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A visit from a clown on her birthday.

The term “Afrofuturism” was coined decades ago to describe an artistic and cultural tradition that pre-dates the transatlantic slave trade. From the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, to Martin R. Delany’s alt-history novel Blake, to Sun Ra’s avant-garde music to Marvel’s Black Panther (the special’s premiere coincides with the release of that blockbuster film’s sequel, Wakanda Forever), the African American experience has been explored and reimagined through a speculative, even cosmically scaled lens for centuries, in a variety of artistic mediums. The special seeks to explore the concept through conversation and performance, as some of today’s most influential Black musicians, writers, dancers and theorists come together to share their ideas and artistry as they celebrate the historical and cultural impact of Afrofuturism.

A high schooler is tormented by a seemingly incessantly ringing alarm clock.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, "Immaculate Generations no. 1" presents its viewer with a singular look into thousands of souls. Equal parts Carl Sagan and William Blake, this flicker film is composed of tens of thousands of individual retinal photographs from public scientific databases. Its flickering landscapes evoke the violence of the big bang and balance somewhere between threat and seduction, like the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. Animated between 12 and 24 frames per second, they make for a dazzling rush into the maelstrom of life as we perceive it.

In the 1970s, a bubbly photographer falls in love with a charming man, only to realize that he's not the person she believed him to be.

A 16mm-style slow cinema feature by Matthew Cutchen.

Emmis was a middle school girl who’s first year of high school is taken away from her because of COVID. This year she arrives at school in-person, worried and unsure if she’s ready to return.

A romantic comedy based in a world where unrequited love can kill you.

A story about a boxing club in New Rochelle NY and very inspiring individuals that create the team.

Street Lights follows Kawiti, a young Māori boy from Kaitaia. Kawiti’s life is tumultuous - no mum, drunk Dad and lots of trouble to get into. His whole world is flipped on him when he discovers he has a newborn son. With no hope and nowhere to go, he turns to the last person he thought he would ever go to - his father.

Friday nights are raucous and unforgettable when the Milwaukee Beer Barrels Bowling League hits the lanes. Through a series of candid interviews with three visually impaired league members, we come to realize that the score doesn't really matter at all—this group is all about the hijinks and keeping the good times rolling.

A visual poem about Clay

A trans woman stuck in a shadowy nightmare dimension stumbles upon a cryptic old Maiden, who may be her only way of escaping this terrifying (un)reality.

Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into enslavement in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She was 7 years old when she was freed. She stayed in Black Mountain and became a midwife, delivering several hundred babies including her own grandchildren. Her granddaughter, Mary Othella Burnette, came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, to honor the family matriarch. [Overview Courtesy of Storycorps]

It is a legend, shaped by a prolonged of economic crisis, in a country that once was, and its name is Indonesia. Sukab is a dog thief whose family has also become dogs. Sukab targeted dogs wherever he could, hunting down dogs that let their guard down, and would never have guessed how his fate would end up as a dish for a family.

Desperate to maintain Whiteness in a dystopian future, the American government bans BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) citizens from reproducing after they become the majority of the population.

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists participated over a two-year period, beginning in March 2020. Each invited artist made a one minute video in response to the last frame of the previous minute.

A subway rider is being asked for a MetroCard swipe.

Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. We take a journey back home, with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, as he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, Outta The Muck presents a community, and a family, that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined, while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement.

An LGBTQ movie about two young men that struggle to tell each other the truth about how they feel about each other. A story about discovery, acceptance, and love.

A college student and her housemates find that nothing is as simple as it seems as they fight an unexpected enemy –- frat boys on the hunt for human blood.

Part of a CD+DVD set released by Tzadik. Recorded at the powerful organ at Henry LeBoeuf Hall, Bozar in Brussels, this is one of Zorn’s most beautiful and personal solo performances—a dramatic musical reading of the epic Faust legend. Featuring a guest appearance by the sensational vocalist Barbara Hannigan, who is improvising with Zorn for the very first time. No one plays the organ quite like Zorn and many of his unusual techniques, usually hidden in performance, are presented in close focus. Beautifully filmed by state of the art equipment, this is a wild and colorful concert by two mavericks of new music.

