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a man visits a psychiatrist for fear of dying if he falls asleep
Laurie Anderson presents Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. The Road is the fourth in a series of six lectures, looking at the challenges we face as artists and citizens as we reinvent our culture with ambiguity and beauty. The talk will consider technology, media hypnosis, radio, speed and invention.
After killing a man in the ring and losing everything, faith leads the 'Fallen from grace' champion, Lance 'The Dance' Foster, down a path of redemption, forgiveness, and what may be, the toughest fight of his life...saving the kid who's robbing him.
Gaby Jones, fashion photographer, takes a holiday retreat against her desire by advise of her friend. She will then find that there's more behind a photo when she meets wildlife photographer Sean.
Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century. While Jocelyn was belittled and sexually harassed by the media, the Nobel Prize was awarded to her professor and his boss.
Two teenage girls set a trap for their high school bully. When the plan spirals out of control, a decision has to be made, what are they going to do with the witch?
In this magical realist tryst, a young man lets down his guard and summons the courage to cruise.
Another dimension through a painting trapped guests staying at a hotel. The rage of the painting beyond the other dimension is reaching out for help.
THE TUNNEL is hands down the greatest Australian found footage feature and this tenth anniversary documentary not only gives you a look behind-the-scenes at the production of the film, but also insight into its impact and enduring legacy.
A couple navigates the unknown.
Antonese Anthon, who was born and lives in The Bahamas, embarks on a transformational journey into her past and into the water.
A short documentary about the life and love of New York surf culture following transplanted San Diego surfer, Shawlin Tucker, who forced found a way to bring his passion with him when a college acceptance from New York University summons him to the big apple.
Two gal pals perform the ritual of Hitori Kakurenbo and awaken a vengeful spirit.
“A priest walking through the woods” at night is the pilot episode of INAPPROPRIATE JOKES WELL TOLD. A short, cinematic interpretation series of the jokes we shouldn’t tell.
After David Burrows was fatally shot in a robbery in his store, he returned from the dead to tell others about his after death experience.
An experimental project written in 4 days, filmed in 6 days, edited in 1 week. Creator, writer, and director Robert Pagan in his first ever cinematography credit experiments with a Samsung Galaxy S21+ and conference microphone to bring you "An American Posada" “Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. “ Dolores Huerta. In the midst of civil unrest, failing industry, and war, the small town of Trillberry, California is divided and grieving, yet united in hope. Knowing that a Posada procession is too dangerous in this climate of anti-protest in a sundown town, Mr. Brown keeps his family tradition alive by hosting this year’s Posada at his home instead.
Playing Frisbee in North Korea is the first documentary produced and directed by an African-American female filmmaker from inside North Korea. The idea began at a conference on Korean Re-unification organized by General Colin L. Powell and the Colin Powell Center, where director Savanna Washington was a Graduate Fellow. Through verité footage from inside North Korea, interviews with North Korean refugees, long time aid workers, scholars, and experts on the topic, this documentary provides an authentic, on the ground perspective of the lives, struggles, and humanity of the people of North Korea.
Stevie finds herself chased by a Mad Man in a remote Pacific Northwest forest. When he finally catches her the story shifts to show what led up to these final moments. It's revealed some things are not always what they seem.
Song for Cesar is a documentary film with a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement. The film tells a previously untold story about the musicians and artists who dedicated their time, creativity and even reputations to peacefully advance Cesar Chavez's movement to gain equality and justice for America's suffering farmworkers.
A metal detectorist’s quest through the Shropshire Marshes leads us to a spectacular gold masterpiece, and the leader who sacrifices it for the sake of her child.
A successful Los Angeles TV chef is offered a new network series that will send her traveling around Europe, but her young daughter's heart is in San Antonio, Texas, and the restaurant where she got her start is struggling.
My body is mine. In my swimsuit, I revisit my childhood memories and ignore the prejudices. I dive. In this feminist essay on fatphobia, filming my body and accepting it is taking a stand. Against the backdrop of dirty pools, I say "OK" to those who would like to change me.
In Drew's first ever comedy special, nothing is safe: politics, police brutality, mass shootings, depression, trans, sexual assault, and more topics he's unqualified to talk about.
Broken up with on the eve of a global lockdown, a man is pushed to the brink of madness by his isolation... only to discover he may not be as alone as he initially thought.
an excerpt of a conversation between James and I during the Fall of 2019 - Santa Clarita, CA
A warehouse worker at a fast fashion company forms an attachment to a piece of damaged inventory.
Every 4 years of group of hometown friends get together, catch-up, have a few laughs and take part in a talent show that stems back hundreds of years.
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of "Coal Miner’s Daughter," the Loretta Lynn song that became a book, a feature film, and an indelible part of popular culture. Like so many other songs written by Lynn, the lyrics told the story of her life and spoke to women who struggled to make ends meet. Lynn’s simple, straightforward song stories gave legitimacy to the joys, heartaches, struggles and triumphs.
Moose and Dan find themselves in limbo after overdosing on heroin
An inspiring portrait of the life and legacy of Jewish theologian and philosopher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel was one of the most remarkable and inspiring figures of the American 20th Century. He was a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr and the entire Civil Rights Movement, a leading critic of the Vietnam War, a champion for Soviet Jews, and a pioneer in the work of interfaith dialogue.
