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| 12pm |
High Noon
Alternate Title: Cowboys
Animator Phil Mulloy’s ghoulish ballad of bloodlust nods to the original HIGH NOON’s real-time narrative and epic showdowns. 
Flickering Lights
Alternate Title: Blinkende lygter
Academy Award™ winner Anders Thomas Jensen, whose style has been described as a cross between Tarantino and the Coen brothers, has pulled a stunner with FLICKERING LIGHTS, both shocking and funny, violent and gentle. 
Prophets and Lessons
Alternate Title: Proroki i uroki
With art direction by noted Soviet political caricaturist Boris Yefimov, PROPHETS AND LESSONS is a stylish variation on the usual Soviet propaganda themes of noble workers standing up to greedy capitalists. |
American Mullet
Director: Jennifer Arnold
(2001)
What is a mullet? Simply a haircut, short in front and long in the back. People love to talk about the mullet but who is talking to the people with the mullet cut? We are. 
Meet Me Down at Coney Isle
Director: Louis de Rochemont
(1932)
Welcome to New York's Coney Island in 1932! 
Crossing the American Crises
Alternate Title: From Collapse to Action
On September 15, 2008, the United States fell into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The same day, we set out on a trip around the country to ask the American people what they had to say about it. In 2010, we went back to see how thin |
Adagio
Director: Lawrence Jordan
(1981)
Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates two nude figures in California idyll. 
Casanova '70
Director: Mario Monicelli
(1965)
Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay, CASANOVA '70 is a raucously funny sex romp starring Marcello Mastroianni at his charismatic peak. |
The Beaches of Agnès
Alternate Title: Les plages d'Agnès
A richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy. 
Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
Alternate Title: Ydessa, les ours et etc. | Cinévardaphoto
In YDESSA, THE BEARS AND ETC., Agnès Varda devotes her attention to curator Ydessa Hendeles' remarkable exhibit "Partners" which opened at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in November of 2002. |
This is My Show
Director: Lori Felker
(2009) WORKING WITH NATURE can be grueling and painful, but your host Adrienne Edmunds is ready to walk you through what it takes to perfect and control your surroundings. 
Public Access
Director: Bryan Singer
(1993)
An enigmatic stranger comes to the small congenial town of Brewster, an almost too perfect example of idyllic America, and rents a room in the home of the ex-mayor. He begins a public access TV show called "Our Town" that airs every Sunday night. 
Made for Television
Director: William Farley
(1981)
A dense assemblage of excerpts from television commercials juxtaposed to a soundtack of extraordinary facts about human beings. MADE FOR TELEVISION presents a humorous and critical view of TV advertising manipulation. 
Manly Games
Alternate Title: Muzne hry
A man sits down with plenty of beer to watch a game of football but the points in this game tally body count rather than goals. |
| 2pm |
2 Become 1
Alternate Title: Tin sun yut dui Acclaimed director Johnnie To produced this powerful odyssey of one woman's battle with breast cancer. 
The Playhouse
Director: Buster Keaton
(1921) Buster Keaton evidently got the idea for THE PLAYHOUSE from a vaudeville appearance by Annette Kellerman in front of one hundred mirrors. |
Making an American Citizen
Director: Alice Guy
(1912)
Pioneering director Alice Guy-Blanché produced this short only a few years after she herself immigrated to the United States from France. 
New York: Brooklyn Bridge
Director: Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
(1896)
Trolleys interrupt our vision of the distant Brooklyn Bridge, still relatively new when this film was shot, before rumbling on towards its archways. 
The Business of America
Director: Larry Adelman, Lawrence Daressa, Bruce Schmeichen
(1984)
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA is the first film to probe one of our most treasured economic assumptions: that private corporations can be trusted to make the investments upon which all Americans depend. 
The New York Hat
Director: D.W. Griffith
(1912) D.W. Griffith's THE NEW YORK HAT, from a script by Anita Loos, explores the timeless issue of neighborly interference. Mary Pickford stars as a young woman who, after the death of her mother, receives the hat she's always wanted. |
Boccaccio '70
Director: Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti
(1962)
Modeled on Boccaccio's "Decameron," BOCCACCIO '70 is a series of comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy by four legendary filmmakers: Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica and Mario Monicelli. |
Réponse de femmes
Alternate Title: Women Reply
1975: The Year of the Woman. A television station gives seven female filmmakers seven minutes to answer the question "What does it mean to be a woman?" 
The Gleaners and I
Director: Agnès Varda
(2000)
Agnès Varda's universally acclaimed "wandering-road documentary" focuses her ever-seeking eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. |
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Director: Johan Grimonprez
(1997)
Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and 1970s. 
Heavy Water
Alternate Title: A Film for Chernobyl
This film by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky uses Mario Petrucci’s award-winning poem "Heavy Water" to tell the story of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion and its catastrophic aftermath. |
| 4pm |
Four Corners of Suburbia
Director: Elizabeth Puccini
(2006)
Walt, a school teacher with a doting wife and two small girls, might seem to have it all. But when he meets Fiona, the lyrical world of his youth is reawakened, throwing into question the life he has chosen. 
