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Join the Club
After losing his lover to AIDS, rebel activist Dennis Peron launches the first public cannabis dispensary in the nation, skirting the law in pursuit of true justice—the legalization of medical marijuana.
Denials, Decoys
With the erasure of fingertips as a point of departure, Denials, Decoys takes the idea of a cut on the body and obfuscates it within the cut of the moving image. The result is disorienting, alienating and freeing. Like those seeking total anonymity within a culture of absolute control and surveillance, we spectators dissolve ourselves into shadowy rooms set to broken time, false time, end times.
За пределами. Семьдесят первый
Aleksey Kozlov is interested in drifting and decides to build a drift car from an old rare Toyota Cresta car from 1987 with body number JZX-71 (hence the name of the film). This is a story about a simple guy who lives in Kamchatka, where there is still no infrastructure for training, where there is snow on the road 9 months a year, but he dreams of competing in the most prestigious race in Russia RDS-GP, where top pilots compete with each other from all over the world.
Mawtini
Baghdad, early 1990s, in a reality where humans have been replaced by cyborgs, a young couple and their newborn try to flee their country where war has just broken out.
Molecular Delusions
For one night, Kika collects audio recordings of orgasms. The acoustic phenomena generated by this hypnotic trance reveal the form that had remained hidden in the shadows.
W E I M A R A N E R
More than 100 years of memory and present day sentiments WEIMARANER peaks into Joseph’s past, present and future. WEIMARANER (2024) is part of a series of short 35mm motion pictures directed by Joseph Talerico. Public screenings scored live by Kelby Clark. All screenings projected by the Motiograph Model No. 1A, (1908) Enterprise Optical Manufacturing Co, Chicago, Il.
Tránsitos
'Tránsitos' emerges from a desire to film the San Fermin festival in Super 8. Pamplona becomes a theatre where everyone dresses in red and white, where it feels like everything revolves around a panting bull in a portrait of the decadence of one world and the birth of another.
Meu Amigo Lorenzo
The story of the musical friendship between veteran musician/filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira and Lorenzo Barreto, a boy with autism, over 15 years.
SHOOTER
A short audiovisual portrait of Giulio Nick Piacentini, a young sound engineer with a hobby for nature photography. Realized for the Filmmaking Laboratory at DAMS RomaTre with Antonietta De Lillo.
Justice Redefined: Ukraine's Frontline Journalists
How do you cover a war in your own country? We spent two years with journalists from Ukraine's public broadcaster and saw how Russia's invasion transformed their profession and changed their beliefs. Broadcast on 5/4/2024
A Short Film About a Chair
A lonely chair on an abandoned balcony, a photographer watching it days and nights, a strange thing happens that will change the life of the chair forever.
Bull Run
Ana is a filmmaker who gets into crypto trading during the pandemic. Her husband and her father wants her to go to therapy, and Ana decides, as a repair exercise (in desperation), to make a documentary about the bitcoin fever with a producer (more fundamentalist than Michael Saylor), a technical team of new speculators (three to the room) and an economist father (a boomer) who wants to avoid at all costs that his daughter is ruined in a market he does not understand. For him, crypto are the tulip or stamp bubble of the 21st century: a lifelong scam. Ana's story will serve as a trojan horse to delve into the crypto ecosystem through expert testimonials.
We Did Not Consent
For over 50 years, British undercover police officers have infiltrated activist groups, specifically targeting and manipulating women, forming romantic relationships and even having children with them. Now, three women don animal masks and revisit scenes from their past as animal-rights activists who were taken advantage of by spycops in order to reclaim their power, agency and narrative.
The Memory of Asir
Director Saad Tahitah sheds light on a man passionate about knowledge and avid about collecting rarities, seeking to employ his passion in documenting "The Memory of Asir."
Un giorno bello, l'altro no
May 2021: The world sees a way out of the coronavirus pandemic. Manuele Bertoli takes over as President of the Ticino cantonal government and enters his last term of office with a great deal of optimism. But things don't turn out as he had hoped.
A Field of Sheep Part 2
Yet another field of sheep is observed in this short sequel to the orignal Field of Sheep.
Tomato, Big Cake and Victory
17 mischief-makers kids from different parts of Ukraine help the adult director Katya find her lost home. Katya embarks on a long journey where she meets future adults, together they seek the answer, what is home? Is home people? Or is it things? Or maybe home is our language? At the end of the journey, Katya realizes that she still doesn't know when her Crimea will be de-occupied, but she definitely understands that to find home, she needs to return to the mundane, simple, and sometimes interesting life that she has loved for 33 years.
Fire Tower
Gazing from one hundred feet above the boreal forest, Fire Tower draws us into the lookouts’ world: a critical line of defense in wildfire detection; inviting us to contemplate how solitude inspires a different connection with nature, community and our creativity.
