Beautiful & Twisted

Schroon Lake "Schroon Lake" adapts performance artists Matty Davis and Ben Gould's work "Carriage" to the nine-mile-long frozen lake in the Adirondacks. Shot on expired 16mm film over ice, the film offers a gritty intimacy and sightline of the unstable space between masculinities refracted through the winter and mutually activated syndromes, perceived and rearranged through a queer, female gaze.

Bill's Sweetheart Bill, who is with a bunch of cowboys on their way to town, picks up from the wreckage of a prairie schooner a little baby girl. Five years later the little girl, while running after butterflies, gets lost. Bill, waking up from his siesta, goes in search of her, but she cannot be found. The little girl, in the meantime, has climbed into a freighter's wagon. For twelve years she lives with him. One evening, while gambling with Mexican Pete, the freighter loses his money, and the girl, whom he had staked against the Mexican's winnings. But before the Mexican can take the girl away, Bill wins her from the Mexican, places her in the care of a woman neighbor and eventually marries her.

Music Is A Question With... Hardcore hip-hop bagpipe jamms and pixelated party wisdom, including the tracks “Get Out of Your Mind”, “Question of the Ages”, “Gone Green”, and “Your Life/Your Language”. Life is a wilderness, don’t do anything illegal, it’s our time down here!

Glass A mother who is addicted to meth in New Mexico has a son who is left alone.

Children of the Moon A father joins his son as he searches for Heaven in the night's sky, each hoping to catch a glimpse of his own grandmother.

Adam the First Adam, a 14-year-old boy travels across the country to meet a series of men who could be his father after finding a letter with a list of names and addresses.

Two Bernardo and Luix seek an affective approach during the period of social detachment. In the midst of chaos, they try to discover other ways of loving.

ROTO | Sonic Body... "ROTOЯ | Sonic Body" by artist collective NO1 is a physically intense perception cinema and phenomenological study. At visual and acoustic levels, the video confronts the fundamental categories of movement, time, and space.

Inside Red China October 1st, 1957. Dusk descends on Tiananmen Square, Peking. Fireworks crackle light across the night sky, above a city alive with National Day festivities and celebrations. Two intrepid New Zealand film-makers - Rudall and Ramai Te Miha Hayward - are there, documenting the life and times of communist China. The distinction of being the first English speaking foreigners to film unfettered in communist China was significant. The invitation to visit China was facilitated through the New Zealand China Friendship Society. They filmed in Canton, Shanghai, Peking (Beijing) and Wuhan. It was a small window of opportunity for Westerners to gaze on a country that was largely a mystery to the outside world since 1949. The unfortunate irony was that two of the documentaries; “Wonders of China”, and “Inside Red China”, were considered to be communist propaganda, and were not distributed outside of New Zealand.

Condemn Me, It Does Not ... Testimony of the events that took place during the assault on the Moncada Barracks in July 1953, based on the texts written by President Fidel Castro in the former prison of Isla de Pinos, currently Isla de la Juventud.