Alexander Hammid Movies

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

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...

Probably the best-known advertising film for Bata, where joke and irony meet commercial purposes. Tires are sent from rural countryside to 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....

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.

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

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

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

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

Short story film about a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském hradě [Prague Castle], in close...

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...

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...

This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to the city. The camera follows a detached protagonist on his...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary studying Hungarian refugee problems after the October 1956 revolution. Shot on the Austro-Hungarian frontier and...

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...