Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2015 • United States
Kevin Jerome Everson’s monument of durational cinema immerses viewers in the inner workings of a factory that produces bowling-alley equipment—a full eight-hour workday experienced in real time. Entrancing, meditative, and totally enveloping, PARK LANES unfolds according to the rhythms and rituals of the workers whose shifts it patiently documents, their quotidian tasks taking on a profound significance. The result is one of the most perceptive films ever made about labor and one of modern cinema’s most singular achievements.
Directed by Peter Medak • 2018 • Cyprus
In 1973, comic genius Peter Sellers and his former “The Goon Show” collaborator Spike Milligan traveled to the coast of Cyprus to star in GHOST IN THE NOONDAY SUN, a seventeenth-century-set pirate spoof helmed by up-and-coming director Peter Medak. From th...
Directed by Amjad Abu Alala • 2019 • Sudan
Starring Mustafa Shehata, Islam Mubarak, Mahmoud Elsarraj
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best debut film at the Venice Film Festival, Amjad Abu Alala’s revelatory first feature is a visually sumptuous coming-of-death fable. During a child’s ...
