Motion Studies 132007

Nimbly clever and intensely illuminating, DIVAN is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery.

I WAS POSSESSED BY GOD is the documentary record of the attempt to recreate an experience of "divine possession" from the ingestion of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

THE TAO OF 9 SECOND AVE documents the life of an extraordinary building on the Lower East Side of New York City.

A well-intentioned teacher recalls leading his special needs class in a filmmaking exercise. One of the students, Mario, takes particular interest in operating the camera.

A parish youth group in a lower middle-class in a Chicago neighborhood discusses parental authority, what growing up means and the difficulties of communicating with their parents.

In 1970, a young musician walked away from the American dream of rock 'n' roll stardom. He sold all his possessions and moved from the suburbs of New York to the foothills of the Himalayas in search of happiness and a little-known saint.