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Band of Sisters
Directed by Joel Fendelman • Documentary • 2004 • 7 minutes
On April 25th, 2004, 1.15 million women marched to the nation’s capital in Washington D.C. to protect and advance abortion rights. Band of Sisters is a retro feeling snapshot of the march filmed in multiple 16mm film stocks using a 1960...
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Teat Beat of Sex (series)
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In fifteen two-minute episodes, a woman reveals her most secret thoughts on intimate matters. In a humorous style that is both educational and shocking, these short animations on sex from a woman’s point of view manage to be both erotic and entertaining. Find out if “size really matters” and lear...
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Paris, a Winter's Day
Directed by Guy Gilles • Documentary • 1962 • 10 minutes
This is a love letter to living in Paris — even on a bitterly cold winter’s day. Interspersed with shots of the city, we hear from Parisians, including a group of boys on the joys of pelting passers-by with snowballs, and a 73-year-old who...
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Chris Marker's Bestiary
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French filmmaker Chris Marker is best known for politically engaged documentaries (A Grin without a Cat, Le Joli Mai and Cuba Si!), for his personalized "cine-essay" films (Sans Soleil, Remembrance of Things to Come and The Case of the Grinning Cat) and the science-fiction classic La Jetée. No ma...
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Great Man and Cinema (Jim Finn)
Directed by Jim Finn • Documentary • 2009 • 4 minutes
Kim Jong Il, the Stalinist David O. Selznick, runs the state film studio as a way of promoting his own and his father's cult of personality. The film's title "Great Man and Cinema" comes from a propaganda booklet filled with stories of how th...
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Special Delivery
Directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay • Animation • 1978 • 7 minutes
The first big mistake Ralph makes is not clearing the snow from the front walk, and his life goes downhill from that point on. By the end of the story, the mailman has fatally slipped on his job, Alice, his wife, doesn't ...
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A Game of Three Halves (series)
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Directed by Matthew Bate & Case Jernigan • Documentary & Animation • 2021 • 23 minutes
A five-part animated series that uses the unbridled creativity of handcrafted animation to reveal funny, profound, and illuminating stories from inside the world of football fandom. Premiered at Hot Docs 2021.
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Auction
Directed by Joel Fendelman • Documentary • 2015 • 8 minutes
The town of Gonzalez, Texas is not what it used to be, Main street is desolate, the population is shrinking, but the culture and history live on through story and communal gathering at this once a week tradition that has been alive sinc...
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Peel (Jane Campion)
Directed by Jane Campion • Drama • 1982 • 9 minutes
On a hot Australian summer's day, a recalcitrant, freckled, red-headed family of three go on a Sunday drive in the country. Their outing results in an intrigue of awesome belligerence.
Cannes, Golden Palm for Best Short Film
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Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell
Directed by Jim Finn • Documentary • 2009 • 3 minutes
River ice sets the scene for Judy Garland's international cri de coeur. It's hard to understate the amount of anxiety created by a vice president who usurped authority for eight years to start wars and wreck the economy and then sidled off to...
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Turn It Back (Lewis Klahr)
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2012 • 3 minutes
A feature-length melodrama compressed into just under three minutes, in which a quintessential '60s blonde discovers who she really desires.
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Starfish Aorta Colossus (Lynne Sachs)
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2015 • 5 minutes
Poetry watches film. Film reads poetry. Paolo Javier’s text is a catalyst for the digital sculpting of an 8mm Kodachrome canvas. Syntactical ruptures and the celebration of nouns illuminate twenty-five years of rediscovered film journeys. ...
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Anthem (Marlon Riggs)
Directed by Marlon Riggs • Documentary • 1991 • 8 minutes
Marlon Riggs' experimental music video politicizes the homoeroticism of African-American men. With images—sensual, sexual, and defiant—and words intended to provoke, Anthem reasserts the self-evident right to life and liberty in an era of...
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Marx for Beginners
Directed by Bob Godfrey • Animation • 1978 • 6 minutes
How many people have actually read the work of Karl Marx? Based on the book by the Mexican cartoonist Rius, MARX FOR BEGINNERS is a hilarious animated film that highlights Marx's most influential ideas, and places them into the context of we...
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Kriminalistik
Directed by Janie Geiser • Documentary • 2013 • 5 minutes
From the found book pages of an early twentieth-century German book on forensics, Geiser uncovers hidden narratives. Evidence is scientifically arranged and catalogued, suggesting a corridor to knowledge. Elusive. Crimson. From the Double...
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Your Name in Cellulite
Directed by Gail Noonan • Animation • 1995 • 6 minutes
A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman's natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the mega-billion dollar advertising industry, this animated film shows us how far we will go to change the shape of our bodies to meet the...
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Flowers of the Sky
Directed by Janie Geiser • Documentary • 2016 • 9 minutes
Flowers of the Sky (a medieval term for comets) draws on two panoramic photographs, found in a Los Angeles thrift shop, that depict a gathering of members of the Eastern Star, a Masonic order. From the Double Vision series.
“In Flowers o...
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Visit to Bernadette Mayer's Childhood Home (Lynne Sachs)
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2020 • 3 minutes
In July 1971, language poet Bernadette Mayer decided to document an entire month of her life. She called the project Memory. Each day, Mayer exposed a roll of 35 mm slide film and wrote in her journal. The result was 1,100 snapshots and a ...
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575 Castro St.
Directed by Jenni Olson • Documentary • With Harvey Milk • 2008 • 7 minutes
575 Castro St. reveals the play of light and shadow upon the walls of the Castro Camera Store set for Gus Van Sant's Oscar-winning feature film Milk. These mundane shots are almost bereft of movement and sound. So quiet,...
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New Inspiration - Floor Falls
Directed by Jennifer Paterson, Lewis Gourlay, Abby Warrilow • Documentary • 2021 • 3 minutes
Floor Falls is a collaboration between award winning film makers Lewis Gourlay and Abby Warrilow of Cagoule and aerial dance choreographer Jennifer Paterson of All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre, featur...
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Success
Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky • Documentary • 2014 • 3 minutes
Filmed in Times Square, this short film presents a dystopian vision of urban life in which the celebration of high-finance rewrites the topography of the city, while landscapes and indigenous cultures have been entrapped by a hyperbo...
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Christmas with Chávez
Directed by Jim Finn • Documentary • 2013 • 2 minutes
Weeks before the 2006 midterm elections, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez came to the United Nations and delivered his "smells of sulfur" speech about Bush. After that speech, Bush was officially a lame duck—the Republicans lost the House and...
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comunista!
Directed by Jim Finn • Documentary • 2001 • 4 minutes
"You are invited to Jim’s party! Snake optional." —Cinematexas Festival