Through old postcards we get glimpses of everyday life from some sanatorium patients. At the same time we get to see what some of these places look like today. Artist Nova Göthlin is looking for a place to rest. Allan Wonkavaara is the caretaker at the abandoned sanatorium in Sandträsk, and the staff at Livsstilsmedicin Österåsen carry out their daily chores.
An exploration of Falmouth’s vibrant DIY music scene, capturing the community spirit, resilience, and creativity that keep grassroots music alive in a small university town far away from big cities.
Mr X has been in state care most of his life.He builds extraordinary structures out of found objects.As he prepares to leave hospital, his objects become space vehicles to travel across society's boundaries.
Experience history through a special documentary short film, Pulse of the Continent: Final Spike Steam Tour, telling the story of an incredible journey through North America spanning nearly 10,000 miles over 76 days. Come aboard with us as we revisit the magic and excitement of the Empress 2816 steam locomotive’s epic trip from Calgary to Mexico City and back.
Two friends attempt to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Battling storms, exhaustion, and extreme isolation, their story is an extraordinary test of friendship, endurance and the unbreakable human spirit.
Nearing the end of his life, Adolph Gasser looks back on a seventy-year career as a world-class camera repairman, WWII veteran, inventor, and best friend of nature photographer Ansel Adams, contributing developer of the first Nikon camera and a sales/rental/camera repair store owner who empowered other prominent Bay Area visual artists and inventors to succeed. As eminent domain, the internet and changing technologies threaten everything he has built, he struggles to find a way to keep moving forward. Inspired by his unique stories and abilities, filmmaker and professor John C. Aliano follows him over the course of several years and reflects on his own career trajectory.
With intimate attention to transformation in body and culture endured across oceans and time, “Angelita” poses a question from granddaughter to Grandmother: what lives and dies at the other end of sacrifice?
The antithesis of the virile heroes of his era, James Dean shook up the representation of adolescence and masculinity in three films shot in 1955, the same year he died in a car accident at the age of 24—exactly seventy years ago: Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, and Giant. This meteoric rise made him an instant icon, frozen in eternal, rebellious youth, which still resonates strongly today.
In this personal short film the friendship between the filmmaker and her grandfather unfolds. A pair of hands perform a playful collaging of printed photographs and paper cut outs. The images form a shared symbology, and weave a mythical world of interconnectedness, relating to the sense of time, the absurdity of loss. A narrative of passing, finding, letting go.
From murky kelp forests to scallop burial grounds and a UV lit cosmic expanse, ROCK POOL’s non-narrative flow draws its audience through the circadian cycles that turn the worlds beneath our feet.
The documentary Arg(h)itzen features the testimonials of 30 people who were subjected to torture in the Sakana region between the years of 1966 and 2011, through a rigorous and dynamic story. Not only does it show what torture is and how it can be recovered from, but it also reveals, through experts, the State structures of impunity. This is the result of an enormous work of collaboration between neighbours to highlight the truth about torture and create the path towards its complete eradication.
After the wave of #MeToo movement stories from various circles, did sexual violence survivors return to their normal lives? Finding the new 'normal' is now in the hands of those individuals. Even though the cases were closed, their memories always take them back to the past. Blighted by violence, their bodies stiffen up even with little touches. From getting out of bed, taking a shower to leaving the house, everyday is a battle with themselves. While many survivors feel they're body still remain in the past, dance therapists, choreographers and feminist activists have gathered and plan a movement workshop for trauma recovery. They feel their fingertips again and they move their toes. They re-experience inhaling and exhaling in a safe place. To survive this moment, they move together, and they prepare themselves for a return to daily lives.
Hussein Darby, the last projectionist of Cinema Jenin in Palestine, thought it a golden opportunity. When a German NGO came to restore the theater, Hussein was ready to prove his skills. He believed that it would help him get his job back. To revive the 50-year-old projector, he travels across the West Bank and even attempts to enter Israel. But he doesn’t know that his era has already passed.