16,197 Matches Found
The Costa Concordia's demise remains one of the 21st century's most fascinating disasters. Combining first-person testimony from survivors and rescuers, and previously unseen footage, reconstructions and expert insight, this documentary tells the astonishing story in forensic detail of what happened on that fateful night.
Fellow musicians talk about the career and impact of Kentucky native J.D. Crowe, one of bluegrass music's most accomplished and influential performers and bandleaders. Crowe was instrumental in the careers of Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Keith Whitley and Jerry Douglas and was voted into the International Bluegrass Music Museum Hall of Fame in his own right in 2003.
A celebration of the incredible career of Australian television legend Bert Newton. With reflections from Tracy Grimshaw, Hamish Blake, Shaun Micallef and Eddie McGuire.
After gravedigger Shelley has trouble making friends, she goes to extreme lengths to find companionship.
Ornately abstract textural imagery forged from hand-processed and hand-painted Super8 film painstakingly edited by Vallée allows Sharp's masterful and mesmerizing new music to occupy center stage while unfolding it into a sublime optical dimension.
This short fully animated film follows our four heroes called Immortals who have to defend Earth from a powerful villain called Ares. Ares seeks to destroy Earth with his new super weapon but will the immortals stop him or will it be too late.
A teenage girl answers a babysitting ad only to find out that after arriving, things and people aren't who they seem to be.
Is it a reconstruction of memory in the silence, or rather, notes before the memory disappears? The voice cannot be heard again, but one can still feel it through the eyes. The camera turns tactile into textile. The filmmaker connects with her grandma from her own craft to hers.
On 1 April 1945, U.S. forces invaded the Japanese home island of Okinawa. It was the largest joint amphibious assault mounted during World War II in the Pacific Theater. The invasion of Okinawa was the culmination of three years of operations in the Pacific against Imperial Japan. The film explores the planning and preparation for Operation ICEBERG from September 1944 to 1 April 1945.
A man experiences the ultimate satisfaction.
Part 1 of the 2021 Live Stream Concert Series
The Photograph is a sweeping exploration of the power of positive imaging of black identity in Harlem, New York City. The picture of his grandfather, made hundred years ago by now renowned African-American photographer James Van Der Zee, leads the filmmaker back to Harlem, where he explores the visibility of the residents of this New York borough.
Javier is a young filmmaker, grandson of Mario Raúl Arcaro, a scientist and inventor who, in 1953, was part of the first Argentine expedition to Antarctica. They were the first to enter the Snow Hill shelter, where the crew of the Swedish expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld was stranded in 1903. A few years after Mario´s death Javier discovered a small wooden box that belonged to a Swedish expeditionary, so he decided to go on a journey following his grandfather's footsteps. He´ll also have to face unexpected twists, though.
After tragedy hits the manor back in the 1850's, an enraged father's ghost haunts the manor for eternity. Now in the present, a group of college students accept an invite to visit for the weekend to earn scholarships. What they believed to be easy way to earn money turns for the worse and in every way.
Short animation of the adorable yet annoying things a cat does to his owner
Knowing that another world is possible, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future.
In Voice Engine, 2021, Rosa Barba further explores ideas that undergo perpetual transformation of images and their translation through sound. The work destabilizes the old hierarchy of cinema components, freeing them up from their original use and letting them interact in new and unforeseen ways. Voice Engine resonates with Barba’s sculptural approach to film and the relation between the work and the viewer. At Kunsthal, the voices of choristers from Rotterdam power a set of projectors. Their song is a new, unique composition closely aligned to the film material. The choristers activate the 16mm and 35mm projectors with the various frequencies of their voices. Here, light and sound can respond unexpectedly to one another using the analogue footage and the timbre and power of analogue voices.
Claire and Nina endure the pain and passion of their heartbreakingly beautiful relationship in this short film written and directed by Megan Arnold.
In 2018 the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, referred to in the film as Mr. K, captured the world’s attention as little by little, snippets of his fate became public. What started out as a mysterious disappearance at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, slowly spiraled into an elaborate web of lies, and ultimately, a horrific murder. The news was particularly disturbing as it seemingly happened at the behest of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, prompting many world leaders to step into the ring and voice their condemnation, including the US president, “Mr. T”.
