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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The assassination of Berta Cáceres shook the world on March 2, 2016. Mexican activist Gustavo Castro, a witness to the crime, survived the horror of that night and was trapped in Honduras. The defense of the river Gualcarque, sacred to the Lenca people, against the installation of a hydroelectric plant, is the preamble of a story in which we follow Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda, friend and companion of Berta. Their struggle for decolonization is the same, in a country that is sold to transnational capital and takes lives in many ways.

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Poster for L.A. in My Mind

2006 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A captivating montage of notable Los Angeles sites, laced with free-floating names of places and people and accompanied by street noises, becomes a delightful and personal canon of spiritually sustaining quantities. —Shannon Kelley

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1935 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Germaine Dulac shot a film in 1935 that she entitled “Le Cinéma au service de l’histoire” – a panoramic perspective on the history of Europe between 1895 and 1930 and an exhilarating archival montage

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Memento Mori is a morbidly beautiful journey into the world of alternative post mortem arrangements and an illuminating meditation on death, dying and our relationship with our bodies once they are no longer ours.

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2011 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Super 8mm transfer to digital, color, sound, 5:07 minutes. Still images of things passing; a diary between city and country. Marjorie Keller and Coleen Fitzgibbon drive to Carolee Schneemann’s to feed Kitsch.

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1993 · ★ 7.0 (3)

Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye's relationship with her brother is examined in this mixture of appropriated film footage, super 8mm home movies and Dunye's special brand of humor.

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Everyone knows what charming places strip clubs can be, but perhaps there is no club so charming as one in Moriarty, New Mexico—a truck stop with taxidermy and the bras of former employees on the walls, a few poles, a shitload of black light, and plenty of titties. Never mind that The Ultimate Strip Club List website describes it as the place "where strippers go to die."

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of Chantal Akerman, the filmmaker remembers a few moments that illustrate Chantal's personality. Forty years of friendship condensed into four minutes...

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1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Experimental short partly in colour.

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Poster for If You Stand with Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water

1997 · ★ 3.0 (1)

Images from an aerial tram leaving Manhattan are followed by images of a nearly static bird, of bugs fighting, and of light bending as it passes through glass. Near the film's end the tram lands in Manhattan, as if it had reversed direction; as in all of Murray's films, the images and the editing can pull several ways at once. There are no absolutes, and even the light by which we see is altered by the material it passes through. – Fred Camper

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1918 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A cigarette lighter is lost in a restaurant and begins a hand-in-hand trip passing through the lives of different people. During the voyage we meet different couples and their conflicts in love.

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1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1983 · ★ 6.0 (1)

An imaginary journey on a ship. We turned the building of the Film Academy into a ship. Claire and Solange from a Jean Genet piece, a polish woman with her Madonna, screaming sailors are a few of the passengers on this artifical journey.

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Poster for Goldilocks

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Stop-motion animated short about an old, greedy, cunning king who found out that in distant lands there lives a beautiful girl with golden hair named Goldilocks, who certainly isn't aware of his negative fame. The king had the opportunity to gain the magical ability to understand the language of birds and animals, by eating a magic fish. However, it turned out that his servant also tasted a piece of the fish and received the same skill as the king. It was then that the decision was made to send the servant on a search for Goldilocks, to bring her to marry the old king, after completing three tasks.

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young boy in a regimented world dreams of a different, freer self. Using found footage from two educational films, Caryn Cline chose, combined, optically-printed and edited scenes to create a new story. Original score by Melissa Grey.

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Caryn Cline composes a gentle, poetic film of optically-printed plants and leaves from her neighbor Lucy Goeres' terrace. Goeres also plays the flute on the accompanying musical track (aided with birdcalls and nature sounds as recorded by Cline herself).

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Poster for Atalanta: 32 Years Later

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A retelling of the age-old fairy tale of the beautiful princess in search of the perfect prince. In 1974, Marlo Thomas’ hip, liberal celebrity gang created a feminist version of the children’s parable for mainstream TV’s “Free to Be You and Me”. Now in 2006, Sachs dreamed up this new experimental film reworking, an homage to girl/girl romance.

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Poster for The Answering Furrow

1985 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants. The implements of the garden. Georgic II: The life of Virgil is recapitulated in summer, with a digression on the sacred. The sheep of Arcadia. The handling of bees. The pagan Lion of Kea. Georgic III: The skill and industry of the old man in autumn. Ancient custom and modern method. The use of implements of the garden. Georgic IV: The compost is prepared at season's end. The filmmaker completes THE ANSWERING FURROW with the inclusion of her own image. Note on the music: The music works with the image to parallel the trace of history. Charles Ives recalls Protestant hymns, which recall the origin of the hymn in 12th century Milanese music, which allows for that music closest to the hum of bees and of amplifiers, the Orthodox Greek chant.

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