Complete event listing for
Alamo Ritz 1
320 East 6th St
Friday, March 9
Photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In "Chasing Ice", Balog deploys revolutionary time-...
Director(s): Jeff OrlowskiDocumentary Feature
76 min
In the gig poster community, artists such as Daniel Danger and Jay Ryan prove that creating this artwork is a way of life, more than just a career. These artists are at the forefront of an expansion of the gig poster gen...
Director(s): Scout ShannonDocumentary Feature
98 min
"Girls Against Boys" is a character-driven, psychological thriller about two girls on a killing spree in New York. With edgy and ironic humor and a darkly meditative tone that is far more European or Asian than...
Director(s): Austin ChickNarrative Feature
87 min
Saturday, March 10
In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as their new diet forces them to navigate the agricultural indu...
Director(s): Andrew Beck GraceDocumentary Feature
62 min
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. "Girl Model" follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambi...
Director(s): A. Sabin, David RedmonDocumentary Feature
77 min
"Tchoupitoulas" is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-...
Director(s): Bill Ross, Turner RossDocumentary Feature
80 min
May, a high-strung and overly meticulous nurse, must return to Los Angeles to retrieve bone marrow for a transplant. Soon after her trip begins, her world turns upside down when past and present collide and she runs smac...
Director(s): Ernesto Foronda, Silas HowardNarrative Feature
87 min
Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker) whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters, engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom. De...
Director(s): Rick AlversonNarrative Feature
92 min
World War II did not end with complete defeat for the Nazis – some of them managed to utilize their secret technologies to flee to the dark side of the Moon. There, deep within their swastika fortress, Schwarze Sonne,...
Director(s): Timo VuorensolaNarrative Feature
93 min
Sunday, March 11
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most win...
Director(s): Katie DellamaggioreDocumentary Feature
101 min
After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other's flaws to get back together. They take what they hope will be a romantic camping trip in Sequoia National Park. Alone in the ma...
Director(s): Adele RomanskiNarrative Feature
80 min
At a time when the country is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront of national attention. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana is poised to become...
Director(s): Rebecca Richman CohenDocumentary Feature
72 min
From Jay and Mark Duplass, the writer/directors of the Sundance hits “The Puffy Chair,” “Cyrus” and the upcoming “Jeff Who Lives at Home” comes “The Do-Deca-Pentathalon” - the story of two grown brothers ...
Director(s): Jay Duplass, Mark DuplassNarrative Feature
90 min
Zach, a wealthy, alcoholic divorcee and father, is torn between his past love and present infatuation. His obsession for Rebecca, who he affectionately calls Crazy Eyes, seems to be driving him to the brink of madness an...
Director(s): Adam ShermanNarrative Feature
95 min
A man is on a holiday in the woods with his wife and two kids when they are surprised by the arrival of an uninvited guest. Suddenly, he experiences a time lapse. Before he understands what’s going on, he finds himself...
Director(s): Joko AnwarNarrative Feature
87 min
Monday, March 12
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. "Girl Model" follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambi...
Director(s): A. Sabin, David RedmonDocumentary Feature
77 min
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses migrate from the United States to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring people to work each day. Sin...
Director(s): Mark KendallDocumentary Feature
71 min
“Degenerate Art” tells the story of glass pipe-making from the origins of the “color-changing” pipe, to the radical emerging art movement it has become today. Despite federal laws, pipe-makers have created a whol...
Director(s): M. SlingerDocumentary Feature
74 min
Troy Billings is seventeen, overweight, and suicidal. Just as he's about to jump in front of a bus, he's saved by Marcus, a charming high school dropout/street musician. The two begin an uneasy friendship when Marcus en...
Director(s): Matthew LillardNarrative Feature
94 min
Nominated for Outstanding Debut at this year's BAFTAs, "Black Pond" tells the story of an ordinary family who are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langha...
Director(s): Tom Kingsley, Will SharpeNarrative Feature
82 min
On the street, they call it “soy sauce.” It's a paranormal, psychoactive drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. Its users drift across time and dimensions, but some who come back are devoid of al...
Director(s): Don CoscarelliNarrative Feature
100 min
Tuesday, March 13
"Dreams of a Life" is an imaginative and multilayered quest to go beyond the newspaper reports and solve the mystery of who thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent was and why she lay undiscovered for three years a...
Director(s): Carol MorleyDocumentary Feature
91 min
"WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines" traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, W...
Director(s): Kristy Guevara-FlanaganDocumentary Feature
65 min
Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction ca...
Director(s): Nir PaniryNarrative Feature
88 min
Produced by Oxford Film and Television, Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies is Bafta winner Patrick Forbes' seventy-six-minute documentary of the Wikileaks affair as told by the people involved: personal, moving and frequently h...
