A squatter spends his days with his dog in a decrepit, abandoned house until a discovery entices him out.
DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes.
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
When a cinephilic line cook, Hogan, meets Sierra, the girl of his dreams, he must navigate his past trauma and deal with the truth behind his father’s absence.
Porcupine evokes the fragmented tale of a young man who breaks into an empty hospital to set up his online broadcast of poses and provocations; his audience includes real-life participants with anonymous tags like ‘bigballnz’ and ‘romeoazteca’.
A dancer falls. Can she get back up?
In 1960s Nagaland, a proud Konyak chief struggles to protect his dying traditions when an American missionary arrives with promises of aid that threaten his people’s identity. As his wife’s health deteriorates and famine looms, he and his mute son must make an impossible choice between survival and staying true to their ancestral ways.
A man and a woman in Lagos want to escape their everyday lives, but extricating themselves is no easy task. Two stories narrated with tenderness and restraint that only fleetingly touch, the dream of migrating to Europe floating above them all the while.
Set in a one-night-special-event for a couple, a storm is gathering to their little country, and as the couple get ready for their celebration, some things come near they to make the night little more scarier.
HOW BRIEF is a disappearing act set over the course of one night in 1962 when a restless woman returns to her childhood home for the last time, inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Connie Converse.
The director offers a rare glimpse of the actor and fashion muse Chloë Sevigny in the late 90s when she as an emerging ingénue. Shot on 16mm black and white, Sevigny plays air guitar and dress-up in a film that beautifully captures the spirit of the time.
A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual and, ultimately, revelation.
A young woman uses a strange telephone service to leave messages for her departed brother.
In a building where silence and order usually prevail, Estela tries to sleep, unable to doze off due to the passionate nights of her young neighbors. Tired of their disrespect, she calls for a consortium meeting to decide the couple's new fate.
A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
A successful but embattled Black entrepreneur, Leo Marks, turns to violence against perceived traitors in his media company as his control slips, culminating in a tragic showdown that explores themes of power, betrayal, and legacy.
As a winter storm approaches the shallow water crystallizes, ice builds up along the edges of a stream, and the first snowflakes of the storm layer over the newly formed ice. The following morning a soft light approaches through the snow covered forest.
Clouds forming and moving through the summer sky.
In the early 1900s commercial loggers cut down an old growth spruce tree growing on a small island surrounded by tide pools on the coast of Maine. Out of the trunk of this ancient tree grew two new trees, side by side.
Mountain wildflowers in a dense fog.