Orson Welles Movies

A surreal meditation on hopelessness and pointlessness as guided by the Arthur Frain/Merlin character from Boorman’s “Zardoz”.

A haunting visual adaptation of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio performance. We are introduced to Ronald Adams: a man who, during a cross country...

Tracing Orson Welles time in Spain.

Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the...

An Englishman with amnesia tries to discover why he is at the center of a Latin American coup.

A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting and writing and his desire to bestow a...

Humans have disappeared, only a few remain who try to hide so as not to disappear like the rest. What do these strange beings hide? Why do they love...

Visual observation of psychic phenomena including psychic surgery, prior life regressions, skin vision, metal bending, and tongue skewing.

Three months in the life of a patient at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, CA. Therapy sessions of a young woman with catatonic schizophrenia...

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in...

A shot-for-shot remake of Orson Welles first effort at cinema, filmed entirely on New Year's Eve 1996 in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.

“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price....

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

On April 24th, 1982, when Orson Welles was invited to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur from François Mitterand, a lively filmed...