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Across the Border
ACROSS THE BORDER is a collage of found footage and documentary images, radio Spanish/English tracks and commentary by Philippe Bourgois, a Stanford Anthropologist trapped in an offensive by the United States-backed Salvadoran Military forces. The film’s position against U.S. intervention in the third...Start your free trial to watch -
Ancient Parts/Foreign Parts
The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a boy and his mother. FOREIGN PARTS portrays the poetics of family life in an unfamiliar context. Two joined together as one.Start your free trial to watch -
And All This Madness
A documentary about the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack in New York City. It begins with an interview with an options trader at the American Stock Exchange describing his experience at the location close to the site during the attack. The film goes on with footage shot at the New York City site...Start your free trial to watch
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The Answering Furrow
Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants. The implements of the garden. Georgic II: The life of Virgil is recapitulated in summer, with a digression on the sacred. The sheep of Arcadia. The handling...Start your free trial to watch
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Blue Parrot
In a long career that has moved from film to digital and from long form to (increasingly) short form, experimental filmmaker Walter Ungerer's BLUE PARROT finds him transitioning into the existential present with a vengeance. BLUE PARROT's title character has a only a few seconds of screen time as Ungerer offers an...Start your free trial to watch -
Cut
A peculiar homage to the things that go wrong, this film is purportedly about rugby. The self-explanatory title for this jumpy “documentary” is less concerned with the filmed subject (the game, the field, the players) than an abrupt editing style and the complete acknowledgement given to the technical aspect of gathering and...Start your free trial to watch -
Daughters of Chaos
"The film deals simultaneously with girls becoming women, woman looking back on her childhood. It is pervaded with voluptuousness, with longing: the woman, disappointed in love, looking for lost innocence, the girl yearning for the power of her sex." - Anne BeckerStart your free trial to watch
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Don't Means Do
“Part dramatic narrative, part improvisation, DON'T MEANS DO explores the personalities of two young girls and someone they meet while out walking. It is a simple and genuine encounter, in the light of a gentle afternoon between the moods of child and adult.” – David HeintzStart your free trial to watch
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The Graceless
A post-9/11 meditation on the new millennium, THE GRACELESS is a video tapestry of digital and analogue artifacts rephotographed and collaged from discarded 16mm educational films, Air Force test footage, live broadcast streams of pre-invasion television news and reality entertainment. Layers of images collide and tear away,...Start your free trial to watch -
Grain Graphics
In Filmmakers' Monthly, Edgar Daniels described GRAIN GRAPHICS as a structural film "which begins with two frames of a film strip, one above the other, occupying the middle of the screen, flanked by two vertical filmstrips with smaller frames. In grainy negative, a small number of figures interact in various ways in each of...Start your free trial to watch -
Here I Am
Bruce Baillie’s lyrical portrait of an Oakland school for emotionally disturbed children regards the world of the classroom with open curiosity. His camera thrives on the unpredictable movement of students and fog; every new composition is a new window unto the school space. This impressionistic style realizes many small...Start your free trial to watch




