Silent Movies

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.

Documentary without audio produced by deaf people. Music is depicted visually with the complete absence of musical instruments or voices. Directed by...

The Mayor and the Chief of Police have offices in the same building, and are both enamored of the chief's stenographer, Dolly. However, she gives...

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

An experimental silent thriller that was shot and edited on 16mm film

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

An Irish Romeo and Juliet set in 18th Century during the Penal Laws. Ends with the marriage of a Catholic aristocrat and the daughter of Protestant...

Two women find companionship in emptiness.

A flashback reveals Judex’s true identity and family vow of revenge, while his mother’s black-clad presence adds a moral and emotional...

Nearly a century ago, two filmmakers traveled to Germany to shoot an homage to the 1922 film, Nosferatu, and visit the graves of those who made the...

Every day, a father works to accumulate the money needed to buy go-kart tires for his daughter and himself. At the racetrack or at home, nothing...

A man contacts the dead.

Consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across Elam's lawn.

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,...

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

A young woman re-lives her past relationship through a series of silhouettes in the night's sky.

School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It...

In this silent romantic comedy-drama, a reality-challenged title writer must navigate the perils and possibilities of two worlds: the one in his...

Released on August 31st, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A passionate mime practices her daily rituals and performs for people, as well as being reminded of her insecurities.