A young woman is abducted and seemingly brainwashed via an organic material harvested from a specific orchid. She later meets a man and after the two fall for each other, they come to realize he may also have been subjec…

Lensed in colour and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores Harry Dean Stanton’s enigmatic outlook on his life and his unexploited talents as a musician. “Putting the focus on the music rather than his person helped t…

“Touba" reveals a face of Islam essential to these divisive times. It chronicles the Grand Magaal pilgrimage of 1 million Sufi Muslims to the holy city of Touba, Senegal. Shot on 16mm, its vivid cinematography and integr…

Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with artistic expressions – painting, theatre, film, poetry. At its center was the groundbreaking filmmaker and poet James Broughton. “Big Joy” explores …

There are an estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans over the age of 55. LGBTQ seniors are 5 times less likely to access social services than their heterosexual counterparts, half as likely to have heal…

The bar is three customers deep and the bartenders are in the weeds at the greatest cocktail party since before Prohibition. Two bartenders try to achieve their dreams through bartending. An injured Marine turns his goal…

For years, Doug Collins has been wading through a routine unsatisfying job and an increasingly miserable relationship. After his girlfriend moves out, Doug pushes himself to live a more fulfilling life starting with a tr…

Pug, a wisecracking 13 year old living on a dangerous Westside block, has one goal in mind: to join The 12 O’Clock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore. Converging from all parts of the inner city, they …

Young Malawian William Kamkwamba teaches himself to build a power-generating windmill from junk parts, successfully rescuing his family from poverty and famine. He becomes an energy icon for the developing world and meet…

An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly oppos…

"The Short Game" follows the lives of eight of the best 7-year old golfers in the world as they train for and compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The annual tournament held at golfing mecca Pinehurst, Nort…

Two lost souls. One last chance. Melanie's life in a seaside town is going nowhere until she meets Ray, back in town with a shady job to do. A moment's escape becomes a chance to save themselves, and each other. "Everyon…

Wild Records is an LA indie music label comprised of young, Hispanic musicians, and run by Irishman, Reb Kennedy. Wild is an unconventional family, reminiscent of the early days of Sun Records, all of its musicians write…

"We Always Lie To Strangers" is a story of family, community, music and tradition set against the backdrop of Branson, Missouri, a remote Ozark Mountain town that is one of the biggest tourist destinations in the United …

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sis…

Bernice Stokes and Fontayne Gamble grew up the closest of friends. After high school Bernice got into social services and corrections work, Fontayne just got into trouble. Twenty years later Bernice is assigned as parole…

The parallel stories of two gay men in a small Texas town. There’s Gabe: a contractor who’s getting over an ill-fated affair with a married man and finds solace in the relationship he still harbors with his ex-wife, Shan…

"Kelly + Victor" is adapted by Kieran Evans from the acclaimed novel by Niall Griffiths, and shot in Liverpool. It is a raw, compelling, passionate love story set against the backdrop of a highly cinematic Liverpool, t…

In this psychological thriller, nineteen-year old Charlotte enlists the help of alcoholic ex-Marine Wayne to find her estranged sister who has gone missing deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Their search leads them to th…

The Blue Umbrella Director: Saschka Unseld It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in th…

It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in the midst, two umbrellas—one blue, one not—f…

For sixteen years cicadas live underground. They emerge for one glorious night to live out their lives in hope of finding happiness and maybe... love. They gather for the grand cicada party at the castle, knowing that wh…

Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world. "The Event" is based on a poem by Tom Chivers and was commissioned by Random Acts for Channel 4 in the UK.……

Set in a crumbling black-and-white futuristic metropolis, void of creativity and color, the city is traversed by The Gold Sparrow and her nefarious side kick, The Ring Leader. Together they scour the gray-scale streets, …

Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.……

Fifty-something Willy returns to the naturist community where he spent his youth to visit his sick mother. When she dies shortly after he arrives, Willy is confronted with the choices he made in his life. In confused sad…

For more than 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate directly with the outside world. Until Now. These are the actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynic…

A man wakes up with a weird feeling. His parents are selling his childhood home. A goodbye/love letter to Florida.……

A journey through time & space, and the fight for existence. A dark premise contrasted with the divine imaginary creates a hypnotic ride of tone and emotion. Only "in-camera effects" were used to capture "Sci-Fly". The …

It's just another boring day in the the most boring job in the world. Even the robots doing the jobs are bored. They'll do anything to get out of it, even take one of those over sized 'You're leaving' cards around the fa…

Before sunrise on August 29, 2005 Nolan (Paul Walker) arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez) who has gone into early labor. What should be one of the happiest days of Nolan’…

Filmed over the course of six months, this film tells the incredible story of three young women: Nadia, Masha and Katia. As members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, they performed a 40 second "punk prayer" insi…

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In “Big Shot”, the 7th installment of the CHRISTEENE video collection, rabbits roam free across the sinister landscape of CHRISTEENE’s fuck fantasy.……

"Secret Fear" is an exploration of the conflicts between opposing archetypes and contrasting skin tones, black water and fire, claustrophobia, and the need for intimacy, love, death, repeat, in a rotating glass coffin.……

Shot in the Nickerson Gardens housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles, this film deals with themes of violence, camaraderie, and spirituality through the lens of magical realism. Video courtesy of Warp Records……

