New Releases
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Attica
ATTICA opens with a close-up of a series of 8th century BCE geometric pots spinning on a wheel, to the sound of a 1973 Greek "laïka" record by Giorgos Dalaras and Haris Alexiou. As the crackling record turns, the close up patterns painted on the surface of vases animate the frame in multiple...Watch Movie
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Untitled (Christmas)
The second in a series of four films featuring Astrid, which document her in different constructed spaces over the ages of seven to ten. Shot on Super Eight film at Christmas time, the hand held camerawork is shared between the artist and eight year old Astrid. Like a...Watch Movie
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Untitled (Objects 3)
A pink paper shape is examined through the clear plastic of a cassette case in a series of combinations of found objects held up together in front of the camera. Colors and transparencies pose as gels and lenses until the sequence shifts making materials behave unnaturally,...Watch Movie
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Chapters One to Five
The penultimate in a series of four films featuring Astrid, which document her in different constructed spaces over the ages of seven to ten. A 16mm film that documents an ambiguous place and set of events, where color plays as much the leading role as the nine year old...Watch Movie
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Morning
A table top play using bronze votive figurines (6th century BC) from the collection of the British School at Athens Museum, to the sound of school children reciting the morning prayer at Marasleio Didaskaleio of Primary Education, Athens (a field recording taken over the walls of the British...Watch Movie
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Carousel
Continuing a line of experimentation established in UNTITLED (OBJECTS 3), 2008, Sophie Michael's CAROUSEL fuses an interest in form and color with a neatly circular structure which posits three interlinked "rotations," each in a different dimension. A leaflet-dispensing carousel rotates for the...Watch Movie
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The Beach Girls and the Monster
A time capsule from one very odd moment in film history when beach-party movies began to lumber, fake-monster-like, into a then-untested realm of horror crossover (with familiar maneuvers from daytime television). Jobbing B-movie actor Jon Hall, in his directorial debut, plays...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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I Was a Teenage Serial Killer
A short black-and-white film about a nineteen year-old girl who goes on a murder spree after getting fed up with sexist men. Released in 1993 through Station Wagon Productions, it was the first film by underground filmmaker Sarah Jacobson. I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER also...Watch Movie
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Junk Food
Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD depicts the hitherto unseen world of aberrant sexuality and savage violence that emerges when the sun goes down...Watch Movie
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The Titan Find
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans' bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic...Watch Movie
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The Psychic
A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband's home and finds a skeleton behind it. Along with her psychiatrist, she seeks to find the truth about who the person was and who put her there. Soon enough, she starts to realize the possibility that she may...Watch Movie
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I Always Said Yes
The story of a sometimes-overlooked gay liberation and independent filmmaking pioneer is told in I ALWAYS SAID YES. In late 1971, Wakefield Poole, a respected Broadway dancer and choreographer, had the audacity to put his real name above the title of his first film, a low-...Watch Movie
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Spider Baby
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of ten or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their...Watch Movie
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Walls
What is left behind of the relationship of Nora and Kai is a wall full of memories. Nora is just about to take down the photographs, when Kai suddenly appears to get the rest of his stuff. His appearance is obviously too much for Nora especially when he starts helping her to take down the...Watch Movie
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Brussels
Gaspar is back in New York working for a couple of days, caught between the taxis and his faults in French. He has plans to have lunch with his father right before he returns to Brussels. They have not seen each other for a few years. Something tells him it is wrong; something tells him it is...Watch Movie
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What's the World Coming To?
This zany Hal Roach production of WHAT'S THE WORLD COMING TO? takes place in a future "one hundred years from now, when men have become more like women and women more like men." The film opens with the "blushing groom" approaching the altar where his tuxedoed bride awaits to...Watch Movie
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See No Evil
The daily life of three famous elderly apes who spend their days in sanctuaries; a movie-star, a scientist and a crippled are portrayed in SEE NO EVIL. We have watched them closely for many years. And they have been watching us... A poetic, sometimes bitter tale on the intriguing relationship...Watch Movie
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Closed Curtain
Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi bravely defies his twenty-year ban on filmmaking yet again, and stunningly, he has created a masterpiece that not only lives up to his earlier, pre-ban work but surpasses it in many ways. In a secluded house by the sea with the curtains shut, a...Watch Movie
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Friends Forever
Kristian is a shy 16-year-old starting at a new school. Like all boys his age he is uncertain of his new environment. He is drawn to Henrick an androgynous, charismatic and independent student, a warm friendship slowly develops. On the other side of the school's spectrum is Patrick, a bully and...Watch Movie
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Shirley: Visions of Reality
Shirley is a woman in America in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and early '60s. A woman who would like to influence the course of history with her professional and socio-political involvement. A woman who does not accept the reality of the Depression years, WWII, the McCarthy era, race...Watch Movie
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Single Stream
A singular appreciation of waste processing (graceful, mesmeric and almost balletic), SINGLE STREAM plunges viewers into the steady flow of a materials recycling facility where hundreds of tons of refuse are sorted each day. Yet another revelatory documentary from Harvard's Sensory Ethnography...Watch Movie
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To Die (or Not)
Seven individual stories end in the death of the main character, that is until fate (in the form of Ventura Pons, the film maker) intervenes and re-writes history. TO DIE (OR NOT) gives us seven stories that are separate yet intertwined in their outcome. A desperate director with a creative...Watch Movie
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Iterations
Gregg Biermann slices Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW into nineteen vertical columns, each slightly out of phase with the next, reverberating out from a solitary instant in the temporal center of the work where the entire frame coalesces. The result dissects, illuminates and obscures different...Watch Movie
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Rebel Scum
The Bible Belt and Punk Rock collide in the most controversial documentary of the year, chronicling two years in the life of Knoxville white trash punk band the Dirty Works. Centered on self-destructive frontman Christopher Scum, take a peek inside a seedy underworld where mental illness,...Watch Movie
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Facing the Storm
The epic account of our tempestuous relationship with the American bison, once dominating the plains of North America, numbering in the tens of millions. Native Plains Indians shared a sacred relationship with the species that went far beyond survival and sustenance. Then, in...Watch Movie
