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Baraka
$25.95 | 104 minutes
From Nepal to Kenya, from Australia to Brazil, people try to cope with the changes that have altered their landscape, crowding them together and speeding up daily life. The film shows us these alienated people, but also images of traditions--whirling dervishes and Tibetan monks--that offer different, peaceful ways of existence. Shot in&hellip…
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
$22.95 | 100 minutes
The Ultimate songwriter's songwriter, Townes Van Zandt had a profound impact on generations of muscicians from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones, yet he avioded the commercial success enjoyed by many of his fans. Many musicologists think he was more influential than Dylan His influence can be found deeply etched&hellip…
Brakhage
$23.95 | 75 minutes
Over the course of 40 years, avant-garde film legend Stan Brakhage made nearly 400 films. Using experimental techniques of his own creation and no sound, he changed the both way we think about film and what we expect from light passing through celluloid. From "Window Water Baby Moving" (1958) to later works, such as "Dante's Quartet"&hellip…
By Brakhage: An Anthology
$34.95 | 243 minutes
Stan Brakhage revolutionized cinema while never having his films play in mainstream movie houses or multiplexes. The avant-garde artist rarely used any sort of narrative. His films, rather, contain imagery ranging from nature studies to child birth to simply scratches on film. His pioneering technique includes a painstaking process marking&hellip…
City Bleach - DOWNLOAD
$7.99 | 3 minutes
City Bleach is an activist video work from 2002. In this work, black & white stills of Times Square mutate as all commercial spaces are bleached out, leaving vast white, empty areas. In 2003 it won the first prize in Adbusters magazine's video competition and has since been exhibited in Black Lab gallery in Seattle, and at the Darklights…
Committing Poetry in Times of War
$24.95 | 114 minutes
The Committing Poetry Pledge - to stay informed, support our freedom of speech, speak your mind, and creatively live your life... Winner of the Best Human Rights Film award at the Taos Mountain Film Festival, COMMITTING POETRY IN TIMES OF WAR is a poetic glance at events that defined the struggle of a nation at war abroad, and with&hellip…
Committing Poetry in Times of War - ON DEMAND
$3.99 | 114 minutes
The Committing Poetry Pledge - to stay informed, support our freedom of speech, speak your mind, and creatively live your life... Winner of the Best Human Rights Film award at the Taos Mountain Film Festival, Committing Poetry In Times Of War is a poetic glance at events that defined the struggle of a nation at war abroad, and with&hellip…
Committing Poetry in Times of War - DOWNLOAD
$11.99 | 114 minutes
The Committing Poetry Pledge - to stay informed, support our freedom of speech, speak your mind, and creatively live your life... Winner of the Best Human Rights Film award at the Taos Mountain Film Festival, Committing Poetry In Times Of War is a poetic glance at events that defined the struggle of a nation at war abroad, and with&hellip…
Crumb
$11.95 | 119 minutes
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces the lives of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb…
Cygnus Olor - DOWNLOAD
$7.99 | 0 minutes
Worms, feathers, cake, rotting flesh, a half-woman half-swan, and a couple of girls in a swamp are just a few of the elements cavorting around this non-linear fever dream by NYU enchantress Andrea Gastellum. Following in the footsteps of music video wunderkind Floria Sigismondi, "Signus Olor" (mute swan) manages to unsettle and dazzle&hellip…