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Ryan
This Oscar-winning animated short from Chris Landreth is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Ryan is living every artist's worst nightmare - succumbing to addiction, panhandling on the streets to make ends...Watch Movie
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Rummy
Sam (David Zellner) runs into Lacey (Stephanie Wilson) walking her dog in the park. She doesn’t seem too thrilled to see him. But he is really, really thrilled to see Choo-Choo. The dog used to be his and he is less-than-thrilled to learn that Lacey has since re-named the dog Rummy. This fateful...Watch Movie
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Blue Like a Gunshot
With its interplay of shadow and light, of paint in movement, BLUE LIKE A GUNSHOT is a work of great visual power. It is also a reflection on our world. In its evocation of the conflict between civilization and nature, the absurd vanity of human warfare contrasts with the...Watch Movie
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Cinema Study
CINEMA STUDY is a reworking of images and sounds taken from Orson Welles landmark film CITIZEN KANE. The piece breaks the frame into multiple smaller rectangles, each with short video and audio samples from the original film. Part of the activity of the viewer seems to be keeping track of the...Watch Movie
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The Globalisation Tapes
Using their own forbidden history as a case study, the Indonesian filmmakers trace the development of contemporary globalization from its roots in colonialism to the present. The film will accompany an IUF world-wide training in globalization, intended to launch a...Watch Movie
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A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches
They say that when the Earth is destroyed beyond habitation, the only survivors will be the cockroaches. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gives the indomitable insects the floor in this perversely comic commentary on affluence and self-destruction. Leashed with thin ribbons, a...Watch Movie
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Market Update
Joshua Oppenheimer reimagines a sixty-second stock market update as maniacal monologue by a mumbling madman giving a bizarre play-by-play of floor traders and urban pedestrians as the trading day comes to an end. Created while in the midst of production on the feature-length GLOBALIZATION TAPES,...Watch Movie
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Oldboy
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private prison for 15 years. No one will tell him why he's there and who his jailer is, but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a TV to...Watch Movie
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Teknolust
Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning science fiction film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons which she clones from her own DNA. Though they look human, the SRA cyborgs were bred as intelligent machines and are immortal. In order to...Watch Movie
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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
The "Second Coming" is upon us and Jesus has returned to Earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead, he has to contend with an army of vampires that can walk in the daylight. Combining Kung Fu action with Biblical prophecy and...Watch Movie
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Russian Ark
Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (THE SUN) broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, RUSSIAN ARK. It's the first feature-length narrative film shot in a single take (on digital video, using a specially designed disc instead of tape). RUSSIAN ARK is shot...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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Funny Ha Ha
Marnie is 23 and "wandering the Earth," perhaps in search of romance, or employment--or perhaps just avoiding both. Mostly she's just trying to keep her sense of humor as a constellation of friends and would-be lovers engage in their own post-collegiate flailing around her. Rarely have the loose,...Watch Movie
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Unable to afford proper care for his sister dying from kidney failure, Ryu turns to the black market to sell his own organs, only to end up cheated of his life savings. His girlfriend urges Ryu to kidnap the daughter of wealthy industrialist Dong-jin, who recently laid him...Watch Movie
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Things Girls Do
American culture is saturated with representations of body image concerns; with all this media representation largely contextualized within feminist debates. Broderick Fox takes a fresh look at eating disorders and body dysmorphia that will both entertain and surprise audiences. This work is part...Watch Movie
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Helicopter
Winner of a Student Academy Award®, this autobiographical work relates a wrenching chapter in writer/director Ari Gold’s life. Kevin Abrams, Margie Stokley and David Creamer play siblings reunited for a free concert commemorating the life of legendary rock promoter Bill Graham and the two people...Watch Movie
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War Photographer
The great photojournalist Robert Capa said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." James Nachtwey, a committed, shy man, considered one of the bravest and most important war photographers of our time, has been close enough for over 20 years - a period...Watch Movie
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In Absentia
IN ABSENTIA is a remarkable collaboration between filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay and the celebrated avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (who composed and conducted the original music for the film). Shot in black and white (and, occasionally, color) in Cinemascope, IN ABSENTIA combines...Watch Movie
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Riding the Tiger
RIDING THE TIGER is a haunting and lyrical evocation of the hubris, despair and devastation of the American war in Vietnam. Archival film, both gorgeous and chilling, and footage of a B-52 graveyard are combined with the voices of GIs, Vietnamese villagers and journalists,...Watch Movie
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My Best Fiend
Director Werner Herzog and late actor Klaus Kinski made five films together over a fifteen-year period, including such mutual career highlights as FITZCARRALDO, NOSFERATU and AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD. As much as this collaboration benefitted them both, the partnership was fraught with off-screen...Watch Movie
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Shadow Boxers
SHADOW BOXERS is the first critically acclaimed documentary on women's boxing. An unexpected combination of striking visual style and disarming personal insight cut to a pulsating original soundtrack, Boxers is a visceral experience of boxing that draws the viewer in and never lets go captivating...Watch Movie
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Fuzzy Logic
Tom Krueger wrote, directed and composed music for this narrative featurette about a fifteen year old boy's first meeting with his estranged father. FUZZY LOGIC, produced by Ted Hope, stars Jared Harris as a troubled father with good intentions attempting to establish a relationship with his son....Watch Movie
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Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore
Mary Jane is a sexually curious teenage girl who sees sex as a way to become cool. Written, directed and produced by Sarah Jacobson, MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE is lauded for depicting sex from the female perspective. The film premiered at Sundance in 1997 and features...Watch Movie
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Dieter Dengler knew he needed to fly from the moment when, as a little boy in war-torn Germany, he witnessed a fighter jet nearly clip his apartment building like some "almighty being." Within twenty years he was flying missions in Vietnam for the United States military. He...Watch Movie
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Hard Core Logo
The THIS IS SPINAL TAP of Canadian punk mockumentaries is about a legendary (but fictive) Canuck hardcore unit that reunites years after its acrimonious breakup to play a one-shot benefit and play such ramalama hits as "Something's Gonna Die Tonight," "Rock 'n' Roll is Fat and Ugly" and "Who the...Watch Movie
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Frog Crossing
A granola-cruncher, too Earth-conscious to swat away a fly that lands on his cheek, bicycles to the countryside. He aims to celebrate the titular creature's mating season and protect its path across a country road. Unfortunately, other humans driving by aren't quite so respectful of nature’s...Watch Movie
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Metalogue
Described as a cross between a "speech" and a "fireworks display." A magician-like figure delivers a peculiar speech that is embedded in extravagant arrays of time-delayed images that reflect and refract ideas about memory, time and language. By embedding his gestures in a spectacular diachronic...Watch Movie
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Dance Lexie Dance
Nominated for the 1998 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. Lexie lives with his lively daughter, Laura, who now wants to learn to dance. He has just about managed as a one-parent family so far. The story of one man's lonely life is transformed by the simple wisdom of...Watch Movie
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Loot
Elaine walks the mean streets of New York where it is either steal-or-be-stolen-from. In the course of an afternoon, she'll be on both sides of that equation. This black-and-white miniature about the birth of a sixty-something kleptomaniac lands somewhere between GREY GARDENS and the early works...Watch Movie
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Hello Photo
In her startling, exquisitely shot HELLO PHOTO, documentarist Nina Davenport turns the conventions of the travelogue inside out. She takes us to India and abandons us there, leaving us to believe what we see through her eyes. Her movie replicates the experience of being a traveller and thus a...Watch Movie
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Whispering Pages
The pages that whisper through this brooding, beautiful tone poem are from nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and...Watch Movie
