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Trypps #6 (Malobi)
From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic. It's Halloween at the Equator, Andrei Tarkovsky for the jungle set. TRYPPS #6 (MALOBI) is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series...Watch Movie -
Trypps #7 (Badlands)
“Regarding LSD, brass bells, the youth of today, Terence Malick and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, phase cancellation, the Pine Ridge Reservation and the Romantic Sublime.” That’s how Ben Russell describes this surround sound installment of TRYPPS, an ongoing exploration...Watch Movie -
The Death of Abraham Lincoln (in Three Parts)
Started in 1998 but completed in 2000, THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (IN THREE PARTS) is an ahistorical re-enactment of the strange and curious events that led up to the untimely demise of our nation's sixteenth president. Each chapter is loosely connected to the others via a...Watch Movie
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The Breathers-In
Ben Russell’s early short pushes silent film narration into uncharted territory. Two women in Victorian dress land in a new country by sea and wander its emptied industrial landscape. They call each other sister and learn to make money. One is diagnosed with scurvy by a...Watch Movie -
Terra Incognita
A pinhole film, a cheap robot voice, a makeshift history. An explorer's tale of the unknown part of the world. TERRA INCOGNITA is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are garbled together by a computer narrator,...Watch Movie -
Daily Dozens
The "Joybell Players" consisting of Jack Cooper, Ethelyn Gibson and Jack Richardson star in this very funny comedy from writer/director Robert Tansey. Producer Billy West was himself a silent film comedian, and was the best-known and most successful Charlie Chaplin imitator.Watch Movie
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Mansyon
A middle-aged couple, housemaid Dolores and her gardener Ambo, is hired to take care of a large, opulent house while its owners are away on vacation. This old, disconnected couple finds themselves inhabiting a space far removed from their normal reality, surrounded by a life beyond their reach....Watch Movie -
Unfinished Spaces
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes...Watch Movie
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Vietnam Long Time Coming
In 1998, World T.E.A.M. (The Exceptional Athlete Matters) Sports organized a 16-day, 1100 mile bicycle expedition through once war-torn Northern and Southern Vietnam, drawing an array of veterans from the U.S. and Vietnam, as well as celebrity riders like Greg La Monde and...Watch Movie -
UE/Wells
An organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago is followed in UE/ WELLS. The multiethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African-American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race as a wedge to divide them.Watch Movie -
Higher Goals
An educational companion piece to HOOP DREAMS, HIGHER GOALS features National Basketball Association star Isiah Thomas in a fast-paced, entertaining documentary that encourages young athletes to put their dreams of professional sports in perspective and focus on getting an education.Watch Movie
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Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries
A video made to accompany an art exhibit at The Spertus Museum addressing the relationships of African Americans and American Jews. This video takes you in to the studios of twelve artists, six Black and six Jewish, as they prepare their work for the show.Watch Movie -
Painting the Way to the Moon
In the 1980s, Princeton mathematician Ed Belbruno worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by day and made space-inspired paintings by night. In his free time, Ed became obsessed with figuring out a new way of space travel and over five years he toiled to find a solution....Watch Movie -
The Box
Every year, thousands of teens are placed in solitary confinement cells in juvenile halls, jails and prisons nationwide. This animated short tells the story of Ismael "Izzy" Nazario and the time he spent in solitary confinement in New York City's Rikers Island jail. This story is based on an...Watch Movie
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Death in Small Doses
Government agent Tom Kaylor (Peter Graves) is assigned the task of investigating the illegal use of amphetamines by long haul truck drivers. He goes under cover as a trucker to find the suppliers and crack the drug ring. Directed by Joseph Newman, this slice of fifties action...Watch Movie -
My Man Godfrey
Whilst on a scavenger hunt for a high society party game, Cornelia Bullock and her sister Irene find Godfrey, a tramp living on the city dump. Godfrey takes a dislike to Cornelia and decides to help Irene win the hunt for a "forgotten man." Soon Irene persuades him to work for her family as the...Watch Movie -