Tapestry
Alternate Title: Odyssey
TAPESTRY is a charged record of Lawrence Jordan's bachelor life after marriage and child-rearing. |
American Radical
Alternate Title: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, AMERICAN RADICAL is the insightful and enraging documentary that follows Norman Finkelstein around the world. 
New York: Broadway at Union Square
Director: Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
(1896)
An 1896 street view of New York shows a metropolis teeming with activity. |
Cornell, 1965
Director: Lawrence Jordan
(1978)
Lawrence Jordan shot four rolls of Kodachrome 16mm film in and around Joseph Cornell's house when he worked as Cornell's assistant during the summer and fall of 1965. 
24 City
Director: Jia Zhangke
(2008)
A masterful film from Jia Zhangke, the renowned director of STILL LIFE, 24 CITY chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned aeronautics factory in Chengdu, a city in Southwest China. |
Here I Am
Director: Bruce Baillie
(1962)
Bruce Baillie’s lyrical portrait of an Oakland school for emotionally disturbed children regards the world of the classroom with open curiosity. 
Quick Billy
Director: Bruce Baillie
(1970)
The experience of transformation between life and death, death and birth (or rebirth) in four reels. 
Tung
Director: Bruce Baillie
(1966)
One of Bruce Baillie's sensuous tone poems, TUNG is a portrait of a friend; sandy skin and flaxen hair in the early-morning light. 
Solar Sight
Director: Lawrence Jordan
(2011)
What's the place of the human being in the cosmos? More and more we think about what is "beyond." Less and less is art concerned. 
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Director: Lawrence Jordan
(1977)
Filmmaker Lawrence Jordan depicts the complete Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem entirely with Gustave Doré illustration. |
sleep furiously
Director: Gideon Koppel
(2009)
Filmmaker Gideon Koppel leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire. An official selection of the 36th Telluride Film Festival. 
a sketchbook for The Library Van
Director: Gideon Koppel
(2005)
Filmmaker Gideon Koppel's precursor to SLEEP FURIOUSLY, A SKETCHBOOK FOR THE LIBRARY VAN is, indeed, a preparatory rough-draft of the extraordinary feature-length documentary. |
| 6pm |
The Six Directions of Boxing
Alternate Title: Liu he ba fa
When a secret team is sent by the police to break up the revolutionaries and their arms movements, it will take more than just guns to annihilate them! 
7P., cuis., s. de b.
Alternate Title: Seven Bedrooms, Kitchen and Bath An unusual visit to a large, empty apartment. But is it empty or not? 
Explosion of a Motor Car
Director: Cecil Hepworth
(1900)
It has been claimed that early automobiles were not particularly safe. British director Cecil Hepworth takes such notions to the inevitable extreme. |
Terminal, USA
Director: Jon Moritsugu
(1993)
How to describe the indescribable TERMINAL USA? "FATHER KNOWS BEST meets PINK FLAMINGOS" (according to the New York Daily News). 
Anywhere USA
Director: Chusy Haney-Jardine
(2008)
Part satire, part tragedy, part masterpiece theatre gone awry, ANYWHERE USA is a comedy of manners that defies gravity. |
Duo Concertantes
Director: Lawrence Jordan
(1964)
Time and a change of culture have given a surrealistic and nostalgic aura to Victorian steel engravings, as Max Ernst and several collagists between him and Lawrence Jordan have known for many decades. 
Three Monkeys
Alternate Title: Üç maymun
THREE MONKEYS tells a twisty, noirish tale that opens with an ambitious politician fleeing a hit-and-run accident. |
Moonlight Sonata
Director: Lawrence Jordan
(1979)
After GYMNOPEDIES, Lawrence Jordan had wanted to animate a film specifically for a pre-selected piano piece by Erik Satie. MOONLIGHT SONATA is that film. 
Glen and Randa
Director: Jim McBride
(1970)
Independent filmmaker Jim McBride follows a hedonistic, innocent young couple as they roam the post-apocalyptic world in search of a fabled, unspoiled city of dreams. 
My Girlfriend's Wedding
Director: Jim McBride
(1969)
Jim McBride followed his wildly inventive debut, DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY, with this thought-provoking documentary about his then-girlfriend, Clarissa Ainley, and her 'marriage of convenience' to another man. |
Iraq in Fragments
Director: James Longley
(2006)
An opus in three parts, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits. American director James Longley spent more than two years filming in Iraq to create this stunningly photographed documentary of the war. |
| 8pm |
The First 7th Night
Alternate Title: Tau chut
Map King is a taxi driver who can get to any destination imaginable. One evening, he was dispatched to guide a cargo truck to a place where only he knows how to get to, the Moon and Sun Village. 
Observeillance
Director: Tyler Turkle
(1975)
A lyrical tour guide takes the viewer on a trip down the Wakulla River in North Florida. 
