“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.
Vladimir Lenin
Self (archive footage)
Sergei Eisenstein
Eduard Tisse
Boris Babochkin
Sergey Vasilev
Georgi Vasilyev
Ilya Trauberg
Grigori Kozintsev
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Fridrikh Ermler
Maxim Gorky
Yuli Raizman
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
Directed by John Ford
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
The Skywalker Legacy
The Class of ‘92
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Seduced and Abandoned
Naqoyqatsi