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The arrival of an uninvited guest is just the beginning of a very long night.

With somatic knowledge, Naima Ramos-Chapman sculpts a kinetic monument on the same rooftop in the name of healing and freedom-- where they were arrested at gunpoint as a teen in 2005. Filmed during the pandemic and in the midst of the BLM movement, they intend to liberate their own body through the process of rupturing memory with collective recall and dreaming in response to the state violence and the only virus that has truly plagued their family for generations: white supremacy. May this be a balm.

4 drug dealers call a truce and form an Alliance,but after 20 years of peace one member is forced to kill the others.

A group of circus clowns attempt to rob a bank

A Litany for Survival' explores the shades between love, rage, and rebellion as a black person surviving in America. Two months before the shocking revelation of Daniel Prude's murder video surfaced, BLM activists organize at the Mayor's house to make their case for equal human rights in the heavily segregated city of Rochester, NY.

A band of survivors have all fallen mercy to the same serial killer. When a voyeur agrees to participate in the killer's activities, he realizes he's in way over his head. Now he wants out, but at what cost?

"See What I See" is a documentary portrait of Norwegian artist, educator and collector Guttorm Guttormsgaard and his eclectic archive of art, craft, books and ephemera. Guttormsgaard recounts his thoughts on collecting, vision, art and place to filmmaker Sam Williams at home amongst his collection in the small town of Blaker, Norway. Through snippets of dialogue and layered imagery, the film becomes a conversation between the director, Guttormsgaard and the countless objects in the collection. Guttormsgaard passed away shortly after the conversation and this touching portrait offers a unique insight into his world.

A short film by Jon Jost

When Jay, a nineteen-year-old fashionista is left home alone, she discovers that not all of her clothes are quite as harmless as she thinks.

The historic Little Tea Shop restaurant encourages relationships that foster connections and opportunities. This film explores how its atmosphere created a perfect place for Suhair Lauck, a Palestinian immigrant, to take over in 1982 and how she continues to cultivate the magic that is The Little Tea Shop.

An electrician, a cardboard lady, a dwarf and a crippled chicken rice hawker. Together, they dance with seven legs. These are the nameless bodies only known by their vocation and physical handicaps. They were immersed in oppression and yet developed a dispassion towards evil. They carry evil in their bodies but were not evil themselves. Rather, evil had been done to them and had marked their bodies with its effects.

Set in Los Angeles, the loneliest city in the world it follows four characters who have lost their faith and are struggling with the gritty challenges of a life filled with anger, sorrow, resentment and fear.

The Covid pandemic strikes a tragically familiar chord for the Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie River Delta. In the early 19th century John Franklin and his crew infected their ancestors with deadly smallpox. Other devastating epidemics would follow. Historian Randal Pokiak returns to the ancient site of Kitigaaruk, a community abandoned after the great flu epidemic of 1918, to deliver a vivid cautionary tale.

Take a unique behind-the-scenes journey (made especially for the Hollywood Theatre) with special effects legend Chris Walas on the making of Joe Dante's 1984 seminal film GREMLINS. Narrated by Walas, and featuring incredibly rare photos and video from his personal archive, witness the creation of this pioneering, effects-laden classic.

Brad Trackman is a national touring comedian who has been featured as a stand up on CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, Star Search with Arsenio Hall, AXS tv’s Gotham Comedy Live, MTV’s The Buried Life, New Joke City with Robert Klein, NBC’s Later, NBC’s Friday Night and numerous appearances on Comedy Central.

Tackling one of the most haunted houses in the United States, a team of paranormal investigators study a supposedly supernatural home.

When we embrace flaws and mistakes, we create even more beauty. That’s what woodturner Bill Karow believes, and what drives him in his craft: to reshape people’s opinions about things they perceive as worthless, and to find joy in that pursuit.

The Book of Revelation told through the dream of an eleven year-old boy, the ballads of his father, and the memories of John the beloved apostle.

In ARTISTS FRIENDS RACISTS, Wolfson continues to probe American culture and contemporary life through an eponymously titled work utilizing a new holographic display technology made of spinning fans that have micro LEDs embedded in their blades. The LEDs are programmed to rapidly illuminate in a precise manner while spinning so as to create the illusion of holographic imagery floating in space. These unique devices have primarily been marketed for commercial use—as a means of luring consumers and presenting brands and products in a visually dynamic and novel way.