Descent
The steel and glass jungle of contemporary London, scaffolded and climbing skywards at breakneck speed. With signs of supposed growth at every turn, a disorientating feeling of falling but never landing pervades. Despite the vast distance between the bottom and the top – the haves and have nots – a softness and a hope for reclamation of the cityscape glimmers at the edges of the 16mm frame.
Dear Shadow, My Old Friend
A call comes from deep within a dream, recalling familial encounters with shadows in a photographic dark room. Haunting memories and ancestral ceremonies captured during the Netherlands' colonial rule of Indonesia come to light. As we see ways of life destroyed and farmers exploited to fuel the Dutch Empire, new layers of meaning and critical understandings of present-day power emerge.
Ice Blink
On the Norwegian island of Svalbard, home to the world's northernmost permanent human settlement, time both stands still and is running out. In this meticulously shot study of how climate change is reshaping even the sturdiest environments, Olga Krüssenberg focuses on locals, who are surrounded by processes beyond their control and are forced to rethink the world they once knew.
Whirlwind
The film is based on observations of the life of society on the scale of the preparation and celebration of the New Year. The fairy tale captures society, plunging into vivid illusions. People enter the circle of unlimited consumption in the store, or rather, gifts, food, jewelry. Preparations for the New Year and the hustle and bustle alienate people from the reality that they will have to face at the festive table.
The Cactus of Klaus
The grounds of Klaus Rinke’s Los Angeles studio overflow with an otherworldly cactus garden. The cactus—a plant firmly rooted in the horticultural zeitgeist—is a lifelong obsession of the enigmatic artist whose career as a pioneering conceptual artist spans more than 6-decades. Striking footage of the cacti garden reveals a surreal hidden geometry and illuminates the uncanny ways in which cacti and humans express themselves and coexist.
Boiler Room Caracas: Arca
Mother Arca returned to Caracas. We celebrated her homecoming with a program of trailblazing Venezuelan talent.
Is Oregon's controversial drug decriminalization plan working?
"ABC News' Ashan Singh reports on Oregon’s attempt to revolutionize drug policy in the United States."
Palki Flying an Emotion
Despite poverty and many obstacles, some people dream around the palanquin.
Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live at the Royal Arena Copenhagen
Formed in London in 1981 and consisting of primary vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe, English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, and have been cited as one of the most successful duos in UK music history. Captured live at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena, the exhilarating performance features a lavish stage show, full back-up band and mesmerizing visual backdrops, in front of an exuberant, sold-out audience. This brand-new concert film includes all of PSB's greatest hits including 'West End Girls', 'Suburbia', 'Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)', 'Always on My Mind', 'What Have I Done to Deserve This?' and 'It’s a Sin'.
I. / II. / III.
Originally shown as three separate films, I. / II. / III. is a triptych portrait of the most intimate proportions. Simple scenes within the domicile become completely entrancing as layer after layer of exposure unfurls onto itself. The movement of the leaves, the light, his father: all become hypnotic in this silent sonata.
Fortune
The film takes the viewer on an embodied journey moving through a space in which its existence in the real or imagined is debatable. Alike how the alleyway is a physical bridge between two main streets, the film presents a series of juxtaposed images that might seem opposing at a glance – the seer and the seen, the outside and inside, young and old, low and high, the leaving, coming, and returning – but are co-existing elements that sustain the living and breathing of the alleyway. The tactility of witnessing inherently embodied by the 16 mm celluloid is mirrored by the witnessing(s) of the tourists, the residents, the non-human subjects in the space. Via a constructed soundscape in which sonic elements from eastern spirituality find their prominence amongst real-life sounds, and through an embodied camera eye that moves freely in the geographical space of the alley, the film evokes a sense of magical realism which gives texture to the meditation on the Chinese American identity.
491, VA
The third and final film by Thomas Wright to be restored by Artifacture Laboratories.
Hunting Bigfoot
Hamish Turnpike, worldwide famous hunter, documents perhaps his most important hunt yet: Bigfoot.
Fatmé
Fatmé, 11 years old, Syrian, lives in a tent with her family. His messy hair, his dirty clothes and his love of fighting are debated among those around him. The mother then asks herself the question: is she a girl or a boy? To this question, Fatmé responds with a laugh: “I just want to be the strongest.”
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors
From the makers of Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb, this feature documentary will explore Emperor Qin's extraordinary tomb in China.
Quebrante
A spell breaking, Quebrante traverses the caves, ruins and phantasmagorias of the Transamazon BR230 Highway, portraying its stones and its ghosts. Set in tiny Rurópolis, the very first town ever built on the road, Quebrante follows Ms. Erismar, a retired elementary school teacher known in the region as The Cave Woman.
Devo
In 1980, new wave band Devo scored a hit with "Whip It" and gained mainstream success with their message of societal "de-evolution", formed in response to the 1970 Kent State shootings.
Stone Mountain
A stirring portrait of residents in a small southern US town facing the contentious legacy of the world's largest Confederate monument, which looms over their home.