Thriller (1979)

DIR.:: Sally Potter
TRT:: 34 min
MPAA Rating:: NR
DISTRIBUTOR:

Now available in a digitally-remastered form for the first time since its cult success on the festival circuit in 1980, Sally Potter's rewriting of Puccini's opera, La Bohème, turns on its head the conventional role of women as romantic victims.

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India - And Other Thoughts (2007)

DIR.:: Kenny Mann
TRT:: 54 min
MPAA Rating:: NR
DISTRIBUTOR:: rafIki productions

A personal travelogue through southern India.

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Epiphany (2002)

DIR.:: Jim Hunter
TRT:: 12 min
MPAA Rating:: NR
DISTRIBUTOR:: FrameWork

AVAILABLE SOON! Epiphany illuminates the struggle of one unwitting cupid who discovers her journey between intellect and emotion to be a solitary one.

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Play (1970)

DIR.:: Sally Potter
TRT:: 6 min
MPAA Rating:: NR
DISTRIBUTOR:

Play played in experimental venues as part of the revolutionary Expanded Cinema movement – and is made widely available here for the first time. The film hopscotches across two screens, making time and space child’s play.

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Vito After (2007)

DIR.:: Maria Pusateri
TRT:: 49 min
MPAA Rating:: NR

A vital look at the 9/11 health crisis goes beyond the headlines exploring one NYPD detective’s personal struggle. In the aftermath of his rescue and recovery work, Vito Friscia refocuses his life with the support of family and colleagues.

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Ball Talk (1989)

DIR.:: Kevin Bender
TRT:: 50 min
MPAA Rating:: NR
DISTRIBUTOR:: Balltalk Productions

Hall of Fame baseball announcers Mel Allen, Red Barber, Jack Brickhouse, Jack Buck, Curt Gowdy and Ernie Harwell recall their broadcasting careers and the greatest moments and players they reported. Hosted by Larry King.

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Working Title (2006)

DIR.:: John Givens
TRT:: 59 min
MPAA Rating:: NR

By following five self-proclaimed artists, “Working Title” explores what it means to be an artist in a society that values easy classification, money as success, and a work-defines-you mentality.

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Human Remains (1998)

DIR.:: Jay Rosenblatt
TRT:: 30 min
MPAA Rating:: NR

Film clips of the 20th century's great dictators with narration in first person combined to form a fascinating portrait of power and evil.

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A Soft Warrior (1981)

DIR.:: Nina Menkes
TRT:: 11 min
MPAA Rating:: NR
DISTRIBUTOR:: menkesfilm

Made at the UCLA Film School, this was Nina's first cinematic collaboration with her sister Tinka Menkes. The film documents, in a strange and beautiful way, a serious illness suffered by Tinka as experienced by her sister Nina.

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Travels (1981)

DIR.:: Shalom Gorewitz
TRT:: 28 min
MPAA Rating:: NR
DISTRIBUTOR:: Electronic Arts Intermix, The Kitchen

Measures of Volatility is a stock market term used to describe fluctuations in rates. Recording in NYC and Nyack, NY, I gradually transform the original material into a multilayered world of shifting colors and sounds.

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