Two years after American photojournalist James Foley went missing in Syria, the graphic video of his public execution served as the shocking introduction of ISIS to the world. Unwilling to allow his childhood friend to be remembered only by his death, Brian Oakes celebrates Foley’s life through intimate, revealing interviews with family members and friends. […]
A short documentary profiling The Dogist (@thedogist) aka Elias Weiss Friedman, Instagram canine-photographer and author.
If you can make it here… An artist embarks on The Moving Camera Project (USA, 5 min., Andrew Moynehan, Chelsea Moynehan), while a courthouse job helps a Working Stiff (USA, 5 min., Sarah Hanssen) support his art. The Dogist (USA, 6 min., E.J. McLeavey- Fisher) profiles an Instagram canine photographer and author, while The Tricks […]
WORLD PREMIERE Experience the mind of artist Maciej Markowicz as he embarks on his latest work, a giant camera of New York proportions.
Five creators, five mediums. Jim Morrison’s last months in Paris, 1971 (USA, 11 min., David Khachatorian) are imaginatively recounted. James Turrell: You Who Look (USA, 8 min., Jessica Yu) offers a glimpse into the artist’s boundary-pushing work. A Brazilian punk poet is invited to Harvard after years of neglect by the literary establishment in Chacal: […]
NYC PREMIERE Embark on a dazzling journey through time via the remarkable images of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting and his epic “LIFE” project, a stunning interpretation of life on Earth from the Big Bang through the present. The film also recounts Lanting’s own evolution from natural history photographer to visual chronicler of life on […]
Special offer: 5 for $5 sale on this film ends at midnight, Nov 5. NYC PREMIERE Even as a child, Enrique Metinides was obsessed with images, photographing car accidents in his Mexico City neighborhood and snapping pictures at the local morgue. Tabloids soon started publishing his photos, beginning his three-decade career as a crime photographer. Through Metinides’s compelling […]
NYC PREMIERE Ms. Sherman created the Untitled Film Stills from 1977 to 1980, totaling 69 images, it is arguably her most coveted series.
Artists and their art. Sideshow of the Absurd (USA, 14 min., Tina DiFeliciantonio, Jane C. Wagner) profiles antique carnival attractions. Cindy Sherman: “Untitled Film Stills” (USA, 4 min., Douglas Sloan) puts the famed photographer’s early work into focus. Colors of Life (Japan, 14 min., Goro Ushijima) explores the Japanese practice of creating colors found in […]
WORLD PREMIERE Finding unexpected beauty in the overlooked, discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed a body of work that has garnered international acclaim, fruitful collaborations with writers such as Stephen Jay Gould and admirers like Errol Morris. An Art That Nature Makes details Purcell’s fascination with the natural world – from a mastodon […]