Born in 1956 with osteogenesis imperfecta, Yuuho faced a life filled with physical challenges and societal prejudice. Overwhelmed by despair, she once attempted suicide. However, everything changed at 19 when she joined a disability rights movement. At 27, she studied abroad in the United States, where she encountered feminism and began to redefine her identity. Now, Yuuho proudly declares, “My body is beautiful.”
Amanda has painted in isolation for years, using art as both expression and refuge. Institutionalised and labelled, she reclaims her narrative through her canvas. As she prepares for her first retrospective, her story reaches national newspapers, and she navigates the vulnerability of sharing her art and her truth. Will this confrontation lead to healing or a reopening of old wounds? Through immersive explorations of her luminous works, Jiménez’s documentary captures Amanda’s transformation of silence into radiance.
A portrait of Leonard Knight and his visionary monument, Salvation Mountain. Painted with 18 coats of donated latex paint, Salvation Mountain, was created over many years, and shows how one man's determination and faith can make for quite a majestic achievement.
A short archival documentary exploring how people come to the UK in search of a better life, only to find that the reality often falls short of their expectations.
This archival documentary traces the history of Kilawin Kolektibo, a pioneering collective of Filipnxs who came together in NYC in the mid-nineties. Having experienced marginalization in Filipino culture because of their queerness, as well as in mainstream gay culture because of their race, language, and gender, the members of the group sought political empowerment and increased visibility. But above all, they sought to create a space of friendship and safety for those who found themselves suspended between cultures and identities.
To mark the announcement of the new KCW Tag Team Championship Title, KCW returns to the Hairy Dog in Derby for it's first ever tag tournament to crown the new champs.
Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Franky and Coen, two passionate entrepreneurs, have been traveling with their chip shop to frontline areas. There, they provide residents, refugees, children, and soldiers with a warm moment of hope and comfort: a bowl of fries as a powerful gesture of humanity in times of war. What drives Franky and Coen to do this? And what is it like for their loved ones, who repeatedly see them depart for a war zone?
Lila Avilés, the award-winning writer-director of Tótem and The Chambermaid, follows Leticia Gallardo and her all-female band Mujeres del Viento Florido, musicians from more than 60 Indigenous communities across Mexico who travel from the mountainous region of Tlahuitoltepec to Oaxaca and Mexico City bringing joyous popular music and a kind of brassy defiance of centuries of persecution. - MoMA
Commissioned for the Hammer Museum’s new exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal, Ephraim Asili’s Isis & Osiris reimagines the jazz legend’s experimentations with harp, the instrument that her husband, John Coltrane, bequeathed to her upon his death in 1967 and that became essential to her spiritual and musical evolution. Alice Coltrane’s legacy, and her recently restored concert grand crowned harp, live on in the work of the award-winning contemporary musician Brandee Younger. - MoMA
After its premiere at the Berlinale Forum in February '75, Anna was also presented in Venice, the film was followed by a very well-participated debate, alongside Alberto Grifi there was Adriano Aprà, and among those present was Tatti Sanguineti, the author of a very articulate critical speech. The footage of this meeting is part of the 30 cassettes containing the video footage from which the film was edited, thanks to the work of Anna Maria Licciardello, the Cineteca Nazionale with the Fondazione Grifi and the La camera ottica laboratory in Gorizia.
PUPPET KITCHEN is a documentary portrait of a puppeteer in New York City named Eric Wright, exploring the humanness of puppets and why they are so intriguing and magical to their audience.
A WAYWARD FEELING joins sculptor Patrick Dougherty in the midst of creating one of his final pieces before retirement as he muses on his process and motivations and the importance of art as work.