Director(s): Patrick ForbesDocumentary Feature
81 min
"Sleepwalk With Me" is a comedy written by, directed by and starring comedian Mike Birbiglia, based on a true story he told in his one-man off-Broadway show and his first book. The film follows the journey of a...
Director(s): Mike BirbigliaNarrative Feature
80 min
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-ol...
Director(s): Juan Carlos FresnadilloNarrative Feature
93 min
Wednesday, March 14
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most win...
Director(s): Katie DellamaggioreDocumentary Feature
101 min
From Led Zeppelin to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to Madonna, Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, Bob Gruen has captured half a century of music through the eye of a lens. In this landmark documentary, G...
Director(s): Don LettsDocumentary Feature
104 min
Alexander Ebert performs his first single "A Million Years" amidst a world of extraordinary facial landscapes.......
Director(s): Benjamin KutskoMusic Video
4 min
In this playful stopmotion animated musicvideo monsters move to the beats & melody of the music. The characters come into existance after a failure in a laboratory, from which they manage to escape and find their way...
Director(s): Marieke VerbiesenMusic Video
03 min
My Machines chronicles an unfortunate man's seemingly never-ending fall down an up escalator.......
Director(s): DANIELSMusic Video
3 min
A live action music video challenging viewers to play a game of Spot The Differences between two split screens while paying attention to the performance of emerging New West rapper Casey Veggies.......
Director(s): John BollozosMusic Video
04 min
An animated Ode to the golden age of space travel.......
Director(s): Céline DesrumauxMusic Video
3 min
In “African Mayonnaise”, the 6th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, Celebrity gets Fucked.......
Director(s): PJ RavalMusic Video
4 min
Afraid of the unknown, a young man squanders his nights with poor decisions and bad memories. He allows his fear of death to consume him.......
Director(s): Kevin LinMusic Video
2 min
"Empyrean" is a music video developed by Ganesh Rao and Jonny Greenwald at the Dept. of Visualization at Texas A&M University under the guidance of Professor Karen Hillier. The objective was to create a vis...
Director(s): Ganesh RaoMusic Video
03 min
A girl enters a room and seduces her guitar. Around her neck she wears the religious 'Evil Eye' symbol. The evil eye is an icon that is superstitiously believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck for...
Director(s): Jeppe KolstrupMusic Video
3 min
A mesmerizing music video that combines mural art, body painting, stop motion animation and live action cinematography to create a unique visual metaphor expressing the song's story of heartbreak. The video was awarded t...
Director(s): Natasha PincusMusic Video
4 min
This live music video was shot in unvarnished everyday space. Hawaaii sings at a laundry in a small town.The music flows through the washing and welcomes you with open arms.......
Director(s): Churl GwonMusic Video
03 min
A young runaway yeti embarks on an adventure into the human world and along the way, makes an unexpected friend in Jon Hamm. Herman Dune's music video for "Tell Me Something I Don't know," is directed by Toben ...
Director(s): Toben SeymourMusic Video
6 min
A man is stalked by a mysterious warrior as he traverses his own fractured mindscape in search of a fading memory.......
Director(s): Young ReplicantMusic Video
3 min
The video begins by concentrating on the singer and explicit the polyphonic mechanism through which the base of the song is constructed. When the lyrics start, the video turns to a natural scene, more lyrical and organic...
Director(s): Lucas BorrasMusic Video
3 min
The official music video for Kina Grannis' song "In Your Arms" is a three and a half minute piece of stop motion insanity using 288,000 jelly beans to create worlds that Kina travels through and interacts with....
Director(s): Greg JardinMusic Video
3 min
Boxcar Fair follows a wandering explorer who stumbles upon a magical fair in the middle of a desert. Artist Tom Haney creates an array of intricate puppets to help illustrate the story. The entirety of Boxcar Fair was sh...
Director(s): Brock Scott, Tom HaneyMusic Video
3 min
Alexander, ''A Million Years'' Director: Benjamin Kutsko Baskerville, ''Reloaded'' Director: Marieke Verbiesen Battles, ''My Machines'' Director: DANIELS Casey Veggies, ''Euphoria II'' Director: John Bollozos Céline...
Director(s): VariousShorts Program
85 min
In this music video for Porter Robinson's Spitfire, we emulated a videogame style paintball match shot in one-take with the Phantom Flex @ 1,000 fps. Dont forget to have a looksy at the chat box ;) PS: The dog wasn't h...
Director(s): Saman KeshavarzMusic Video
2 min
Playing The Villain” video is horror inspired surprise in which three 'villainous' looking youths, out for some trouble, get unexpectedly assaulted by subwoofers when they attempt to steal a BMW from an estate! The vid...