This video stars Foster the People preparing for a sold out show, when the set collapses, "killing" all of them. The show must go on, so the record label hires some outside assistance to mechanically engineer the band to…

Babies are little people, but they are experiencing the world so much harder than everyone else. Pacified one moment, releasing harrowing screams the next. This film explores what might drive such conviction, visualizing…

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Music video for Killer Mike's "Regan" railing against the US government's dealings. The targets include the last five presidents, aliens, a killer robot, and Mike himself.……

Every word to "Magnolia" (188) was handmade using cardboard (discarded from grocery stores), hot glue guns, and paint pens. Random people in over 65+ locations and a handful of friends were used as rappers throughout the…

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Director Peter Sluszka utilizes a medley of visual techniques in his music video for the U.K. based band Moones and their single "Better Energy". Shipwrecked on an iceberg floating in the frigid seas, the marooned band t…

Alt-J (∆) - ''Breezeblocks'' Director: Ellis Bahl CHRISTEENE - "Big Shot" Director: PJ Raval Daniel Bedingfield - ''Secret Fear'' Director: Daniel Bedingfield Flying Lotus - ''Until The Quiet Comes'' Director: Kahlil…

Righchus discovers that the mysterious properties of lights can help him to visualize his thoughts and memories.……

Bob Harlow gently and naturally captures life in a cinematic suburb of Philadelphia. Against a bleak but beautiful landscape, a group of characterful young men are modern day cowboys, riding horses through the towns run-…

A serial killer played by Jake Gyllenhaal travels through the hippest parties on a killing spree of Dalston hipsters. Amidst a world of unflinching ignorant hipsters, Jake navigates his way through East London house part…

In this comedy retro infomercial, Slugabed is selling his "Slugabed's Turbo Juicer 4000". This juicer and it's mini factory-like inner workings will transform your crushed audio-tapes through a stop-frame animated proces…

A beat is laid out, hesitantly moving along at first, then taking off, shimmering, turning darker, and then Sóley raises her voice. "Bad Dream" is phantasmagoric and haunting song, taken from the Icelandic singer Sóley´s…

Inspired by 80s fantasy movies and electronic music, Starcadian's debut music video is a love letter to VHS and childhood. "HE^RT" is the first part of an interconnected anthology that follows the voyage of a mysterious …

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There are two main characters, Wild Belle's, Natalie and her "little man". Set in a shanty town of Kingston, Jamaica the audience watches as Natalie struggles with her "little man's" womanizing, and her inability to unde…

The singer told me he sings about a rough break-up: whatever you do to keep the relationship going, it's not going to work anymore. So that's how I decided to let him undertake a journey to the bottom of the ocean. A ver…

Unique, uplifting and heartbreaking, "The Network" is the story of Afghanistan’s first independent television network – TOLO TV – and the family behind it. TOLO TV has grown to be Afghanistan’s largest and most successfu…

In "Maladies", an idiosyncratic drama from the internationally acclaimed painter, sculptor and filmmaker, Carter, Academy Award®-nominee James Franco stars as James, a former actor who along with his sister Patricia (Fal…

Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outsp…

"I Am Divine" is the story of Divine, aka Harris Glenn Milstead, from his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth to internationally recognized drag superstar through his collaboration with filmmaker J…

Young Malawian William Kamkwamba teaches himself to build a power-generating windmill from junk parts, successfully rescuing his family from poverty and famine. He becomes an energy icon for the developing world and meet…

The parallel stories of two gay men in a small Texas town. There’s Gabe: a contractor who’s getting over an ill-fated affair with a married man and finds solace in the relationship he still harbors with his ex-wife, Shan…

Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake US accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded “the rapping P…

"Reality Show" is a darkly comedic satire that follows the exploits of reality TV producer Mickey Wagner and his amoral attempt to re-invent the reality genre. Mickey's revolutionary idea is to pick an average family and…

Upon release from prison, a solitary man known only as “the Rambler” embarks on a mysterious journey en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Traversing treacherous back roads, lost highways, and isolated sma…

Pug, a wisecracking 13 year old living on a dangerous Westside block, has one goal in mind: to join The 12 O’Clock Boys; the notorious urban dirt-bike gang of Baltimore. Converging from all parts of the inner city, they …

Based on his play, Neil LaBute's script follows a successful writer (Adam Brody) who, on the eve of his wedding, travels across the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for past relationship tra…

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sis…

"The Short Game" follows the lives of eight of the best 7-year old golfers in the world as they train for and compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The annual tournament held at golfing mecca Pinehurst, Nort…

Breaking up is hard to do. Desperate and lonely, Stan (Michael Stahl-David) learns that his ex, Cathy (Ashley Bell), will be in Austin for the weekend and hops on a flight to the Lone Star State in hopes of “accidentally…

On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.……

“Touba" reveals a face of Islam essential to these divisive times. It chronicles the Grand Magaal pilgrimage of 1 million Sufi Muslims to the holy city of Touba, Senegal. Shot on 16mm, its vivid cinematography and integr…

On their 1963 Christmas record, The Beatles give thanks to “Good Ol’ Freda!” in Liverpool, their devoted secretary and friend. History notes that The Beatles were together for 10 years, but Freda Kelly worked for them fo…

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