Makeshift (for Mekas)
Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery from 2015 mingles with the red roses of Lithuania and a 'makeshift memor
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Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery from 2015 mingles with the red roses of Lithuania and a 'makeshift memor
"Letters from Silivri" draws on letters of the Turkish philanthropist and public intellectual Osman Kavala to document a timeline of his imprisonment. By separating voice and image the film intends to create an echo cham
Using only $1,000 over the course of one week, comedian Mekki Leeper sets out to fabricate an absurd alternative medicine company and fool the world into thinking it’s real.
A Film by Serkadis Megabiw
One of the mythic journeys of our time, through the exquisite, complicated, surprising terrain of Vietnam and Cambodia to the great ruins at Angkor - the magnificent Khmer temples being painstakingly restored deep in the
The Mekong River is the most important means of communication in Southeast Asia. On its waters live and work thousands of Vietnamese who are engaged in trade. After the Vietnam War, which completely transformed the count
Not everything that grows will bloom. Some stories end halfway, yet leave traces that time can never erase. This is a quiet tale about love that arrived too late, about moments that slipped away before they could be held
A brave old man accepts a challenge to a fight with an evil giant.
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Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009) and to Jonas Mekas, who managed to breathe life into Kodachrome.
Three friends have lost a member of their group and go looking for him. It appears he might be the man in one of the toilet cubicles...
More than a century after losing her first love, Liriell lives a quiet life as a florist. Fate reunites her with the reincarnation of Willem, the man she once loved in a past life, who now lives as Malio. However, Malio
Eve Jaakkola, the mother of Jyri Jaakkola, who was shot in Mexico, tried for more than six years to bring her son's murderers to justice. The mother's legal battle turned into a struggle against the Mexican culture of im
“My purpose in filming NOTES ON JONAS was not to make a portrait per se. As a film editor, I was mainly curious to know about his editing technique. When I tried to get an interview, Jonas played his accordion, his tuba,
They are traveling on a rickety wagon, a crier and a storyteller with their wonder box. The view is sold into the peep-box stage, and the peep-box looks back: into the laughing faces of the young audience, who follow the
Meka Suri is a 2020 ZEE5 Original Telugu crime thriller movie, starring Abhinay and Sumaya in the lead. The story revolves around Meka Suri, a butcher, who gets married to his love, Rani. However, when Rani gets brutally
Sleepwalking Through the Mekong follows Los Angeles based band Dengue Fever on their recent journey to Cambodia to perform 60s and 70s Cambodian rock n' roll in the country where it was created and very nearly destroyed.
Shared intimacy mingles with unabashed voyeurism in a distilled, complex rumination on the pleasures and problems of gazing. Mark LaPore had intended to create a soundtrack for this film, but never did. However, it was i
Four young men after university are sent to work as managers in a collective (kolkhoz). The film is about how these people try to achieve something better in the Soviet system.