A man experiences bad luck for a day, after discovering a upside-down penny on the floor, until he makes a wish and reverses his luck.
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A man experiences bad luck for a day, after discovering a upside-down penny on the floor, until he makes a wish and reverses his luck.
Gripping documentary-thriller series that dives into the depths of graphic realism and gives us a better understanding about what influential factors mold certain individuals into mass murderers.
Southside Chicago. Crime reports. A Chinese woman. An investigation.The filmmaker, as a newcomer, explored southside Chicago through the filming of a search for a Chinese woman.
13-year-old Jeremy and his mother go through a difficult emotional process involving Jeremy's best friend.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study was created by the Center for Disease Control and Kaiser Permenente, a Southern California health research company. The test itself is only ten yes or no questions and is free to take online. Reducing oneself to a mere point of data is at once comforting and frustrating, yet when I realized how few people I knew had received a score of more than four out of ten, I decided to detail my own abuse in a way more personal than a number. These words that have been said to me over and over again as a child, how they have shaped me, and how the ideas of American darlings like Bing Crosby have shaped our perception of masculinity and nullified the validity of abuse survivors in our country and around the world.
AMARANTHE to play DREAMHACK Sweden. We're excited to announce this show at DreamHack Winter 2019 in Jönköping, Sweden! On November 30th, AMARANTHE will rock the main stage along with Halestorm and New Years Day!
Shot on location in Singapore, Japan, London, Paris, New York, Berlin and Amsterdam, artist and filmmaker Ang Sookoon takes us on an eye opening journey into the private lives of artists. Through candid conversations with fellow artists, these dialogues reveal the artists’ perspectives on the financial difficulties inherent in their unconventional career. In turn, together with Sookoon they question the current systems that govern an artist’s career and livelihood.
Two women named Mel, a gun, and a Box that time travels find themselves in an empty parking lot with a decision to come to terms with.
The film is about a high diver who is about to make a jump from a 10-meter diving platform. It isn’t as much about the jump itself but rather the character’s journey to be able to make the jump.
Semi-autobiographical, experimental narrative film tells the story of a woman growing up battling mental and emotional disability, but with a powerful drive for greatness. Based on stories from the lives of artists and friends, the work proceeds through a series of short monologues, animations and songs illuminated by images of insects, animals and landscapes.
The looped film is comprised of two parts: the first of scratched, warped and overlapping footage documenting the industrial farming of hormonal, reproductive and carnal animal commodities including urine, semen, meat, skins and fur. Rather than reducing the struggles of animals to a human-centric view, Staff questions the norms, subjectivity and standards by which all ‘others’ are read, measured and controlled and asks what lives are deemed visible in institutional spaces. The video’s second half comprises a poem describing life on Venus, an alternative state of non-life or near-death, a queer state of being that is volatile and in constant metamorphosis, infused with the violence of pressure and heat, destructive winds and the disorientating lapse of day into night.
{Black Title Here} introduces James on his day off from work. Unfortunately, James' being off from work is not the only thing that is off. His current girlfriend, Shalom, and the girl he moved to LA with, Nastali, are both in need of him as he tries to find his way before he loses it all.
A streetwise posse idly roams the evening in the hood they call home. Diva and Astro follow parallel paths in real time, hurtling irrevocably toward the consequences of the habits they find hardest to overcome.
A queer teenager struggles to come out when she makes a miraculous discovery: her grandpa was once in love with another man. Armed with the newfound knowledge, she convinces him to take on the challenge of telling their family together.
our strangers enter into a dialogue and draw an intimate portrait of society in turbulent times. The rural worker Jiaul, the Bihari brahmin Ram, the homeless drug-dealer Manoj and the young student Tashi live in the same city of Kolkata, but in different worlds. The film tried to find out a few answers - What beliefs rule their everyday lives? How are they affected by the sudden demonetisation? What makes them strangers? And how do people – whose paths would never cross in real life – interact in a cinematic space, where as many signs of their belonging as possible have been ‘stripped off’ and they encounter one another for the first time?
Pallasvuo claims that "the most beautiful things are torn, revealing something underneath". Bringing together grunge music, Georges Bataille, the story of doubting Thomas and open-pit mining, Pallasvuo allows a glimpse into his obsession with holes. Online-sourced references accelerate in front of our eyes, pulling us deeper into the abyss.
In his new video work, Atkins plumbs the corporeal depths of digital moving imagery. Computer generated animation, emo musical theatre, collaged stock imagery, field recording, performance capture, disease, motion graphics and starless humour muster within his videos. Atkins’ unique visual language, both melancholic and absurd, confronts the viewer with intimate, arcane visions that seem caught in a purgatory of afterwards.
The debut short film from Kyle Ward.
