October 16, 2019
VAL LEWTON: THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS
DescriptionDescription We usually regard directors, writers and actors as the ones mainly responsible for cinematic art. We think of producers as only concerned about the commercial aspects of films - or obstacles to the creative process. Val Lewton, who ran a low budget production unit for the struggling RKO studios in the 1940's was an...
October 16, 2019
VIVA
DescriptionDescription Get ready for a kinky night at AFI FEST, as Anna Biller takes us on a trip back to the swinging '70s for a delicious tribute/parody to soft-core pornography and sexual liberation. This fantastic, one-of-a-kind sexploitation film seems at once wholly fresh in its spot-on execution and, at the same time, like some artifact...
October 16, 2019
THE UNFORESEEN
DescriptionDescription If you ever swam at Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, you'd fight to save it too. Laura Dunn's THE UNFORESEEN is the story of how big developers spoiled a city treasure, and about the consequences continued development has on us all. Austin, the most liberal town in Texas, is known for its hilly landscapes,...
October 16, 2019
UNTITLED #2
DescriptionDescription UNTITLED #2 exploits a glitch in the visual landscape of an online community, teasing out the vague boundaries and tenuous relationships of virtual identity, property and body.
October 16, 2019
USED PARTS (PARTES USADAS)
DescriptionDescription If nothing succeeds like success, then where does that leave the rest of us? Ending where most immigration stories begin- the promise of the border-USED PARTS uncovers a reality that few see and even fewer get far enough away from to ever talk about Wielding his camera like a New World Antonioni, writer/director Aaron...
October 16, 2019
THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS
DescriptionDescription Against a cold Winnipeg backdrop, Tracey Berkowitz wandered looking for her missing younger brother Sonny, who thinks he is a dog. This abstract meditation on teenage alienation set in a gritty cruel environment is a brilliant realization of themes ands stylistic experimentation-the recent project of director Bruce McDonald (HIGHWAY 61, DANCE ME OUTSIDE). McDonald...
October 16, 2019
THE TRAGIC STORY OF NLING
DescriptionDescription In his struggle to survive beyond the walls of a slum city, a man soon finds that he is no more humane than his animal friend.
October 16, 2019
TORN FROM THE FLAG (A LYUKAS ZASZLO)
DescriptionDescription Klaudia Kovacs's film tells the extraordinary tragic story of Hungary's struggle for national identity against the domination of Soviet Communism with special emphasis on the briefly successful armed popular rebellion in October 1956 that was put down when Soviet tanks invaded the capital city of Budapest. A handful of incredibly proud and impassioned survivors...
October 16, 2019
TOWER BAWHER
DescriptionDescription A whirlwind tour of Russian construction art with cascading, energetic animation
October 16, 2019
TERRORIZER (K’UNG-PU FEN-TZU)
DescriptionDescription A blocked novelist (Cora Miao) contemplates giving up writing and returning to the 9-to-5 work force. Her husband, a doctor, snitches on a colleague in order to get a promotion at work. Meanwhile, a photographer becomes increasingly obsessed with the young woman he sees fleeing from a police raid. These are the characters -...
