A short film about Swan Hunter's Brass Band and The Rising Sun Legionnaires juvenile jazz band, culminating in performances as part of Wallsend Festival in 1972.
A blend of documentary and drama exploring the world of boxing, centred on the gym run by George Bowes in Hartlepool.
A film about the rope-hauled raIlway, built in the 1820s by George Stephenson, which linked Kibblesworth Colliery with Jarrow Staithes, where the coal was loaded on to ships.
A film about death, legacy, keeping going, the Tyneside percussionist Bruce Arthur and the Aladdin's Cave of instruments he left when he died in 2002.
Starting with the workers' discussion of the future of factory horse, the documentary records a handmade brickworks in Swalwell on the south bank of the Tyne. Adamsez, the well known bathroom ware manufacturers, went out of business in 1975. One of the casualties of the closure was a small self-contained…
Alienation, isolation and desolate industrial landscapes in an animation brought to Amber by Peter Roberts when he joined the collective in 1971.
A day in the life of Newcastle upon Tyne... The Grainger Market is at the beating heart of this film, that was recently rescued from the Amber archive. The council wanted a film about what was going on in the city; the Amber the collective thought they could maybe take the opportunity to make the film…
The PAPER TRAIL, which begins in the forests of Australia, travels to Japan's industrial centres and leads to factories, department stores and rubbish dumps from Melbourne to Tokyo. The first paper was produced some 5,000 years ago; since then its uses have multiplied at a staggering rate. We…
In 1937 Yosl, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, arrived in Melbourne where he joined his sister Ruth, a dancer, and his father Melech Ravich. A leading Yiddish writer, Ravich had journeyed to Australia to search for a new homeland for Jews fleeing anti-Semitism and fascism in Europe. But Australia in the…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/an-autobiography-of-michelle-maren-p150.aspx by Michel Negroponte and Michelle Maren color, 81 min, 2015 in English When the filmmaker Michel Negroponte (Jupiter's Wife) received an e-mail from a woman…
An exposé of the ecological and personal effects of the notorious palm oil industry.
A stunning and gentle journey of a talented young dancer and the bitter challenges she must face on her way to the greatest stages in the world. Shot over the period of six years the film portrays Weronika, an outstanding graduate of the renowned Warsaw Ballet School. Since she was 10 years old, ballet…
