Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
In Absentia
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Sprinkler Sprinkled
Flotsam/Jetsam
Running Fence
The Intervention
Tchoupitoulas
John's Gone
Scrapple
Brotherly Love
In honor of National Sibling Day on April 10, Fandor is highlighting films directed and written by successful sibling filmmaking duos. From the brothers who created cinema to the greatest documentarians of our time, these films prove that filmmaking is truly a collaborative art and that there's no one better to work with than your own family.
Selected Films
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Running Fence
An engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California. The artists' struggle with local ranchers, environmentalists and state bureaucrats ends when the fence is unfurled, reuniting the...Watch Movie
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Islands
A film that further explores the artists' fusion of culture, environment and politics. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's fight for permission to surround eleven islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric, interwoven with their struggle to wrap the Pont-Neuf in...Watch Movie
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The Intervention
Jay and Mark Duplass step away from their comedies about soul-seeking single men to look askance at a social group determined to help a friend (no matter how much it will hurt him). Steve Zissis, star of Duplass' family comedy THE DO-DECA-PENTATHLON, plays the secret-keeping...Watch Movie
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Frontier
After their feature debut PLASTIC UTOPIA was deemed too strange by most festival programmers, the brothers Zellner responded like any truly independent, outsider filmmakers would: by making something even stranger. Filtering Soviet propaganda through a mouthful of powerful East Texas...Watch Movie
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Flotsam/Jetsam
A grainy black-and-white adventure on the high seas turns into something else entirely in this typically idiosyncratic short from David and Nathan Zellner, their very first to appear at the Sundance Film Festival. Adrift in the open water, a man clings to some floating suitcases (along with a...Watch Movie
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John's Gone
JOHN'S GONE is a fever dream comedy. John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone. With JOHN'S GONE, the Safdie brothers fully...Watch Movie
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The Black Balloon
While trying to move forty kids six blocks in New York City alone, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. In that bouquet, a lone black balloon scurries free. It dies and comes back to life, returning to the city cruising for a companion. On the...Watch Movie
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Sins of the Fleshapoids
Along with Kenneth Anger's SCORPIO RISING and Andy Warhol's CHELSEA GIRLS, Mike Kuchar's SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS remains one of the most influential films of the 1960s American underground. Mike and his brother George (who co-wrote FLESHAPOIDS) were the godfathers of bargain...Watch Movie
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Tchoupitoulas
TCHOUPITOULAS is a lyrical documentary that follows three adolescent brothers as they journey through one night in New Orleans, encountering a vibrant kaleidoscope of dancers, musicians, hustlers, and revelers parading through the lamplit streets. The filmmakers fully immerse us into the New...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
