A restaurant owner leads a double life.
"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns a bodega in the Heights, is shot in a burglary attempt, Carlos is forced to put his dream on hold and run the store. In the process, he comes to understand that if he is to make it as a comic artist, he must engage with the community he comes from, take that experience back out into the world, and put it in his work.
This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s and early 1990s: hypertext, multimedia, virtual assistants, interactive video, 3D animation, and virtual reality.
Years after the crime, three clueless investigators discuss the disappearance of a young tourist in a small French town.
Hildur, a young girl from a small fishing village in a remote corner of Iceland, falls for her sister's boyfriend while being stranded with him when the car breaks down.
The Weight of Sight is a playful and very personal essay where director Truls Krane Meby, through a massive archive of his own material - anything from DV-tapes to 35mm - explores the last 20 years of digital development - how it’s influenced the images we make, and our bodies. What kind of images do we get of the world now that everyone is a photographer, and what does it do with how we unfold our identities? How has the internet both captured and freed us? And will Truls even dare to show this film?
A documentary following Zhou Yuanquiang, a cultural worker in Jingdezhen, China who makes movies with untrained local actors.
Setting, settling; still seething as I barely breathe.
Something I know or something I was told? When something scalding translates something to behold.
1 minute experimental film.
A pair of scavengers discover something strange after wandering onto the property of a mysterious technician.
A narrative self-discovery theme done in real time in Art Nouveau style.
A person desperately searches for their lost little brother during a Memorial Day festival in this one take POV thriller
20 minute experimental film.
I really hope this is well-received. I really hope there's some sort of reprieve.
Tales of old springing forth underlying dissatisfaction with current states of being.
The Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, daughter of a former advisor of Ahmadinejad's, has been living in exile in Germany for four years. When she hears that the fellow Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, who is also living in exile in Germany, faces death threats and has to hide because of one of his songs, she doesn't hesitate and has to find him. On her search she encounters fear everywhere. Narges Kalhor has to face her inconvenient memories of suppression, hatred and anger for her past in Iran.
A documentary with the three cinematographers known for breaking away cinema away from celluloid with the introduction of digital video.
Remembrances past, remind me to pass.
It's time the times met each other over & over.