Sara Greene is a 20-year circus industry veteran with a big dream—to start her own tented circus. As the summer moves along on Weirs Beach, Sara faces serious obstacles in fulfilling her dream, and in sharing that dream with her ailing step-mother, to whom her show was dedicated.
Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement follo...
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...
The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and F...
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and afi...
The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spi...
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...
Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to crea...
One man, one camera, one goal...to capture the essence of adventure. An experimental, often abstract...
Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The themes of the show, whose name means "jubilation" in Spanish...
From the Italian 'saltare in banco' – which literally means 'to jump on a bench' – Saltimbanco explo...
Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He i...
The comedian Timoteo is the leader of a cross-dresser circus that has toured through Chile for forty...
American’s Stone Henge is an enigmatic site located in New Hampshire. It holds secrets that are slow...
Every summer, a horde of professional Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and elves descend on a campsite in the N...
The documentary “Pagliacci” celebrates – in a poetic way – what it means to be a clown. The film add...
In the magical world of La Nouba, dreams become reality and talent turns the ordinary into the extra...
As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...
For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native...