This short film follows Camden as she deals with Retrograde Amnesia following a car accident. She wakes from a coma to find that her family has hired a woman named Ella to care for her while she recovers. Their evolving relationship is chronicled in this heartwarming story that gives an underrepresented audience the content they crave, in a totally unexpected way.
An isolated prospector hunts for gold in the Alaskan wilds. Little does he know, he is also being hunted.
You can get your own cat on which you won't have any allergies, you can climb to the top of a mountains, and even get to the sea you always dreamed of. It is almost the same as a real one, but your own, unseen.
Jonah attempts to address his mental health issues by attending Dr. Hill's unconventional therapy sessions.
Someone is killing art house filmmakers in NYC so the city calls on Werewolf Ninja Philosopher - a werewolf who is a ninja, a philosopher, and a private detective - to help stop the killings.
50 years ago, Sydneysiders were shocked and the art world astonished by Christo's wrapping of the Little Bay coastline. Hungarian migrant and entrepreneur John Kaldor, who initiated this monumental work, has said “it all started with a stale sandwich, in Christo's studio in 1968 New York.” Now, Project 34 (by Asad Raza) is about to be unveiled, and UK artist Michael Landy is designing the exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects.
A group of Syrian women, refugees recently resettled in Canada, are negotiating life in their new home. They have some questions.
This 90-minute documentary chronicles the making of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s 146th Edition of The Greatest Show On Earth including heartfelt moments from the performers as they prepared to take their final bow.
A picture of John F. Kennedy Jr. you've never seen before - new interviews, rare video, intimate new details.
Award-winning documentary about humanity's WISEST response to climate change, species extinction, the depletion of critical natural resources and income inequality. This independent documentary examines how our economic and financial system connects all these issues, and offers SOLUTIONS, which could be implemented immediately.
A young woman is torn between two worlds: her day job cleaning planes and her dream of becoming a pilot. When she takes steps to pursue aviation, she is met with resistance and must fight against the odds to get her wings.
Ian Hislop's sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences - from Victorians on the moon to 21st-century deepfake, and Hislop as never seen before.
In small-town Pala, a ninety-year-old farmer goes about his retired life. Located in the southern state of Kerala in India along the western ghats, Pala is known for an economy based on the cash crop of rubber, strong presence of the Catholic Church, and for electing the same legislator for a record fifty-four years straight. Though ageing limbs and failing eyesight have slowed him down, Chachan's (grandpa) days are full, as he tends to the household farm and cows, makes visit to the church, and follows daily news and soaps on TV. In conversations with his grandson, a film student who's visiting from Kolkata, Chachan reflects on his long farming life, how the fortunes of men and the rubber crop are intertwined, the oft-repeated patterns in local and national politics, and the essential nature of human beings. In depicting a typical day in Chachan's life, the director experiments with a non-linear, observational style, drawing inspiration from the works of Jonas Mekas.
At turns lush, humorous, sincere, erotic, joyful, and intense, (W/HOLE) forsakes traditional expectations of “porn” to create an unexpectedly textured landscape of desire. Amidst ecstatic water balloon fights, opulent feasts devoured without utensils, narrations of pleasure, lewd hand gestures, densely scored orgies, improvisational performance, and intense kink dynamics, (W/HOLE) proposes a new type of pornography: a world of queer sex that is at once surreally lush and intensely real. The film celebrates queer pleasure as resistance, while inviting viewers of all identities towards their own human capacity for pleasure.
In this video drawing from Bob Dylan's song "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," layers of experiences circling loss and longing are overlaid between images of landscapes and movement. In the song, a stranger's listlessness and exhaustion are woven through and around Juarez, Mexico, and so, too, are these stories woven around original discontent and uncertainty as they move through an uneasy negotiation with the strangeness of the American pioneer spirit.
Exploring the halftone and tritone pattern, I tried to express my stage fright in a running competition, and the loss after going without it.
Employees of the SamMonte Oil Company and their families gather at an end of the year Christmas party. Each group and individual has their own agendas, some morally questionable, some just looking to win the contest: The last employee to leave the party wins a raise. But who will be the last to leave and what shenanigan will others partake in?
British Comedian James Mullinger has taken Canada by storm. Sold out shows across the country, appearances on CBC's The Debaters, movies, TV shows, festivals, awards, magazines, stand up specials -- since moving to Canada 5 years ago, he's done it all.
In Kitchen Beets, Bea Haut presents – with punchily sequential rhythm – an itemised domestic space, placing before her 16mm camera a succession of utensils that speak to the tactility of the artist’s own analogue practice.
'Let the People Decide' traces the history of voting rights struggles in the United States from 1960 through the present day. The film draws parallels between the Mississippi voter registration drive of the early 1960's and North Carolina's 'Moral Monday' movement in the present day.