One after another, Americans of Color from all walks of life share memories of racist experiences, many of them alarmingly recent.

A documentary on the lives and work of two accomplished but underrecognized African-American artists who were united by their love for each other, their dedication to their art, and their passion for teaching.

Melanie Fyfe is convinced she is an owl trapped in a human body. As she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, pandemonium erupts throughout the world around her.

Following the story of a son and his struggle with his father's dementia, "Younger Days" strives to illustrate what it means to be an artist through trial and tribulation. Throughout the story, the young artist tries to follow in his father's footsteps with his guitar. Receiving the opportunity to work with his father's old producer, the young artist attempts to win over his father through his music.

How an electric lineman's tool manufacturer in Centralia, Missouri, helped save the first American space station from catastrophe.

A paranoid raven writer trying to overcome writers block.

A girl dies of bubonic plague in 1666. Centuries later a similar looking girl, Arlene, is having a very bad day at school. In a dream they meet.

A couple goes to a cabin in the woods for a romantic getaway, but during their trip, something strange happens…

We are always in a hurry and we are often with the head on the clouds. Then, it happens that a virus makes us look up. In this little story we can see how, even in the harder times, there's always a chance to catch on the fly - A little really contagious crush.

In the ancient height of the equatorial Andes, a popular celebration revives the figure of the devil as a guardian of the territory. The Hidden Shadow portrays this celebration through the story of Angel, a devil who found a way to decipher the world through the shadow of his mask. This free interpretation of the popular festival proposes the folk character recognizing himself in the contemporary world, composing the celebration as a take on the power space.

An Afro-Surrealist story about a giant woman and a tiny man who --- through the power of touch --- experience an unexpected transformation.

A tense encounter between a young man in distress and his reluctant saviour.

A portrait of Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre in South London, a weekend before it permanently closed, after fifty-five years on September 24, 2020. Super 8mm transferred to HD file, colour, sound

Nothing goes according to plan when a spy on a secret mission is confronted with the everyday obstacles of our technological world.

Earth is a volcanic planet, with over 1,400 active giants spread across the globe. But what would happen if all of them were to erupt at once? From rivers of lava, towering ash clouds, and pyroclastic flows to tsunamis and super-sized climate change, we explore the powerful volcanic forces that fascinate today's scientists. Join us as we conduct a thrilling thought experiment with leading volcanologists that reveals the inner workings of some of the world's most magnificent volcanoes.

Live from Florence, Italy, Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone tells the story of America’s great composer, who with the groundbreaking Rhapsody in Blue made a “Lady out of Jazz.” The show incorporates the composer's best-known songs from "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me," through the hits of An American in Paris and Porgy and Bess, to a complete performance of Rhapsody in Blue.

No experience and no fact is unique. The narrative that tells human history, collective or not, is as simple as it is complex. The beginning of every transformation is a journey through an unknown landscape. As Dante Alighieri wrote in La Divina Commedia: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrit." In the movement lies the transformation. In the fire the purification. The cure lies in the virus.

Tyson, an unhappy college student, returns home with a dream in his mind. However, his disapproving parents and menacing cousins make it difficult to keep his sights set on his goals.

When 17-year-old Sam finally works up the courage to come out to her conservative parents, having ruminated over the consequences and expecting the worst, she is met with an unexpectedly positive reaction from her parents. Perhaps too positive to be true.

"There are things in this world that are yet to be named" centers around Solanum plastisexum - an Australian tomato whose sexual expression is unpredictable and unstable, challenging even the fluid norms of the plant kingdom. Footage of the team of botanists who recently used their Solanum research to explode notions of sexual normativity in any plant or animal is combined with a voiceover of letters sent between science writer Rachel Carson and her lover Dorothy Freeman. "There are things in this world that are yet to be named" is a meditation on erasure, indefinability, and the intersection of queer and environmental histories.

This film investigates the serious play of historical reenactments and their quest to tap into what has been referred to as “magic moments” or “period rushes." These brief flashes are moments of embodied, performance-induced spatial and temporal blurring that allow the reenactor to feel as if they are within the place and time that they are portraying. How might these living history events act as reverent rituals to evoke and honor the memory of constructed socio-political ancestors?

