Purple is a personal and thoughtful exploration of bisexuality and feeling alienated within queer community.
9,532 Matches Found
Purple is a personal and thoughtful exploration of bisexuality and feeling alienated within queer community.
A brand new short documentary produced for Beaver Trust, following science communicator Sophie Pavelle on a journey of discovery, as she visits sites around Britain where beavers have been reintroduced. Meeting the extraordinary people behind their story so far, this film explores what a future might look like, with beavers living wild in our landscapes and rivers across Britain.
For fifteen years, the Roma camp of Lungo Stura Lazio, the so-called Platz, existed on the northern outskirts of Turin. It was one of the largest slums in Europe. Jean's version is the story of a man who with his cell phone films and records various moments of daily life in the camp, until its total destruction. Now, in the large space left empty after the eviction, his memories resurface.
Keenie Meenie Services - the most powerful mercenary company you've never heard of - was involved in war crimes in Sri Lanka for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable. Now an explosive new film exposes the extent of these war crimes. Following investigative journalist Phil Miller as he uncovers secret diplomatic cables, and meets insiders who reveal the British government's support for Keenie Meenie and the continuing cover-up. Keenie Meenie provides long overdue evidence on the crimes of the people who make a killing from killing.
This soul-stirring documentary chronicles the triumphant healing of ten Fearless Storytellers through their journey from trauma and tears to triumph. Revealing the physical, emotional and psychological trauma these women have experienced, the film sheds light on the shame, guilt and embarrassment that kept them silent and hidden from their own healing. Watch the powerful effect of choice.
Farnham wanted to capture the craziness of the last few months of juggling home life, working and home-schooling, whilst staying alert! He 3D-scanned his children taking part in the various banal activities he hadset up for them.
The journey of three women willing to explore their sexuality, surrendering to the pleasure of the ropes, through Shibari.
A compilation of the innovative webseries, created for AMPLIFY! film festival by project director Becky Edmunds. It employs voice, sound design, and archive film to tell the remarkable story of Dick Perceval. The discovery of his diaries in a pile of rubbish inspired the production and its exploration of his life in England during the mid 20th century. A cast of hundreds enters Perceval’s world via archive film drawn from old Hollywood movies, public information broadcasts, cine club creations, and home movies.
In this film, the three authors Sabine Bohland, Shafagh Laghai and Caroline Hoffmann talk about surprising everyday encounters on their travels through very different African countries. In doing so, they dispel one or two clichés and look at the often misunderstood continent from a completely different angle. After all, who would have thought that one of the best goudas could be found in war-torn eastern Congo?
A animated short film which shows glimpses of my life in my country of birth, before moving to another country at age 9.
Fake news have entered the mainstream, thanks in part to “fake news king” Jestin Coler. A film that tackles journalism, memes, truth and lies in the U.S.
A diary/compilation film about adjusting our vibrational frequencies upon the apocalyptic dawn of the age of aquarius.
In Roundtable Conversation, Anderson brings together family members of Black men who have died in police custody or psychiatric units; mental health and legal professionals; activists and artists who reflect on violence as it relates to institutional racism. Through their discussion, the people gathered round the table communicate what needs to be done in order to free the Black mind.
This short documentary follows historian Kate Taylor as she recounts John Wilkes Booth's final attempt to escape across the Potomac River.
Grain size criteria. Pixels in space. The earth spins while bodies and cameras wind and rotate on its surface. Sand particles infest recording devices scratching unravelling celluloid. The camera and its operator transform from seers to ecstatic performers.
A girl films her surroundings. Dressed as an animal, the unknown blows you when the heart wants to fly.
Tecopa is a small town in the middle of the Mojave Desert just outside of Death Valley. Most people drive right through, drawn like moths to the bright lights of Las Vegas and Los Angeles. But there is something special in this hot, dry place--something worth stopping for. Hot springs pool under the cloudless sky. This hidden gem of the desert is an oasis. But just who are the people who decide to stay and call this oddball paradise home?
A diaristic self-portrait of a filmmaker’s ongoing crisis of faith, this film combines materials gathered both during and after her life in the Assemblies of God church, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. Featuring transparent confessions to the camera and eye-opening images from the past, the film examines the chasm religious identity can leave in the middle of families. As the director loses her faith, she struggles to reconcile the reality of her beliefs with the love she has for her family and friends, whose beliefs equate atheism with eternal damnation.
Considering sound over language, Colleen Pesci’s Cat Secrets explores the purr of a cat, its frequency and hum, as a method of healing. Cat Secrets’ narrator spends much time in the bath, exploring what a body should do to heal, a practical sensibility with an intimate home movie feel.
An Eternalism film.
