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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performance legend Jack Smith, deals less with Smith’s life than with his work, analyzing Smith’s aesthetic idiosyncrasies in 21 thematic chapters. It's a film essay about the artist’s work, rather than a documentary about his life. An unmediated vision of Jack Smith, an invitation to join him in his lost paradise.

Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

NR 2017
Raymond Tallis - On Tickling

Dozens of couples dance in a circle, a house topples down a slope, a cat manically revolves around itself. A few seconds beforehand, an admonishing voice points out that a centuries-old philosophical assumption is under close scrutiny. It is René Descartes’ first tenet, »I think, therefore I am,« that the British neurologist Raymond Tallis calls into question in the video by the artist Johan Grimonprez. Tallis takes the view that human consciousness is not an individual construction but exists above all in relation to a vis-à-vis.

Raymond Tallis - On Tickling

NR 2017
Song of the Waves

This is a love story adapted from JM Sali’s tale of an Indian man who meets and falls in love with a Chinese woman in Singapore by chance, but she discovers that he is actually married back home in India. Told from the perspective of the writer—who is played by more than one actor, and who also plays the character—the film blurs the lines between roles, reality, time and space. The words and text of the writer also interplay with the sound of silence and the actions of the actors and characters.

Song of the Waves

NR 2017
April Argyle is Locked Out!

The lovely and talented Erika Jordan stars as the lovely but somewhat less talented April Argyle, an innocent young woman who just wants to get to work on time. However, tragedy strikes when our hapless heroine accidentally locks herself out of her house before work in a scandalous state of undress. Luckily, her friendly but perpetually inebriated next-door neighbor, Curwen, is able to loan her something to wear, but her employer, Mr. Pickman, is less than thrilled with her attire and lack of punctuality. Will she be able to keep her job? Will she ever get back into her house? Watch to find out the exciting answers to these questions and more!

April Argyle is Locked Out!

NR 2017