Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula
An imaginary return of dictator Ceausescu after 20 years of capitalism in his country, Romania, where he finds a new society but also old habits in the country’s businessmen.
Yesterday Was Everything
A band struggles to reconcile for a reunion tour a decade after a contentious break-up and a fatal accident.
Bob Lazar: Area 51 and Flying Saucers
Area 51, flying saucers from another world – and the program to create a fierce technology. Bob Lazar remains the singular most famous and controversial name in the world of…
Cocaine Bear: The True Story
The bizarre, stranger than fiction tale behind the hit Hollywood movie “Cocaine Bear,” involving international drug smuggling, murder, mayhem, and a mysterious dead body in a suburban driveway wearing a…
Glossary of Broken Dreams
Puppets! Pixels! Anime! Live action! Stock footage! Lumpennerd Johannes Grenzfurthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political concepts. Everyone is talking about freedom! Privacy! Identity! Resistance! The Market! The…
Eva Hesse
German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in…
Black Wax
Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently reissued on video. Interspliced between performance footage of Scott-Heron…
Shark vs. Tuna
A clash of true oceanic titans sees fights in the remote battlefields of Ascension Island. Tuna are often faster, fitter and bigger than the sharks.
Tolyatti Adrift
A portrait of the disenchanted youth of the city of Tolyatti, once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile, now devastated by economic decline. Laura Sistero encounters an aimless…
The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man’s quest for the secret of life. Since…
Pot Luck
The war on drugs has failed: is legalization of cannabis the answer? Pot Luck takes a trip across pioneering state Colorado five years after full legalization to see how it’s…
VIPCO: The Untold Story
Capturing the history of the infamous and beloved old UK home video label, with the man himself Michael Lee appearing for the first time ever on camera to tell his…
Secretariat’s Jockey, Ron Turcotte
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, this heartfelt documentary follows Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte as he returns to the people and places that mark his life,…