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David Cairns and Fiona Watson offer a personal, witty and comprehensive study of the Hal Roach era of legendary Hollywood comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, including a film-by-film review of every short subject the team produced in the year 1928.

Video essay detailing Buster Keaton's motivation and construction of his 1927 film, The General. Made up almost entirely of silent scenes from the film.

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder.

A Holy Place director Djordje Kadijevic looks back at how his early counter-revolutionary war films led to him inadvertently becoming part of the ‘Yugoslav Black Wave’, and how a polite but firm block on the making of any more such films led him into television and eventually towards the fantasy genre.

Video essay about the 1928 film 'The Man Who Laughs'.

Video essay about the 1927 film 'The Cat and the Canary'.