Silent Movies

The de Trémeuse family confronts Favraux’s broken condition, while betrayals and mistaken identities drive the action forward.

A lyrical sketch in the style of a silent film, telling the story of an artist carrying a large, long roll of paper across the city.

A very short episode in which Jacqueline learns the truth about Vallières, Judex, and Jacques de Trémeuse being the same man.

A young couple embraces their romantic feelings until an unforeseen darkness threatens to destroy their love.

Two hicks take a trip to Atlantic City.

Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.

The story resolves with forgiveness, reunions, and the engagement of Jacques and Jacqueline, while Diana meets a tragic end.

A man experiences what seems to be a simple power outage until he looks outside to find out something much more sinister may be happening.

A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile, the rich man must fend off his brother-in-law,...

A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest...

A man calls his friend for help as something or someone chases him.

At a party, a girl tells a group of people an old tale about a boy who encounters a mysterious man carrying a lantern and a picnic basket on a rural...

Jacqueline is taken to an old mill, Moralès is exposed as Kerjean’s son, and Judex continues protecting Jacqueline in secret.

An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards - symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we...

When an offbeat young woman encounters her perfect match in a movie theatre, she must summon the courage to win her dream girl’s heart.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on April 27th, 1919.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

In a world where humans only communicate telepathically, Nima searches for a butterfly. Her encounter with a black cat leads her to an apathetic old...

A woman goes to a cold and inhospitable abandoned cove to try to summon the spirit of her only son, who passed away during the war.