Alexander Hammid Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Cashier Ferdyš Pištora goes to rob the villa of banker Rosenštok. At that moment, a fire breaks out and Ferdyš saves the...

A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.

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

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

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.

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...

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

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

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...

Promotional film extolling the wonders to be seen at the New York World's Fair.

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...