Silent Movies

"Bialy Slad" featured as the main characters amateur actors, who were by that time well-known Polish skiers, among them Andrzej, Herr Krzeptowski's...

Released in 1930. Direction, production, writing & cinematography by Adam Krzeptowski

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...

Record of the 1937 German Expedition to Nanga Parbat, led by Karl Wien. This was the third German expedition to the mountain, and the team followed...

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.

Mudos testigos is a cinematographic collage made from all the surviving material of Colombian silent films, re-editing the images in such a way as to...

Released on August 3rd, 1919.

A man wakes up in a forest with a mysterious mask stuck to his face and a note with a girl's face depicted.

An exercise in no-budget filmmaking made over a two day span.

Filmed during Max Devereaux’s senior year of high school with classmates as cast and crew, this black-and-white short tells the story of a man...

Three rock climbing ascents in Val Bregaglia, Italy by Karl Freimann and Philipp Wieland, who made the first ascent of Fiamma in 1936. The film...

A young lifeguard gets more than he bargained for on his first shift

An Italian produced, short, silent, observational documentary directed by Raffaele Andreassi.

An aging artist confronts his traumatic past as he paints a portrait of the beachside home he grew up in.

A rock climbing in the Bavarian Allgäu Alps in Germany. The camera follows two mountaineers on a climb. We see all stages of the ascent, from...

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.

Six years after the Berlin Wall fell and five years after German unification this documentary looks into the fast changes in architecture and street...

Record of the 1936 British Mount Everest Expedition led by Hugh Ruttledge. Although the North Col was reached, a combination of high winds, storms...

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes...