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Notes of a Wind Chime
"What started as a COVID response film and because I missed a street in NYC evolved into a diary jukebox essay on navigating connection and healing. I wanted this to be my first truly 'positive' film. If Jonas is insanity, then this film is searching for serenity, acceptance and peace. Also the first film where I truly let go of trying to impress and let all the ideas and influences in. Centering the film—and unusual for myself—is a narrative performance by Lisa Naso that can be read in several ways (since this is a WIP I don't want to give away too much). It is the longest film I've made in 5 years. The archival footage of Jim Hubbard and ACT UP alongside an interview with my professor and activist/scholar/filmmaker Alexandra Juhasz creates anchors that expand conversation of intimacy, care, and community."
Gambler of his Life - F.M. Dostoyevsky
Time and again he challenged his fate at the gambling table. Based on the genesis of the biographically significant novel "The Gambler", the documentary sheds light on the groundbreaking work and the eventful life of F.M. Dostoyevsky, who celebrates his 200th birthday in November 2021.
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"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be presented or we need to reveal what the existing ones seek to cover up. The slum is usually represented from a limited and deceitful visual panorama. This representation has an intention. Cinema and television are two image-producing devices that strengthen the stereotypes that we have about the people who inhabit these spaces. And what happens in the field of painting? Do clichés reign there too? This visual essay seeks to confront various works by national painters and sculptors, belonging to the Palais collection, with the kinetic images of current cinema and television, to reflect on both the differences and the similarities in the meanings and discourses that both regimes of images can produce." César González
Njel, the Separation
Manuela lives in Cameroon and was four years old when her parents went abroad to work. She’s eleven now and preparing for her first graduation. She is growing up with her grandparents and, despite leading a good life, had to struggle with grief for a long time. Now she has learned how to cope with absence and how to be together despite the long distance.
Geese, Me, Alina
A documentary about how I conducted my quarantine in 2020. Guest stars: director Masha Afonina, 3 beautiful white goose and Alina Kabaeva
Sounds of Weariness
In the middle of one of his recurrent anxiety attacks, a Lebanese young man living in Brussels finds rest in a self-service laundry. He moves around the place with his microphone, driven by the obsession of understanding the origin of his discomfort.
SpeedfreakS: Psicopata Camarada
A documentary on the life and work of Brazilian rapper Cláudio Márcio de Sousa Santos, aka Speedfreak$.
Outhere (for Lee Lozano)
After 'Communicating Vessels' (FID 2020), the artist-filmmaker duo Annie McDonell and Maïder Fortuné are back. Once again, the question is that of art, its teaching, the painful articulation between thought, practice and the living shell that embraces and brings it to life. An affair as ancient as the first Romantic period, its complexity fully intact, the challenge here is multiplied by the study of an extremely singular and insufficiently known figure of 20th century history: Lee Lozano. Painter, particularly radical conceptual artist and then recluse, for many years this woman filled similar small coloured spiral notebooks with her thoughts and plans for her work.
Golpe de Ouro
After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to donate wealth to the military government. The symbol of the campaign was the wedding ring, sealing the union between the people and the State. The film picks up the trail of the millions collected, but never channeled back into society.
Almantal Yu’un Lekilal
Twenty-two years after the massacre perpetrated by paramilitary groups in complicity with the government, the people of Acteal celebrate their martyrs and persist in their demand for justice.
Pandémie planétaire, une Chine pas au-dessus de tout soupçon
Corvo
Corvo tells the story of how with no threats, no weapons and no violence, the magician and stunt artist, Robert J. Williams, robbed 13 banks in 2012. With unconventional narrations, untraditional reenactments, magic acts and stunts, the documentary thoroughly analyzes the sequence of life events that led to the execution of these robberies.
I Am What You Will Be
A meditation on the march of time and the call of death, told through month by month video fragments, and voice over narration. The film takes place over the course of a year following a series of family tragedies. In an attempt to examine cultural understandings of time, the filmmaker reorders the events of the year to produce a calendar of grief.
I just want to be happy
A documentary on transidentity, accessible to all, with 10 trans people (including one of the directors) participating.
El Horizonte del Pulso
A musical journey through the Atacama Desert, meeting the drum and percussion. The musician Pedro Greene —founder of historic bands from our country, such as Blops and Cometa—, takes an inspirational journey, meeting people and sounds related to construction and the ritual sense. A tribute to musical enjoyment and the sound nature of the landscape.
