All Films

Alice in Chains: AIC 23

2013 • 11 min

Alan Poole McLard, a Film Studies professor, attempts to film a documentary about Alice in Chains to coincide with the release of their new album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, without any assistance from the actual band.

Nikki Glaser: The Half Hour

2013 • 25 min

A half-hour stand-up special featuring Nikki Glaser.

The Mother's Family

2013 • 28 min • South Korea

As Sun-kyeong's father fails his second marriage and rushes to migrate, Sun-kyeong writes a letter to her stepmother. While writing a letter, Sun-kyeong reminisce about her times at her brother's place in Seoul.

Functions of Film Sound

2013 • 20 min • United States of America

This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a means of discussing the use of sound in film.

Portraits of Voyages Haiti: Earthquake

2013 • 4 min • France

Meeting with a survivor of the earthquake in Haiti. Telling us about disaster and life after the trauma.

My Time with Terror with Jamie Lee Curtis

2013 • 22 min • United States of America

An exclusive interview featured on Shout! Factory's DVD & Blu-ray releases for The Fog (1980)

Sardines out of a Can

2013 • 22 min

Sardines Out Of A Can is a semi-romantic comedy following Puja, a single, eccentric, grad school dropout who with the help of her friends and a smart-phone is on a quest to find the perfect 'roommate.'

Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read

2013 • 53 min • United States of America

In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international reputation, and made an indelible mark on the jazz world. And yet, his story has never been told. Until now. The film explores Erroll's childhood in Pittsburgh; his meteoric rise in popularity while playing on 52nd street, New York's famed jazz epicenter; the origins of his most famous album (Concert By The Sea) and his most famous composition (Misty); his singular, virtuosic piano style; and his dynamic personality, both on and off the stage.

The Psychopath Next Door

2013 • 45 min

She drops in and starts disrupting this close, cozy little community. She wants to be queen bee But there's already one. so she sets out to destroy her. This means having to break her legs, then feeding her cake so she gets fat, stealing her friends, etc...

My Brother Went to the Battlefield!?

2013 • 29 min • Japan

Rob Schneider: Soy Sauce and the Holocaust

2013 • 60 min • United States of America

"SNL" alum Rob Schneider takes to the stage (as himself) to examine the bizarre nature of fame, the woes of aging and the virtue of sweatpants. Known for his off-the-wall characters, Schneider opens up about his own life, which can be equally zany.

Wall

2013 • 11 min • Hungary

Laci is a 16-year old gypsy boy, who lives off casual jobs. One day, he gets picked up from the streets along with a small group of workers for a construction job. He has to participate in the completion of a wall, that surrounds a series of tenement buildings. The film follows the various stages of the construction as Laci helps out the other workers. In the end, Laci is asked to complete the work. He now takes his first look beyond the wall, which holds an unusual revelation for him.

Inabe

2013 • 35 min • Japan

After a 17-year absence, a pig farmer’s sister suddenly returns home with her baby. As they remember their childhood, they resolve to dig up “something” they buried long ago.

Kinda Like a Love Story

2013 • 10 min • United States of America

Goldie, an artist grieving over the loss of her partner, creates space for new love to enter her life.

The Doctor’s Case

2013 • 19 min • Canada

Sherlock Holmes (Kristopher Bowman) and John Watson (Kristian Bruun) continue the adventures of the famous duo in this captivating locked-room mystery based on a short story by Stephen King.

Little Man

2013 • 9 min • Canada

An 11 year old boy pays a farewell visit to his estranged father. What ensues is a strained and inappropriate, but heartfelt exchange between a father and son whose paths have crossed for the briefest of moments and likely won't again for a long time.

Red Rider

2013 • 17 min • United States of America

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, a lone woman plots against a dangerous biker gang. Can her revenge lead to justice?

Death of a Prisoner

2013 • 9 min • United States of America

The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee, Adnan Latif.

Heart of Nowhere

2013 • 27 min

Some time not far from now, it was decided that adolescents were detrimental to a well-functioning society. Upon turning thirteen, teenagers were quarantined onto an island within the city, colloquially known as Teenland. At the age of 18, the inhabitants of Teen-land are forced to join adulthood. The memories of their childhood are erased and they start a new life In this slightly dystopian scape, lives a band, The Nuclear Toads. After being rounded up to be processed for adulthood, they manage to escape and buy themselves one last night of adolescence in which they will perform their final show. This film is the story of that night.

Wax

2013 • 15 min • United States of America

In an attempt to break away from her religious upbringing, a young Jewish woman sets up an Internet date. The cruelty of casual sex triggers a painful obsession that this fragile character must overcome.

Storefront

2013 • 8 min • United States of America

When Lauren gets kicked out of her apartment by her now ex-boyfriend, she rents a vacant storefront to live in and begins selling her things to pay the rent. An interesting customer discovers her secret and they try to figure out, together, what their next steps should be.

Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered

2013 • 10 min • United States of America

Patricia Ward Kelly remembers Gene Kelly directing "Hello, Dolly!"

Ludmila en Cuba

2013 • 7 min • Argentina

Ludmila Vieytes is in a cockfight in Cuba. With her baby in her arms and in a wheelchair, she comes to a passive acceptance of the torture, of the human and divine violence that shapes her beliefs.

Without Gorky

2013 • 58 min

A personal journey into a family myth. The life of my grandmother, my mother and my aunt continues to be influenced by my grandfather: the Abstract Expressionist painter Arshile Gorky whose suicide in 1948 dictates fraught family dynamics.