More than a century after it was filmed in and around Newport and Sunapee, a long-lost silent comedy starring vaudeville entertainer and local filmmaker Billy B. Van is coming home!
A suicidal hotline operator helps one last caller.
The direct aftermath of a gang run-in, where a boy tries to convince his severely injured friend to stay alive.
An experimental horror short told from the perspective of a conscious dead body who gains the memories of the necrophiliac ex boyfriend who killed her.
Sergei, an artist from Siberia in a creative and personal crisis, hides in his studio from his debts, his family, and himself. Then his daughter turns up with a camera — the one person who wants to reach out to him, and the one person he is willing to let in. As they draw unexpectedly close, they start looking for a way forward.
The writer-father suffers from dementia and is losing his words. The daughter’s camera follows him. He likes to direct himself, she likes to direct him, too.
A short examination of lust and porn addiction through cinematic history and inspired montage.
Using 50s & 60s advertisement footage, the film attempts to capture the overwhelming notion of the immediate attempt to seduce children into participating within the exploitational-capitalist market.
A depressed, lonely woman orders a free trial of happiness off an infomercial.
A filmmaker finds both connection and embarrassment while trying to learn how comedy can be both a part and product of one's culture.
A modern legend unfolds when a lone chair appears on the shore, drawing the attention of a curious and watchful community. Through shifting hands and acts of care, the chair becomes woven into the folklore of the shore—until the day it disappears, leaving behind only the unseen forces that shaped its myth.
The household plastic tarpaulin so widely used in cities becomes a source of distortions in space and time, as if the laws of quantum mechanics had been transferred to the macroscopic world. Places far apart are gathered into a single field that lives by its own paradoxical rules. We find ourselves inside a cinematic arabesque, in which shots join into a continuous, intricate ornament unfolding in time.
During Lao Yang’s quiet, lonely Spring Festival days, his beloved cat Tianjiu vanished from home.
Three writers, three ways of understanding the act of writing. As their stories intertwine, the film explores the aspirations, contradictions, and disappointments that permeate the craft of writing within a system that breeds both longings and frustrations. Blending documentary with narrative artifice, the film reveals its own construction, making the act of writing the very subject of the story.
Implicated in a young serviceman’s death, an army warrant officer finds himself questioning the very institution that has defined him most of his life.
As everyday life becomes increasingly digital, older adults are expected to adapt to a world that was not necessarily designed with them in mind. ‘Out of Sync’ follows Maria and Grace as they navigate a digital world in their own ways, from figuring out unfamiliar apps and devices to making payments. Determined to maintain their independence, they encounter moments of frustration and uncertainty that reveal the hidden effort required just to keep up. Through their experiences, the documentary asks: as technology continues to shape our future, are we building a world that includes the generation that helped shape our present?