A modern fairytale about sound hunting. "Fishing frequencies" tells the story of Audrius Simkunas, a field recording artist and a musician, who lives in a small town of Lithuania, Utena, where he extensively records his surroundings for over 20 years. He collects all kinds of sounds - from bats, swamp noises, underwater creatures to industrial sounds - empty abandoned buildings, city noises, electric circuit sounds, etc. Dressed as a modern wizard, he goes with his devices into the wild and dives into pagan mythology - looking for those primal sounds there.

Perfectionist, soccer star, straight A student Millie Blake did not picture starting her senior year receiving a month of community service at a local nursing home after trying to break up a fight at school. To make matters worse, Millie is stuck at the home with the instigator of the fight: Andy Wellick–another senior, who is outspoken about her identity as a lesbian on the asexual spectrum. Initially the two girls butt heads, but the tension quickly blossoms into friendship as they learn more about each other.

After a wild one-night stand, Kenny struggles to find his mysterious woman at a raunchy, underground hotel.

An unhappy introvert becomes addicted to a new dopamine pill called DX-127 in his pursuit of happiness.

A wonderful man who frequently inconveniences others has an epiphany when he recognizes someone from a billboard.

Paraplegic Jake and his best friend June plan to have sex, but an overbearing dad, a rather large spider and an ageing football superstar present some minor complications.

In 1979 Houston TX. was a boom town fantasy city, but also the murder capital of America. Colombian cocaine cowboys made Houston TX a murder land. Five Mexican American detectives where tasked with stopping this epidemic of drug violence, and missing children.

The human "heart". It has no reality, and we don't know where it is. What is this "heart" that is supposed to be important for human beings, but is full of mysteries?　In this work, the artist explores the location of the "heart" by photographing and editing subjects that the artist's own "heart" has "naturally" chosen. The story of this work does not yet exist. Will the artist's "heart" start to develop a certain story as he continues to take photographs day after day in an idle manner?　This is an experiment to see how the viewer's "mind" will move to decipher the story through online.

In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye Lee, and Jeng-Hua Yu consider the making of the film and its importance in their lives since.

Brutal is a surrealist, psychological thriller that focuses on a young mother named Maya. Set in a bleak, menacing, nightmarish tower-block, Brutal addresses the consequences of systematic societal shame brought upon women who are faced with the decision of bringing an unwanted child that has been conceived non-consensually into the world and the subsequent inner turmoil that proceeds it.

30-something-year-old Quinn expects his transition and second foray into puberty to be nothing short of euphoric, but in a world where his anxieties and emotional baggage talk back to him, he realizes the road to becoming a self-made man comes with its own set of self-made problems. After administering (and failing) his first testosterone shot, Quinn heads out to the bar to celebrate with his friend Mobi. Quinn's anxiety, The Narrator, tags along, explaining everything testosterone is doing in Quinn's body and environment. Soon, Quinn magically transforms into the man of his own dreams and gets a little wild and cocky at the bar. However, after an altercation with some Finance Bros and his anxieties The Narrator knows by heart, Quinn is flattened and distraught. Mobi barely cheers up his friend and it takes mentally duking it out with The Narrator and getting into a (almost) physical fight to feel validated again.

That’s not from the latest sci-fi flick, but a direct quote from a recently released Pentagon report. In the Pentagon’s report we find other startling – and alarming – details. Of 143 reports containing some sort of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP),142 were “unexplained.” Even more alarming, however, is the section of the report which states there are “‘unexplained pregnancies” by people who have been abducted by these craft! In this second installment of the ground-breaking Disclosure series, L.A. Marzulli interviews experts in his quest for the truth about what is happening in the skies above us.

Tensions rise in the final hour of the solar eclipse.

3 years have passed since the grisly murders at Devils Ridge , now a soon-to-be retired FBI agent and his family must struggle to survive before they become the next sacrifice in the twisted minds the crimson cult. Will they survive or will it be too late?

