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How better to understand how the ice flies and dies than sticking your ear to it? Ludovic Moreau is a geophysicist who seeks to unravel this mystery: why does the ice pack melt faster than in the forecasts? To conduct this investigation, he travels with five scientists near the North Pole, in Svalbard Norway. On a frozen lake they put seismic sensors to record the song of the ice. A song that may help break the secret of the ice pack and its decline.
"How long is a long time?" "Stromboli: Interview with a Volcano" is a conversation with the youngest member of the Aeolian family Stromboli (one of eight volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily), the lighthouse of the Mediterranean. Spagnuolo asks questions to the volcano and the eruptions answer. In the artist’s own words: "I slept at the top of the volcano and fell asleep to the sound of it erupting, whispering pillow talk. In the morning I went and made the film, asking questions without the need for an answer. When I arrived back at the beach at lunch time I swam in the sea and napped on the black sand. My mind unfolded in the most fluid way for a long time. This film attempts to convey the feeling." The film is partof the project Volcano & Regret.
The director explores the potential stories and different layers behind the characters in her old film pictures while planning how to place them on her bedroom wall.
Documentary-Mystery about Jimmy Lyons, the legendary jazz artist who wrote lyrics about love, family, existentialism, politics, myth, and meaning. Lyons was once arrested in New York City at the Gaslight Cafe for his unique vocal style and subsequently acquitted for his "right to expand the boundaries of poetry."
A short animated film that documents the happenings in a single square in Barcelona, la Plaça de la Virreina.
A swimmer is looking for her missing grandmother, who left without leaving any record of her existence. The swimmer reconstructs her in memories through the diluted memories of three older women: her two aunts and her mother.
The conflict on Mauna Kea is about to enter it’s fourth week with no end in sight. This special Hawaii News Now mini-documentary takes a look at how the protest has evolved, where people on both sides of the issue stand, and what the state’s response to the conflict has been.
A landscape documentary about the Hillside Stranglers - a notorious serial killer duo that stalked suburban Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Like James Benning’s Landscape Suicide this film neither fetishizes the murderers nor foregrounds the victims. Instead, Cursed Objects concerns itself with the residual trauma that lingers in the locations where these crimes took place. An off-kilter, far too often forgotten, geography overlaps with the ubiquitous spaces of our lives.
A tale of poverty in Salento during the 60s and 70s.
17 photographs found on the internet are reworked into a photovideography to deliver a personal vision of bullfighting. This artistic documentary where the red color, the color of blood, is omnipresent deliberately ignores the presumed beauty of the gesture to focus on the barbarism of this outdated practice.
In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship of the big label industry and its founder was João Peste (the charismatic vocalist of Pop Dell'Arte).
For many years a long photograph featuring 60 women in western style costumes has hung in the hallway at the entrance of Sara Angelucci’s house. The picture was given to her husband by his Aunt Dagmar. They knew little about it, other than Dagmar had cut the costumes the women were wearing when she worked at Malabar, Toronto’s renowned costume house. Angelucci often wondered who the women were, how the photograph was taken, and what it meant to Dagmar (who died in 2011). "Cirkut/Canadettes" unpacks the many layers of this photograph, personal, local/social, and technological history. Through archival research Angelucci not only discovers who the women are, but opens up a window into the time the image was taken, Toronto in 1956. Interwoven with her own reflections, her voiceover narrative draws from articles and quotes of the time, giving voice to attitudes of the period, and the desire and mysteries that photographs hold.
Based on her personal experience, the director critically reflects on images of female ejaculation, denouncing the predominantly male and macho discourse about women’s sexuality.
What is there to see when characters turn their back on us? Back views in cinema are experienced as disturbances of their visual regime. But by hiding the faces these images point towards another presence, both familiar and uncanny to us all: there’s an off-space we all carry with us but can never look at without optical help. The part of us, where we become strangers to ourselves.
As a shepherd’s son, Sverri Steinholm grew up chasing sheep around the dramatic, otherworldly Faroe Islands. Today he is a pastor of the Lutheran Church, the dominant religion on the islands. He is also a compulsive runner, finding solace and spiritual refuge from personal conflicts and the burdens of priesthood on rugged, exposed trails of his homeland.
This documentary explores the world of online video game streaming on Twitch. What is it about Twitch streaming that compels fans to tune in for hours every day, and pay monthly subscription fees and big donations to do so?
In this short essay-style documentary, a Black filmmaker reflects on present-day struggles of marginalized people on a tour devoted to challenging conventional historical narratives through the legacy of a slave revolt.
Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) NY. Cylar spoke clearly, frequently and with moral force about the struggles of people living with HIV/AIDS in New York City, many of whom were impoverished and struggling with multiple social and medical problems. His openness about his own drug use and the centrality of the fight against the criminalization of drugs for AIDS activism make Cylar's legacy especially resonant and relevant at this time. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2019 as part of STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven short videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Astronaut Andy Thomas is on a mission to have his boyhood heroes recognized among the world's greatest aviators for their pioneering 1919 flight from England to Australia.
"Women will not be allowed to practice sports incompatible with the conditions of their nature". The decree in force between 1941 and 1983 used to prohibit women from playing football. Decades later, women's football's struggle for space remains a challenge. In the midst of so many stories, “Made in Várzea” shows the lowland games played by women, following the daily lives of two players with very different lives, but with a passion for football as a common link. Yolanda, bus driver and Flávia, beautician, circumvent sexism using sport as a form of liberation.
Short documentary on female workers at school, made by a high school student.
When Ellen Latham lost her dream job, she thought she lost everything. She was a 54-year-old, single mom who didn't know how she would pay the bills. But, she shifted her perspective, dug into her strength as a fitness instructor and moved forward. Ellen's in-home training eventually grew into Orange-theory Fitness.
Child separation at the border between Mexico and the United States.
Bani Abidi emphatically presents scenes from the daily lives of the Hazara community in Quetta, Pakistan, alongside narratives of persecution and exodus. This Shia Muslim ethnic minority in today's predominantly Sunni Pakistan has sought refuge in Germany, where the artist is based. She collaborates with Quetta-based photographer Asef, who is working on assembling a book of photographs that offer a glimpse into private moments in Hazara homes: images that reveal personal stories of loss and resilience.
Hypnotic portrait of the old Francisco Franco de Tarragona Labor University, which invokes historical memory through careful formal minimalism. Architectural, cinematographic and political reflection that evokes the rigidity of the educational systems of indoctrination of the regime.
In the same place where he built his political career, ex-President Lula speaks for the last time before being arrested, on April 7, 2018. At the same time, 10 new trucks leave a Mercedes-Benz assembly line with fewer and fewer workers.
A voice-over guides the viewer through an underground depot of historic and imaginary relics, from the Alhambra to Romeo and Juliet's balcony. While the anonymous voice strings together backstory after backstory, a parallel history emerges from the darkness of this beautifully decorated limestone quarry, shaped by fantasy, boredom, faith and power.
Director Xiong Zaixia notes: "A 'she' (commune) is the smallest administrative unit since the Tang Dynasty. She Gong is also known as Soil-Ground or Lord of the Soil. I have found that I captured and edited Soil-Grounds in my video works unconsciously. That made me recall something. So I returned to my hometown Shunde, Guangdong several times to shoot and record over 60 Lords of the Soil in Lunjiao Town’s eastern and western villages. I want to explore how such a traditional Chinese folk belief roots geographically, becomes embedded in one’s memory, and shapes a population’s behavior."
I'm Moshanty. Do You Love Me? is a musical profile of the late South Pacific recording artist and transgender activist Moses "Moshanty" Tau and members of the LGBTQI community of Papua/New Guinea.
An orange journey, from the tree to the glass.
Documentary about hot rods.
A documentary / declaration of love around the Mad Max Saga’s cult. An unforgettable trip to cinephilic lands.
Babi is going to marry Elvis at Fernando's bar.
In the Absheron region of the Krasnodar Territory, among the majestic Caucasus Mountains and impenetrable forests, small villages were lost. They are connected to the rest of the world only by a thin thread of a narrow gauge railway winding through the gorges - and this is the only way from there and the only way there. A small old trolley - a motor-car, nicknamed by the locals "Matrix", delivers food, fuel and other benefits of civilization every day. People who, for one reason or another, prefer loneliness and unity with nature to noisy city life, make their journey on it.
The students at Frank P. Long Elementary School have been getting sick.
Documentary about whistleblowers.
Peter Mansbridge travels the country to talk to Canadians about what's on their minds on the eve of an election.
Documentary about gay-rights activists in Georgia.
A look at contact with ET
From the days of illegal raves to the dark club sounds of Optical and Ed Rush. The Rest Is History is a look back at the early years of Jungle/Drum and bass music, how it developed, and the culture that surrounded it.
An immigrant story of Marietta Veulens, a composer who has spent 20 years trying to complete her lifeworks and album. Torn between her native Cuba and the UK, Veulens returns to her hometown of Matanzas to perform music live for the first time, and complete the journey to finding her true voice.
A documentary about The Abyss Festival, in Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2019. The film features the following bands; Tormentor, Sodom, Primordial, Grim Reaper, Malokarpatan, Primordial, Black Viper, Root, Quartz, Antichrist, Chevalier, Iron Angel, Satan, Demon, Rapid, Divlje Jagode, Alien Force, Aura Noir.