“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
Directed by John Ford
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
The Skywalker Legacy
Seduced and Abandoned
Naqoyqatsi
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
Everything or Nothing
Being James Bond
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
The Class of ‘92
Elstree 1976
My Mom Jayne
Fuck
A Decade Under the Influence
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Above Majestic
A Plastic Ocean
Room 237