October 16, 2019
HAPPY DESERT (DESERTO FELIZ)
DescriptionDescription Is it possible to quantify something so ephemeral as happiness? As we watch Jessica, a Brazilian runaway forced into prostitution, it becomes hard not to wonder when, exactly, she was most happy. Certainly it was not in her sun-blasted hometown, where she was the victim of abuse and neglect. But is she happier now,...
October 16, 2019
HECKLER
DescriptionDescription Although the exact details have been lost to history, one imagines that the first critic 's judgment was closer in form to a Bronx cheer than to Aristotle 's Poetics. Both significant and uproariously funny, Michael Addis's documentary focuses on the age-old antipathy between performers and their audiences, exploring where it comes from and...
October 16, 2019
GLASS, CONCRETE AND STONE
DescriptionDescription A short film about buildings that focuses on the aesthetics of construction and leveling.
October 16, 2019
GOD PROVIDES
DescriptionDescription Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss in the American South. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation and a...
October 16, 2019
H.R. GIGER’S SANCTUARY
DescriptionDescription This short documentary features an interview and a museum tour with the master of the airbrush, the inventor of "biomechanics" and the creator of the Academy Award winning ALIEN. The artist talks openly about his fascination with the morbid; his fame and cult following; his fears and nightmares; and his visions of the future.
October 16, 2019
FUNUKE, SHOW SOME LOVE YOU LOSERS! (FUNUKEDOMO, KANASHIMI NO AI WO MISERO)
DescriptionDescription Kyomi dreams of writing mango but she feels trapped by a dysfunctional family stewing in dashed dreams, suppressed rage and sexual deviance. Director Daihachi Yoshida's eccentricity seems influenced by the work of Todd Solondz and Wes Anderson, but he has his own unique visual style. In an attempt to save the family's black cat...
October 16, 2019
GAZE
DescriptionDescription This beautiful video abstraction further meditates on the common themes in Arandi's video work.
October 16, 2019
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
DescriptionDescription Graham and his mother both love God, but in very different ways.
October 16, 2019
FROM HERE TO BREATH
DescriptionDescription Abstract depiction of life and death. One must die to be born again. Water is used as a medium to purify the body and soul to prepare for re-birth.
October 16, 2019
FARO: GODDESS OF THE WATERS (FARO – LA REINE DES EAUX)
DescriptionDescription In this assured debut from Salif Traore, a former assistant to Souleymane Cisse and Abderrahmane Sissako, we follow the story of an engineer who returns to his rural village in Mali many years after having been cast out for being born out of wedlock. Zanga (Fili Traore) returns to the village of his birth...
