Alexander Hammid Movies

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge,...

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...

We accompany the 90-year-old filmmaker Alexander Hammid on a stroll through New York, wandering with him through the outer and inner landscapes of...

A school boy cannot think what to write in an essay assignment about spring. His father cannot come up with any new ideas either.

The River of Life and Death captures the slow time in the well-known Indian pilgrimage place of Benares, the act of purification by water, the...

About a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

Two secretaries go out on a double date, but the inexperienced Mary flees when offered money for sexual favors. She takes refuge in a cafe and...

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

Mimi lives with her parents and the maid Fanka in a villa near the forest. One day, a gamekeeper comes to court Mimi when her parents are away.

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

Film on the refugee situation in Austria as a result of Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Four episodes on the theme of human hope and survival set in Santambrogio, Italy; Fermathe, Haiti; British Columbia and Kjeller in Norway.

One of the great artistic forces of the 20th century, performer, choreographer, and teacher Martha Graham influenced dance around the world....

Dramatization of the experience of a young married couple whose quarrels undermine their happiness and prevent the development of adult love based on...

"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature...

An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next...

Madame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances...

Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.

Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a...

Youth in Canada learning to come to terms with the world in which they have to live. A picture of the journey to adulthood - a composite of many...