Silent Movies

What happens to art when it loses its artist?

Released on August 10th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Join us down deep within the basement of ToonMan as a not so colorful cast of characters join together only once in a half moon to play poker for one...

Released in 1901

Elam turns in place while filming nature.

Released in 1901

A girl sitting on an autumn leaf-filled sidewalk communicates with a mysterious figure across the street.

Released on August 17th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Abstract short.

Kupferberg Gold ad by Pinschewer.

Released in 1901

Andy Warhol directs The Factory regular Louisa "Jackie" Foster for a screen test.

Watch as Aiden Aleman creates his newest art piece “TRUTH” in the middle of Zilker Park.

A Gaumont Mirror newsreel showing a party of climbers setting out to climb the Great Gable. They appear drinking from a mountain stream and climbing...

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions...

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

Peter Hutton's New York trilogy. An act of urban archaeology, a chronicle of indelible impressions of the city.

“Tai Chi II,” similarly to Elam’s “Tai Chi Bowling” and “Tai Chi,” focuses on movement. Through a sequence...

Digging in the woods.