“A Significant Name” tells the story of Banban’s Chinese name. Born in Texas to Taiwanese immigrant parents, Banban was given an identifiable female American name - now their dead name - as a way to assimilate into western culture. But as their sense of who they are evolves, so does their name.
A struggling young couple comes face to face with the evil that lurks in their home.
Innokenty, a thief, enters the apartment of a young girl named Katya under the pretext of giving away books left over from the book club's closure. Everything seems to be going well, but at the final stage, Innokenty makes a mistake.
We live in a hectic and chaotic world that relentlessly stresses our planet, humans and animals alike. joyful is a unique audio-visual exploration of finding joy in all the turmoil that surrounds us. This short film uses videos, timelapses, hyperlapses, drone shots, slow motion, astrophotography and satellite images from around the world with dramatic sound design and music overlay to depict life as we know it and simple moments of joy and calm that provides us respite in all the chaos…
A peaceful landscape, four seasons and two sheep. Dried slices of bread and a shepherdess from an alternate place, where sheep have changes their roles. Their owners no longer keep them for meat and wool, but only for the peace that emanates from them. The most advanced entities decided to follow the animals. Calm stillness is the new ambition.
The essay perceives algorithms as a “living” species and gives them the space to co-create their own space, evoking reflections on naturalness and artificiality, the nature of habitus, and the border between fiction and documentation, in the scenery of a lyrical film shot within the computer games Grand Theft Auto 5 and theHunter: Call of the Wild.
Adam and Steve are two astronauts with a mission: they have to send space samples to Earth with the help of a robot. This work turns out to be extremely boring and tedious, especially for Steve who, carried away by his overwhelming loneliness, begins to see very familiar faces in the stones of the planet.
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.
Ben's Departure is a tribute to one of Ireland's masters of traditional music, documenting the essence of living and dying during a global crisis.
After 'Communicating Vessels' (FID 2020), the artist-filmmaker duo Annie McDonell and Maïder Fortuné are back. Once again, the question is that of art, its teaching, the painful articulation between thought, practice and the living shell that embraces and brings it to life. An affair as ancient as the first Romantic period, its complexity fully intact, the challenge here is multiplied by the study of an extremely singular and insufficiently known figure of 20th century history: Lee Lozano. Painter, particularly radical conceptual artist and then recluse, for many years this woman filled similar small coloured spiral notebooks with her thoughts and plans for her work.
I visited Miami in April 2019 and this is what I recorded.
On Luka’s fifteenth birthday, while taking a traditional family photo, father realizes that he became estranged from his son. He decides to gain Luka’s respect by any means necessary, but the more he demands, the more he pushes his son away.
mandla rae has a selective memory and they are scrambling to piece together their life. as british as a watermelon questions what it means to belong through exploring mandla’s fragmented asylum and migration memories.
Politicaly frustrated masses are looking for somebody to repair all the demages caused by czech prime minister Andrej Babiš and his government, during covid pandemic. Meanwhile the society needs to deal with creeping threat of global warming and for this fight we need a real change – "revolutionary change".
To save their failing marriage, Rahul and Leena throw an anniversary party. However, an unwanted visitor and a crime make a grand scene.
Narrative breaks down into a searching and tentative score, while optically printed flowers pass greens and reds and dirt against a scratchy white sky, then sometimes purples and blues and pink.
The program features songs from the new album "All The Right Noises", as well as classic Thunder tunes from years gone by. Unfortunately Ben was unwell, and unable to take part in the filming on Feb 26th. The rest of the band performed with guests Rob Harris (guitar), Sam Tanner (keys), Julie "The Duchess" Maguire (BVs), and Carly Greene (BVs). The performance was live, recorded then edited after filming, in order to create the best possible viewing experience for you.
Javier spends most of his time roaming the world on Google Earth. He begins to question his sanity when the same woman keeps appearing in different parts of the world.
