Soundtrack: John Zorn

Direction Martina Kudlácek

Cast Miriam Arsham · Stan Brakhage · Chao Li Chi · Rita Christiani

Plot Film about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Direction Joseph Cornell

Plot Workers at blast furnaces, molten ore, in an illusory found-footage collage of desert trailer homes and caterpillars on plants in color-manipulated flipped, negative and mirror images apparently taken from instructional...

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Michael Kirby · Federico Muchnik · Brett Alexander · Stephan Balint

Plot Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and...

Direction Oren Rudavsky

Cast Chris Eigeman · Famke Janssen · Ian Holm · Harris Yulin

Plot Jake Singer is an anxious young schoolteacher in New York -barely on speaking terms with his father, recently abandoned by his girlfriend, and heading for a life of compromise and...

Direction Hiroyuki Oki

Cast Hiromi Fujita · Hotaru Hazuki · Kiyomi Ito · Akiko Osugi

Plot A conceptual pinku film by renowned experimental artist Hiroyuki Oki, which is conceived of 60 shots which all are 60 seconds long and represent an absurdist take on the narrative...

Direction Albert Abril

Direction Mathieu Amalric

Cast John Zorn

Plot A portrait of American musical genius, saxophonist, clarinetist and composer John Zorn.

Direction Joan Grossman · Paul Rosdy

Cast Fred Fields · Ernest Heppner · Illo Heppner · Siegmar Simon

Plot The film presents the little-known story of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to Shanghai between late 1937 and 1941. After 1939, Shanghai was the last and only resort to...

Direction Marc Levin

Plot A cautionary story of labor and greed, Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags follows the decline of the once-robust apparel manufacturing industry in the U.S., while chronicling the industry’s relationship...

Direction Mathieu Amalric

Cast John Zorn · Barbara Hannigan · Steve Gosling

Plot Mathieu Amalric films John Zorn, Barbara Hannigan and Steve Gosling in the process of their joint artistic creation.

Direction Sheila McLaughlin

Cast Ed Bowes · Sheila Dabney · John Erdman · Charles Ludlam

Plot Jo and Agatha are lovers. Both have careers: the Brasilian-born Agatha is an attorney; Jo is a filmmaker, working hard to complete the shooting of a movie called, "Catalina." Agatha...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Plot In "Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise" its story is told by director Ken Jacobs but without the conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image...

Direction André Turpin

Cast André Charlebois · Dorothée Berryman · Ariane Cordeau · Sonia Vigneault

Plot André and Kim are a young couple living together in Montréal. André works with his family in Bungee jumping business while Kim must go to study in Turkey. André stays...

Direction Sandi Simcha Dubowski

Plot Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma - how to...

Direction Joseph Dorman

Plot A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of...

Direction Jalal Toufic

Cast Fanar Mental Hospital Inmates · Walid Raad · Jalal Toufic

Plot With his hand-held video camera, Jalal Toufic presents faces of ordinary people living in a war-ravaged country. He begins with a 1987 US state department document invalidating US passports for...

Direction Natalia Almada

Plot Past and present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather, General Plutarco Elías Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico...

Direction Dmitry Geller

Direction Mathieu Amalric

Cast John Zorn

Plot When an artist, Mathieu Amalric films another artist, John Zorn, musical genius, saxophonist, clarinetist and American composer.