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Anselm
A hypnotic portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Presents an immersive cinematic experience of the German artist's work, which explores the overawing beauty of human existence, landscape,and myth while confronting the horrors of his country's history and seeking to undo the postwar silence in which both artist and director came of age.
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Demon Mineral
Demon Mineral can be considered an anti-Western, flipping the classical cinematic paradigm by centering the voices and experiences of the Diné community to explore the legacy of uranium mining in Diné Bikeyah, the sacred homelands of the Navajo where over 500 unremediated mines are scattered across an area the size of West Virginia. In the span of just four generations entire ways of living have been lost or severely compromised, as mining has contaminated the air, water, livestock, and land upon which the community relies for its existence. The film also celebrates the actions the Diné community is taking to fight against new mines and improve life in an irradiated ecosystem which has resulted in a sharp rise in cancer, kidney failure, and other diseases...In keeping with Diné relations with the earth, the land itself is also a central character whose history, purpose, and power is explored. Through community elders, a valuable oral history is shared that expands the scale from the profit-drive short term of mining companies to the cosmic timeline upon which Uranium exists and breaks down. Some Diné adhere to the tenets of an origin story wherein a demon contentedly lives in the earth. The demon will bother no-one unless disturbed, having been laid there by a formidable warrior. Uranium, for millions of years to come, is perhaps this demon made real.
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Hilma
Exploring Hilma af Klint's enigmatic life, now recognized as one of the Western world's first abstract artists. She defied convention to live a free life as an artist in a time when women could not even vote.
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Kinds of Kindness
Follows a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life, a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person, and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
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Kneecap
When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap fast become the unlikely figureheads of a CivilRights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound--whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies.
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My Love Affair With Marriage
A humorous exploration of one woman's quest for perfect love and lasting marriage in this groundbreaking animated feature film.
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Not A Pretty Picture
Filmmaker Martha Coolidge made her feature debut with this unflinchingly personal hybrid of documentary and fiction. Centered on an intense reenactment of Coolidge's experience of rape in her adolescence, the film casts Michele Manenti (also a survivor) as the director's younger self and observes the actor and her castmates as they engage in a profound dialogue about what it means to recreate these traumatic memories, and about their attitudes concerning consent and self-blame. A high stakes experiment in meta cinema that broke new ground with its uncompromising examination of date rape, the film brings a stunning immediacy to questions about the on-screen representation of sexual violence and the limits of artistic catharsis.
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Roots of Comedy with Jesus Trejo
Jesus Trejo embarks on a journey across America meeting with six rising comedians--Ali Sultan, Vanessa Gonzalez, Eeland Stribling, Tatanka Means, Adam Pasi and Sierra Katow--who explore the diversity of the U.S. through the lens of stand-up comedy.
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Something You Said Last Night
After being fired from her job, Ren joins her family on vacation. The realities of being a stunted millennial and a trans woman coalesce as Ren struggles to balance yearning for independence with the comfort of being taken care of.
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Vinyl nation
Examines the resurgence in popularity of vinyl records, its diverse fanbase, and its impact on American society
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Waikiki
When a Native Hawaiian hula dancer escaping her abusive boyfriend crashes her van into a mysterious homeless man, she finds herself flung into a surrealistic journey of self-exploration and reconnection to nature within the shadows of commercial Waikiki. This intimate narrative breaks down the enduring, stereotypical image of paradise to reveal a vulnerable and authentic portrait of indigeneity.
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