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Jennifer Jones is the American housewife on vacation in Italy who must choose between returning home to her husband and family in Philadelphia or her romance with an Italian academic played by Montgomery Clift. The entire drama takes place at Rome's railway station, the...Watch Movie -
Blood on the Sun
James Cagney is Nick Condon, a journalist working on the Tokyo Chronicle just prior to World War II. He is a newspaperman determined to expose the truth at the risk of offending the Japanese government. When Condon finds the wife of a colleague murdered he suspects the...Watch Movie
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Devil's Gate
The metaphysical undercurrents of a Southern California landscape scarred by fire are explored in DEVIL’S GATE. The film lyrically depicts the physical and mythological terrain of Devil's Gate Dam, located at the nexus of Pasadena's historical relationship with technology and the occult, and...Watch Movie -
Life on the V
In the early 1980s, Massachusetts radio personality John Garabedian came up with a plan to launch a TV channel to function as music television for the Boston-based college crowd. His goal was to take the Music Video television concept and make it live (real time) and local (catering to Boston's...Watch Movie -
Autobonus
An American dream in Finland is a brand new car and a monthly income of 150,000 Euros. The worst recession period of Finnish history is over but unemployment is decreasing slowly. The spectacular financial growth gained by the Finnish Nokia hasn't reached everyone. Viljo and Kaisu Mikkonen along...Watch Movie
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Our Summer
A documentary film by Mika Ronkainen about the phases of a family and the cycle of generations. A story about a middle-aged woman who decides to change the direction of development (even just for one summer). Anitta Kolehmainen, a mother of five children, lives in a small village of Karunki close...Watch Movie -
The Box
A withering craftsman caters to the requests of iron ore. He breathes life into them as he listens to their wishes. His most prominent creation, a traveling box, wanders the landscape, following railroad tracks, collecting the memories of people. In this harsh world, life is dwindling and the...Watch Movie -
Scene Missing
Some years ago I was involved in a fruitless attempt to persuade Universal to bring WALKER out on Blu-Ray and DVD. They did neither, though they did turn the DVD rights over to Criterion, eventually... In the course of this, I suggested to Dennis Hopper that he and I make "making of"...Watch Movie -
Sunday Ball
Eryk Rocha's SUNDAY BALL focuses on a fourteen-team, annual soccer championship among favela teams in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Set in the Sampaio neighborhood (close to the Maracana Stadium, where the 2014 World Cup final was held), the film brings audiences up-close to a final match between two...Watch Movie
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Ballet Mechanique
A seminal work of abstract cinema still hell-bent on speed, BALLET MECANIQUE remains a touchstone for modernist preoccupations with industry, mass culture, repetition and montage. The true hero of Fernand Leger's only film is the lowly film splice. With its capacity for...Watch Movie -
The Men of Dodge City
Twentysomething J. and two of his close friends are in the process of realizing their utopian dream: turning an abandoned church building into a grant-powered environmentally sustainable art space. The physical labor is endless but progress is hard to measure, and the...Watch Movie -
Stinking Heaven
Married couple Jim and Lucy run a commune for sober living out of their suburban New Jersey home. The motley members eat, bathe and work together selling homemade "health tea" out of their van. Although there's constant bickering and plenty of fires to be put out, Jim and Lucy have managed to...Watch Movie
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Bi the Way
Feature documentary BI THE WAY takes its audience on an adventure-packed road trip through the changing sexual landscape of America. From a former cheerleader in Memphis who must choose whether to hide her sexuality or face a life on the streets, to a swinger in Los Angeles whose fantasies usher...Watch Movie -
Sacred Transformations
Tattoos are forever: to celebrate a milestone, to mourn a loss, as a declaration of undying love and sometimes as a reminder of some poor judgment after a late night drinking or on vacation. SACRED TRANSFORMATIONS is the story of Eric Dean Spruth as he helps people to...Watch Movie -
Grassroots Chicago
A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes on community organizing in different Chicago neighborhoods: LeClaire Courts, Marquette Park, Roseland, Pilsen, Uptown, Rogers...Watch Movie