Gilles Clément, le jardin en mouvement

Roundhay Garden Scene(en)

The earliest surviving celluloid film, and believed to be the second moving picture ever created, was shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince using the LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera. It was taken in the garden of Oakwood Grange, the Whitley family house in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire (UK), possibly on 14 October 1888. The film shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley, and Miss Harriet Hartley walking around in circles, laughing to themselves, and staying within the area framed by the camera. The Roundhay Garden Scene was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

East of the Malverns(en)

Scenic route through the Vale of Evesham, Worcester and Great Malvern, with a detour to a lost masterpiece of outsider art.

L'acte de la beauté(fr)

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism(en)

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes. The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Children Playing in the Garden(xx)

A group of children is playing in the garden.

Borrowed from Nature(en)

Borrowed From Nature explores the rich and complex history of Japanese gardens in western Canada. Through the principles and design philosophy of famed Japanese Canadian designer Roy Tomomichi Sumi, we visit Japanese gardens in Lethbridge, AB, Vancouver, BC, and New Denver, BC, revealing hidden testaments to an enduring Japanese influence in our country

Green Guérilla(fr)

In the community gardens of New York

An Enclosure(en)

We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, Brittany, France.

Stealing of the Sun(sh)

While new, monster housings are being erected, people grow a small farm in their vicinity. Soon the bulldozers come and ransack it.

The Catastrophe Garden(en)

It is a daring idea: to grow food from old mattresses in a desolate camp at the edge of a war zone. When a refugee scientist meets two quirky professors, they must confront their own catastrophes - and make a garden grow. Short film now streaming on Waterbear.com.

Jardim(pt)

4 hectares of ground are the gardens that surround the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Throughout one year João Vladimiro’s camera follows the work of landscape architect Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles, commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. “I know that the trees don’t have eyes, that the water doesn’t have a mouth, and that stones don’t have ears. Still, we communicate. In this particular garden, long mute talks take place, like the two elders that, through their sheer presence, talk to each other about calmness, comfort and sadness.”, says director Vladimiro, whose patient camera eye pays attention to the smallest events.

From Gaol to Rectory(xx)

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

Great Western Road(en)

Take a virtual stroll down the streets of Glasgow’s iconic Great Western Road.

Trip to Hilsea Lido(xx)

Large numbers of children and adults can be seen enjoying themselves, splashing about in the water or diving from the high-boards.

Broadstairs and Margate Items(xx)

The Thanet coast featuring boat rides, horses and family outings.

Portrait of Penge(en)

Film about the town of Penge featuring local personalities, housing, shopping, traffic and the Penge formation dancers.

A Day on the Broads(xx)

With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

Enchanting Bournemouth(en)

Bournemouth offers a variety of sports, pastimes, steamer trips, and fine dining for holidaymakers, competing with cheaper foreign holidays and offering a variety of transportation options.

Splendour of the Heavens(en)

A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before focussing on a particular house in the suburbs with its own observatory.

The Quince Tree Sun(es)

Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.