Incurable
Uncurable is the (hi)story of Abdullah Kozan who spent 47 years of his life as patient in a state hospital named “Homeland”.
Surviving Helmand
Four inspirational people deeply affected by the conflict in Afghanistan - two soldiers who overcame the deep psychological impact of their experiences, one who lost a leg, and a bereaved, campaigning mother - tell their extraordinary stories of anguish, despair and recovery, reveal how they coped with the consequences and have strived to help others. This is their story of surviving Helmand.
Inner Freedom
A man tries to get a group of young people trapped in drugs out through philosophy.
Incluídos
Incluídos is a documentary about waste pickers in Rio de Janeiro, one of the most precarious and unhealthy working conditions that exists sustaining big corporations. A lot of profit is made, but not for the own workers.
Black Renaissance: The Art and Soul of Our Stories
Join us for Black Renaissance: a one-of-a-kind celebration of Black creativity and culture that pays tribute to those who have shaped Black History and continue to influence our world today.
If From Every Tongue it Drips
A hybrid-documentary film that follows a queer Urdu poet as she traces the connections between quantum physics and political movements in South Asia.
Taiwan: A Digital Democracy in China's Shadow
One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of Taiwan. But China under President Xi Jinping wants more than ever to bring the island of Taiwan back into the fold, just like Hong Kong. Can the burgeoning democracy on China’s doorstep, driven by digital technology, resist the Middle Kingdom’s advances? To China Taiwan is a breakaway province that must return to the fold. To its 24 million inhabitants it is a sovereign state with its own constitution and democratically elected leaders. Now that Hong Kong has been brought into line, Taiwan remains determined to stand up as a vibrant, young democracy. But it won't be easy. Since the Sunflower Movement in 2014 when the young came out to prevent an economic agreement with China, citizen groups have been fighting for the transparency of institutions.
Divorce: As Long As We Both Shall Leave
Besides the Vatican, we are the only country left with no divorce. Many Filipinos are stuck in miserable and abusive marriages. Know the options for irreconcilable marriages, what lawmakers do, the church's stand and stories of Filipinos who are trapped in toxic marriages.
Quatorze vues de l’été
Shot in Anduze, Villeneuve-lès-Maleguone and Porquerolles in the summers of 2019 and 2020.
Livestock Industry Promotion Exhibition in Hwanghae-do
The film documents an exhibition for livestock industry promotion held in Sariwon, Hwanghae-do from October 21 to 25, 1924. At that time, Sariwon was an up-and-coming city whose “daily development is known to everyone” (Chosun Ilbo, October 9, 1924). The exhibition was held as a grand festival, attracting crowds of 30,000 on its opening day and 40,000 the following day. A moving camera passes through the square decorative doors of various designs installed in Sariwon’s downtown, conveying the festival atmosphere. Acquired in 2010, and transferred in 4K resolution.
This Body
As Sydney Hall participates in an experimental coronavirus vaccine trial in hopes of protecting her beloved New Orleans community, she and her loved ones confront the history of medical abuse and experimentation on Black bodies
Araatika: Rise Up!
For Indigenous Australian rugby league players, a pre-game ‘unity dance’ is an important step towards celebrating their cultures and combating entrenched racism.
Reflections of Nature
Reflections of Nature is an experimental short film, touching on the relationship man has with mother nature, and how they coexist in this ever changing modern world.
Horner
A documentary, released on the sixth anniversary of James Horner's death, telling the story of the composer's career through the 2013 Hollywood in Vienna concert celebrating his music.
Honor Thy Mother
The untold story of 36 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated in the 1940s to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people.
Rebyrth
Rebyrth is a film about an Atlanta-based doula working to save the lives of Black mothers as they journey from their pregnancies into motherhood.
Drawing on Autism
Drawing on Autism is an investigation into the ethics of creating animated documentaries. As a non-autistic filmmaker, representing an autistic participant, I needed to be mindful of the well-rehearsed and problematic tropes about autism. These tropes seem to say more about the desires and needs of neurotypical audiences than they do about their autistic subjects. Moreover, animation presents a distinct set of ethical dilemmas.
Ray & The Agave
After taking care of a flourishing agave, Ray grapples with life and death as the plant overgrows its space at the greenhouse.