Director(s): Matt DevineMusic Video
4 min
Parix is depicted teenage procrastination. Whatever direction you move it hurts. And you ask yourself: Why am I here fucking up my life so crucially? Why can’t I do what’s best for me? Your mind is floating, but you...
Director(s): Daniel Kragh-JacobsenMusic Video
03 min
A barrage of fanciful dance vignettes—from booty-bouncing YouTube stars and disco-ball ballerinas to musical comedian Reggie Watts and a sexy nun Rockette - the video allows Of Montreal's side project, Yip Deceiver to ...
Director(s): Brandon LaGanke, John CarlucciMusic Video
4 min
This Music Video for French electro sensation Yuksek, entitled, “Always On The Run,” follows a vicious posse, completely off the grid, taken right out of a Mad Max-inspired fashion editorial as they leave a path of a...
Director(s): SkinnyMusic Video
3 min
"Amor Cronico" follows the flamboyant Grammy nominated Cuban-born and New York based singer CuCu Diamantes on her tour around Cuba. The film interweaves footage of live musical performances with a fictional lov...
Director(s): Jorge PerugorriaNarrative Feature
80 min
“Degenerate Art” tells the story of glass pipe-making from the origins of the “color-changing” pipe, to the radical emerging art movement it has become today. Despite federal laws, pipe-makers have created a whol...
Director(s): M. SlingerDocumentary Feature
74 min
Charged with murder and likely going to jail, crime boss Reg Bellavance is out on bail and wants to skip town with his son. The only problem is that the money he had stashed away for just such an occasion has gone missin...
Director(s): Steven C. MillerNarrative Feature
87 min
Thursday, March 15
When spoiled Ossi hears that her friend has married a count, her father promises to buy her a prince. The ensuing temper tantrums and mistaken identities make a comic mockery of Ossi’s moneyed world. From 1919, this fi...
Director(s): Ernst LubitschNarrative Feature
60 min
In 1994 Korean-American teenager, Hyun Jae, went to a bar in New Mexico where a handsome young man posing as a firefighter offered her a ride home. Then she was abducted and smuggled into Las Vegas where she was imprison...
Director(s): Megan GriffithsNarrative Feature
98 min
Set amid the noisy outskirts of some unnamed Mexican metropolis, "Los Chidos" tells the story of the Gonzales Family. Proprietors of a tire repair junkyard sandwiched between two busy freeways, the Gonzales cla...
Director(s): Omar Rodriguez LopezNarrative Feature
94 min
A comedy about two brothers, a girl with a broken heart, a sex tape, an angel and a pig... Frank (CHARLIE HUNNAM) has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated -- usually on film -- by his brother Bruce (CHRIS O'DO...
Director(s): Jordan RobertsNarrative Feature
87 min
On the street, they call it “soy sauce.” It's a paranormal, psychoactive drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. Its users drift across time and dimensions, but some who come back are devoid of al...
Director(s): Don CoscarelliNarrative Feature
100 min
Friday, March 16
Zach, a wealthy, alcoholic divorcee and father, is torn between his past love and present infatuation. His obsession for Rebecca, who he affectionately calls Crazy Eyes, seems to be driving him to the brink of madness an...
Director(s): Adam ShermanNarrative Feature
95 min
It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the...
Director(s): Kevin McManus, Matthew McManusNarrative Feature
85 min
San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura (playing himself) is at the height of his career. With a national tour on the horizon and one of his songs being featured in a widely-seen TV commercial, Goh has the life he always wan...
Director(s): Dave BoyleNarrative Feature
73 min
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. ...
Director(s): Bobcat GoldthwaitNarrative Feature
100 min
Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in grou...
Director(s): Mandy Stein, Benjamen LoganDocumentary Feature
105 min
"V/H/S" is a POV, found footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers. In "V/H/S", a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in...
Director(s): Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio SilenceNarrative Feature
115 min
Saturday, March 17
Gary Lucas' live original solo guitar soundtrack accompanying the legendary 1967 Brazilian cult horror film classic directed by and starring Jose Mojica Marins aka Coffin Joe.......
Director(s): Jose Mojica MarinsNarrative Feature
107 min
Small Apartments' Franklin Franklin is a fully realized and sympathetic protagonist in the vein of Ignatius Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces), a simple man who yearns for “a land of pastoral serenity” devoid of the ir...
Director(s): Jonas ÅkerlundNarrative Feature
94 min
In the gig poster community, artists such as Daniel Danger and Jay Ryan prove that creating this artwork is a way of life, more than just a career. These artists are at the forefront of an expansion of the gig poster gen...
Director(s): Scout ShannonDocumentary Feature
98 min