Upcoming Sara Cwynar Project
An experimental essay film which explores the character of the Alien, non-linear Indigenous experience and the material specificity of digital video to resist the violence of Settler Colonialism. By layering video clips we bring attention to the material specificity of digital video and we ask the audience to keep in mind the layout of the cut and uncut clips within the Premiere Pro and Photoshop timelines.
Explore each season in the Finger Lakes region visiting each lake with stunning aerial videography. These lakes form a broader region rich in meaningful history and unique culture. We journey through lush topography, singular institutions and meet the visionary icons that make up the rich tapestry of this extraordinary place.
Perhaps the richest collection of Macedonian musical heritage is carefully preserved, digitized and archived in the home of the Endendijk family in Sust, the Netherlands. The rich musical collection, collected throughout their lives, is the legacy that the Dutch couple plans to pass on to someone in Macedonia. For years, they have been living with the dilemma of whether there is an appropriate institution to take care of this heritage, given that historical archives are not properly preserved and some are lost forever. The film follows one family's struggle to preserve a part of Macedonian history.
Kacie McDonnell takes us on a journey through the decades of White House Christmas traditions and décor
Explore the rich traditions, historical significance, and meaning of Black church music in a new concert film, Amen! Music of the Black Church. Recorded before a live audience at the Second Baptist Church in Bloomington, Indiana, Dr. Raymond Wise leads the Indiana University African American Choral Ensemble in a performance of African traditional music to contemporary praise and worship music.
Full length documentary about the super tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011. Five years later the community is still trying to rebuild and figure out how to avoid these scary super tornadoes! Find out what happened and what makes these super tornados so dangerous!
The protagonist is an artist who reevaluates his identity. He is into self-harm as a way to punish his “masculinity”. After another session (documented instances of self-harming action), he dresses in drag and goes to the party. At first, he escapes into the fantasy of safety and freedom, but eventually and abruptly is brought back to reality as the phantasm of masochism takes shape.
Do Nothing and Do It Well is a documentary that reveals the neglected true story of the militant Chinese workers who rocked the streets of Melbourne at the turn of the 20th Century. Behind a raging soundtrack of furious Cantonese punk and hip-hop, the film weaves together newspaper clippings, the film-maker's family history and a fictionalised dead narrator, to present a sprawling new portrait of Melbourne. Addressing ongoing questions of race, class and the Australian labour movement, Do Nothing and Do It Well plants a flag of defiance and struggle in the streets.
With the intention of finding the purest light and capturing one of the most extraordinary phenomena: the aurora borealis, José Emilio Ramos sets out into the unknown and discovers the most remote places in Alaska, where the nights seem to last forever and the weather conditions for life are extreme. Through the skies of the North Pole, which remain untouched by the light pollution of human civilizations, the Mexican filmmaker and photographer reflects on his role in this universe, in which we are tiny and fleeting, and raises awareness of the natural beauty that surrounds us and that we must preserve at all costs to continue to exist.
This video, produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, attempts to raise public awareness of the fact that air is not a neutral medium in which we act freely, but an active, powerful and, at times, dangerous one.
A group of renters take a look at why housing is hostile, and how we can use social action to make a change.
The Revolution They Remember, a full-length documentary film in two parts, explores how the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was experienced by ordinary people and how it is remembered today based on two video oral history projects. Initiated in 2015 by the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh Library System, the CR/10 Project recorded, preserved, and published video interviews with Chinese citizens sharing their memories and impressions of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. At Dartmouth College Library, the Down to the Countryside Movement Project includes interviews with former “Rusticated Youth,” young people who were relocated to China’s rural areas during the Cultural Revolution.
The Story of the album that took a decade to create featuring Jazz, Hip-hop, Soul, Gospel, and Detroit. Boldy James and Sterling Toles masterpiece Manger on McNichols is told in these in-depth interviews. Producer Sterling Toles shares the story of meeting Boldy James and crafting an orchestra arrangement around the heartfelt story of what led him into street life. The Manger on McNichols album is already acknowledged as one of the most dynamic and creative works of 2020. Introduce yourself to the collaborative brotherhood that created this expression of Detroit Life.
"A few weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit India, VICE travelled to Jammu and Kashmir to report on the mental health in the region. Years of inhumane lockdowns, military presence, and gross human rights violations continue to impact women in the state, making them an unequal target of the region's instability. "On August 5, 2020 Kashmir completes a year of losing its special status since the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution by the majoritarian BJP government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In this documentary, we interview women with husbands in jail because of unlawful arrests, daughters with fathers subject to enforced disappearances and those blinded by pellet guns."
Robot World Domination is a documentary film on the concept and realization of how these robots have advanced though out the years .And how they have been engineered to be used as humans in some cases to bring us comfort and companionship . Some believe they can also be our destruction in years to come and wipe out all human life because of there ability's and intelligence they one day will believe they are superior to us .
