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The experience of artmaking in Appalachia is a complex one. An Appalachian identity often creates a distinctive and strong relationship between person and homeplace, but artists are told they need to leave the region in order to learn and innovate. Being told to leave home and to escape tradition is a hard thing to reckon with, both as a person and an artist. When the artists we interviewed left home, their connection with a homeplace was what inspired them creatively much more than the urban, non-Appalachian communities they joined. As young artists in Appalachia, we wanted to learn from their innovations and their experiences of coming home in “The Art of Finding Home.”

Buckle your seat belts! This cosmic narrative will flash before your eyes at the speed of light, as long as you stay seated and don’t leave.

Documentary showing a generation desperately looking for a place to call home. The housing officers in Barking and Dagenham face daily queues of angry residents desperate for help.

This powerful study of the human cost of globalisation connects declining industry and growing social inequality in the UK to the exploitation of labour in the Global South.

In the dreamscape of an old Chinatown, Ah Yeh finds home to his granddaughter.

On March 11, 2011, Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife in the tsunami.

A presentation of Stran-Steel Division, Great Lakes Steel Corporation.

A young, queer, Black Panamanian filmmaker takes a journey of faith and discovery with Black spiritual leaders from diverse backgrounds. Through conversation and contemplation, each leader-two trans, one gay, one queer, and two straight, cisgender parents of a lesbian daughter-shares their own personal story of cultural, societal, spiritual, and personal challenges as they work to create spiritual homes for themselves and others. PFLAG National is proud to uplift the work of filmmaker Qiydaar Foster as he shares his deeply personal story at the intersections of identity, family, and faith.

In 1915, estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Turks, during the Armenian Genocide. In 2015, a Turkish woman named Maya discovers that her great grandmother was survivor of the Armenian genocide. Maya embodies the conflict as she has two enemies living in her body: one side that suffers and the other side that denies. The documentary follows Maya as she decides to go to Armenia to take part in the 100th commemoration of the genocide and to explore her conflicted identity. This film is a universal story of identity, denial, and how the experience of genocide creates a ripple effect for future generations on both sides.

Two boys struggle with love and heartbreak in closeted suburbia.

14 reels, 9.5mm, 1920s and 1930s An avid amateur photographer, Mr. Fuentes' films serve as some of the earliest motion pictures made by a Mexican-American filmmaker about the Latino community and experience in Texas. His films feature scenes of border life, Mexican-American parades, and, of course, excited children on Christmas morning. The films named to the registry were shot on 9.5mm film, a unique amateur film format popular primarily in Europe. The films were preserved by TAMI in 2015. A selection of the films are available to view on the TAMI website. TAMI's Executive Director, Caroline Frick, says: "We are thrilled to learn of the inclusion of the Fuentes Family Collection to the National Film Registry. The Fuentes' films beautifully document life on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, and illustrate the rich confluence of cultures that has made, and continues to make, Texas' story vital to understanding the United States."

A home and outdoor safety video released for kids. Eugene Levy watches a video that contains cartoon scenarios of the dangers found in and around the house, and how to avoid and prevent them.

After being mugged and stranded miles away from home with a dead phone, an anti-masker named Griffin embarks of the longest journey of his life.

Yvonne refused to accord her husband the respect and support he deserves after he lost his job. Her persistent request to switch roles coupled with her insecurity and wild imagination almost cost her everything.

Filmed on Super 8mm, Scenes from a Transient Home presents a fractured portrait of life for Zimbabwean migrants when they travel back home to visit. Christmas dancing, New Years Eve celebrations, house floods, and illegal gold panning are just a few of the events filmed by Roger Horn who bookends the film with a major life event for his family.

Mrs. Hurley is a wealthy old lady who is rather proud of her antecedents. Her son, a young, clean-cut, college-bred man, like other gilded youths, makes the acquaintance of an actress and the inevitable follows. He marries her, much against the commands of his mother. He neglects her for the companionship of a rather smart and fast set in society. The pace they set is rather strong, and after weeks of gambling and dissipation, he finds himself separated from his wife and position. His wife, now burdened with a child, is forced to seek employment.

An easy-to-use guide to setting up and boosting performance of your audio/video system

Felix is turned down by a female cat he's after because he doesn't have the latest fashion style--a bobbed tail. In order to please her, he gets a bird to "bob" his tail by biting most of it off, but by the time he gets back to the girl, the fashion style has changed and long tails are back "in" again. Depressed, Felix is about to end it all when he stops a frog from eating a bug, who turns out to be a fairy princess who takes him to Fairyland, where further adventures await him.

Explores the relationships among grandmothers, mothers and daughters in a changing Japanese society.

This documentary about the early Indians of the Great Basin emphasizes the traditional culture of the last 5,000 years. The story unfolds through the words and skills of the older Piaute women of southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada. They tell us how they make cakes from berries, baskets from tulles, cord for nets…necessary daily tasks linked with an ancient heritage. The earth is ever present in the film, wildlife, rivers and marshes, sagebrush desert, all part of the story. The lifeways of the Northern Paiutes are followed through a seasonal cycle, from root-gathering in spring to building shelter in winter.