Movies: Singing

"Let's Scuffle" is a short subject -- a single song-and-dance number -- that appears to have been cut from a feature-length movie: to be precise, a 'race film'. (This was the term used by American cinema exhibitors in the 1940s and earlier for any mo...

Singer's daughter Sara leaves her country seeking a new means of performing. She travels to Turkey, and then Austria to continue her dream, but the path ahead is difficult....

Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the mother of an adopted child. She talks about her life, her people, and her responsibilities as a single parent. Her observations shake some of our cultu...

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It will take a lot more than a lack of talent to stop an ambitious kitten’s dream of joining in the songs of Feline City....

"It's very strange, on stage I always feel very good, but during the two hours before, there is fear, uneasiness, a great sadness" declared Yves Montand to the press in 1980. To commemorate the 100 years of his birth, this portrait rich in archives a...

Jack Waldron performs his stand-up vaudeville act....

A mockumentary following the troubled production of Clockmen: The Musical, focusing on a cosplayer-turned-actress who reacts to the stress of the production in a rather unusual way....

Rawa dreams of singing on stage and studying in college of fine arts, after he reaches his dreams what will destiny do to him?...

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Filmmaker Michael Stillwater explores and celebrates the universal current pulsing through all forms of life through music and sound....

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In the present work, the artists appears lying on his back, his eyes mostly closed, dreamingly listening to a walkman that plays, a recording of 'The Best of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground'. The artist can hear the music through his earphones, b...

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music and folk culture. These modes can span traditional a cappella performance styles as well as unique exp...