WORLD PREMIERE When he is only seven years old, a young boy confronts his mother’s first attempts at suicide. He responds the only way he knows how: beginning an enumerated list of “brilliant things” worth living for, from “things with stripes” to “water fights.” As he grows, so does the list, following this boy through subsequent […]
WORLD PREMIERE – In 1980, Bruce Springsteen released his pivotal double album “The River.” In “The Ties That Bind,” Grammy and Emmy winning director Thom Zimny focuses on the making of the album. In an intimate interview, Springsteen reflects on the tumultuous, extended period of writing and recording. The film transitions between Springsteen telling the […]
True innovation. What Lies Beneath the Sky (USA, 9 min., Vladimir de Fontenay) turns NYC into a canvas for a meditative city portrait in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Morgan Green Shaves Her Head Backwards (USA, 3 min., Morgan Green), records it and sets it to a score. A filmmaker discovers María 95 (USA, 14 […]
Take a trip around the world. Visit Havana in Boxeadora (USA, 16 min., Meg Smaker), where Namibia, Cuba’s only female boxer, wants a chance to fight. Hop over to São Paulo in Worlds on Edge (Brazil, 25 min., Thiago B. Mendonça, Renata Jardim), where lives lived side-by-side are worlds apart. Jet to Warsaw for the […]
Portraits of everyday characters. Tiger Hood (USA, 7 min., Christopher André Marks) profiles Patrick, an urban golfer who has a mean trashcan handicap. Pink Boy (USA, 15 min., Eric Rockey) shows us that real boys wear tutus. Inventor Dominic wants to make everyone’s life sweeter in The Reinvention of Normal (UK, 8 min., Liam Saint-Pierre). […]
NYC PREMIERE Morgan Green records and manipulates a video of herself shaving her head in an attempt to control her perceived identity.
NYC PREMIERE Follow Nigeria’s elusive hyena boys into their secret world of animal magic and voodoo.
NYC PREMIERE Patrick Barr, a.k.a. “Tiger Hood,” has a passion for golf, but lacking the proper equipment, Tiger ‘hits the links’ on the corner of Spring St. and Lafayette, amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City.
Three men discuss their lives working as dunk tank clowns, a job requiring quick wit, a thick skin and stamina, in carnivals across the north-east.
WORLD PREMIERE Conrad Milster, 79, chief engineer since 1967 at New York City’s oldest running steam power plant, prepares for his last annual steam whistle show.