Film Things

Various things happen for no reason and with no relation to any other things.

"All Things New" is the true story of the radically changed lives of four street kids in the Philippines. What is really unique is how God transformed the kids, in spite of their mistrust and personal pain, and uses them to minister to the adults who are trying to help them.

A young woman approaching motherhood must decide when to give and when to take a life.

Mervine AQUINO and his mother rummage into unpacked boxes of belongings, looking for their old home video tapes. Only one tape is found. Missing Cassettes salvages what remains of video memories, seeking to make sense of moments now obsolete and barely playable.

A mysterious, misfit family readies a feast for a group of visiting outlanders. As they shuffle through ritualistic preparations, shadows reveal each creature- one menacing, one wounded, and one worn, stewards of an old tradition.

A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory eating ghost.

Determined to revive her unhappy marriage, Andrea experiments with a voodoo love recipe to rekindle the romance with her cheating husband.

35mm experimental short film.

Rhona, a yoga instructor committed to a vegan lifestyle, must entertain Leo, her red meat-loving, blue collar father-in-law, as she waits for her husband to join them for dinner. When Leo attempts to apologize for a past insult, he instead opens up a debate that challenges her belief system. Their conversation quickly escalates into a heated argument that scrutinizes animal cruelty, climate change, health, morality, and spirituality. Endorsed by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and reminiscent of the classic film My Dinner With Andre, Living Things presents a compelling dialogue about humanity and the benefits of a healthier, environmentally-conscious lifestyle.

A deranged hillbilly dad, along with his similarly demented hick child, brutally butcher any folks who are unfortunate enough to venture into their remote neck of the woods. This is the original 1986 version.

The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things is the incredible journey of 5 female filmmakers driving across America to encourage, empower, and inspire the next generation of strong women to go after their career ambitions. Driving over 7,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York over the course of 30 days, the documentary spotlights 17 positive and powerful women leaders across a variety of lifestyles and industries. Along the way, these filmmakers relay the candid insight on how these women define their success, what it takes to be a woman in their position, and valuable advice on how to improve the female role in the workplace. In celebration of the all-female focus in front of and behind the camera, the filmmakers turned the cameras on themselves, capturing their transformational journey. Created for women by women, they challenge the audience to ask themselves, "What would you do if you weren't afraid to fail?"

Myron Ort headed up a small team of animators for this 1977 short.

A gay single dad struggles to explain his fabulous past life to his eight-year old daughter.

The exfiltration of memory––and body heat––to greener pastures in this post-apocalyptic thriller from indie enfant terrible Charles Marinaro.

The video work Authentic News of Invisible Things is inspired directly by archive footage taken in the French City of Lille in 1918 which depicts a group of civilians gathered around a dummy tank abandoned by the retreating German army. Recreating and filming the historical scene in black and white, she pulls back switching to colour to reveal the cinematographer's devices. This contemporary footage is then interlaced with the original to create a complex dialogue between layers of reality, fiction and staging that simultaneously corroborate and mock one another. The effect is a reassuring distance between the observer and the image; a distance that the artist undermines in a further channel of video when a real tank is driven into the streets of the sleepy Italian town of Bolzano and the reactions of local inhabitants is recorded. This final gesture takes the work full circle, creating real encounters between people and an actual war machine but without the context of battle.

Richard, bored of his mundane existence as a cycle courier, attempts to make his film "A Distance Too Far" in a bid to escape to a better life. Driven by the belief that it will propel him, his friends and his girlfriend to fame and fortune, and the fear of ending up like his family, the completion of his 'masterpiece' becomes the sole focus of Richard's life.

An unusual African film with a powerful visual narrative style and an experimental electronic score. The Aimless Wanderer of the title is a white man making an African travelogue. He meets a local girl who soon disappears. Little by little, fear and paranoia overcome him.

A film by Joseph Bernard

Wind in the lungs, marks on the skin, the direction of a gaze: Made of Things My Eyes Could See is a study of whether it is possible to be close.