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& so Lunar New Year is a durational effort, a sequence of 4 digital, 13 analog vertically oriented portraits, all made handheld with found and...

This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s long-delayed reunion with Kamala, the aunt she...

Left to viewer interpretation, this beautiful dance piece displays a spiritual or religious initiation. A short work, this film was released as part...

A documentary on the 1924 Olympic Game in Paris.

Whispering Walls is a creative, cinematic, and artistic meditation on a Turkish artist in New York in the 1960s as he is trying to navigate his way...

Through a conversation with photographer Winston Vargas, we explore the evolution of the Dominican community that migrated from one island to...

Bums' Paradise depicts the lives of the men and women who lived in the ten-year-old Albany Landfill community prior to their eviction. It follows...

The ping pong table at Seward Park in New York City and the in-between space of a Cold War. An immigration lawyer advises on how to tell the truth.

Fragments of bereavement and collapsing love appear in an isolated house between the land and the sea. Death arrives. The landscape shivers. What...

Two friends, one a college student and the other a clerk for a local grocery store, play cat-and-mouse with the INS while struggling to make ends...

War is no joke. But does that mean you can't joke about war? Stand-up comedian Mariana Shama fled from Kiev to Prague. Here she wonders if it is...

A dark and enigmatic ritual in which a solitary figure moves through a desert burial ground. The objects left behind speak their own silent language.

A walk around the suburbs of Helsinki

Experimental video about word-blindness and metophor, with accounts of Giambattista Vico's theory on the origin of language and Ludwig Wittgenstein's...

A story about a gay couple raising two young children, the documentary shows their will to overcome societal challenges using the power of timeless...

A robot tries to take his first steps toward freedom.

Sam Geiger suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a painful illness of the connective tissues. The intrusion of this chronic illness into every aspect...

A radio plant transmits that Havana and nearby towns have fallen. Hundreds of young people dance in a bunker and a man whispers verses from the Bible...