24 Frames
"24 Frames" is a stop-motion animated black comedy mockumentary about a stop-motion animated film production at an art college in the southern U.S. The crew, which consists mainly of ambitious animation students, aspires to adapt a children's book into an animated film to impress the school's president, who also happens to be the director's mother-in-law.
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American Triptych
A person with a Polaroid camera, a woman utilizing a Singer sewing machine, a young man dressed in a Boy Scout uniform. Arranged in tableaus, the characters relationships to one another never fully coalesce, but rather each leave questions about American identities and the construction of cultural iconography.
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Anti-narrative Number 4
"Anti-narrative Number 4" is an experimental film in which a man's life is examined.
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Auntie & Me
A filmmaker documents her first meeting with her newly discovered "Auntie Pam", the product of the filmmaker's Hemingwayesque grandfather who worked as a photographer in Honduras in the 30's and 40's and Pam's mother Josephine, the family's caretaker.
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Bally Master
Enter the bizarre world of Scott Baker, master of the Bally stage at Coney Island's "Sideshows by the Seashore". Watch Scott as he performs his most outrageous sideshow routines and talks in depth about his life, the history of geeking and of the sideshow.
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Bottled
"Bottled" is about two people living in glass bottles. The bottles are located in an artist's studio and the characters are the creations of the artist. The hand, the artist, creates another male character for the woman to save her from loneliness.
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Butterfly Effect
On a bright, sunny morning, Eric and his neighbours in blue uniforms start the day in their bizarre town. An old brown briefcase fallen from the sky pushes them to a marathon. From the town with queer factories and the broccoli path, to the four characters and their replicas, all made in hard cut photos, this stop-motion video took more than half a year to create.
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Cantata in C Major
Six-hundred-five film clips are assembled and used to create a piece of electronic music.
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Cartesian Cunning
Cartesian Cunning is a film of illusion, about illusion and "the slight of hand" of memory.
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Ghosts of Ybor: Charlie Wall
This film documents the man behind local crime, a non-Italian, Charlie Wall, Tampa's first crime lord and perhaps the earliest crime lord to control most of Florida.
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Con el Toque de la Chaveta (With a Stroke of the Chaveta)
"Con el toque de la chaveta" (With a Stroke of the Chaveta) takes viewers into the legendary cigar factories of Cuba where we witness the unique tradition of 'la lectura de tabaqueria', the collective reading of literature while tabaqueros roll habanos.
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Dark Green
During the winter of 2006, filmmaker Bill Santen followed Lexington, Kentucky native Kris Kelly as she prepared to move out of her apartment and into urban wilderness.
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Daughters of Wisdom
Daughters of Wisdom is a story of the rural farmers and nomads of contemporary Tibet seen through the eyes of some of its most extraordinary women, the nuns of Kala Rongo Monastery of Nangchen, Kham.
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Dinner Table
A couple is having dinner on an ordinary day. The girl casually asks the boy who the food is. He answers. However, his manner of speaking takes her to her psychological journey.
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The Distance to the Sun
Bob Lazar talks, while we move to one of the most secret places ever, the "Groom Lake S4 Zone". The "Area 51" shapes a far mind-location for a unique deep experience.
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eDump
Less than a handful of people wonder where their retired cell phones or laptops end up. And many will be startled when they find their junk electronic devices are mostly likely going to be dumped into poor countries hurting workers health and polluting the rivers and air in communities in third world countries.
This film is a wake-up call to educate the public about the 'second life' of our beloved gadgets and why we need to be aware of this still growing problem.
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El Inmigrante
"El Inmigrante" is a documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north.
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For A Few Marbles More
In "For a few marbles more", four ten-year-olds are kicked out of their favorite playground by two aggressive drunkards. They realize they have only one solution: get the toughest boy in the neighborhood to help them.
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Fracas
The strong juxtaposition of childrens' school photos against anxious voices of an elementary spelling bee reveal a haunting reality of lost innocence in this experimental documentary.
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Gustav Braustache and the Auto-Debilitator
Gustav Braustache, inventor of the Pedestrian Direction Reverser and other popular devices, has never been one for managing the mundane details of daily life. His unconventional method of rent payment along with the untimely misfiring of his Position Despecifier launch him on a bizarre journey.
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Hero, Wings are not Necessary to Fly
Pascal Kleiman was born without arms, but this circumstance did not impede him to continue with his career as a disc jockey in techno music. A clear example that proves that will-power is stronger than any obstacle, whatever it is.
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The Horse
The Horse is a boy's coming-of-age story, written and directed by Charles Burnett. On and around the porch of an abandoned, disintegrating farm house an assortment of characters anxiously await the violent death of a horse.
The film won "First Prize" at Oberhausen's Short Film Festival. It was restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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Human Scale
Two twenty-something friends try to survive the instability of early adulthood while battling serious bipolar disorder.
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Killer of Sheep
Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.
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Kinetic Writings
A selection of pioneering kinetic realizations of words - a selection of kinetic texts made prior to 1988, 22 feet in length, any part of which may be viewed for any length, with a language-like soundtrack by Matthew Underwood.
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Kuna Ni Nanang (My Mother Said)
In this day and age, when everything is documented and even cell phones have cameras, one woman has no souvenirs or photos of her beloved mother. Meet Elena Bautista, 99 years...YOUNG.
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Love Lived on Death Row
"Love Lived on Death Row" tells the story of four siblings whose father was sentenced to die for the murder of their mother. Orphaned and estranged, they raised themselves while they lived with hate, anger and confusion as their father lived on death row. But in 2004, they collectively decided to visit him in prison, seeking answers so they could move on with their adult lives.
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Lovely Academic Slaughter Houses
An improvised meditation on the box-like conceptual mindset of academia, as it attempts to grapple with the bubblelike flow of the real world, with animated illustrations.
