Noël Burch Movies

An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal,...

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams...

Short film made in Spain.

Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and...

Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get...

A priest succumbs to the charms of his lovely cleaning lady and decides to find a husband when she finds herself pregnant with her works.

Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von...

A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in...

Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging...

Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights...

A journey into contemporary French cinema through a series of exclusive interviews with the leading figures of GLBT French cinematography:...

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and Jean-André Fieschi,...

Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in...

Documentary about filmmaker Shirley Clarke which originally aired on the French television series “Cinéastes de notre temps”.

Herewith the strange case of Reginald Pepper, the acclaimed English “primitive” painter who, some say, lives secluded with his mother and...

Noel Burch’s fascinating and well-made (if at times historically contestable) six-part BBC television series, about early silent cinema in...

A peeping tom caught spying on a women's self-defense class is taken captive by the class leader. At first the class uses him as a training dummy,...

Essay film about the suffragette movement.

An impressive reconstruction of time through archival materials, it explores through three characters the fate of 6 million immigrants who made our...

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critics Noël Burch and André S. Labarthe,...