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2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Even in the last week of her life, my mother believed in the power of positive thinking. She told her nurse ‘+ x+=+’. I grieved for her by turning recordings of her voice , the sound of dust falling on her grave and old Super 8 family films into a piece that I watched over and over.

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Poster for Todavía

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Raquel wants her sick friend Luisa to have a good time, one last time.

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Poster for Fading Light

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

As her mother’s dementia gets worse, Wei Ling decides to take her mother out of the house they have always been living in. The people and things that once surrounded us like air, eventually fade away like a distant light.

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2013 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Sophie and Megan's game of Mummies and Daddies, reveals an awful lot about Mummy and Daddy.

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Poster for All Winners, All Losers

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Shokri is in prison because of a debt, he wasn't able to repay. One day during his day pass out of the prison he found a black purse full of money and he tried to find the owner, in order to return the money back. Shot in 2015.

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2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Song Hye Jin's short film.

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1921 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This film explores a now-obscure American expansionist, William Walker, who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856. Walker was one of many expansionists who believed it was America's Manifest Destiny to conquer all of the Americas and who engaged in border raids in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Filmmaker Kathryn Ramey blends found footage, documentary photography, ethnographic inquiry, and personal travelogue with experimental film techniques such as hand-processing, optical printing, and time-lapse to detour and derail the various approaches to historymaking that have been applied to this story.

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2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A Zapotec family living in Los Angeles, California, returns to their native village in Oaxaca, Mexico, to host the most important celebration in town.

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Poster for Atrophy Portraits III

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The history of traditional portraiture was about status and branding. With Atrophy Portraits we break down the layers of constructed perfection. These films are an exploration of power and submission, how the boundaries between those roles might initially seem fixed but can be more fluid. What it means to be the subject, to be observed and to meet that gaze. This film is a portrait, designed to be watched on a portrait screen, for example your phone. A portrait needs a frame and our screens are our frames.

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Poster for The Truss Arch

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In filmmaker Sonya Stefan’s hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, a truss arch bridge straddles the St. Marys River, linking Canada to the United States. But underneath the bridge, a kind of liminal space exists where the notion of borders is blurred. With a wild yet carefully controlled energy, this deconstructed work transports us to the curious site where, it seems, anything is possible. Somewhere between an autobiographical piece, a heartfelt tribute to an immigrant mother whose fate is out of her hands, and a dance film rich in poetry and symbolism, this ode to freedom bubbles with reflections and experimentations – all set against the imposing backdrop of factory chimneys.

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Poster for I Remember a Time When No One Jogged in This Neighbourhood

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

With its fluid arrangement of black and white scenes paired with an immersive soundscape, Je me souviens d’un temps où personne ne joggait dans ce quartier is a celebration of the many faces of Park Extension. The film provides a glimpse inside a festive cultural gathering; the workshop of a meticulous artisan; and an alley where a young cyclist is learning to ride. With her restrained approach, the filmmaker hints little by little at a seemingly inevitable transformation, while the relentless onset of gentrification threatens the social fabric of a neighbourhood. After a critically acclaimed detour into audio documentary, Jenny Cartwright returns to the evocative force of images to evoke a rich and diverse community.

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Poster for Monade IV

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Monades is a series of prints made with 3D scans of my own body, which became the raw material to be digitally sculpted, deconstructed and re-contextualized. Many inspirations have informed this project, such as the concept of the cyborg by Donna J. Haraway, Hans Bellmer's drawings, Greek Mythology as well as an underlying reflexion on self portrait and the place of the body in the digital world. Captive within the limitations of their own subjectivities, these cyborg/goddesses embody the concept of monade, where each individual is a fragmented mirror of a larger reality."

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Poster for i don't know how, but i don't think i'm alone

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"i wanted to make something horror adjacent when it came time for halloween. i had several ideas but many proved to be too complex to do by myself. i instead stuck to what i knew, stretched my editing, framing and lighting abilities and hopefully made something that is beautiful yet off putting, just in time for the season. i hope you enjoy it." -lucille, october 2021

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Poster for Play Rec: For Film

2021 · ★ 10.0 (1)

The Screenplay of this "Recombinatory Film" is narrated entirely by the original Subtitles of the movies based on the Keyword: "Film" - A filmmaker who is also either a cinema programmer and a free time actress for arthouse movies decides to direct her first recombinatory film - will she succeed?

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Based on the traditional story of Nyami Nyami, the snake god of the waters of the Zambesi. An evil divinity emerges from the river and the population of a village plagued by drought remain spellbound by it. The women who had intercourse with him will give birth to demonic eggs. The goddess Nyami Nyami, who has the power to save her people, sends a messenger to the village to fight the demon.

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Poster for The Southern Wind

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Canada, the village of Val Gagné is facing a rural exodus. Life seems to be dissolving, the future is uncertain. But these Franco-Ontarian villagers are surprised by a wind of renewal. A wind that will give them hope.

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Poster for Voices from Baliapal

1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"This is our land, our sea... we will die rather than lose this place” was the cry raised by 70,000 people in Baliapal when the government announced their decision to locate a missile testing range there in August 1984. Since then a remarkable non-violent struggle is in its fourth year...

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Poster for La llevada y la traída

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Pilgrimage of the Virgin of Zapopan is one of the most important and representative religious and cultural traditions in Jalisco. It is a pilgrimage that, due to its magnitude and relevance, was declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Religiously, it takes place every October 12 and brings together more than two million people.

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Poster for The Pink Tower

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Using video, sculptural installation and performance, American artist Shana Moulton has developed a distinctive psychic and aesthetic realm anchored around her alter ego, Cynthia. Collectively titled Whispering Pines ­­­­– the name taken from the mobile-home park for senior citizens near Yosemite that her parents ran – these episodic videos, begun in 2002, chart Cynthia’s personal tribulations. They also reflect on the relationship between consumerism and the search for spirituality.

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