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OK, Good
Guided by motivational affirmations and encouraged by an intense physical-movement workshop, actor Paul Kaplan struggles through a series of demoralizing auditions that push him towards the edge. OK, GOOD mixes vérite technique with confining formalism to build a hypnotic and tweaked-out...Watch Movie
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American Radical
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy, the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some, and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply...Watch Movie
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You Weren't There
YOU WEREN'T THERE: A HISTORY OF CHICAGO PUNK 1977-1984 looks back on the impact that the Punk movement had on the Windy City. Though overlooked in the annals of Rock history when compared to media-centric Los Angeles, New York and London, Chicago served as an important early...Watch Movie
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A Map of the New World
"From 'the historical vantage point' where the Makah Tribe once observed early Europeans exploring the Strait of Juan de Fuca, I consider the drawing of a new kind of map (one that erases all traces of Eurocentric conceptions of land, boundary, and ownership). My analog images...Watch Movie
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4th of July on Quileute Tribal Lands
In a strange twist of irony, Americans celebrate their independence on the sovereign lands of the Quileute People. An ambient soundscape coupled with the opening shot of an adjoining RV park work in unison to reveal an alien invasion on the shores of Quileute Tribal Lands.Watch Movie
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Contact Zones
"FRONTIER JOURNALS V interrogates the anthropological concept of 'cultural contact zones' (the physical spaces where two cultures meet) in order to observe the seemingly strange practices of the tourists and pedestrians that encounter totem poles in a variety of public spaces. At numerous sites...Watch Movie
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Tree Begins Life, Indians Still Live Here
A display of a fallen red cedar at Olympic National Park headquarters proclaims in 1349 "Indians live here." TREE BEGINS LIFE INDIANS STILL LIVE HERE produces a meditation on the territories of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest, and invites an alternative...Watch Movie
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Aztec Baldwin Collage
"In San Francisco's Mission District, on the Dia de los Muertos, I encounter the found footage filmmaker, Craig Baldwin. Over the past four decades, Baldwin's collage films have produced radical critiques of colonization in the Americas. Outside of Baldwin's subterranean film...Watch Movie
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Mythologies of the Conquerors
The first entry in a series of personal essay videos that explores conceptions of the frontier. The first entry tells of strange encounters with animatronic Indians, performances of displaced ancient traditions and mass pilgrimages to sacred sights of power and spectacle.Watch Movie
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Rat Pack Rat
Eddie plays a Sammy Davis, Jr. impersonator hired via Craigslist to perform for a boy's birthday party. He arrives at the boy's home, meets the boy's mother and finds her living in a hoarder house. Despite the bleak surroundings, the woman is full of life and excited to meet Sammy Davis, Jr....Watch Movie
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The Phone Call
Winner of the 2015 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. THE PHONE CALL follows Heather, (played by Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins), a shy lady who works at a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man (played by Oscar® winner Jim Broadbent) she has no idea...Watch Movie
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Love at First Sight
Short listed for the 2012 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT tells the story of a day in the life of seventy-year-old Arthur who falls in love with a fellow resident, a beautiful woman called Ruth. This apparently simple love story playfully builds...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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Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
Nominated for the 2010 Academy Award® for Animated Short Film. Granny tells the story of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the elderly fairy, who intends to get her revenge for not being invited to the Royal Christening with the more glamorous and youthful fairies who...Watch Movie
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Wish 143
Nominated for the 2011 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. When a fifteen-year-old boy discovers he has months to live he is granted one wish from the Dreamscape Charity. However, David doesn't want to go to Disneyland or meet a star footballer, what he really wants is an hour alone with a...Watch Movie
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The Crush
Nominated for the 2011 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. Ardal Travis is in love. There's just one problem. He's an eight year old schoolboy and the object of his affection is his Second Class teacher, Miss Purdy. But when her boyfriend arrives on the scene Ardal is heartbroken. His...Watch Movie
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Kavi
Nominated for the 2010 Academy Award® for Live Action Short Film. KAVI, is about a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been...Watch Movie
