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?
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.
This newly completed work – made after Johnston’s death – constructs a highly revealing portrait of the artist via interviews with his sister, Marjory (who in his later years collaborated with Daniel on his artwork and continues to advocate for and promote his work), a special focus on his drawings, as well as documentation of his last home, a house in Waller, Texas, which he filled with a truly mind-boggling volume of books, records, VHS tapes, and other collections, all of which serve as a kind of self-portrait of a unique mind and sensibility.
In 1974, Ian Marter was cast as Harry Sullivan, opposite Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen, in a new era of Doctor Who. Marter was meant to be the show’s action man, but just months prior to joining, his erratic health nearly caused his death. This new feature-length documentary explores in intimate detail Marter’s turbulent, enigmatic and brilliant life.
A young man crosses the desert seeking a better life, but isolation, fading memories, and silence force him to confront his past, his pain-and the truth about himself.
A documentary that records the lives of a group of former (and some still active) Portuguese transvestites. They are: Zizi Mayer, Fanny Star, Guida Scarllaty, Deborah Krystal and Wanda Morelli. They are João Callati, Fernando Paulo, Carlos Ferreira, Fernando Santos and Fernando Soares. All these artists deserve to have their lives told because they are bigger than anything they give on stage. They are important symbols of Portuguese cultural memory and their lives and careers illustrate different moments and mentalities in our country. They are lives that have endured hardships and overcome them in forbidding times and where persecution and punishment reigned supreme. No documentary has ever been made about their lives and it is urgent that these stories are not lost. They also tell the story of our political and cultural country.
A young ’80s activist cements himself as a Disneyland history hidden gem when he stands up against the Magic Kingdom to lift the park's ban on same-sex dancing.