This Existence is Material
A visual poem. A rather obtuse yet poignant tribute to a poet met by the filmmaker at the end of his life. Old stock film footage symbolizes the past slowly...
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Films
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Whipped
Before SEX AND THE CITY made designer Patricia Field a household name, she outfitted the downtown divas of New York like Mistresses Carrie, Ava and Sonya Blaze, three New York City professional dominatrixes featured in WHIPPED. WHIPPED is a sly, intimate look inside the dungeons, beach homes and real lives of these women...Start your free trial to watch
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This Existence is Material
THIS EXISTENCE IS MATERIAL weaves together two tales: one of an unlikely friendship between an elderly male writer and a young female filmmaker; the other of a poet who flies to Rome to incite an uprising against fascism in the 1930s. THIS EXISTENCE... is a counter-archive of the past in which public...Start your free trial to watch
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The Waiting Time
THE WAITING TIME is an experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation. It is a study of a year in the filmmaker's body at age thirty-five, becoming a mother for the first time. As a thinking woman's sex education film, THE WAITING TIME is a feminist...Start your free trial to watch
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Her Heart is Washed in Water and Then Weighed
HER HEART IS WASHED IN WATER AND THEN WEIGHED is a meditation on motherhood and mortality that takes its title from a procedure in the autopsying of a human corpse. Subtle juxtapositions evoke parallels between static monuments and living families to suggest what is lost to time and age. When you die,...Start your free trial to watch
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This American Gothic
THIS AMERICAN GOTHIC is a history of one of the most famous paintings in the world and a quirky portrait of Eldon, Iowa, population 998 and site of the house that inspired it. The film follows four local women over two years as they work towards their dream of a Gothic House Visitor Center to attract...Start your free trial to watch
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On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Owen Land in the Film On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
The Land Camera Collective presents a (nearly) shot-by-shot remake of the Owen Land 1977 classic experimental film ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE AS CITED BY SIGMUND FREUD IN WIT AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS, OR CAN THE AVANT-GARDE ARTIST BE WHOLED?Start your free trial to watch
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Chekhov for Children
CHEKHOV FOR CHILDREN tells the inspiring story of an ambitious undertaking: the 1979 staging on Broadway of "Uncle Vanya" by New York City 5th and 6th graders, directed by the celebrated writer Phillip Lopate. Using a wealth of never-before-screened student documentary videos and dramatic super 8mm films...Start your free trial to watch
Genres
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Avant-garde
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / Biography
- Adaptation / Cinematic
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Independent / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Ephemera / Educational
- Documentary / History
- Documentary / History
- Documentary / History
- Ephemera / Amateur / Home Movie
- Ephemera / Amateur / Home Movie
- Ephemera / Amateur / Home Movie
- Short / Narrative
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Painting
- Documentary / Philosophy
- Documentary / Science / Biology / Physiology
- Documentary / Political
- Cult / Hyperreality / Shockumentary
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Avant-garde / Surrealist
- Documentary / Art / Performing Arts / Theatre
Recent Reviews
Chekhov for Children
Excellent, mind opening and (to coin a word from the '70s) mind blowing. Amazing to see the transformation from child to adult, but more amazing to see how insightful children...
Chekhov for Children
Wonderful film on so many levels! How capable children are when offered the chance. I loved the interviews when they are adults reflecting back to that time. Makes one nostalgic...
Whipped
Knowing people in The Scene, I found Whipped to be a straightforward and un-sensationalized look at the lives of the dominas it features. That said, I suppose it's appropriate it...
This American Gothic
A compelling story about the power of cultural objects.