Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • With Richard Kik • 2018 • 7 minutes

Richard Kik chooses, breeds, maintains, and studies the fish at Detroit's historic Belle Isle Aquarium, holding this gorgeous and fragile institution essentially on his shoulders. Richard is als...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 9 minutes

Iasos began receiving music in his head from another dimension when he was a college student in 1965. He called it 'Paradise Music', and it was unlike anything he had ever heard. These incoming signals, and his ef...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 5 minutes

Under a bridge near a train station in Jakarta, Indonesia, an outdoor nightclub is the last of its kind, keeping a traditional Sundanese art­form called Jaipong alive. Jaipong, originally a village ritual associat...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 11 minutes

On any given night, you may find yourself serenaded by a living mannequin on Sunset Blvd. A Gulf War veteran, motorcycle gang member, stockbroker, chimney sweep, inventor, musician, and brilliant performer, we ha...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 8 minutes

First held in 1969 in Spivey’s Corner, North Carolina, the annual National Hollerin’ Contest is a daylong celebration of Southern cultural heritage and preservation of an archaic means of long­ distance communicat...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • With Susan Dietrich Schneider • 2018 • 8 minutes

The Space Lady, aka Susan Dietrich Schneider, became a staple of the Bay Area outsider music scene through years of busking the streets out of necessity. Her ethereal, echo-­laden a...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 14 minutes

John Schneider won a 2015 Grammy for his album performing music composed by the midcentury genius Harry Partch, an American pioneer of microtonal music. Why has Schneider, a music theory professor and radio host,...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 10 minutes

"Tuvan throat-singing", or khoomei, is an ancient pastime in the steppes of Tuva, a country nestled between Mongolia and Russia. For thousands of years, herders and farmers there have taught their children to sin...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 16 minutes

We were invited to a fetish ceremony in the innercity of Accra, the capital of Ghana. What we found was animal sacrifice, ancestor communion, and some of the most tranced-out hypnotic drumming in the world.

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 12 minutes

Three generations of artists make up Fantasies in Crystal, although one of them is dead. Erin Schneider and her father, the Grammy-winning musician John Schneider, perform hypnotic live music to a slideshow of cr...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 13 minutes

Onyx Ashanti is a Detroit-based Afrofuturist living in a basement with only an extension cord from a nearby unit. When he's not traveling the world having sonic conversations about evolution and technology, he's ...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 14 minutes

There's this instrument called the "a'reng", played by the Pako people in Vietnam and Laos. It's one of the craziest most beautiful most perplexing musical instruments on Earth. We set off for Vietnam to try and ...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 17 minutes

In Long Beach, CA, a late-blooming newlywed couple work to preserve the remnants of Cambodian music and literature left in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide, which they both escaped from in the early 1980's. W...

Directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Nick George • Documentary • 2018 • 14 minutes

The members of Marginal Consort met in art school in 1970's Japan. They create elaborate instrumental systems from household items and hardware-store treasures.

Once a year, Marginal Consort meets up to perfo...

Directed by Jarrod Cann & Erick Stoll • Documentary • 2016 • 16 minutes

In the Spring of 2001, the African-American community of Over-the-Rhine in downtown Cincinnati arose in protest after unarmed 19-year-old, Timothy Thomas, was killed by a white officer named Steven Roach. In the years follow...

Directed by Michael T Workman  • Documentary • 2022 • 19 minutes

After Tim’s work-related stroke leads to troubling health complications, his son Michael returns home to Montana. As they spend the most time together since Michael’s childhood, they reckon with the past that haunts Tim.

Meanti...

Directed by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil • Documentary • 2021 • 2 minutes

The members of Marginal Consort met in art school in 1970's Japan. They create elaborate instrumental systems from household items and hardware-store treasures.

Once a year, Marginal Consort meets up to perform. The...

Directed by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil • Documentary • 2021 • 14 minutes

WorldsChat is a social virtual world that was launched in 1994, and is still online today. Users can equip avatars and hang out in 3D spaces, conversing with each other over text-based chat. WorldsChat allowed users to...

Directed by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil • Documentary • 2021 • 28 minutes

In 1991, 21-year-old game developer Tim Sweeney launched a simplistic, already-outdated MS-DOS game that would become, entirely by accident, the most popular hobbyist game development tool of the 90’s.

ZZT's free, r...

Directed by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil • Documentary • 2021 • 28 minutes

In the mid-2000’s, Cyan Worlds, creators of the massively popular adventure game Myst, released an ambitious online sequel that never caught on the way they'd hoped. Myst Online: Uru Live sought to translate the single...

Directed by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil • Documentary • 2021 • 25 minutes

The first person shooter Doom launched in 1993 and quickly secured its place in popular culture. The game’s creators were unusually mod-friendly, and they set the game up so it was easy and legal for fans to create the...

Directed by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil • Documentary • 2021 • 28 minutes

Habitat, the first ever graphical massively multiplayer online game, emerged on the Commodore 64 home micro computer in 1986. Because the game was the first of its kind, its developers tried a number of odd experiments...

Directed by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil • Documentary • 2021 • 30 minutes

Arguably the most well known social virtual world, Second Life started in 2003 and it’s still online today. The software is extremely flexible, and users are able to customize almost every aspect of the experience. The...

Directed by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil • Documentary • 2023 • 26 minutes

The illegally cracked and fan-translated version of RPG Maker was one of the most popular hobbyist game engines of the early 2000's. The creator of the cult classic Space Funeral shows us how RPG Maker's collage-like n...