Something is afoot at ARROW HQ. A mysterious presence and the streaming service’s very own A.I. are determined to turn what should be a big night in ARROW history - our first live stream - into a chilling bloodbath that puts the ARROW team and an array of special guests on the chopping block. Watching Buddy Cooper’s mid-80s stalk and slash showpiece with you are Jill Gevargizian (‘The Stylist’), Chad Crawford Kinkle (‘Jug Face’, ‘Dementer’), Adam Stovall (‘A Ghost Waits’), Powell Robinson & Patrick Young (‘Threshold’), Chelsea Stardust (‘Satanic Panic’), Noel David Taylor (‘Man Under Table’), Brian Lonano (‘Gwilliam’, ‘Crow Hand!!!’) and even the final girls from the ‘Horror Movie Survival Guide’ podcast: Julia Marchese and Teri Gamble.
The Whole History of the Earth and Life is a documentary which portrays the birth of the solar system, the birth of the Earth, and the emergence and evolution of life on Earth.
A short, slightly personal, slightly experimental, archival documentary about the history of bowling in America and the history of America in bowling. The film interweaves our established perception of this innocuous all-American game with the pervasiveness of cultural racism, sexism, and violence by showcasing nearly 100 years of archival bowling footage from newsreels, instructional films, commercials, home movies, and mainstream films & television.
With his mother and brother gone, a vulnerable teenager living in northern Tunisia charts a path that threatens to tear apart what remains of his family.
Aporia is an experimental short film following a girl in the near future who rents out a portion of her brain to a data startup in order to pay her hydro bill.
Exhaust crackles echo across the desert plain. Three boys kill time in a field with dust in their eyes and meet a girl at a gas station. They want to conquer time and reach the top of the world.
A short student film about a lonesome cowboy in the 21st century attempting to prove his love to a teenage crush cowgirl, who recently falls into a coma.
How Do You Talk About Depression? explores the different ways we approach conversations about depression, and how the experience can feel for those concerned. Through four perspectives, the video dives into different vocabularies around depression – political, geographical, corporate, personal and bodily.
In a post apocalyptic world, a lone man must fight along side an aspiring rebel fighting force to free a mining town from the clutches of a power-hungry tyrant.
Packed with a potent neurotoxic venom, one family of snakes kill more people than any other on earth. Scientists around the world race to uncover how.
Experimental animated dance film commissioned by the 2021 Irish Dance Festival.
Mixing found footage from Egyptian television, with footage of two dancers shot on the Wanstead Flats nature reserve in east London, Adham Faramawy's work considers the body’s relationship to ideas of ‘the land’, plant taxonomy, and ideas of roots/heritage. The film relates this exploration to the passing of the artists’ father during the pandemic, and their relationship, particularly their father’s strong affinity as an artist and musician with his falahi (rural, agricultural and working class) roots and his home town Toukh, north of Cairo.
A group of friends strive to do the dumbest things possible.
There can be no real gender justice without an unpacking of the power structures surrounding the reproductive health industry complex—and of the choices that the market pushes on women. Abby Epstein’s latest documentary highlights the dark history of eugenics and underfunded research that the birth control pill, often heralded as a feminist turning point in the history of reproductive rights, hides within itself.
A filmmaker grapples with her father’s early stages of Alzheimer’s.
There is No Healing in Silence (2020) interrogates how deep self-reflection and intergenerational platonic intimacy can be used as a way of reckoning with the violence of the world. It explores how nature facilitates a space for connection, love and release.
A man confronts the ugliness inside him with a confession to God in an attempt to remove himself from life's mundanity.
Afraid of the Dark is a psychological horror film that follows the story of 16-year-old Hannah Fox, a student who uncovers a dark secret that will indefinitely change the course of her life.
This new work was made especially for the room by Jenn Nkiru, a British-born filmmaker of Nigerian descent. Her videos celebrate the vibrant creativity and speculative vision of the African diaspora while exploring what she calls, "cosmic archaeology," a potentially mystical connection to history through visual memory.
A thesis film about a ghost girl named Liv, who tries to become friends with the family that moves into the home she resides in.
A queer fantasia on the slippages of memory, scholarship, meaning-making, and the transcendental. Created, written, and directed by Elliot Gordon Mercer with Michael Cicetti.
A talented young Brooklynite/Palestinian-American attempts to live out his dreams of becoming a French pastry chef despite his first-generation father's wishes. Struggling to fill his first big order for a gig, tensions arise when the father forbids him from using their family bodega to cook.