A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers to a personal voice on the immigration debate: DACA, the Dream Act, and other immigration reform, speaking about what it's like to grow up and face an uncertain future as a young undocumented person in America.. Because she doesn't want to appear on camera, found footage from American culture illuminates the...

A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, THE ROYAL ROAD offers up a primer on Junipero Serra's Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo - all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, and featuring a voice-over cameo by Tony Kushner.. This bold, innovative film from acclaimed...

Three very different stories on the subject of computer game addiction are told through a mix of documentary interviews and animation in this acclaimed Swedish short film.. The interviewees paint a picture of an existence characterized by isolation and flight response, but also by revenge and romanticism. An ingeniously designed and animated documentary that both captivates and moves you.. Official Selection: Tribeca Film Festival and Göteborg Film...

Although LOCAL COLOR is usually credited as being a minimalist film through its foregoing of complicated set design, director Mark Rappaport has intentionally conducted a feeling of excess in its textual elements. A shifting interior monologue among the cast of eight complicates our perspective of how this film is meant to be felt: without a form of protagonist, we are meant to reevaluate all of the characters' actions when their intentions are laid...

Light Rhythms is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema.. The rhythmic elements of cinema are explored by artists and filmmakers fascinated in the abstract qualities of light. The American authors of avant-garde classics Ballet mécanique (1923-24), Anémic cinéma (1926), and Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (1934) are finally acknowledged for their seminal artistic achievements made in Europe....

A "quasi-musical" approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world. This documentary describes at the same time a place, a neighborhood, a city and a country. The real place, Boa Viagem - Recife, Pernambuco 51111-260, Brazil, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of life, highlighting a reality that is before us but often goes unnoticed.

THE MECHANIZED EYE is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema.. 17 films by featured directors: Frederick Armitage, Artkino, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer, Paul Burnford, Russell Collins, Emlen Etting, Walker Evans, Jerome Hill, Elia Kazan, Elman Koolish, Irving Lerner, Jean Michelson, NYKino, M.G. MacPherson, Henwar Rodakiewicz, Ralph Steiner, Molly Day Thatcher, A.E. Weed, James White.. The dynamic...

This documentary celebrates the life of the Dadaist, abstract painter and experimental filmmaker who was a major force in redefining art in the 20th century. In collaboration with friends including Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein, Tristan Tzara, Mies Van Der Rohe and Hans Arp, Richter was at the leading edge of the European Avant Garde.. His 1920s experimental films "Rhythmus 21" and "Ghosts Before Breakfast" established film as a unique art form,...

An examination of four different films, which to varying degrees center on a prop, object, or an item that crosses various characters' lives and passes from hand-to-hand.. The story in each film is, to a certain extent, told from the viewpoint of the object, which can neither speak nor evaluate the actions of the characters whose lives it touches and influences. The films examined are Mme de..., Winchester '73, Virdiana, and Au Hasard Balthazar.

A film about the life and work of avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage.. "Brakhage. A magnificent documentary homage to experimental film master Stan Brakhage that manages to make sense of the Colorado-based filmmaker'a elusive methodology." - The Boston Phoenix. I think it will go down in the books as one of the best films ever made about an artist." - Bill Pence, Co-director, Telluride Film Festival