Documentary Movies

Entrevista con El Campeón

El Campeón is interviewed just before his first fight.

The Angel of History

In 1921, German philosopher Walter Benjamin purchased a painting Angelus Novus by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee. Benjamin admired it and described it in detail in his essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” The picture portrays a restless angel who tasted reality. For a moment the angel freezes as if observing the inevitable turns of history. German director Eric Esser filmed at the Spanish-French border, which used to be a place of smuggling routes. It is across this border Walter Benjamin once escaped from the Nazis too.

Meanwhile

Diana wakes up in her beach house when her ventilator fails. In an imaginary conversation with her father, Astor Piazzolla, she reveals what she could never tell him in life, until her final words reveal that she, too, has died.

Visible Invisible

An illuminating look at the life and work of groundbreaking Light and Space artist Helen Pashgian.

Unfinished Lives

In 2014, 24-year-old USC graduate student, Xinran Ji, was beaten to death by four teens when returning home from a study session. A lawyer, Rose Tsai, took it upon herself to tirelessly advocate on his behalf and represent his parents, as they attempt to understand the senseless tragedy together.

Vogulys

The story of Jonas Vogulys, who runs the marriage agency "Vogulys". It is the oldest in Colombia and Latin America, but after 10,152 marriages, the agency is declining due to online dating.

De Matthäus missie van Reinbert de Leeuw

Spell Reel

The first image is in black and white, upside down and projected into a black box that then becomes the frame. It now hovers like a time capsule near a man’s face. He looks down, listening in on a female guerrilla fighter and translating her words from Fulani. Within the capsule, money is counted and paid out as a new currency, the numbers of the years run backwards in the black box. A 16-mm film glides through the man's hands and is transferred to a laptop screen frame by frame.

Condor

The July 2, 2019 solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality, over the Chilean coast, in 16mm black and white. Condor is the national bird of Chile.

Amazonian Cosmos

Afterlives

Through desktop documentary and forensics, this work explores how images of Medusa of Hatra, ISIS propaganda, and digital archives influence reality and memory while examining violence and witness.

Novelda-Japón

The film follows, in the style of a camera diary, the adventures of a young man in pursuit of his dream: to travel to Japan. A moving testimony to human solidarity and dreams.

Studio 54

Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.

The Berlin Fugue

Alesia is a five year old girl growing up in an industrial city of Donetsk, Ukraine. She has to face the reality of her surroundings after growing up in love and hope in the warm family nest.

Afterwards

A gesture of post-mortem cinema: spaces devoid of tangible life take on a spectral atmosphere, as though considered through the eyes of the departed. A spatial expedition through a deconstructed Berlin ensues, existential in its storytelling and political in its focus on an individual's trauma.

MAY

The Colors of the Game: Living with the Storm

Passionate fans, a city that lives on football; a stormy story of joy, sorrow and enthusiasm from the past to the future… "The Colors of the Game: Living with the Storm" looks at the championship of Trabzonspor, which came after years, through the eyes of the city and its people...

When My Sorrow Died: The Story of Armen Ra and The Theremin

Glamorously eccentric and enigmatic Theremin master Armen Ra recounts his dynamic journey in this life-spanning documentary that mixes rare concert performances, candid interviews, and archive material with the magical power of music that can alchemize ancient sorrow into timeless beauty.

The Aristocrats

One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.

Harmonic Spectrum

Sean uses the Piano to navigate life on the Autistic Spectrum. As he is drawn into new musical collaborations he must learn to balance his enthusiasm and compulsive energy with understanding and compromise, redefining his perspective in the process.