Festival Year: 2007
Highlighting the innovative and varied documentary work that calls the internet home, features over a dozen videos that premiered online at sites such as YouTube,…
MORE ›The 2007 Garrett Scott Development Grant is awarded to Robin Hessman, director of Russia’s Pepsi Generation and Lee Lynch, director of The Last Buffalo Hunt.…
MORE ›An international movement encompassing conceptual artists, gamers, and electronic musicians subverts the symbolic logic and power structures inherent in game design. These artists grew up…
MORE ›An almost random selection of moments and scenes from diary and home movie footage shot over the last 18 years, primarily of the filmmaker’s children,…
MORE ›The ever-increasing use of artificial lights has chased the darkness from our world. Alice laments the loss of her view of the universe, one of…
MORE ›In the Japanese army, “ant soldiers” were those fighting men, many of them drafted, who performed the lowest and dirtiest jobs of war. Some of…
MORE ›During the summer before his second year at film school, Ross McElwee conceived of two separate films. The first was to document his younger brother’s…
MORE ›A group of people are forcibly removed from their homeland. This isn’t the Middle East or ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe, but good old racism…
MORE ›While framed around a nostalgic return visit by Professor Vincenzo Tusa, who first saw Selinunte in 1949 and later supervised the archaeological work, this film…
MORE ›Haunting in its simplicity, this short film captures a group of anonymous travelers as they drift through an unidentified landscape. A lovely reminder of the…
MORE ›From 1941 to 1944 German troops descended on Leningrad, causing inconceivable destitution and loss of life. Using only found footage from Moscow archives and an…
MORE ›For three weeks in 1965, D A Pennebaker followed Bob Dylan’s concert tour of the United Kingdom. The result was Dont Look Back, a film…
MORE ›North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. This film describes a journey taken by our filmmaker across the social, economic, and…
MORE ›This concert film captures one performance by the Dutch band the Ex, 25-year veterans of the underground avant rock scene. Much like Fugazi, whom Jem…
MORE ›In the narrowest of streets, amongst the largest of crowds, a 30-foot human spire ascends above balconies. Swarms of spectators surround the tower’s foundation, and…
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