Atrophy Portraits II

The history of traditional portraiture is about status and branding. With this portrait we were interested in breaking down those layers of constructed perfection. Initially in renaissance portrait painting, women are of

Portraits

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain, scratches and flickering give the film texture. The music is by Steve Rei

Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel

“Sketches and Portraits for Jean-Michel was photographed on the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, two areas familiar to Basquiat, and visually explores many of the themes and influences found in his paintings: street li

World Music Portraits: Angelique Kidjo

African-born pop musician Angelique Kidjo's genre-hopping brew of funk, soul, salsa, jazz, and traditional African music has garnered her worldwide popularity. This video release sees her performing a sampling of her son

The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits

"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of thirty. This film offers a glimpse into her world and work, through enco

Film Diary #10 (Eyefull Portraits)

Brief, impressionistic portraits of many of Angerame’s friends and acquaintances who live in San Francisco. Set to Toney Merritt’s haunting sound design and superimposed with NASA images and footage of Angerame’s coming

Parfum de scandale - Portraits du pouvoir

Burnt Portraits

Burnt Portraits follows a popular singer (Sam Crichton), whose naivety lands him in deep trouble as he finds himself in the company of a slightly unusual artist in his dim studio (played by writer/director Leo X. Roberts

Portraits of a New York City Rock Band

Documentary for NYC-based Quarter of Change's new album, Portraits

Portraits of Freedom

Ed Gerlock, Romeo Mariano, and DJ De Guzman shares their experience in documenting a range of events in the decades of media censorship.

Allons enfants, portraits d'une jeunesse qui se bouge

Portraits of Braddock

The film takes an intimate and honest look at the young and old residents of a town still trying to heal itself after decades of strife and upheaval.

Political Portraits

Dedicated to Dieter Meier. voice-over by Gregory Markopoulos, reading an excerpt in English translation of Paul Valéry’s L’Homme et la nuit (Man and the Night).

Portraits of the Future

When the pandemic first struck, Argentinian filmmaker Virna Molina was working on a documentary about the struggle for equal rights for female workers at the Buenos Aires subway. The project came to a standstill, but the

Thirteen Portraits for Future Reference

A documentary of Gabriel Tremblay's family told in thirteen chapters.

Atrophy Portraits III

The history of traditional portraiture was about status and branding. With Atrophy Portraits we break down the layers of constructed perfection. These films are an exploration of power and submission, how the boundaries

PORTRAITS

PORTRAITS is a meditation on the intersection of memory, art, and identity. The film follows Vik, a photographer who revisits his past with Meena, an artist at home in the undefined. Deconstructing the frames of their sh

Portraits From Ground Zero

On 9/11, photo-journalist & filmmaker, Andrea Booher, was designated by Mayor Guliani as one of the only two photographers allowed unlimited, 24 hour access. She was assigned to the Urban Search & Rescue teams, whose onl

Portraits

Live action and animation combination by Kathy Rose

A.B. Portraits

“A completely in-camera edit of a day in a life. This is a home movie of my mother and one of several portraits made near the beginning of my filmmaking.” (J.B.)