Night Fire Films Movies

The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry an...

The complex and beautiful hieroglyphic script of the ancient Maya was until recently one of the last great undeciphered writing systems. Based on the...

"Tanka" means, literally, "a thing rolled up". Photographed from Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, Tanka is a cyclica...

A commune of improvisational theatre performers, musicians, light-show artists, film makers, geodesic dome designers and former members of Ken Kesey's...

Over the past 50 years, thousands of exquisitely painted Maya vases, almost all looted from tombs, have flooded into public and private collections. T...

Invisible Writing was commissioned as an installation by the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. The 48-minute piece is a high definition record of liv...