What happens when the largest redevelopment in North America dismantles the place where social housing began? Will the community and its residents ever be the same? Farewell Regent is a 90-minute documentary that captures the Regent Park community of downtown Toronto (the place where social housing began in Canada) in the midst of the largest housing redevelopment project in North America. With this transition, it will go from a site of 100% social housing to a mixed-income community where condo units will outnumber the social housing units 4 to 1. The documentary profiles past and current tenants, city officials, developers and housing advocates to get an inside view of the complex issues, emotions and drama that are involved in such a massive redevelopment.
When the love of her life falls ill, a headstrong and passionate woman learns that keeping someone alive, at any cost, might not be worth it in the end.
In 1945 US military intelligence gathered confidential information about Hitler. The dictator seized the Imperial Regalia, the treasure of the Holy Roman Empire, symbol of the power of European domination. But the treasure is gone. Three months before the Nuremberg trials, which will judge the great Nazi criminals, the Americans absolutely want to find these Regalia. So who stole Hitler's sacred treasure and where is it hiding?
Inspired by the chronicle "Anacondas in the Park" by Pedro Lemebel. A experiment with time, image and montage to formulate an observational narrative in a park in Guadalajara, Mexico, when the night falls it comes back to life and the bodies meet like snakes. A dialogue with a common past of criminalization and homosexual repression in Latin America.
More than ever before, kids across the U.S. are learning about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) inside the classrooms: both public and private. What has been overlooked is Green STEM--the study of natural resource conservation that is found right outside everyone’s doorstep. Mother Nature and her landscapes are part of this story but conservation plus kids is unrealized.
After their latest mission, two hitmen drive to a beach where one of them will have to make a tough choice
James Rosenquist was one of the leading figures in the pivotal Pop Art movement. The film follows the trajectory of the artist's career from his 1960's juxtaposed images of American life, to larger concerns on politics and the environment, and finally to kaleidoscopic depictions of galaxies and universes far beyond our perception.
A short film depicting adolescence.
Spank the Banker is a story about the biggest bank robbery in history of UK - the looting of 100,000 small businesses by their own corporate bankers. Made by BAFTA award-winning director Samir Mehanovic, we follow the intimate stories of six ordinary individuals who fought back against a corrupt financial system.
A documentary exploring the existential, artistic and family life of musician and former evangelical, David Bazan (Pedro The Lion), set against America’s own crisis of faith highlighted during the 2016 presidential election.
The battle against deforestation in President Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil is also a fight against criminal networks and corruption, drawing in politicians, militias and drugs gangs. The FT follows the fight as it cycles from the cities to the rainforest, and meets the indigenous people trying to save their land
7 Reasons (2019) is an explicitly Christian pro-life documentary. Ray Comfort presents seven biblical and scientific arguments defending unborn life as sacred image-bearers, exposing abortion as child-killing while affirming God's design and the Gospel call to protect the innocent. From Living Waters—powerful evangelism equipping believers to dismantle pro-choice lies with Scripture and logic. Uncompromising truth for the culture war, not neutral debate.
Based on the social stigma of India's household's biggest top secret "Menstruation".
It was years in the making when Michelle Wie finally triumphed in a major championship, prevailing in the 2014 U.S. Women's Open at Pinehurst No. 2. But, just like her road to that magical day, there were plenty of hurdles to overcome.
An English project short film based on the T.J. English book Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster.
Discussions about sexuality and politics during a weekend away in Bath prove to Nick and Ella that despite their six years together, they don't have it all figured out.
An encounter with the last shamans of Bolivia's Beni River Valley brings the audience on an intimate spiritual journey through the Amazon Rainforest. Navigating the viewer through lush landscapes on a ritual of transcendence and forgiveness, this experimental documentary recreates for audiences the experience of the potent and sacred Ayahuasca Vine.
This film is based on concepts of panic attacks and ornithophobia. The girl suffers from a feeling of great discomfort that comes without warning, like an uncontrollable disaster. When the panic is accompanied by a flapping of wings, a chaotic, dissociated journey into her unconsciousness begins.
Absurdist Short Film Directed and Produced by Hugo Primbs, starring Brunelle Dias.
Meet Robert "Birding Bob" DiCandido. Friendly Central Park bird walk leader to some, archnemesis to others.
Hel City is a piece created using anonymous Super 8 material from the ‘70s, taken by travelers and tourists around the world. The title is inspired by the name of a character in the film Metropolis—the wife of the scientist Rotwang and inspiration for his—as well as the name of the goddess of the underworld in the Nordic culture. Both with one beautiful side and another cruel one. Through a woman named Hel, Hel City reflects on the paradigm changes in the cultures of the planet due to the population explosion while looking at the cities through axes of past, present and future. Hel City is the portrait of a universal Babel
In a small forgotten village in stasis, a march into the unknown, and the beautiful uncertainty of a choice.