Directed by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda • 1985 • United States

Throughout the mid-1980s, viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and hosted by jazz visionary and...

Directed by Les Blank • 1987 • United States

Filmmaker Les Blank breezily questions our commonly accepted standards of beauty with this paean to women with extra-wide dental spaces.

Directed by Ayoka Chenzira and HaJ • 2014 • United States
Starring Haj Chenzira Pinnock, Betty Hart, Joy Brunson

Conceived as an innovative blend of narrative filmmaking and interactive gameplay, this science-fiction coming-of-age story follows the journey of HER, a reluctant female warrior-in-t...

Directed by François Truffaut • 1962 • France

This short film is the first segment of five in the multinational feature Love at Twenty (1962), all five segments on the theme of first adult love. After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen-year-old Antoine Doinel, having been prov...

Directed by Jane Campion • 1983 • Australia

This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.

Directed by Les Blank • 1990 • United States

Exploration of cajun cooking and culture.

Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal
Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge Jácome

Drenched in lysergic lavender, this sci-fi pseudo-documentary is both a dreamy vision of ecological apocalypse and a tender queer love story set on an island in the Azores overrun by endlessly pro...

Directed by Tulapop Saenjaroen • 2021 • Thailand, Singapore
Starring Anongnart Yusananda, Aacharee Ungsriwong, Brett Burgs

SQUISH! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary ...

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1946 • France

Jean-Pierre Melville's first directorial effort was this 1946 short film about a clown and his partner, who find inspiration one day in the streets for their performance in the circus that night.

Directed by Agnès Varda • 1984 • France
Starring Louis Bec, Colette Bonnet, Yolande Moreau

An ensemble performs a bizarre parody of domesticity at an abandoned Avignon hospice center in this richly surrealist experimental work.

Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1963 • Senegal
Starring Ly Abdoulay, Albourah

This groundbreaking short film, which won first prize at the 1963 Touris Film Festival in France, was the directorial debut of Ousmane Sembène.

Restored in 2013 by the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory...

“Montauk with Jim Jarmusch”
Directed by John Lurie • 1992 • United States

John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime in FISHING WITH JOHN. In this episode, John Lurie battles sharks with Jim Jarmusch off the tip of Lo...

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus • 1986 • United States

Redding, a venerable star of Memphis’s Stax record label, seduced the "love crowd" in one of his best, and last, performances. SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY, feature the entire set of this legendary musician, a performance that has ...

Directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman • 1930 • France

Jean Vigo was twenty-five when he made this, his debut film, a silent cinematic poem that reveals, through a thrilling and ironic use of montage, the economic reality hidden behind the facade of the Mediterranean resort town of Nice. The fi...