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Shok
Nominated for the 2016 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. Based on true events, SHOK is set during the escalation of the Kosovan War when the country was occupied by Serbia. Two young Kosovan boys, Petrit and Oki, are the best of friends. After Oki buys a bike, Petrit is desperate to have...Watch Movie
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Lily's World of Wax
Lillie Santangelo had for most of the 20th century owned and operated a wax museum at New York's Coney Island. She leads us on a final tour, just before her museum is closed and her wax figures and exhibits are auctioned off. Old age and declining attendance have forced her to...Watch Movie
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This is Hamlet
THIS IS HAMLET uniquely explores one of William Shakespeare's greatest plays with talk-show style interviews with the main characters, the staging of key scenes from the play and fascinating exchanges with the characters in the wings as they come on- and off-stage. THIS IS HAMLET will enrich your...Watch Movie
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The Grand Inquisitor
Legendary blacklisted Hollywood actress Marsha Hunt, 90, makes a stunning return to the screen in this haunting short film that writer-director Eddie Muller describes as "a noir fairy tale, based on actual events." A young woman (Leah Dashe) discovers a cache of used books...Watch Movie
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La Artefacta
Nicola Costantino is one of Latin America's most controversial and admired visual artists. With often macabre imagery rooted in a violence that pervades the history of Argentina, she is known for provocative works, such as lifelike casts of animals, soap constructed out of fat liposuctioned from...Watch Movie
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Jonas
A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in Central Park, typing up notes at the Village Voice and projecting his latest rushes at the Film-Makers' Cooperative. A true New Yorker, Mekas seems to be...Watch Movie
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Williamsburg
A pocket-sized city symphony, WILLIAMSBURG collects some of the first images Jonas Mekas shot with a film camera in 1950 (along with footage from 1972 when he was returning to his old neighborhood as a visitor). Bygone Brooklyn is richly evoked in the everyday life of the street: the elevated...Watch Movie
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Travel Songs
Drawn together from two decades of itinerant shooting in Europe, TRAVEL SONGS evokes Jonas Mekas' improvisatory approach to sightseeing, with Assisi, Moscow and Stockholm all filtered through his singularly animated lens. Though tuned to fine-grained particularities of landscape and culture,...Watch Movie
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Report from Millbrook
Jonas Mekas' elegant report on a Poughkeepsie police department's raid of Timothy Leary's base-of-operations amply demonstrates the political potential of his diary filmmaking. The film's protest is lodged in the disjunction between sound and image, with Mekas' intimate,...Watch Movie
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Hare Krishna
Jonas Mekas's freewheeling camerawork leaves itself open to the possibility of a second Great Awakening in this impressionistic sketch of a Hare Krishna troupe taking to the streets. Later incorporated into WALDEN, this short stands as a fine example of Mekas’ participatory approach to filming. -...Watch Movie
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Notes on the Circus
Public spectacle provides an occasion for private reverie in Jonas Mekas's impressionistic sketch of the Ringling Brothers Circus, a key building block for his larger WALDEN project. The filmmaker's improvisatory camerawork generates a riot of color and movement, the visual...Watch Movie
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Cassis
CASSIS collapses a full day on the Mediterranean into a dazzling five-minute sketch. Time-lapse photography revels in the endless variations of atmosphere and light, with motorboats and sailboats sweeping across the bay like wind-up toys. The sudden flare of a lighthouse marks the end of the day...Watch Movie
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The Italian Connection
The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy focuses on Luca Carnali, a small-time mobster and pimp who has been set up by his gangland boss. When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, Carnali is framed for the theft. Carnali is pursued through...Watch Movie
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Caliber 9
In the first time of the Tirology, small-time gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture, that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he...Watch Movie
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From Straight to Bizarre
In 1968 Frank Zappa set up the Bizarre and Straight record labels. FROM STRAIGHT TO BIZARRE reviews the astonishing music that came out on Bizarre and Straight and reveals the background, operations and the lives of the musicians, performers and management who made these...Watch Movie
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Hannah Arendt
In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker...Watch Movie
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Derrida
One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of "deconstruction" Jacques Derrida has single-handedly altered the way we look at history, language, art and film. In the spirit of Derrida's work, acclaimed filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy...Watch Movie
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Examined Life
Filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer's thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth...Watch Movie
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Zizek literally goes inside some truly...Watch Movie
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Jealousy
Louis Garrel stars in this enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal, directed by none other than his father, major post-New Wave auteur Philippe Garrel. After separating from his wife, Louis moves into a garret apartment with his fellow actor girlfriend Claudia as they struggle with...Watch Movie
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Drill Baby Drill
In the ecologically pristine area known as the Lungs of Poland, inhabitants discover that Chevron (the fourth largest energy company in the world) plans to build a shale gas well in their village. The Polish authorities along with Chevron hope to hit the shale gas jackpot. At...Watch Movie
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Strange Powers
Stephin Merritt is known as "the Cole Porter of his generation" for his memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings. Shot over 10 years, STRANGE POWERS explores his friendship with longtime bandmate/manager, Claudia Gonson. Through his recording/songwriting process, the film...Watch Movie
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Screaming Men
The Finnish Screaming Male Choir, Mieskuoro Huutajat, dressed in black suits, white shirts and rubber ties is a unique choir which performs its repertoire by shouting and screaming. Led by the conductor Petri Sirviö, the choir has travelled during fifteen years of existence from an idea in a bar...Watch Movie
