Inspired by the surreal, live-tracked 2019 Northern British Columbia manhunt, this haunting, fever-dream parable charts a crisis of modern connection across deep class divides. The film tracks Joey, a working-class nineteen-year-old gamer hollowing out his isolation in digital simulations, and Kit, a companion from privilege chasing an unspoken, desperate desire to dissolve into something real….
“Luminous.”–Laurie Anderson “Weintraub makes use of an archive of rare photographs, home movies, hand-drawn scores and signal flow diagrams, excerpts of unheard music, and rare footage from live performances, to assemble an impression of Oliveros that is charmingly funny, wise and profoundly real but without disturbing her essential mystery. What emerges is a clear image of…
BUST / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Angalis Field, Screenwriters: Angalis Field, Eliza Barry Callahan, Producer: Drake Burnette) — A trans cop with the New York City Police Department goes undercover to make a drug bust. Cast: Lux Pascal, Nicky DeMarie, Cole Doman.
In the latest true-life portrait by the Austin team of Ivete Lucas and Patrick Xavier Bresnan, a veterinarian’s series of home visits culminates in a painful but very kind-hearted experience with a special patient. – Notes by Jason Anderson, TIFF Programmer, Short Cuts. A New Yorker Release. Upcoming Screening Schedule North American Premiere: TIFF -(Shortcuts…
SYDNEY & KIM is a film about the demise of a close friendship, exploring how sickness and debility transform what we hold most dear. “Equally motivated by Mumblecore filmmaking of the 1990s and the New Topographics landscape photography movement of the 1970s, Sydney & Kim theorizes SoCal “shitty heaven” as an allegory for the ubiquity…
A 10 minute coming-of-age film about an 18 year old trans boy who becomes enamoured with a passing cyclist, set in rural Oregon.
Four celluloid love letters sent from different parts of the world to Velvet Underground agent, Warhol collaborator, and renaissance Factory man Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat.
Emerging Dutch filmmaker Angelo Raaijmakers paints an excruciating vision of a seemingly rare phenomena in this visually striking short film about a young man obsessed with having a perfect physique and the frightening lengths he will go to to achieve sculptural perfection.
A young girl uses her innate gifts to fight back against an abusive local boy in this witchy revenge fantasy starring up and coming Mexican actress Ruth Ramos.
OTHERS is a collection of eight surreal vignettes comically exploring what it means to be connected to another person. Each piece focuses on a different person in the midst of a seemingly mundane moment, connected by an umbilical cord to an innocent and unpredictable being.
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