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Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
An avant-garde experimental documentary eighty years in the making photographed and conceived by Nikko Martinez. A harmonious matrimony of image and sound, this anti-film serves as retrospective of his family's history, personal failures and rejections, his on-going independent experimental filmmaking career, a reflection of his ongoing scrimmage against a mental illness, and an optimistic glimpse of his coming days. BAKLAYCORE is not cinema, it's Nikko Martinez's life.
Danya is a charismatic and eccentric young man who is having difficulties communicating with the opposite sex. At 24, he is still a virgin and dreams of finding real love. At a dance class, our hero meets a girl who shows a mutual interest in him. They come very close to having a sexual encounter, but overexcitement prevents Danya from parting with his innocence.
Guto was born in a colony of Ukrainian immigrants in Paraná. He left his parents' home when he was just 11 years old. The family split up over cultural and religious issues. Thirty years later, he returns to his home village to reconnect with his past.
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
The troubadour of rap hedonism of the 2010s, who became one of the main voices of protest in the 2020s at the peak of his form.
A film that follows a man walking on an ice covered bay only few meters in front of a huge icebreaker.
Based on Howard Roffman's world-wide best selling photography book, this this video diary of Kris, John and Gary documents the challenges and joys of a three-way love relationship. Gorgeous and uninhibited, these American boys in London have agreed to let the outside world into their private lives.
Glamorously eccentric and enigmatic Theremin master Armen Ra recounts his dynamic journey in this life-spanning documentary that mixes rare concert performances, candid interviews, and archive material with the magical power of music that can alchemize ancient sorrow into timeless beauty.
An in-camera 16mm edit of the 1st anniversary/birthday/funeral of OWS in New York City, as seen from an embedded role in the Jellyfish Brigade, an ad hoc affinity group formed to participate in the day's event. Bold impact fonts compliment and countervail the images toward a warm antagonism.
Griffith once noticed: "What the modern movie lacks is the beauty of moving wind in the trees." As third part of the series of filmworks Monument to Another Man’s Fatherland, View from the Acropolis explores the site where the Pergamon Altar was taken from in the late 19th century. Today a Berlin highlight, the altar was originally built around 200 BC in Anatolia (present day Turkey). In the landscape, different cultures, present and past are interwoven, connected by their presence, the wind and the changing light.
About Progg - progressive music in Sweden. "Everyone can play" was the slogan of the 70's music movement. But was everyone welcome to play? About capitalism, politics, equality between the sexes and hating ABBA.
Tells the story of climate refugees across six continents, celebrating the voices and experiences of people living at the forefront of the climate crisis, displaced from their homes by climate disasters.
A woman finds peace during the pandemic in her solitary routine as the innkeeper of an historic Bay Area lighthouse. As her time on the island draws to an end and a return to the world she left behind beckons, life on the island raises larger questions about our relationship to the natural world, time, work, and home.
Hélio Oiticica was one of the artists that most united reflection with artistic creation. His ideas and propositions, expressed not only in texts but also in statements and interviews, revolutionized art and culture, transforming him into one of the most important Brazilian artists of the 20th century. Foregoing voiceover narration and expert analyses, the film allows Oiticica himself to narrate his life and expound upon his art in his own words, and in extremely rare archival audio and visual material.
A film about the murder of Olof Palme. The clock starts when the killer fires the first fatal shot. Second by second, the testimonies are placed and the witnesses tell what they saw. A new, surprising scenario of what has reasonably happened emerges.
A series of recordings that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sent to filmmaker Jean Renoir are the starting point for reconstructing the love affair that the French writer and aviator established with the "Argentine princesses" Edda and Suzzane Fuchs, protagonists of the chapter "Oasis" in his book Tierra de Hombre and inspiration for his masterpiece The Little Prince.
Spring has turned into autumn, and the beauty and yield of the garden have changed.
