Film Category: NEW DOCS

The Wash
Lee Lynch, Lee Anne Schmitt

The Wash is a meditative portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California. Lush Super 8 cinematography contributes to…

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Gray Days
Katherine Leggett

Gray Days considers the state of the exploding population of the incarcerated elderly. This intellectually provocative short film follows the stories of two elderly inmates…

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Hammer and Flame
Vaughan Pilikian

Set on the coast of Northern India, this film captures an unimaginable world: a place where ships come to die. Equipped with only the simplest…

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High Plains Winter
Cindy Stillwell

Perfectly paced and gracefully rendered, this short film captures the lunar quality of the western winter landscape. Amid the great expanses of sky and snow…

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The Intimacy of Strangers
Eva Weber

Cell phone conversations have the ability to collapse the distinctions between public and private space. In these conversations, intimate moments are performed for strangers in…

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The Kings of Christmas
David Katz

If you’ve ever complained about your neighbor’s garish holiday decorations, it’s time to visit the outer boroughs of New York, where the spirit of “abbondanza”…

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Afloat
Erin Hudson

Aging is not a pretty process. Or is it? Erin Hudson’s rendition of geriatric water aerobics is not only beautiful, but also tender and respectful.…

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The Angelmakers
Astrid Bussink

In Nagyrév, Hungary, 51 women were arrested for poisoning the men in their lives in 1929. In the village today, a set of very sharp…

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Dead People
Roger Deutsch

In 1974, a filmmaker set out to make a portrait of Jay Frank Butler, an elderly resident of Ellicutt City, Maryland. Butler was a town…

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demolition 7
Richie Sherman

Hypnotic and evocative, this film uses black and white Super 8mm footage to narrate the sights and sounds of an average day at your local…

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