A personal portrait of the ritual act of consumption, establishing connections between the political remnants of modernity and the resurgence of alternative forms of thought. A performative tapestry woven from Anthropology, Humanism, and Ecology to explain the habit of consumption, both figuratively and literally.
A personal portrait of the ritual act of consumption, establishing connections between the political remnants of modernity and the resurgence of alternative forms of thought. A performative tapestry woven from Anthropology, Humanism, and Ecology to explain the habit of consumption, both figuratively and literally.
Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.
Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.
This subversive documentary unpacks the tricks brands use to keep their customers consuming — and the real impact they have on our lives and the world.
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970s Britain.
A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the hostile streets of an Asian city.
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.