Singing Movies

Phil Emerton and his band play tunes and accompany guest performers, including singer-dancer Hannah Williams, the singing Three X Sisters, and...

What happens when indigenous healing rituals and immersive technology converge? Inspired by his own experiences with ayahuasca, a plant infusion...

Mouth Music demonstrates the distinctive modes of the human voice, the most influential of all musical instruments, takes on in southern folk music...

A baby dragon and a little bird fail to make beautiful music together.

"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...

A group of strangers comes to a monastery in Utah for a month-long stay. The monastery has two guidelines: no people-pleasing and no private...

The audience takes a tour through a baby factory run by storks. Next, we're invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Pretty Baby".

The film is based on the events of the 4th International Orthodox Music Festival held in Moscow in February, 1992. The Festival featured not only...

President Jimmy Carter "sings" Ray Charles' "Georgia on my Mind", while thinking about his home state. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

A guy who is into ska music, finds himself fascinated by Thai traditional music after meeting a great Thai traditional music songwriter and getting...

At an open-mic party, Abigail strives to break her boundaries with a new found connection she has made with a daring woman.

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...

A transgender woman accidentally attends a party hosted by her freshly-gay ex boyfriend and his new partner in her old house.

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced musical activities to shut down in March 2020, singers searched for ways to stay connected and sing live music...

An actor prepares to perform on a couch. He listens to songs from his past for inspiration. Later, spectators watch his performance seated on the...

Felix in Exile introduces a new character to the 'Drawings for Projection' series: Nandi, an African woman, who appears at the beginning of the film...

In this video, the narrator tells childhood stories of when his house burned down; a visit to the circus; his first love. After each story, he sings...

An experimental film following a trip made by three friends in which the contrast between the agitated city of São Paulo, Brazil and the...

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...

Men and women of the !Kung people in Ojokhoe, Namibia perform healing dances by firelight. First we see men perform the giraffe dance, and then...