NYC PREMIERE Working from his ramshackle home studio in rural France, taxidermist Jacques Gilbert breathes new life into dead skin – transforming plaster, metal and flesh into eerily lifelike sculptured animals. From improvising his first animal at the age of 12 through to the realities of working surrounded by death, Jacques offers a fascinating insight […]
Making a living. Skateboarders join together to start a pickle business in New York City in Half Sour (USA, 15 min., Sean McGing & Mary Anne Rothberg). A Scottish man’s Buffalo Dreams (UK, 16 min., Maurice O’Brien) may go up in smoke if he can’t get his commercial bison farm to turn a profit. Jacques, […]
WORLD PREMIERE The roads we erect and the cars we drive maximize our comfort and efficiency, but at what cost? As You Pass By commences an exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, an infamous highway in New York City that slices through the two named boroughs. We pause in Woodside, Queens to observe one of the […]
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Dante DeMille and Hank Iken are two octogenarian volunteers who muse on life and death as they restore old aircraft in a forgotten hangar of Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Airfield. This is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: LOST + FOUND
NYC PREMIERE President Kennedy handles a scandal over some pricey bedroom furniture in the last summer of his presidency. This is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: LOST + FOUND
NYC PREMIERE Leading United States legal expert on China, and the first American lawyer there after normalization of US-China relations, Jerome Alan Cohen, tells the harrowing tale of how and why his China studies prepared him to rescue his college classmate, Jack Downey, from ‘behind enemy lines’ after Downey’s CIA mission to infiltrate communist China […]
WORLD PREMIERE Do you see what I see?’. The fading New York City public telephones sadly stand in the midst of a crowd that disregards their presence. John and Mark care for them, although each in his own manner. The former is the owner of one of the last remaining independent payphone companies; the latter […]
Travel down US Highway 127 from Michigan to Alabama and meet the people at the world’s longest yard sale — an annual four-day, 690-mile exchange of not only goods, but also narratives. As we traverse the sale, we meet a quirky cast of characters. Through objects bought and sold, they tell stories of love, loss, […]
A recollection of the infamous, edgy, lesbian party Clit Club, which boasted a intergenerational, cross-racial, sexually charged, mixed class venue emblematic of gritty, vibrant, pre-gentrified Manhattan. This is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: LOST + FOUND
NYC PREMIERE Cherry Pop was no ordinary cat. She ate nothing but filet mignon and Evian water, traveled in customized Louis Vuitton luggage, and lounged in a mini-Rolls Royce Corniche that matched her owners. When Cherry Pop’s birthday came around, the Vaneks pulled out all the stops, chartering yachts, hiring orchestras, and spending more on […]