Eraserhead Xiu Xiu is a new live concert with accompanying film & full-length album that uses field recordings, concert specific homemade instruments, organ, modular synths, vocals, flashlights, electrical interference, and elements of musique concrete to express the bizarre emotionality, conflicted sexuality, relentless darkness, and singularly unsettled moonscape of this most incredible of midnight masterpieces.
Through nearly a thousand found footage videos from the early internet, filmmaker Marcus Batto recreates the day of Michael Jackson's passing, assembling a vast, fragmented portrait of the cultural earthquake. Equal parts elegy, musical, and excavation into the death of the King of Pop from the lens of strangers, critics and bystanders.
A teenage girl who has felt different for as long as she can remember becomes isolated after years of bullying and loneliness. Everything changes when she discovers cinema, a place that helps her find hope, peace, and a way back to herself.
In early ‘70s rural England, George and Tommy, two teenaged friends-of-a-friend, meet up on an Essex basketball court. One invites the other to accompany him to a dealer’s home to score some weed.
A quiet whistling returned from childhood; the calm of a sky and a river dissolving into one another, from which emerges the image of a loved one. For the duration of a reflection, the water reveals memories and offers the delicacy of a glimpse into the course of a life.
Hidden behind a horse mask, a young lonely woman ventures into the world of adult content creation. She must face her fear of being truly seen when a connection with a client springs unexpected feelings of love.
A washed-up video game developer reunites with his estranged brother in Thailand in order to chase their late father's dream of uncovering a long-lost treasure.
Provide some real-life stories or personal experiences about young migrants living in Hangzhou.Assigned a report topic titled "Hangzhou Drifters" by her workplace, Ah Yue chooses to film her college classmate Feifei. By chance, she captures the entire breakup between Feifei and her boyfriend Ah Xing, which stems from their irreconcilable plans for the future.After the split, Feifei heads to Shanghai for career opportunities. Meanwhile, Ah Xing teams up with Ah Yue and Mr. Ma to rent a shared apartment and launch a livestream startup amid the wave of property market bailout policies. The three live and work side by side in this cramped small space, keeping a delicate, fragile equilibrium. Their livestream series "Cyber Spiritual Practice" blows up online out of the blue. Just as quiet romantic feelings begin to grow between Ah Xing and Ah Yue, Feifei suddenly comes back to Hangzhou...
A documentary exploring the relationship between devotion, dairy, and modern Hindu practice through the lens of Krishna consciousness in contemporary India. In the excuse of God, we have institutionalized a contradiction. "What Krishna Saw" investigates the profound disconnect between the ancient, revered sanctity of the cow in Hindu tradition and the stark realities of the modern, industrial dairy complex that fuels today's rituals.
The land belongs to those who work it. But what about houses, homes, the place where one can rest and start a family? Image and sound unfold the history of the underlying structures that turn the right to a home into a tool of control, exploitation or dispossession.
Wang Yunchan, a 28-year-old woman who has drifted in Beijing for a decade, has long struggled to survive on the fringes of the city. She decides to go back to her hometown to find her childhood friend Liu Xiaolu. However, the transformed hometown, altered old classmates and a completely changed Liu Xiaolu make her realize for the first time that she is destined to live a migratory life.
As his parents prepare to divorce and sell the home he grew up in, filmmaker Andrew Garbus turns the camera on his family and himself, unearthing long buried trauma, unresolved guilt, and the elusive hope of healing over one agonizing, revelatory week.
On a cold winter night, Chloé (18), a clerk at her family’s convenience store, stages a fake robbery with her girlfriend Rosalie in order to make off with the money from the store’s safe. The arrival of her uncle Marc (47), whom she hasn’t seen in two years, at the convenience store late that evening throws their plans into disarray. Marc is at the end of his rope. He doesn’t have a penny to his name and is willing to do anything to get his brother David, the convenience store’s owner, to come and see him so he can ask him for money.