October 16, 2019
BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE
DescriptionDescription The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by local Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience's collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order .
October 16, 2019
THE BAND’S VISIT (BIKUR KATIZMORET)
DescriptionDescription This audience-pleasing sensation of Cannes' Un Certain Regard and winner of eight Israeli Oscars follows the comic plight of the Alexandria Police Orchestra. These eight slightly bewildered Egyptian officers, after getting lost at the airport, arrive in a remote, nearly deserted Israeli village, their powder-blue uniforms standing out against the desert landscape. Fortunately, they...
October 16, 2019
BIG RIG
DescriptionDescription Sleek steel monsters roll through the night on a cross-country odyssey that keeps the wheels of the American machine turning. Meet the working-class heroes who deliver your food-and all the goods you can't live without. Doug Pray (SCRATCH, HYPE!, SURFWISE), travels 21 ,000 miles-spanning 45 states and dozens of truck stops - riding with...
October 16, 2019
AUTUMN BALL
DescriptionDescription In a shabby Estonian hotel, a coat room attendant pretends be a guest at a conference of intellectuals so he can scam a free meal. As he tucks in, a woman starts a one-sided conversation, opining, There is no such thing as a Slavic identity. He nods mutely, still shoveling food into his face,...
October 16, 2019
BABY
DescriptionDescription A mother holds her child. Her face barely shows any expression.
October 16, 2019
THE ART OF NEGATIVE THINKING (KUNSTEN A TENKE NEGATIVT)
DescriptionDescription At times both horrific and hilarious, THE ART OF NEGATIVE THINKING is a stunning debut film . Director Bard Breien and actor Fridtjov Saheim have created a countercultural hero for the ages. Geirr is a depressed but bitterly funny and articulate paraplegic who rejects the sympathy his injury generates. Given his isolation , weapons...
October 16, 2019
ATENCO, A CRIME OF STATE
DescriptionDescription Atenco is a symbol of pride in Mexico. The documentary that bears its name captures the peoples' revolt frame-by-frame as it unfolded on May 3 and 4, 2006, by a collective of filmmakers who recorded the darkest days in Mexico's recent history. Atenco villagers formed the "Peoples Front for Defense of their Land" in...
October 16, 2019
ALEXANDRA
DescriptionDescription Acclaimed Russian director Alexander Sokurov (FATHER AND SON, THE RUSSIAN ARK) continues his career-long meditation on the state of the Russian soul in his latest work, an anti-war story set in a Russian army camp in Chechnya. Alexandra (Galina Vishnevskaya) is a grandmothe r who take a train to visit her army officer grandson...
October 16, 2019
ALICE SEES THE LIGHT
DescriptionDescription Alice laments the loss of her view of the night sky, one of her initial reasons for living in the country. The change in her environment is the result of" security lighting" for a large corporate storage facility.
October 16, 2019
AFTER THE FUNERAL
DescriptionDescription After his wife's funeral, a widower listens to his favorite record and imagines one last moment with his lost love.
