A meditation on environmental grief by evoking a contemplative cinematic space through listening as praxis. As light and sound pollution from settler cities encroach, what inaudible sounds might be heard in the disappearing silences of the Land? By considering what can be learned from listening to the Land, this film reflects on Indigenous critiques of increasing scales of ecocide resulting from settler colonialism through tracing genealogies of extinction.
A meditation on environmental grief by evoking a contemplative cinematic space through listening as praxis. As light and sound pollution from settler cities encroach, what inaudible sounds might be heard in the disappearing silences of the Land? By considering what can be learned from listening to the Land, this film reflects on Indigenous critiques of increasing scales of ecocide resulting from settler colonialism through tracing genealogies of extinction.
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.