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House of the Wickedest Man in the World
House of the Wickedest Man in the World is the story of a ruined building near the city of Cefalú in Sicily. In the early 1920s, Aleister Crowley, the most famous occultist of his time, lived in the building, practicing magical rituals. In the summer of 1955, Kenneth Anger, considered one of the pioneers of experimental cinema, traveled with sexologist Alfred Kinsey to Sicily to find Aleister Crowley’s temple to shoot a film about the occultist’s time in Cefalú. The Thelema Abbey film was never released.
Oranges
"Oranges" is the second in an ongoing portrait of collectivity. The camera pans across a group of artists - one by one in succession - as they engage in an intimate exchange. The gestures make up a new grammar, revealing something that does not make sense because of its proximity to something else, but because something new is understood.
Lina
Nine-year old Lina lives with her Mom after her parents’ divorce. She learns that she will be spending Christmas with Dad, while Mom is on a two-week holiday far away. However, she dreads the separation.
Period Huts
In the rugged terrains of far-western Nepal, menstruating women face exile from their homes due to an ancient tradition.
In·spi·ra·tion
What is artistic inspiration? Is it the same for all of us? 'in·spi·ra·tion' follows three Isle of Man artists as they create a piece of work and explore what inspiration means to them.
Slow Humidity
An experimental film documenting the resurrection of Slow Humidity, Spanning 2 days with 9 artists and a panel discussion of 5 visionaries, Slow Humidity unravels the rhythms, futures and sensualities of slow and humid domains from across the globe.
Post Office Social Club
Time, decay and death. This short documentary tells us about one of the oldest sports and community clubs in the northern English city of Leeds.
Until Memory Fades
Entering in the darkness of his memories, with the aid of some old photographs, one man travels to his past, building along his way a story which spans multiple generations to recover the image of his father, whose early passing marked him as a child.
Mark
Mark, a high school teenager, goes about his normal day when a conflict happens at work. He works with his parents to resolve it.
White Coat
Biography of Soviet/Russian dissident and liberal politician Valeriya Novodvorskaya, an attempt to rethink her heritage in the light of the historical events of recent years.
The Son
“The True Biography of Nikita Mikhalkov” is the story of one of the most famous Russian directors (and one of the most adored actors by the public), told unbiasedly - that is, not from the words of Mikhalkov himself.
Don't Leave Me Behind: Stories of Young Ukrainian Survival
The fears and resiliencies within a group of teenage refugees from Ukraine are uncovered in this film that brings the camera steps away from the front lines to the Ukraine-Poland border.
The Red Corridor
“Il Corridoio Rosso" is a tale of two corridors, one a copy of the other. One corridor is that of the installation curated by Giovanni Agosti and Jacopo Stoppa at the Triennale di Milano for the 23rd International Exhibition "Unknown Unknowns": the visitor crosses it to access four mysterious rooms inspired by natural elements. The other corridor is that of Agosti's own home, a place saturated with books, paintings and objects that contains - conceals - clues, traces and memories of a lifetime. Fiction and reality blur in a dual exploration that leaves unresolved the mystery of what is hidden at the end of the corridor.
Here We Are
A housekeeper received a film made by her daughter. It's a film that combines found footages of Thailand during the Cold War with the present days images of Bangkok. Through these images she tells a story of the house owner and her own story of coming to the capital.
Benevolence
Ghalib is a descendant of musicians from an Alevi village. When the last dede in the community dies, the villagers choose him as their religious leader, but he refuses because is still young. However, fate seemed to have something else in store for him.
The world according to Lieberman or God in a cage
Scientist Efim Lieberman, one of the founders of biophysics, shocked many with his eccentricity. But his contribution to science cannot be underestimated. Together with his colleague Vladimir Skulachev, he proved Mitchell's hypothesis about energy exchange in a cell. This was the second most fundamental discovery, after the discovery of the DNA double helix. In the late 70s, Efim Lieberman created a theory of the quantum computer and the quantum nature of consciousness, many decades ahead of time. And at the end of his life, he sets himself the task of creating new knowledge that unites all sciences and religion.
Music of Stars
Residents of megacities rarely look at the starry sky. For ordinary people, space is a cold, lifeless, empty space; for an astronomer, it is an endlessly changing, unexplored world. Space is filled with information, and there are people who observe these events, record them, investigate them, and try to make them more tangible, turn them into music, the music of the stars.
The Paradise Park Will Close on Fridays at Three
Healing with cold - Does our body like to be frozen?
Elina Mäkinen, a fan of traditional "avanto" swimming - in holes dug in the ice - is preparing for the Ice Mile, a swimming event organized in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, where the water temperature is around 0°C. How does the young woman resist these extreme conditions? What effects does the cold have on the body? Beyond the risk of frostbite, hypothermia alters the cardiovascular system, even causing death when the internal temperature drops below 25°C. Different factors such as age, fatigue, dehydration or disease can accelerate body cooling.
Line of Vision
In the steppe on the territory of the Orenburgsky State Nature Reserve, a small population of wild Przhevalsky horses lives in their natural habitat. Researchers are reintroducing the species to one day release the animals into the wild. So far, this is impossible, because without a person the species is threatened with extinction. How does a wild horse see the world? People are ready to study today and her point of view.
Lights, Camera, Economics: Independent Film in the UK
Lights, Camera, Economics is a short documentary on the growing economic challenges faced by independent filmmakers wrapped in a love letter to the world of UK independent film. Based on research by Alma Economics, commissioned by the British Film Institute (BFI).
Rising From the Ashes
The De'panneur Sylvestre in Gatineau, Quebec, was founded 20 years ago to address the growing number of people experiencing social isolation. Destroyed by a fire three years ago, it has now reopened using new models of sustainability to stay relevant for another 20 years and beyond.
Yaupon Holly: Live at Lot 12
A performance from Jacksonville's own Yaupon Holly featuring Joe Thompson - live and unsanctioned from UNF's parking garage 12.
Mangalyaan: India's Mission to Mars
In this special, watch the 650 million km journey of ISRO's Mangalyaan, India's first interplanetary mission to Mars.
PISI (String of Debt & Resistance)
Despite a seven-year-old arbitration victory for the Philippines in the South China Sea, China's harassment of Filipino fisherfolk and vessels persists. In Masinloc, Zambales, approximately 1,500 fisherfolk continue to be threatened by China's illegal acts in Scarborough Shoal.
Dau:añcut (Moving Along Image)
In 2014, an unknown man in Ukraine tattooed a portrait of a relative of a filmmaker in his traditional Native American regalia. Stitched together from footage of the search for this man, the film interrogates what happens when the control of an image is lost and the time’s circular ironies.
Full Metal Kuleshov Effect
The first of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. “Full Metal Kuleshov Effect,” counterposes the work of Stanley Kubrick with that of Santiago Alvarez and the Vietnamese director Hai Ninh.
Disaffection Image
The second of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. “Disaffection Image,” uses the writings of Chinua Achebe and Gilles Deleuze to interrogate racist and colonial tropes in “Apocalypse Now.”