Directed by Sofia Theodore-Pierce • 2023 • United States
A year of stormy weather and temporal rupture is recalled in fragments in this collage of seizure dreams, horses, long-distance conversations from bed, and loose reenactments from Marguerite Duras’s BAXTER, VERA BAXTER.
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Keeping Time
Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2023 • United States
The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark) has been a legend in Los Angeles’s avant-garde jazz community for over sixty years. But since the death of its founder, pianist and composer Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbi...
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Home When You Return
Directed by Carl Elsaesser • 2021 • United States
“Stretching and blurring the boundaries of video essay, experimental film, and home movie, traces of a 1950s homemade melodrama by amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin intermingle with a mournful homage to the author’s grandmother and her vacat...
