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Poster for On the Downlow

2007 · ★ 2.3 (3)

Four African-American men living in Cleveland, Ohio confront the issues and emotions related to coming out as gay men.

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Poster for Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 2009, veteran documentarian and filmmaker Brigitte Berman released Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, a film about the life and legacy of Hugh Hefner. Expanding on Hefner's influence not only as a celebrity figure but as a catalyst for social awareness, discussion and change, Berman continues to break new ground in Playboy: After Dark, Speaking Out in America. In this doc, Berman details the run and lasting influence of Hefner's two short-lived television shows Playboy: After Dark (1969-1970) and Playboy's Penthouse (1959-1960). Part entertainment segments, part talkshows, the programs featured numerous celebrity guests and covered a diverse range of subjects during their respective runs, including race, integration, environmental changes and free speech. With the story told through interviews and a collection of archived footage, this documentary makes it clear how and why both programs deserve their spots in television history.

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Poster for Ghirafa

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Going Places

1980 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Joann Elam captures urban residents on the go in various seasons. The film begins in winter, as JoAnn captures sleepy neighborhood scenes from her snowy Logan Square windowsill. This is followed by manipulated summer scenes of a fast paced marathon. Through light flares and in-camera editing, marathon runners deconstruct into colorful forms.

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1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Similar to her "Back Porch" films, JoAnn Elam's "Front Porch" documents the scenes of life in her neighborhood in Chicago. The film pays especial attention to the light flowing through different branches and leaves of plant growth and the rhythm of a gentle breeze swaying the blinds on the window. These patterns and abstractions repeat themes found throughout Elam's films.

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Poster for The Girls

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

“Girls” are six stories told by the residents of besieged Leningrad themselves. After the war, their fate was different, but in the years of the blockade, their stories were intertwined with the history of the victory of an entire people. This picture is a sincere and honest story of one of the few witnesses of the blockade who have survived to our days, about their fate, the fate of Leningrad and about the will to live.

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Poster for Soft Shoe

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Optical printing links East with West within a mosaic of looped, layered and shifting images filmed originally on Super 8 while on a (train/car/thumb) trip across Europe in 1978. Swinging cow udders, woman sweeping, farm woman walking, nuns chanting, Nude Descending, voices in a bread shop, Dachau and other artworks from Documenta 7, riding the escalator of the Centre Pompidou, etc. are layered in overlapping, shifting, and repetitive frame-clusters pulled from Super 8 footage filmed on a trip that began in Bucharest and ended in Paris. Disparate elements are combined and manipulated to construct a lyrical work about walking, history, and memory." - Holly Fisher

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Poster for If This Isn't Love

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An unseen photographer works hard to create perfect images of marital bliss. Yet the events beyond the edges of the frame tell a very different story.

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Poster for Five Year Diary, Reel 40: Visiting Grandmother ‘84, Wyoming (July 17–August 26, 1984)

1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Anne travels west with her camera to visit family. (Liz Coffey)

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Poster for Coagula

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Eva's veins are getting darker. After a strange doctor's appointment, she sees herself caught in a spiral of frenzy and paranoia, only to turn into something other than human.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Die neuen Kinder von Golzow

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Golzow is an eastern German village, running out of inhabitants. Refugee families should bring new people to Golzow.

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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Now take a deep breath, and open up your Heart Chakra.

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Poster for The Mountain

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On a mountain in Colombia, paramilitary forces have Marxist rebels cornered against a high ridge without food. In search of a way out, the guerrillas ask an old friend (a missionary they had held hostage and released some 20 years ago) for the number of a humanitarian priest in hopes of finding someone to bring food to the mountain. The missionary mistakes the priests' name for the head paramilitary leader and inadvertently gives the guerrilla commanders the wrong number. Through a humorous confusion two sworn enemies end up face to face in an emotional encounter that unveils the very core of Colombia's conflict and the journey each one must take to finally find peace in a lifetime of war.

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Poster for Not With Us

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"When I am released, I will simply move from one prison to another" (Oscar Wilde). Freedom rarely happens with us. "Who is not with us, we have here" - the words of the head of the correctional colony, which were written at the entrance to the prison.

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Poster for The White Hands

1950 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"The White Hands" - 'I came to film in my capacity of poet, wanting to see whether I could express myself in pictures rather that in words-create a film poem. Not a traditional piece of lyric but something that suggests and hints and transmits its content even though it may not be comprehensible in a logic sense'. This is how Rut Hillarp described her film interpretation of the legend of Tristan and Isolde. She borrowed this classical theme from her collection of poetry The False Farewell. The White Hands is an attempted surrealistic visualization of a poem, using symbolic image sequences

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Poster for La tentation de l'innocence

1999 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Raphaëlle André is a brillant lawyer. The enigmatic death of her husband lead her into an investigation where she discovers new sides of the life of her late husband.

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Poster for Activated Memory I

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Activated Memory is a journey through a serene landscape where the trees and fields are at once surreal and familiar.Through the use of video feedback, 3d animation and color manipulations, the pictures render a new kind of space, a virtual world where only fragments of "reality" subsist.

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2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

One More River: The Deal that Split the Cree is a Gemini Award-nominated documentary about the decision making process of Quebec Crees to allow another mega-hydro project to be built on their land. This dramatic, behind-the-scenes look at the deal that split the Crees, dispels romantic notions of how decisions are made in Indigenous communities.

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Poster for Babblarna: God natt & sov gott Babblarna

2017 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Good night and sleep well Babblarna is 45 minutes long with short films, music videos, language games and dance films in a nice mix, just right for winding down before it's time to go to bed.

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