Micmacs

Micmacs 2009

6.61

While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.

2009

The Vatican Exorcisms

The Vatican Exorcisms 2013

4.20

The Vatican Exorcisms was shot by Joe Marino, an American film-maker who went to Italy to shed light on the phenomenon of exorcisms. Accompanied by Padre Luigi, a true exorcist, Joe travels to the south of Italy, a place where the sacred and profane have always lived together, where Christian rituals are inextricably linked to the pagan ones.

2013

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist 1894

5.00

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.

1894

Two Too Odd

Two Too Odd 2012

10.00

A suitcase explores Vienna's suburbia and finds giant soap bubbles. It befriends the soap bubble girl. They create a show together and have a suitcase-child.

2012

Latina, Contortionist

Latina, Contortionist 1905

4.00

A woman wearing a light-colored leotard, gathered at the waist, and tights stands against a black background. Although she is filmed in a long shot, her feet are cut off in the frame. She opens with a flourish of her arms and faces the camera. First stretching up with her arms, Latina then bends in half at the waist, steps into a metal ring or hoop, and places her head in the ring as well.

1905

L'infernal contorsionniste

L'infernal contorsionniste 1923

1

Red-tinted 9,5 mm Baby-Pathé version (1923) of a devilish contortionist short starring Fred Sato (1910/1911).

1923