Short Movies

The ascent of the Matterhorn by the Hornli Ridge, filmed in July 1913 by Frederick Burlingham. The team, composed of Burlingham and four mountain...

A narrator tells us that in the days of the Old West, times were tough. With no law and order, bandits roamed around free to commit any crime with...

A young sailor, after returning from a long voyage, remembers his homeland, now dry and empty, just as it once was: with ponds full of water and a...

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...

A filmmaker begins making a film about another artist. She is there to observe, listen, and stay behind the camera. But keeping her distance becomes...

An early Vitaphone sound short featuring comedian Polly Moran as the Movie Chatterbox.

Mara and Juno are trying to save their favorite punk bar, The Rusty Needle, only to discover that the real enemy isn't a villain; it's apathy.

Jean des Bossons is a documentary-fiction which recounts the activities of a high mountain guide in 1947. Around Chamonix Mont-Blanc, the guide Jean...

A documentary illustrating the mountain sports activities of the university students of the GUF (Gruppi universitari fascisti) in Val Gardena,...

A poetic expedition between two Indigenous islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Greenland, connecting their realities of melting...

Two climbers progress on an alpine glacier and reach the top of a mountain by climbing a long and steep slope of snow and ice. They also have to...

Two puppets meet on a blind date, and it's hate at first sight. But for their dutiful human puppeteers, the sparks fly instantly. What happens when a...

An early De Forest Phonofilm performance short exhibited as part of a sound-film presentation at Riesenfeld's Rivoli Theatre in New York.

La Meije is a documentary about alpinism that takes place in La Meije. It was directed by Alain Pol in 1947 and produced by Toni-Films.

A musical sound short featuring Guy Robertson and imagery related to the Mississippi River floods.

The film describes the activities of a rock-climbing Explorer Unit from Phoenix, Arizona - the Kachinas. First their equipment and techniques are...

The climbing of the Fiamma, the famous rock needle in the Bergell, with minimal equipment and technique. A must for lovers of mountain sports. A...

Sound short featuring comedian Benny Rubin.

The film is a kind of docu-fiction about a boy who enrolls in a battalion of young mountain troops. The film follows his daily life in the military...

An ascent of 'The Tooth' via the South-east Face. The film was made by Burge Bickford and Lyman Boyer. It features Jim Crooks leading Fred Beckey on...