The Decision is Yours
(1970)
Something doesn't seem quite right in this U.S. Navy-produced tale of what you should do and what you shouldn't, relationship-wise. Should I do this? Should I do that? THE DECISION IS YOURS. |
Subway to the Former East Village
Director: Richard Sandler
(2008)
Richard Sandler’s gritty city symphony takes stock of New York’s Lower East Side with a decade’s worth of moments and encounters that would otherwise be lost to history. 
A Visit to Los Angeles
(1916)
Part of the "Visits to American Cities" series produced by Ford Educational Weekly, Los Angeles is featured at the very beginning of the boom created by oil, movies and aircraft. 
Sudden Manhattan
Director: Adrienne Shelly
(1997)
A comedic urban fantasy which graphs the foibles of a young Manhattan resident, Donna, who's under siege in her own neighborhood. |
Five
Director: Amit Tripuraneni
(2007)
It's morning as five people (former flatmates and old friends) wake up in a remote tramping hut. Some of them are feeling the effects of the walk to the hut while others are feeling the effects of previous night's party. |
Pictures from Life's Other Side
Director: Jim McBride
(1971)
Director Jim McBride and his then-girlfriend Clarissa venture across the United States by automobile, documenting their expedition and themselves along the way. 
David Holzman's Diary
Director: Jim McBride
(1967)
Jim McBride's brilliant cinéma vérité-esque independent film follows the titular character as he documents his life. |
Worth Waiting For
Director: Wetzel Whitaker
(1962)
Film historian Jack Stevenson claimed Wetzel Whitaker as the "unsung genius of Mormon educational filmmaking." As you can guess from the title, the theme here is that there is no need to rush in to things. Wait. There is time. 
Irma Vep
Director: Olivier Assayas
(1997)
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung plays herself in haute auteur Olivier Assayas’ spiky satire of the French film industry. With freewheeling cinematography, IRMA VEP immerses the viewer into the heady desperation of modern filmmaking. |
| 10pm |
In Between Days
Director: So Yong Kim
(2006)
IN BETWEEN DAYS intimately portrays the joys and risks of first love from the point of view of a teenager recently transplanted from her native South Korea to a snowbound North American city. 
Among Those Present
Director: Fred Newmeyer
(1921) Harold Lloyd’s bellhop enjoys posing as a gentleman under cover of clothes dropped off at coat check by the rich clientele. “Gee! If I only had the glad rags. I could act like any of these swells.” |
Postcard from San Miguel
Alternate Title: Odyssey
On the surface, POSTCARDS FROM SAN MIGUEL is merely a postcard from the picturesque Mexican colonial town. Underneath is the mysterious quest for the filmmaker's dream-lover. 
An American Journey
Alternate Title: Revisiting Robert Frank's "The Americans"
Robert Frank’s "The Americans" transformed the landscape of contemporary photography. An exile from Europe, Frank criss-crossed the United States with his camera, searching for the uncomfortable truths of his adopted home. 
Chicago Policemen's Parade
Alternate Title: Chicago défilé de policemen
Dozens of Chicago police parade past the camera in rigid formation. |
9 Variations
Alternate Title: Nine Variations on a Dance Theme
As the title of Hilary Harris’s 1966 avant-garde classic suggests, the film unfolds the same concise dance (performed by Bettie de Jong, longtime member of Paul Taylor’s company) nine times, each from a different cinematic vantage. 
$100 and a T-shirt
Director: Joe Biel, Phil Sano
(2005)
In just under an hour, $100 AND A T-SHIRT brings zine culture to life! Using broken and borrowed equipment, filmmaker Joe Biel illuminates the world of self-publishing. 
Cosmic Alchemy
Director: Lawrence Jordan
(2010)
On ancient star maps of magnificent color quality, experimental animator Lawrence Jordan takes the viewer out of this world into a world of cosmic imagination. |
Great Man and Cinema
Director: Jim Finn
(2009)
Kim Jong Il, the Stalinist David O. Selznick, ran the state film studio as a way of promoting his own and his father's cult of personality. 
The Juche Idea
Director: Jim Finn
(2008)
THE JUCHE IDEA is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda and philosophy. Both sardonic satire and historical excavation, the film is an exuberant collage that reveals the absurdity at the heart of Kim-Jong-il's regime. 
el paraguas
Alternate Title: La Lotería V
Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein met in 1985: "Oh the wind and the rain." 
el valiente
Alternate Title: La Lotería XXV
EL VALIENTE is a collection of the 1970s Bond girls who never knew loneliness "until I met you." |
Vampires in Havana
Alternate Title: Vampiros en las Habana
This critically acclaimed, hilarious spoof of horror and gangster movies, presented in an outrageously caricatured bawdy style features professor Von Dracula, inventor of Vampisol, a potion allowing vampires to survive sunlight. 
Sins of the Fleshapoids
Director: Mike Kuchar
(1965)
Along with Kenneth Anger's SCORPIO RISING and Andy Warhol's CHELSEA GIRLS, Mike Kuchar's SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS remains one of the most influential films of the 1960s American underground. 
The Other Side of the Hedge
Director: Lewin Fitzhamon
(1905)
A picnic seduction is hindered by a stuffy chaperone but that’s nothing a little trickery can’t fix. |
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