This year’s LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO (the 19th!) casts an archival gaze on the lives of San Franciscans and Bay residents. Drawn from over 400 newly scanned archival films plus a few old favorites, this year’s film revels in the textures and activities of everyday life, labor and celebration, replaying known and unknown historical moments, daylighting lost and found infrastructures, revealing the scars of settlement and pointing to more hopeful futures. Highlights include intimate views of the Mission District, recently discovered BART films, coverage of Western Addition redevelopment and displacement, and much more. Almost all of the footage has not been shown before.
Snick, sweep, smooth-sharp, flow. The ice is an extension of the sky, stretching away from thin blades to a distant shore. You are invited to a world of wild ice and frozen forests. Here, two skaters dance on the season’s first ice—deep in the Canadian Rockies.
For her journalism thesis project, Sam joins a cult to film an exposé with hidden cameras. As Sam dives deeper into the cult's rituals, she uncovers their darkest secrets and confronts the affliction of her past.
Vincent, a rebellious high school student is stuck in a classroom during after-school detention and finds himself trapped as sentient basketballs begin to take over the world. Vincent struggles to survive as he listens to the events unfolding over the radio.
Caught in an endless loop resetting at the end of each day, a self-centered highschool student seizes the opportunity to indulge in reckless activities and fulfill his wildest dreams, from pulling pranks to enjoying himself to the fullest extent.
"Rooted In Truth" is a silent short film adaptation of The Parable of The Sower from the Gospel of Matthew made by Aj Richardson, Jackson Ormond, and Jordan Neel for a film school project.
When the chances of winning the heart of a newslady are slimmed by a wealthy rival of his, a caring yet clumsy college professor creates a love potion from the DNA of a praying mantis. However, a lack of testing mutates him into an insectoid monster that can only be stopped by the professor's friends as well as 2 hectic detectives, before the hateful vice principal finds everything out.
Rakan and his wife Rim are looking for an apartment to rent instead of living with his aged mother. It seems they have found the right spot, except for the hole in the wall that looks as if someone bashed it with a hammer. Rakan seems strangely unengaged, however, barely speaking to his wife. Gradually, as we slip from present to past, we piece together the story that explains his barrage of unwanted calls, chance encounters with shady characters and outbreaks of violence. When his mother’s home is burgled and she is attacked, he is confronted by the person he least wants to see.
Machinima film made within the constraint of the video game "Garry's Mod". Unbound cache explores themes of fragmented memories, lost connections and the impermanence of digital artifacts.
From July 2020 to December 2021, Chris Gethard and his friends ran an off-the-wall game show that was never archived and cannot be found anywhere. This is the story of how a lockdown was enforced, a network was born, and a box game was solved.
A close-up of the dizzying escalation of nuclear risk since the largest power station on the European continent fell into the hands of Russia at the start of the war.
During a stage rehearsal for a play featuring two eating-disordered track runners, the director becomes furious as one of his actors struggles to remember their lines.