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Made in Japan
"...My mother admitted that the man who I thought was my father was not my father."
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Memories of a Dreamer
"Memories of a dreamer" is a first-hand account of the hardship suffered by a political prisoner of Chile's cruel 1973 and inhumane dictatorship. More than 30 years after, Felix Mora relives the shocking details of the human rights abuses he suffered, his escape from the dictatorship, and the challenges he faced as an exile in Italy and Canada.
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Men Shouldn't Sing
"Men Shouldn't Sing" is New Zealand's first independent feature length sci-fi/musical film. Made possible by more than ten thousand hours of volunteered time, it promises to not only redefine what can be achieved on a low budget, but also to invent a unique genre, making it another first for New Zealand's innovative film community.
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Moving Along
Dark imagery of conformity takes the screen as hip hop, rhythm and poetry are visualized in the Planets' track "Moving Along".
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My Brother's Wedding
My Brother's Wedding examines the differing duties of family and friends as well as the complexities of class within the black community.
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..Nästan som en i familjen (..Almost like one of the family)
In 1933 Anna-Helèn Johansson wrote 30 letters to her sister Clary. Anna-Helèn, young farmer's daughter, got the chance to live in a city household in Stockholm. There is a flow of descriptions in these letters and above all - a flow of feelings. Anna-Helèn was supposed to be like a member of the fine opera-family Stiebel. Instead, she became their maid.
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The New Samaritans
The Samaritans have existed for over 3600 years, but the current number of descendants is less than 900. When their spiritual leader lifted the strict prohibition of intermarriage with non-Samaritans, the first two lucky men set off to faraway lands in search of brides, on a quest to save this ancient civilization.
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Nice Bombs
Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to reunite with his family after nearly 24 years, documenting his unique relationship to an Iraq that is much different from the country of his childhood.
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Not Only Just Coffee
"Not Only Just Coffee" is an experimental and personal documentary exploring themes of immigration, death and media along the U.S./Mexico border and beyond. Coffee serves as a centerpiece to understand and connect cultures, histories and people throughout the work.
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On the Grind
A social portrait featuring street rapper, Artino Rope, who faces the possibility of homelessness and must reconcile the consequences of his quest for fame.
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Quiet As Kept
The latest short film by Charles Barnett, Quiet As Kept is the story of a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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Saint Death
In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing — the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper, considered a saint by followers but Satanic by the Catholic Church, is worshipped by people whose lives are filled with danger and violence.
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Scene Not Heard
Philadelphia continues to produce powerful hip-hop female voices as artists, promoters and writers. "Scene Not Heard" tells the story of these women — the legends, the famed, and the ingénues — as they struggle to succeed in a male-dominated industry in a city that has been left behind in the national consciousness.
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Several Friends
Several Friends (1969) is believed by his fans to be the precursor to Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, his subsequent feature film. The film is a series of loose, documentary-style vignettes sketching the lives of a handful of characters, mostly played by amateurs (Burnett's friends) living in Watts.
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Sightseeing
The life of a lonely travel journalist is disrupted when he returns to critique his childhood home where unresolved family enigmas lie in wait.
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Simulacra
In the vast universe, there's one robot planet where everything is machines and robots. One day, one robot found the one organic lifeform existing in his world. He decides he must have it.
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Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril
The woes of the American newspaper put democracy at risk. As paid circulation, ad revenue and stock prices plummet, can the Internet take up print journalism's historic role as the public's chief watchdog?
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Taxi to the Dark Side
A gripping investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration, "Taxi to the Dark Side" won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 2008 Academy Awards.
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Themes & Variations for the Naked Eye
"Themes and Variations for the Naked Eye" borrows tropes from the still life and aspires to the medical film. The curious subject uses a series of demolitions to think through the status of ordinary objects and their pictorial histories.
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Things Behind the Sun
This serious, powerful film centers on a Florida-based musician, Sherry (Kim Dickens), whose hit song recounts the dark story of her childhood rape. Sherry doesn’t quite remember the experience, and when she is approached by a man from her past, she is unaware that he harbors a dark secret about what actually happened to her when she was a 12-year-old girl.
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Tin Can Man
Recently dumped by his girlfriend for another man, working in a job he hates, things could be better for Peter. One night, while he is alone in his apartment, there is a knock at the door. His life will never be the same again.
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Torn Asunder
This video creatively explores the increasingly frayed American national psyche. The young urban voices are two of Tampa Bay's most popular performance poets. The art and post-production were handled by two baby boomers.
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Uno degli Ultimi
Mauro is a 78-year-old Italian peasant who loves his life. He picks olives, grapes, cherries. He wonders why anybody would want to do anything else. Mauro is part of the landscape, and he wants it to survive.
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Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)
In the summer of 2006, a non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.
But it was the people's use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.
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Untitled (2007)
A portrait of humanity, lonely and estranged.
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War Dance
Nominated for the Academy Award's Best Documentory, "War Dance" follows three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda as they compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
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What I See When I Close My Eyes
This short documentary looks at how several of Phnom Penh's (Cambodia) 20,000 street kids are being helped by Mith Samlanh of Friends International. The children's stories range from the simple wish of a young girl to have enough soap, to the bold dream of a teenage boy to help drug addicts kick their habit and find work.
Much of the film is told through the life-sized self portraits the children draw of themselves-an art project inspired by the film's title: "What I See When I Close My Eyes".
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When It Rains
In this jazz-inspired short film, a self-described urban "griot" spends New Year's Day canvassing his neighborhood to scrape together enough rent money to keep a mother and daughter from losing their apartment. Featuring a cast and crew made up of director Charles Burnett's own circle of friends, this film recalls his earlier works in its South Central Los Angeles setting and outstanding music.
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