Tony Palmer appeared at Harrogate Film Festival on 12 March 2020 as part of a celebration of his work which included a screening of Mighty Good, his television documentary about the Beatles era. This independent documentary feature chronicles that occasion, while probing deeper into the life and work of Palmer.
A group of young people try to navigate life without the presence of a father.
f you or someone you know suffers from the horrors of smartphone addiction, the OK Boomers of America want you to know, there is help.
With the release of Nicholas Ray's debut They Live by Night in 1948, a new style emerged in American narrative film. A style full of risk and confusion, based on a deliberately shaky balance of shots, cuts, scenes, gestures, events and acting. Ray was part of a generation that sought new forms of characterization, new forms of acting and behavior, new social inputs – and a new language in framing, mise-en-scene and montage to capture all those fleeting experiences.
An exploration of the emergence of L.A.’s “underground” hip hop culture of the late 1990s-early 2000s, recounted first-hand by some of its architects: the creators of Club Elements. Every respected independent MC in the nation came through to Club Elements. This documentary chronicles that vibrant time in Los Angeles’ underground Hip Hop scene and shows a side of L.A.’s subculture that is responsible for an independent movement that spawned a slew of widely recognized and celebrated artists.
A young man is isolated in his room due to a Covid-19 exposure.
When the horrific murder of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 sparks a national reckoning around the meaning of the Confederate flag, battle lines are drawn in Mississippi to determine the fate of the last state flag to include the most powerful, and divisive, symbol of our fractured history. In Look Away, Look Away, director Patrick O'Connor introduces us to an array of activists, and captures the fierce five-year battle over the Mississippi state flag, revealing how race, heritage and long-simmering grievances over the Civil War shapes our sense of who we are as Americans.
Impact Plus Presents Homcoming
Assembled from never before seen footage shot in 1983, this film documents controversial Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt's unlikely bid for the White House after a gunman's bullet left him partially paralyzed.
Gil Giles is a former small track racer, whose dreams of the big time came crashing down one night at the track. Now, Gil spends his days drinking and hustling anything he can flip for cash with dreams of making a comeback one day.
A lost child finds herself in the middle of a clash between a murderous coven of witches and an equally murderous posse of witch hunters.
Chaos ensues when a high school poser lies his way into a date with the daughter of a sociopathic hoodlum.
Haris and Alysa, lovers who are also YouTubers, are successful by selling their romantic relationship content. Life suddenly changes when Haris almost loses his mother to a stroke. Haris decided to move and cut his relationship with Alysa. How is the continuation of Haris's intention to move?
Scrooge encounters the ghost of her late business partner, who warns that three spirits will visit her this night. The ghosts take Carol on a journey through her past, present and future in the hopes of transforming her bitterness.
The history of modern painting includes white paintings . So why not a "white film"? This film includes images, from the oldest Romanesque cloister in Aragon, dating from the 10th century. These are diaphanous images, devoid of temporality and materiality, bordering on visibility. The repetitive and evanescent character is peculiar to a meditative state, to an illumination. The rhythm is that of the metamorphoses of the shapes of the clouds.
New book CORNERED alleges musician Brian Corner did not die in 1991, that his death was a set up. Peter, paparazzi, believes he has found Corner. He follows him in hopes of exposing him and landing the big pay day he has been longing for.
This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture. He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective.
The Queen's coronation made her the most famous woman in the world. But her anointment, the moment she became Queen Elizabeth II, was so sacred it was hidden and not allowed to be filmed. In this documentary, a clinical psychologist unpicks her guarded body language, and lip-readers breathe new life into iconic Coronation balcony archive.
Eight masked serial killers are dropped deep in the woods and pitted against each other in a bloody battle royale contest.
Take a ride with Dorothy and her best pal Toto as they share their favorite adventures in the magical land of Oz. It's Dorothy And Toto's Storytime: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz part 1.
After being influenced by a gadget reviewer’s YouTube video, Sere decided to buy a mystery box from an online shop using the last of his savings, hoping that the supposed grand prize, an iPhone 11, would somehow become the solution to his life problems.
A short documentary on Daliah Lavi’s life and career, with an emphasis on the film Il Demonio.
A family of four isolate themselves to their Chicago home following an outbreak of a modern strain of the deadly bubonic plague.
Tightly wound Ellie flies to Australia and enlists the help of an Aboriginal Tour Guide and a YouTubefamous Uber driver to find her husband and his eclectic family, and along the way, find her true self. All before Christmas.
Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving cinematic and photographic impulses.
The path, the pines, the pines, the path is from the Journal of Drifting Hours series: Drifting moments, lyrical passages, memory impulses, landscape studies and visual notations explored on super 8 film
A short artistic, experimental, humorous film about saving birds.
Bedford vs. Barnett
Kwame, a young hustling hawker, strives to be a successful actor. But when he loses everything the only way out seems to be the word of God.
Munkie follows a vengeful daughter whose violent plan of revenge against her domineering "tiger parents" spins out of control.