Jackie is closing up at the coffee shop, looking forward to a night out with friends. Before her night comes to a close, an ominous being has different plans for the young barista.

An aging gold seeker and his newfound pupil comb the desert for a fabled buried treasure.

"Nightwalker" codes disproportionately target Black femmes or women who “make a display” by wearing clothing that can be deemed risqué by an arresting officer. In Nightwalker (2022), a film that is an extension of a Polaroid and audio project entitled Solicitation of Crimes Against Nature (2021), I draw attention to how the surveillance eye overlaps with the gaze of a potential predator. The film is ambivalent as to whether or not the character is a sex worker and is more interested in the act of surveillance "sight-based" discourse that names individuals as such.

As the 40th anniversary of the horrific discovery of a beheaded little girl in the basement of an abandoned building in St. Louis approaches, director Edrar "Bird" Sosa (Our Precious Hope: St. Louis' Little Jane Doe Revisited) re-examines the gruesome details of the near 40-year-old cold case.

Award-winning short film by Ben Collier & Enrico Luigi Hallworth.

A mysterious being, known only as Coffintooth, welcomes you to his creepy domain, deep in the catacombs of his abode - It is in this lair that you must bear witness to three chilling tales of carnage, terror and horror in - Beneath the Old Dark House. BENEATH THE OLD DARK HOUSE is a frightfully delightful homage to the 80s horror anthologies we know and love (Creepshow, Tales from the Darkside, Cat's Eye). BENEATH THE OLD DARK HOUSE will feature three brand new tales of terror from the filmmaker Matt Cloude (Bloodbath in Creightonville, Gore Theatre, 2 Die For)

Estranged Daughter (Lori) gets dumped by her deadbeat boyfriend and she ends up homeless. With no place else to go, she asks her father if she can stay with him, until she can get back on her feet. Lori's sister (Julie) is a self righteous do-good looks down on her sister and her struggle with addiction. After a family fight Lori turns to alcohol, but her father won't let her. He helps her find God again and allow her walk with Christ break her addiction.

A group of American women, drawn by the promise of transformation at the hands of an influencer guru, travel to Bali where their lives are thrown into messy chaos.

A film student tells how he lives with his fear of long movies.

Wax Castles of Love tells the phantasmagorical story of Billie and her journey from turmoil to ascension.

A young married couple's evening takes a terrifying turn when they invite a very strange 12 year-old boy in from the rain.

Two sisters come together when their grandfather passes away.

Bengali elocution owes much to the legendary Gouri Ghosh and Partha Ghosh.Directed by Palash Das and beautifully narrated by Bratati Bandopadhyay, this documentary chronicles the enduring poetic journey of these two maestros.

Bonfires, police lights and an enormous moon illuminate the youthful antics of Noche de San Juan in Madrid, closing the year’s longest day. -JS

A feature length documentary on the making of MOONSTALKER.

A young woman shares her motel room with an elderly Filipina woman when she is stranded in a sleepy beach town.

While alone on vacation, a young woman becomes obsessed with an online therapy video.

A man's ten minutes have been stolen. He wants to look for them back. The story of his life has become this film. But now, as the character of this film, he is being sold by the author on the street.

In the aftermath of a deadly virus that left millions dead, a young man looks to find his place in a world forever changed.

Aubrey “Choc” Muldrow grew up in a religious family on the Southside of Chicago and knew he was gay from an early age. In this sensitive portrait, he discusses the taunts, threats, and violence from his family, his church, and his neighborhood; his attempts to deny his sexuality; and, finally, his moving past to accept himself and live his own truth.

A group of friends' vacation turns into a slaycation!

This hilarious, behind-the-scenes adventure shows the unforgettable, year-long production that Trevor Hawkins and his skeleton-crew of endearing renegades went through to bring their gritty film, Lotawana, to life.

When Captain Krok and Mr. Spott hop through a stone donut to travel back to 1930 New York City, Krok finds he can't have his fate and Edith, too! Stalled Trek: The City On the Edge of Foreclosure is an Animated Puppet Parody of what many consider to be the greatest Trek of all time.