In May 2016, a team of four adventurers began a three-month, 2,000-mile canoe journey from the source of the Yukon River in Canada to its mouth at the Bering Sea in Alaska. The expedition was made through the lands of the Athapaskan First Nation people who, more than 10,000 years ago, crossed the Bering land bridge from Asia. The paddlers explore the strength of this culture and its landscape, animals, ancestral knowledge and spiritual beliefs. The expedition is a journey of discovery into what being human means to the “people of the river”.

A discussion with political activist and social worker Manikonda Vedakumar about the cult film Maa Bhoomi.

When an old friend's return home is disrupted by his sudden disappearance, what starts as a welcome home film becomes an unsettling search.

Whitney Nelson embarks on a quest to find answers about a mysterious pin left behind by her departed mother. Along with her friend Alana, she gets mixed up with a crazy cult of collectors who will stop at nothing to acquire her special pin.

In this timely and fearless personal documentary, director Ofra Bloch engages with the people she was raised to hate and dismiss. Seen as a victim in one context and a perpetrator in the next, the film points towards a future – an “afterward” – that attempts to live with the truths of history in order to make sense of the present.

A short film directed by Anna Pataki

Footage from the vault of Chicago Film Archives is repurposed by Jean Sousa and Kioto Aoki.

Automobile equals man equals phallus equals patriarchy – the goal is its destruction by drowning it in a ‘sauce’ of video snippets.

A vigilante masked as Batman roams the streets of his city at night to liberate humanity from a new type of plague. A molotov cocktail mixed with vandalism, cosplay and E-scooters. A scourge known in many Swedish cities. The Real Dark Knight plays as a mockumentary but so absurdly realistic so it feels like a documentary. It is a contemporary look at solitary struggles and heartfelt vigilantism.

In 2012, a man named Jeffrey Roberts miraculously realized his dream of having his own talk show. Not Quite Late Night with Jeffrey Roberts, as it was called, only lasted for a couple episodes, however, and is canceled within weeks of its debut. In a story of failure and showbiz, the enthusiastic documentary filmmaker, Giorgio Quizno, explores the mythology of this flash-in-the-pan show.

MY DARLING CHRISTOPHER tells the true story of Clive who contracted Meningitis and lost both his sight and his hearing during the outbreak of the Second World War. Clive is now 15 years old and attending Goring School, having been evacuated from Margate School for the Deaf. Clive’s father, away serving in the Navy, receives a heartfelt letter from his wife, Dorothy. As Christopher reads the letter English, BSL and Visual Vernacular interweave to tell the shocking story of a war plane crashing to the ground meters away from Clive’s classroom.

A lumberjack, named Frank, engraves his name on a tree before cutting it down, when a distant scream catches his attention. He heads towards the noise to discover something quite unexpected. This discovery will lead him to his destiny.

Three sisters venture out into the back country with their Aunt to evade a mysterious stalker and the pandemic taking place. Once out in the woods, they realize they may have been followed and are now all alone with a dangerous presence.

As the harsh reality of Climate Change takes hold in the public imagination, the idea of nature as landscape becomes increasingly inappropriate. Landscapeis more than something to be admired in our leisure time or an artifact to be hung on an art gallery wall. It is, as everyone is surely aware, the planet we live on and includes all biological life. The deepening uncertainty surrounding humanities future now makes it impossible to contemplate the beauty of this world without grieving for all that we have lost. This loss of innocence is accompanied by an ever- present foreboding for that which the future holds. Casting Light invites the viewer to take some time to contemplate their own relationship to the moving image and to the subtle intricacies of light falling on water.

50 days to the South Pole. Solo and unassisted. Matthieu Tordeur set himself a tough challenge. Alone in Antarctica and under extreme conditions, the youngest French explorer will have to go beyond his limits to reach his goal: the South Pole.

This tape is about a girl who seeks to free herself, the triangles represent Nazism The visual video tries to give another vision of reality from the purest freedom.

The first of four letters in correspondence with artist Nazli Dinçel as part of the project "Hay cartas que detienen un instante más la noche" for La Casa Encendida.

An Intervention parody following the story of Steven, a man who suffers from an addiction to defecating in public mop buckets.

This documentary discusses the August 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists and neo-Nazis gathered to protest the removal of Confederate monuments throughout the South.