This Is

Experimental, one take

Compilation of bands that played This Is Hardcore Fest 2008 in Philadelphia

A film featuring singer Ganavya, calligrapher Wang Dongling, and dancer Michael Schumacher who during COVID lockdown, created an hour-long meditation on the visionary, radiant Vimalakirti Sutra, a Buddhist text from the first century CE. A businessman, having chosen a path of illness towards spiritual awakening, teaches the visitors at his deathbed with depth and penetration: how to face life with no illusions. The artists, across three continents and three artforms, interpret the text individually and collaboratively, sharing a story of acute pain, deep healing, and radical transformation.

In a world where 'The Peace' hangs in the balance, Benjamin has found a way to bring harmony to his people. He is the enforcer of 'The Rule,' a system based on a contract that has brought two rival populations to a co-existence. One population is forever doomed to the Sun, while the other is condemned to the Shade. The consequences for breaking 'The Rule' are fatal until Benjamin becomes curious.

The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the legacies of this revolution and its continued impact on contemporary art and performance. Charting a path across four decades of avant-garde experiment and radical escapism, This Is Not a Dream traces the influences of Andy Warhol, John Waters and Jack Smith to the perverted frontiers of YouTube and Chatroulette, taking in subverted talk shows and soap operas, streetwalker fashions and glittery magic penises along the way.

Two parents from separate families meet in the principal's office to discuss an altercation between their sons. While they await the principal's arrival, the parents begin a conversation which reveals the true nature of their sons' embroilment and threatens to destroy the very foundation of their core beliefs.

This is Just To Say was made in the summer of 1999 through a workshop opportunity offered by Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival for queer youth. This is Just to Say documents several young men and women’s first queer experiences through interviews accomplished by simply approaching strangers on a busy Toronto street on a Sunday afternoon. Through invasive conversation This is Just to Say explores personal narrative and identity politics in the "post" era; a testament about being young and queer in 1999.

Jasni is a young man who plans to marry the girl of his dreams, Ara. But Ara's mother, Mak Siti, disapproves of their love, seeing him merely as a low-life who does not have a bright future ahead of him, unlike his father, Pak Dollah, who is a wealthy business man. Things become more complicated when Pak Dollah falls in love with Mak Siti. Not only that, another man is now planning to propose to Ara. Jasni will have to find a way to marry her before the other man does.

This documentary asks, what is happening to our homes? This is what’s going on all around this country while they’re trying to get everyone to focus on everything else that isn’t this.

This Is Taking Too Long is a documentary about the current moral panic surrounding LGBTQ+ civil activism in both the United States and Australia.

This black and white short film (with hardboiled voiceover) follows canine filmmaker Quinn Hud to the dog-eat-dog world of the Cannes Film Festival to sell his latest work.

Insightful digital portrait of artist Fargo Deborah Whitman, who has "dissociative personality disorder" (formerly called "multiple personality disorder"). Whitman provides an intimate glimpse into many of her various personae (a young child named Genie; 18 year-old Anton; Gibbon; Meticulous; and others), and director Chandler has shown great sensitivity to her extraordinary subject, and the film is by turns startling, shocking, and inspiring.

A desperate attempt to return to a place that does not judge and does not ask any questions through the viewing of old video tapes.

In 2009, Sham 69 became the first punk rock band to tour China. Just as the ‘70s British icons were attempting to mount a comeback, Chinese punk singer, tour manager and promoter Ray Yao lured them for two weeks of chaos in an enthusiastic but ever-changing country. With locals No Name as their supports, and former Chumbawamba lead singer turned director Dunstan Bruce capturing their every move, the trip provided more than just an unlikely introduction to the modern music scene. Met by excited new fans screaming “this band is gorgeous!”, they tapped into the enduring, uniting nature of punk anthems

Little fishy, are you sure you’re going in the right direction?

“This River is Our Relative” is a new Sunlight Media Collective documentary about the Penobscot Nation’s intrinsic kinship connection to and tireless environmental advocacy for the Penobscot River. The story is told through the voices of 24 Penobscot people, who share their experience of historical, physical, and spiritual connection to place; of cultural identity and survival. Their narratives are interwoven with a traditional Wabanaki story about how The People and Glouskap defeated a greedy monster frog, Aklebemu, who was hoarding all the water. This story parallels both historical and present day environmental concerns, and is also the origin story of the Penobscot family Clans.

"This is not a test" is made from bits and pieces of rotten 35 mm film. The stains and marks left by a natural decomposition process resemble the inkblots used in the Rorschach test. While this is not a test, the viewer is invited to engage with the flow of the images and make their associations.

Robbie an Mary live out an entire relationship in three minutes.

Alan Martin was born with severe form cerebral palsy and has been in a wheelchair since birth. Most of his years up until he was 31 were spent being ignored or overlooked. 'This Chair is Not Me' illustrates a pivotal moment in one mans life, a moment that acts as a catalyst to change, and one that shapes his future.

This satsang from the 30th of March 1993 was recorded during the period the documentary 'Call off the search' was being filmed and everyone who comes up is sitting on a chair next to Papaji. The satsang is 55 minutes long and includes the following interactions: Prabhavati: Being unworthy and losing the diamond in the fish market. Papaji: "That's the unworthiness of the people whom diamond is handed over. People who misuse it will suffer for million of years. It is their business to look after the diamond.