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 Andrei A. Tarkovsky • 2019 • Italy, Russia
The life, art, and inner world of Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky is explored through the filmmaker’s own words and images in this appropriately hushed and reverent tribute to a cinematic titan. Lovingly made by the director’s son, ANDREI TA...
Directed by Les Blank • 1973 • United States
A companion piece to DRY WOOD that was filmed simultaneously, this is an energetic portrait of the Grammy-winning Creole musician Clifton Chenier, a.k.a. the King of Zydeco. HOT PEPPER brings viewers into the Louisiana juke joints where Chenier plays ...
Directed by Nick Ebeling • 2016 • United States
Method actor, filmmaker, art collector, and all-American anarchist—the many sides of Hollywood iconoclast Dennis Hopper are explored in Nick Ebeling’s coolly stylish, fittingly unconventional documentary. Drawing heavily from the testimony of Hoppe...
