the assassination of political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán...

Six years after the Berlin Wall fell and five years after German unification this documentary looks into the fast changes in architecture and street life of Berlin Mitte and stays in tune with a piano piece of Ludwig van Beethoven....

Chicago streets....

Farm work and nature....

Filmed during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers in August 1980....

At home, outdoors. Street shots....