All Films

Do You Want to Go for a Drive?

2016 • 6 min

An experimental essay film illustrating the importance of consent and exploring sexual agency, love, pleasure, mutual desire, violence, and vengeance.

It Looks Like Me

2016 • 26 min • Brazil

'Black girls don't play with black dolls', says the lyrics of Preta Rara's rap, one of the characters in It Looks Like Me. The documentary explores the lack of black dolls in the Brazilian market and shows the work of the artisans who try to change this scenario facing the gigantic toy industry with their handmade dolls.

Making of Antiporno

2016 • 20 min • Japan

The Making of Antiporno

Sorelle Povere di Santa Chiara

2016 • 12 min

A 16mm portrait in response to the idea of simplicity and poverty which is the guiding principle of the Poor Clares and their ‘hidden’ life. Filmed in the enclosed Monastero di Santa Chiara, San Marino. The nuns spend the morning in the ‘laboratorio’ sewing, mending, ironing, in the kitchen preparing the midday meal and in the garden, tending to the animals and cultivation.

The Art of My Scars

2016 • 11 min

Short documentary following transgender man Kay Jane Browning from rural Devon, UK - chronicling his transition to man via his relationship with the art forms that he has used to express himself throughout.

Megeti - Africa's Lost Wolf

2016 • 50 min • United States of America

This film tells the dramatic story of Megeti, a lone wolf who wanders across the highlands on a quest to find a new home after losing her pack and suddenly being left to fend for herself. For the young wolf to survive, it is vital that she finds a new family and this quest pushes her into foreign territory, occupied by cattle breeders and other wolves.

Body of Angels

2016 • 30 min • France

Remi throws himself on the ground, listens to birds and falls asleep in hedges. Gabriel opens his stomach to the tip of a knife. They meet.

Kupka - Pionnier de l'art abstrait

2016 • 53 min

Dream City

2016 • 52 min

In Iraqi Kurdistan, two friends — Emma, a filmmaker from the US, and Diana, a local aspiring actress — make a movie. When they begin Diana is living on her own in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan's buzzing capital city. She is studying to be a flight attendant and enjoying the freedom of being independent and young in a growing city. When war returns to Iraq with the invasion of ISIS, Diana moves back to her mother's home in Sulaymaniyah. Now her days pass quietly, mostly indoors. In the darkness of frequent power outages, Diana builds a dream city in her mind.

Hhhh

2016 • 25 min

Avoiding traditional narrative structures, all images revolve in one way or another around the letter H.

The Way to You

2016 • 15 min • Germany

Life can surprise you when love is the aim.

20:15

2016 • 12 min

20:15 is a drama-mystery, sci-fi thriller in which we follow the lives of a mysterious man and a loving couple. Their lives will forever be changed once their two worlds collide.

Bruce Springsteen: On the Road

2016 • 56 min

Coming from a poor background in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen grew to become one of the most recognizable faces in rock music. Having released classic albums such as Born in the U.S.A and Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen's music is legendary and unrivaled. His lyrics often depict the struggles of daily American life, and it's his ability to write songs that can 100,00 people unite and sing along that make him a true king of the rock genre. He sold more than 120 million albums worldwide and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Frame 1999. He came from nowhere to become a worldwide superstar. This is Bruce Springsteen...on the road.

Donald Trump Parking Lot

2016 • 4 min

Donald Trump Parking Lot, a tribute to the classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot, documents one of your more unappealing tailgate parties. In it, we learn what the younger generation thinks about immigration and children without access to clean water. Commissioned by Skyhorse Publishing to promote the book The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump’s America.

Marvel's Most Wanted

2016 • 40 min

Centers on Bobbi Morse (a.k.a. Mockingbird) and Lance Hunter of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., two ex-spies and ex-spouses who are on the run with no friends, no S.H.I.E.L.D. and a long list of enemies looking to claim a bounty on their heads. Able to trust no one but each other, Bobbi and Hunter form an uneasy alliance with Dominic Fortune, a rogue adventurer with a wealth of resources and even more adversaries, who agrees to protect them so long as they help him with his own agenda. These two heroes will help anyone in need, all while trying to uncover the conspiracy that put their own lives in jeopardy.

