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1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hand painted, scratched Super 8 film meditating on Puerto Rico's political status through the layering of traditional Bomba music and governmental speeches.

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Poster for Portals

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Like much of Sabrina Ratté’s video work, this collection for Undervolt & Co. explores the visual and sonic relationship between modular synthesis and simulated space. In all three pieces – Littoral Zones, Landfall, and Habitat – Ratté uses her signature modulator technique to intricately layer a series of moirés and checkerboards that bring depth to the otherwise flat surface of the video screen. Where others create depth through recording or simulating hallways and tunnels, Ratté bends the signal of the video itself to carve out corridors of an undetermined distance.

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Poster for Gaukler der Liebe

1999 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Trickster of love Constantin is a perfect gentleman with impeccable manners. He is charming, well-educated, loving and shows good taste in women: Pretty Isabelle possesses as much class as money. Suddenly, though, young urban cowboy Hendrik appears on the scene. He blackmails Constantin because he knows something about Constantin's past, something Isabelle must never learn of. Hendrik wants money for his silence... more money than Constantin has. Constantin offers to teach him what he knows best instead: the art of catching yourself a millionaire dame. Soon, Hendrik is ready for his masterpiece - seducing a beautiful, rich lady. When he has made his choice, the situation turns dangerous for Constantin...

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Poster for Hendaya: cuando Adolfo encontró a Paco

2007 · ★ 6.5 (2)

This is the story of the day when Adolfo met Paco, seven intense hours summarized in 10 minutes

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Three Norwegian teenaged girlfriends get caught smuggling cocaine out of Bolivia. Why does only one take the fall? Cue a tabloid media storm, professional kidnappers and a behind-bars pregnancy in this sensational exposé.

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Poster for Theo Angelopoulos: The Internal Journey

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A deeply personal look at the life of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, one of the foremost representatives of Greek cinema. His life reflects the tragedies faced by an entire nation during the oppressive era of military dictatorship. It is a story of boundless ambitions, hope, love and the responsibilities that haunt every artist, even after death.

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2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At the age of 5, Hannah Taylor spotted her first homeless person in the back alleys of Winnipeg. This experience not only troubled her, but it drove her to do nothing less than change the world. The Ladybug Foundation, the charity Hannah helped establish, has raised over a million dollars to date. With her huge heart and can-do attitude, she preaches a simple message of "Share a little of what you have and always care about others."

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Poster for Portrait of Imogen

1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Photographer Imogen Cunningham presents her own work in this Academy Award-nominated documentary.

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Poster for Bullfight

1955 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.

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Poster for Trains Are for Dreaming

2009 · ★ 7.0 (5)

Passing landscapes, sound transmissions, trips to the seashore and portraits of a grandmother that all strike the viewer as an elusive and intensely lyrical panorama of the past.

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Poster for Rural Life in Maine

1930 · ★ 5.5 (2)

This 12-minute silent film was an amateur film, which seems to have been made just so people would know how hard the folks in Maine work. The film starts off in the morning as these people raise the American flag and then head out to work where they do that all day. By the time the sun goes down we see how hard they work, what they eat and of course the few breaks they get with grandpa on the fiddle. I'm sure many people would be left scratching their heads as to what the point of this film was but it's also important to remember that traveling around wasn't as easy in 1930 as it is today and back then people didn't have two-hundred different television stations. So, in many ways this is an important film because it gives people the chance to see what it was really like working on a farm back in the day.

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Poster for Trance and Dance in Bali

1952 · ★ 5.2 (8)

Filmed in Bali in 1937 and released in 1952, this short documentary records a staged performance of the Kris Dance, documenting trance, ritual possession, and ceremonial movement within Balinese religious practice.

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Poster for Off and Running

2009 · ★ 3.8 (6)

With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean-Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she's always known. She begins staying away from home, starts skipping school, and risks losing her shot at the college track career she had always dreamed of. But when Avery decides to pick up the pieces of her life and make sense of her identity, the results are inspiring. OFF AND RUNNING follows Avery to the brink of adulthood, exploring the strength of family bonds and the lengths people must go to become themselves.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A poetically artistic rendering of Michon’s spiritual, uplifting book by the same name, reminding us that when our dogs die they never leave us.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Survivors, a former caregiver, and an investigator reveal systemic abuse and demand accountability from the private equity companies behind the multibillion-dollar Troubled Teen Industry that exploits vulnerable youth under the guise of care.

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Poster for Quando Elas Se Movimentam

2025 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Inspired by the phrase of the American activist Angela Davis – “When the black woman moves, the whole structure of society moves with her” -, the documentary tells the story of three black women whose personal trajectories are intertwined with laws that transformed their lives and those of countless Brazilian citizens.

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1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mirage was designed specifically for the screening room of Anthology Film Archives in New York's SoHo neighborhood, where Joan Jonas first performed the piece on several nights over a few weeks in 1976, for an audience of her friends: local artists, musicians, and dancers. In the first performances, Jonas projected images of herself drawing and erasing her marks on a chalkboard—some appropriated from her past works—as well as a five-minute documentary loop of volcanoes erupting and a film of a television turned on its side. She also stepped through a small wooden hoop and completed other live actions. Mirage was the last of a series of black and white video performances completed by Jonas; she would subsequently adopt color technologies. In 2001, Jonas made a new version of Mirage, consisting of a silent, approximately thirty-minute loop which, in the artist’s words, “is a combination of old performances, more chalk drawings and footage shot off the television at that time.”

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Poster for Such a Pretty Face

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Celina, 12-year-old, finds out that she could never be considered the prettiest girl in her classroom.

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Does the mask of the Makonde really have magic powers and can it settle the terrible quarrel between Johanna and her best friend? Johanna desperately needs the mask, but before her eyes it is stolen from Leipzig's Grassi Museum and Grandpa Kito is considered the prime suspect! Kito has just appeared from Tanzania and wants the mask, brutally stolen in colonial times, to return to his village. For Johanna, there is more at stake than unmasking the real thief - she must find her own identity.

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1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A fifteen-minute portrait-documentary to accompany "Irene 59", the film about her mother.

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