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Yvonne Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

An ordinary day. Or is it? People go about their habitual behavior. Characters appear and then reappear in other scenes that may or may not belong together. In CASUAL RELATIONS, hints of melodrama shudder beneath the surface and no one is quite who they seem to be. Everyone is haunted by memories of popular culture -- from classic movies, to the Rolling Stones, to vampire films. Meanwhile, the countdown of Golden Oldies continues late into the night…...

Created through 30,000 painting stills, the film explores how our memories define who we are, how we remember, and the inextricable link between memory and imagination. The title was inspired by Oliver Sacks' essay "Speak, Memory" and narration is based on interviews with neuroscientists and psychiatrists, including Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel. The film explores our "magical capability" called memory, the essence of what we call "self. The moving paintings...

A blacksmith is seen labouring at his forge, shaping nails from single strands of steel rods. The scene shifts from this peaceful setting to the roar of a twentieth-century nail mill, where banks of machines draw, cut, and pound the steel rods faster than the eye can follow. The scene then shifts back to a nineteenth-century nail factory. These diametrically opposed scenes emphasize the changed relationship between the individual and his work. Nominated...

This documentary provides insight into Matthew Barney’s work and his mythic Cremaster Cycle. The artist guides the camera through this remarkable creation at the Guggenheim Museum while being questioned by Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic of the New York Times, who has called Barney “the most important artist of his generation”. The ramps of Frank Lloyd Wright’s museum are filled with Barney’s sculptures complemented by plasma screens...

Using 16mm cameras, artist Ben Rivers documents the solitary existence of Jake, a man who lives in isolation in the middle of a remote forest. The film follows his unconventional life, capturing moments of profound beauty. Jake is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing the time with strange projects, living the radical dream he had as a younger man, a dream he spent two years working at sea to realize. FIPRESCI Prize winner at the **Venice...

A short road trip through an abstract virtual world. Traveling over and through landscapes the spectator is taken in a play of light and shade. Sometimes the light moves freely, then it is collected, reflected or transformed. The shades lengthen and crawl together. Quick spotlights create stroboscopic effects, race through curves and settle down. In the end the afterimage fades out and the spectator blinks. Winner of the Grand Prix for Best Animated...

A collection of extraordinary short films that question the boundaries of perception by reimagining how the world looks and how it might function. Carefully curated by the editors of Stash Magazine.

Heather Henson presents this collection of spooky and kooky short puppetry films that are sure to get any… body… into the Halloween spirit! 1. The Narrative of Victor Karloch, Director: Kevin McTurk 2. Monster, Director: Cecilia Gläsker 3. Moonfishing, Director: David Michael Friend 4. Goodnight Shadow, Director: Myra Su 5. Junk Palace, Director: Lyon Forrest Hill 6. Ichabod, Sketches from Sleepy Hollow, Director: Hobey Ford 7. Harker, Director:...

Drafthouse Films is pleased to present "CONFETTI OF THE MIND", the definitive compilation of Nacho Vigalondo's (Timecrimes, Open Windows) most brilliant shorts collected for the first time and personally curated by Nacho. Featuring such favorites as Choque, Sunday, and 2003's Academy Award nominated short film, "7:35 in the Morning".