A documentary about the psychological problems women face after giving birth.
The Tale of the Dog is a documentary film produced and directed by Dan Obarski and Scott Montgomery. The film tells the story of the Family Dog Denver, a music venue opened in 1967 by Chet Helms' San Francisco-based Family Dog Productions and Barry Fey.
The Detroit Red Wings road to the 2008 Stanley Cup Championship.
Ex-prisoners of Kazakhstani women's colonies spoke about the conditions of detention in prisons. Former convicts complained of poor medical care, lack of hygiene products and lack of rehabilitation after leaving the state house.
Through the observation of the river harvesters on the bay of Barreiro, a city right in front of Lisbon, from below the surface of the tidal sand flats, the film pursues a delicate portrait of their palafitic waterline architecture and mode of inhabiting inseparable from semi-clandestine activity. A landscape that has resisted industrial and urban pressure facing now on the border its own upcoming disappearance.
A documentary exploring the rise of Populism during the US Election in 2016. Combining the strikingly different genres of road movie and political documentary, "A Conversation With America" is an attempt to understand modern America.
The world is bad, the two huge cuts on my chest are still healing, and I’m deeply in need of holiday joy. Or any kind of joy, really, at this point I’m not picky. This is why I have decided to watch as many adaptations of A Christmas Carol as I possibly can, and then tell you what I think of them.
How far can you ride a bike downhill? To find out GCN PresenterJames Lowsley-Williams has teamed up with adventurer Mark Beaumont for a challenge of epic proportions in the high Andes of Chile. Their goal is to scale the highest active volcano in the world, the Ojos del Salado, with bikes strapped to their backs, before riding the longest descent in the world….300 KM to the Pacific coast. With a depleted team, weather delays and pressure from home to return by Christmas, can they conquer the immense challenge ahead of them? It's all downhill from here... right?
Trauma to Triumph: Women details the traumatic stories of Cathy Hughes (Racism), Dana Donofree (Breast Cancer Survivor) and Maria Trusa (Sexual Assault Victim), showing how they used the power of entrepreneurship to overcome their demons.
The global problem of light pollution is growing exponentially every year, but we have not found a real solution to solve it yet. The problem that negatively affects the lives of animals and plants, the work of astronomers, but most of all the health of each of us, although we are not yet aware of it.
This adrenaline-fueled film takes you to the rich waters of Venice, Florida for some of the best fishing we have ever encountered. First, we do battle with a fierce, 100-pound tarpon for over 3 hours on the fly-lined crabs. Next, the excitement fails to cease as we run offshore to fish the sunken shipwrecks for barracuda and giant grouper, bringing you amazing underwater footage.
Fishing Alaska simply doesn't get any better than this with 5-star Resort, The Deep Creek Fishing Club. Owner/Operators, Steve and Vivian Moe make sure every guest’s needs are met at every step. The lodge's expert guides can break fishing boundaries from ultra-fast boats, to Jet Bell Ranger helicopters, to sea planes. The site seeing and fly-in fishing offers endless possibilities for any angler.
This is an in-depth series on how to fish Squid Nest with Greg Trompas and Barry Brightenburg. Greg and Barry are a couple of the most knowledgeable inshore specialists on the coast and provide us with some valuable insider tips on fishing nearshore coastal squid nests, on the beach or off an island. This films is packed with insider information on how locate, set-up and then fish our local squid nests. "The Angry Skiff Guy" opens up his kimono, sharing things about fishing seabass that have taken him his lifetime to learn. Not only is the information he's providing going to make your next seabass trip more productive, but if you will, please pay attention to what he's telling us about seamanship and boat etiquette.
Climb aboard the FV Liberty as we take you on an epic, 2-day trip to fish bluefin tuna on the backside of San Clemente Island. The action ramps up as the guys get ripped on 20# fly-lined deans and put the wood to um’ on the heavy kite gear. Owner/Operator, Taro Takeuchi gives insight into how to locate these fish, bait presentation and how to adapt your techniques to changing conditions.
Join us as head into the heart of the Louisiana bayou going to the most southeastern tip of Louisiana where the Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico. At the end of the road there’s a sleepy little fishing village known as Venice. An unincorporated community in the Plaquemines Parish for some of the best most diversified fishing we’ve even seen anywhere in the world. From fishing the shallows for record setting redfish and tarpon, to running outside to the rigs and fishing for tuna and sailfish, it honestly doesn’t get much better than this. Only problem is that they used to have a lot of bats, until the mosquitos ate ‘em all.
Experts uncover the long-lost secrets and treasure of Pompeii.