George King "Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel No. 1"

Foot age from The Making of Fanny and Alexander

Jean Vigo's films Zéro de conduite (1933) and L'Atalante (1934)

A celebration of the magic and wonder of early cinema.

Egon Schiele's (1890 – 1918) death bed sketch of his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant at the time. He himself was dying even as...

Photographer Weegee describes his haunting meeting with an 81 year old Alfred Stieglitz. From his book Naked City.

Etchings made by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) dubbed by some as his "Dirty Little Secrets"

An interview with Ingmar Bergman where he discusses "Non-existence" and God's perfection in comparison to human imperfection.

Jean Genet asks a BBC film crew why they don't rebel.

The art of decay. Albert Pinkham Ryder's paintings decay over time due to his use of unstable materials.

Throughout his life William Blake claimed to have seen visions of people from the remote past, as well as deceased friends.

‘What I Believe’ is a prose poem originally published in French in Science Fiction #1 in January 1984.

The life and imagination of Bruno Schulz including drawings, a film of the mural discovery and a newly discovered short story by Schulz

The films of pioneering filmmaker Lotte Reiniger

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings

Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.

Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.

Rare footage of Albert Camus talking about the theatre with an extract of The Possessed written and directed by Albert Camus

"Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas..."

“He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears..."

Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.

"I created a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications..Of course I was advertising my own conceptual ideas,

Interview with Sergei Parajanov here he discusses how making Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) led to his imprisonment

Four Text Collages (Project for a New Novel), by J. G. Ballard. Experimental text collages by Ballard intended as a condensed novel.