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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Heather Henson presents this collection of spooky and kooky short puppetry films that are sure to get any… body… into the Halloween spirit! 1. The Narrative of Victor Karloch, Director: Kevin McTurk 2. Monster, Director: Cecilia Gläsker 3. Moonfishing, Director: David Michael Friend 4. Goodnight Shadow, Director: Myra Su 5. Junk Palace, Director: Lyon Forrest Hill 6. Ichabod, Sketches from Sleepy Hollow, Director: Hobey Ford 7. Harker, Director:...
63) The Bloody Child
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
Nina Menkes turns the arrest of a young US Marine – recently returned from the Gulf War and found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the Mojave desert – into a harrowing hallucinatory and mesmerizing look at the desolation of violence. Shot in North Africa and 29 Palms, California THE BLOODY CHILD chillingly illustrates how people lose all human, moral and ethical limits under punishing circumstances of civil war. New restoration...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Heather Henson presents this collection of short films that take you on a journey through fantastical worlds brought to life through the art of real-time puppetry. 1. Lessons Learned, Director: Toby Froud 2. Yamasong, Director: Sam K. Hale 3. Misophonia, Director: Linda Wingerter 4. Handwritten, Director: Jaime Sunwoo 5. Hearty Fluff, Created by Shayna Strype and Dane Manary 6. Hitori, Director: Raymond Carr 7. HAM Chimp in Space, Director: Rudy Martinez...
65) Phantom Love
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A surreal psychodrama about a young woman trapped within a suffocating family, PHANTOM LOVE is a powerful evocation of one woman’s descent into self, set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.
66) Sink or swim
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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A contemporary classic and a landmark in autobiographical filmmaking, 'Sink or Swim' is an unflinching account of the highly charged relationship between a daughter and her father. Through a series of twenty-six short stories, a young girl chronicles the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his...
67) Brakhage
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of the greatest artists of our time. From 1952, at the age of nineteen, until his death, Brakhage created more than 400 films, ranging in length from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consistently redefining cinematic art. The film BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker?s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his...
69) Can't Be Stopped
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A group of teens on the Hollywood streets use their talents as graffiti artists to gain worldwide notoriety and ultimate success.
70) A Space Program
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Internationally acclaimed artist Tom Sachs takes us on an intricately handmade journey to the red planet, providing audiences with an intimate, first person look into his studio and methods. A SPACE PROGRAM is both a piece of art in its own right and a recording of Sachs’ historic piece, *Space Program 2.0: MARS*, which opened at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2012. *"An alternately entrancing and amusing documentary-fiction hybrid that marries...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Everyone is all masked up. We are all strangers to each other. Would we recognize each other without our masks? Not likely. We are hiding from a virulent disease, but at the same time, we are hiding from each other. Or are we? Who knows? Maybe, since we’re all masked up anyway, it’s a perfect opportunity to rob a bank.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
UNSEEN CINEMA: EARLY AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE FILM 1894-1941 is the ground-breaking retrospective that explores long-forgotten American experimental films made in the United States and Europe during the formative period of cinema. Arranged into thematic programs, the digital version consists of over 140 films, newly preserved and restored in 35mm and 16mm film prints. The series postulates an innovative and often controversial view of experimental cinema...
73) Lenz
Pub. Date
1982.
Description
Alexandre Rockwell's directoral debut is an adaptation of George Buchner's novella, "LENZ", chronicling the poet Jakob Lenz's slide into insanity and madness. The setting is transposed from 18th century Germany to New York in the early 1980s.
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
Shot on location in Israel and North Africa, THE GREAT SADNESS OF ZOHARA traces the solitary, mystical journey of a Jewish girl (Tinka Menkes), who leaves Jerusalem for Arab lands. The film was created entirely by director Nina Menkes and her sister Tinka, on a budget of under {dollar}7,000 and won awards at the San Francisco and Houston International Film Festivals.
Pub. Date
1985.
Description
"My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart." So Derek Jarman described THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION, his lyrical celebration of gay love set within the context of a series of Shakespeare's sonnets. Ethereal Super-8 images slowed to a magical, meditative pace follow the love affair between two men, as Dame Judi Dench provides a soothing presence with her narration of fourteen sonnets. The disruption of the narrative with images of barren and...
77) Dissolution
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Loosely inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, DISSOLUTION combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeate contemporary Israeli society. Shot in Yafo (the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv), the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption, of a young, morose Israeli Jew, played brilliantly by non-actor Didi Fire.
78) Harvie Krumpet
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The biography of an ordinary man seemingly cursed with bad luck.
79) Privilege
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
Yvonne Rainer's sixth feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been virtually invisible on film, Rainer has fashioned a witty, risky work about sexual identity and the unequal economies of race, gender and class. Winner of the Filmmakers Trophy in the Dramatic Category at the **Sundance Film Festival.**
Pub. Date
1973.
Description
The most complete, newly restored version of Nicholas Ray’s experimental masterpiece embodies the director’s practice of filmmaking as a “communal way of life.” Ray plays himself in the film, serving as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. *"[A] great, nearly lost work of reflexive modernist fury..." - Richard Brody, **The New Yorker***
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