Alexander Hammid Movies

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

A documentary featuring musicians including Artur Rubinstein, Jan Peerce-Nadine Conner, and Jascha Heifetz.

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...

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

A cinematic poem with an impressive soundtrack that complements and completes the cinematic sketches of the folk culture of the Slovak nation...

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

A man and a woman meet on the streetcar. Six years ago, they were close . . .

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

U.S. Goverment film about the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and 1940s.

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

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...

A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S....

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...

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

Commissioned by the U.S. Office of War Information, this short film features conductor Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Symphony Orchestra, tenor Jan...

Andrea, the beautiful daughter of a railway gateman, is seduced by a rich passenger, who missed his train. Left pregnant, Andrea marries another man...