Teddy Bear Maelstrom / 1983

An Animated Short Film by Glen Entis

Maelstroms /

Using animation, heat-sensitive camera footage from U.S. border patrol screens, military bombing drone monitors and other collected footage, Maelstroms is a reflection on the dehumanizing use of image technology in modern practices.

Maelstrom / 2023

Mizuko YAMAOKA graduates from art school in New York in 2002 and is living her dream far away from home. After a bicycle accident, she has to depend on a wheelchair and must return to her parents in Japan. Yet, even then, she refuses to give up. With striking private footage, MAELSTROM is a personal documentary about believing in art, the struggle to fulfill one’s wishes and the value of life.

In the Maelstrom of War - The Story of a German Family / 2020

A film about the destructive power of war, about mental destruction and the effects on future generations.

Beauty in the Maelstrom / 1956

A Shaw and Sons production about a couple who loves each other but end up marrying different people because of parental pressures.

The Maelstrom: A Family Chronicle / 1997

The Maelstrom makes extraordinary artful use of considerable cache of home movies shot in the Netherlands before and during World War II and dealing with the extended Peereboom family. Information is conveyed through subtitles and instead of voice-over, the soundtrack consists of period sound, usually from radio broadcasts, and brooding, disturbing jazz score by Tibor Szemzõ. What wee see is a Jewish family first living unknowingly in the shadow of the Holocaust and then trying to cope with it still unaware of what it will finally mean. A shot of the film's photographer Max Peereboom, and his family we've come to know, cheerfully sewing and doing general preparation for a trip to a "work camp" when their destination was in reality the nightmare of Auschwitz adds a devastating dimension to our understanding of the Final Solution that nothing else, no Hollywood movie, no documentary, has been able to provide.

Voragem / 2021

When obsessively preparing for her next role, the actress is sucked into a maelstrom caused by her own paranoia.

La Vorágine / 2015