In a 1987 videotape, the poet Diane Burns, whose parents were Chemehuevi and Anishinabe, delivers a withering rebuke to settler colonialist landscapes as she strolls through desolate stretches of the Lower East Side while reciting her Alphabet City Serenade, drawing parallels between Manifest Destiny and urban gentrification.
Diane Burns
In a 1987 videotape, the poet Diane Burns, whose parents were Chemehuevi and Anishinabe, delivers a withering rebuke to settler colonialist landscapes as she strolls through desolate stretches of the Lower East Side while reciting her Alphabet City Serenade, drawing parallels between Manifest Destiny and urban gentrification.
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream.
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Evan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla and Louis, are searching for him too.
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.