A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.Read More »

Experimental short film by Jun MiyazakiRead More »

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner’s course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students.Read More »

Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas, shopping malls, and prefab metal buildings. In True Stories, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show—all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience.Read More »

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This seems to be one of Baillie’s most under-seen but it’s my favorite of his. Only an artist with beautiful heart and soul can create something like this, point camera as firmly as Lumiére’s to daily observation but instead the family unit transcends the everyday and the observational; father’s ode to his child becomes expression of the most meaningful love, the haptic communication reveals so much and every little detail that doesn’t make sense just strengthens the feeling of life and love. This is the film that should echo in the eternity – if someone from strange planet should come and visit after the earth is in ruins and all life is gone, this is what they should be seeing.Read More »

A documentary depicting the day- and nighttime behaviors of African animals.Read More »

Tulay, a restless woman whose marriage is slowly disintegrating sets out to come to terms with various traumas while continually being watched by Halit, a resident in her apartment complex.Read More »

This short documents the important role played by bread in the daily life of the city of Paris.Read More »

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Set in the desert-weird wilds of Joshua Tree, California, Serpentine Pink is a distinctively visceral and surreal independent, female-centric film that digs into the various and rigorous ways a heart heals from trauma. Inspired by France’s Grand Guignol style of horror theatre, and utilizing a lyrical language both visual and verbal to capture the strange poetry of the Mojave land and soundscape, Serpentine Pink follows a reclusive biker woman and her John Wayne-obsessed exotic dancer lover’s disturbing fallout after a violent acid attack. An ethereal psychic and her aspiring healer companion converge with supernatural forces in an attempt to confront and then heal the women’s – as well as their own – deep-rooted, personal pain that comes from trying to break the cycle of possessive love.Read More »