The documentary “Pagliacci” celebrates – in a poetic way – what it means to be a clown. The film addresses philosophical and symbolic questions about man’s need to laugh at himself. In a sensorial and emotional mix, the film starts from what is most human and true: laughter.
The Story of an Encounter is a documentary that captures the unexpected encounter between México and...
Vienna’s Prater is an amusement park and a desire machine. No mechanical invention, no novel idea or...
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...
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
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...
The movie follows the clock round as music hall clown Beby takes off his make up, goes home for a me...
A Documentary on the Creation of OVO, by Cirque du Soleil
As Cirque du Soleil reboots its flagship production, O, more than a year after an abrupt shutdown, p...
Four of the best clowns of Salvador return to the place where they were initiated 15 years before to...
From the slow waitings for opening of the big top to the loneliness in the dressing room backstage, ...
Nikki Brown Clown is a clown with a purpose. She advocates for Portland's displaced black community ...
For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native...
Tucked away in northern Indiana, the city of Peru, Indiana is the circus capitol of the world. Thous...
A surreal look at the day-to-day life of American soldiers stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba through...
Elephants are among the most majestic and intelligent creatures on Earth--but for hundreds of years,...
The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spi...
Icarus is the main character of Varekai, who falls to the ground, breaking his legs as he does. He i...