Film Format: Digital File

  • Devi (Goddess)

    Tara is a feisty teenager living with her single mother – a proud and elaborate woman, who resists her daughter’s fleeting outbursts of rebellion. Tara risks family and social tradition as she pursues her attraction towards her housemaid, Devi. When they are caught together at a dinner party, Tara must suddenly define who she really is. Set in New Delhi, the film explores the reality of being a closeted lesbian in contemporary India.

  • Ritual

    “Ritual” is a non-linear video piece that explores cosmic mythmaking. As the video loops, a cyclical story of birth, separation, transformation, purification, death, and rebirth is told through provocative imagery and lyrical text.

  • Empire State

    As an Elder goes about preparing wild onions and corn, the outside world infiltrates through the TV: the fall of the Twin Towers, the hit on Baghdad, and the first death of a Native American soldier overseas. A subtly poignant film that simply told gives strength to the old man and to those who bear witness. Image description: An Indigenous Elder’s hands hold a paring knife, cutting the roots off a wild green onion stalk. More green onions lie on a cloth below.

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    In this very personal experimental work, director Terry Jones reflects upon the moment he was told he was “different” and how that left an imprint on the narrative of his life.

  • ALTERATIONS

    J’s manic depressive mother, Mary Jane, had a heart attack when J told her that she wanted to live as a woman. Now J is making a movie to sort things out. When Mary Jane awoke from her coma, she woke up believing that she is someone else. J’s brother insists that J patches things up with their amnesiac mother and when the two meet again for the first time as women, an innocent, weekend adventure to face each other’s fears manages to keep their monsters at bay. Protected by their new identities, the two women find a best friend…

  • Chez Mademoiselle Fifi

    Welcome to Chez Mademoiselle Fifi where you will find the most blood-soaked erotic spectacles in town. Never come alone!

  • Frissons

    Hurry hurry step this way and see with your own eyes the pillaging of the public domain Prelinger archives! See the sampling and remixing of archival footage from the heyday of Coney Island and the horror genre, creating a cinematic fun house mirror of carnival themes around the dreadful and uncanny presence of marvelous freaks that you can see for the price of a small thin dime! If you hurry, hurry, hurry!

  • Main Attraction

    Mario the Magician and his community of ‘freak’ friends discover they are threatened by eviction from the abandoned building they are squatting by a real estate speculator and condo developer.

  • Uncanny

    A young girl reads a horror comic about a businessman who abducts homeless women with uncanny results.

  • Isolamento

    Shot on wonderful Super 8, “Isolamento” is a grand culmination of the themes: isolation, fear, beauty, gluttony, assimilation, environment and sexuality, merged into one great stream of consciousness. An ever changing zoetrope of scenes flowing from one to another. At its heart is a mother who feels like she’s enabling her son’s mental illness with any action she takes, driving him further into darkness. A father who grinds away at a life that has him on his knees. He yearns for the way out, wishing to return to a more natural way of life. A son who’s so fed up…