Out of Reach

2016 • 19 min

Hagar works at a photo store where she converts old video tapes to new digital files. A lonely, quiet young woman, she finds herself fascinated by watching the videotapes people have forgotten to pick up. A young man she sees in one of these tapes haunts her, and when she tries to find him, the search turns into a life-changing journey.

Jim Florentine: A Simple Man

2016 • 60 min • United States of America

Jim Florentine's A Simple Man comedy special was shot at the George Street Playhouse Theater in New Brunswick, NJ. This hour long comedy set involves topics including his nerd neighbors, man caves, dumb fantasy football, the use of the word Redskin and more. The show is raw and honest. It's Florentine's best work to date.

Gender Troubles: The Butches

2016 • 54 min

Contrary to popular myth, butch lesbians are not trying to be feminine and failing. They are not going through a rebellious stage or imitating men. They are women who, while being true to their most authentic selves, look and behave in some ways that society has decided is appropriate only for males. While lesbians and gay men are enjoying more acceptance from society in general, this tolerance is often limited to those individuals who seem most like their heterosexual counterparts: feminine women and masculine men. The women in this film examine and challenge society's assumptions about gender roles and show the courage it takes to be true to oneself. Their struggles reveal how everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, is pressured to conform and measure up to restrictive gender standards.

O Colecionador de Sacis

2016 • 9 min

Mário Sbardelotto is a middle-aged man who lives alone with a collection of bottles. Each of them, he guarantees, contains a different saci. When the oldest of them falls and breaks, Mário is sure that the little devil is loose in the house and will do everything to capture him again – including asking Negrinho do Pastoreio for help.

Black Ballerina

2016 • 54 min

BLACK BALLERINA tells the story of several black women from different generations who fell in love with ballet. Six decades ago, while pursuing their dreams, Joan Myers Brown, Delores Browne and Raven Wilkinson confronted racism, exclusion and unequal opportunity. Today, young dancers of color continue to face formidable challenges breaking into the overwhelmingly white world of ballet. Moving back and forth in time, this lyrical, character driven film shows how far we still have to go and stimulates a fresh discussion about race, inclusion and opportunity across all sectors of American society.

Marty: A Wild West Neverland

2016 • 17 min

Marty - A Wild West Neverland is an adventure-fantasy set in a world inhabited by only kids. Marty and Dee cross paths with the ruthless One-Eyed Johnny and the Krimson Kids where they experience the harsh realities of tyranny and violence in the West.

A Few Spaces In Between

2016 • 4 min • Germany, United States of America

Recurring abstract and microscopic structures appear in this film that Padgett compiled from found footage for the exhibition Innocents Abroad—Made for Arolsen in Schloss Bad Arolsen. She used material culled from educational films produced during the ’60s and ’70s from the educational film archive at the University of Paderborn. Padgett worked with such source material as How Does the Wind Come to Be?, How to Lay a Table and Skin: Our Vulnerable Protective Barrier. Scenes of work on an assembly line or experiments in scientific labs reference a technical/scientific modernity. The film images reveal a historical dimension, while introducing layers of referential meaning and placing the film in relationship to our understanding of what we consider to be state of the art.

These C*cksucking Tears

2016 • 15 min • United States of America

Patrick Haggerty, the gritty, fearless voice behind the world's first and only gay-themed country music album, 40 years after its release.

Living in the Past

2016 • 6 min

This film re-animates stereoscopic images of Melbourne from the 1920s. Technically the film makes a statement about how each new iteration of moving image technology reclaims artifacts and gestures from the past. Such an archeology enables the viewer to approach these images in new ways. Further, just as the image has become unstable so have our beliefs. Living in the Past recycles Jethro Tull’s lyrics to indicate that we no longer understand the political situation we live in. This film re-animates stereoscopic images of 1920s Melbourne to create a dynamic Cubist space. Technically the film makes a statement about how each new iteration of moving image technology reclaims past artifacts and gestures. Just as the image has become unstable so have our beliefs.