Secret Ballot
A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.
The Minimalists: Less Is Now
They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less.
Shadow Behind the Moon
The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.
Cryptex
A short philosophical satire that wanders between the absurd and the profound. From a silent bed stare to a prophetic lentil, Cryptex explores the rituals of modern existentialism — one cup of coffee and one book at a time.
SOME COLORS
The Colour Red
A short-action-art film depicting a story of biblical proportions where the suppressed (a collection of societal minorities) overthrow the juxtaposed devil, also known as the western-centric patriarchy as represented by the suppressor (the Straight White Man), by murdering him in cold blood. Papiamentu narration.
A Chair
One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of a chair to the accompaniment of the firecracker pops of television static. While formally minimal, A Chair is conceptually challenging in its simplicity and its demand that the audience zero in on, of all things, a simple chair. - Tom Fritsche
Yes, some birds are funny when they talk...
A young man walks around town, after deciding against taking his own life, and comes across a dying bird--to which he chooses to offer shelter.
Philip Glass: Looking Glass
This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings, his moving to Paris for two years of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger, his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson, who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound of a Voice, directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson. Éric Darmon's camera, with its poetic shots and original framings, takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who, rising from the underground scene of the seventies, brought on a revolution in modern theater.
5am
A collection of solitary urban images intersect with each other.
Shiver
Toyoda Toshiaki went to Sado Island and filmed musician Koshiro Hino and Kodo, the local Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble, while they performed music composed especially for Shiver.
O Casulo
What does it mean to be free? The Cocoon explores the feeling of imprisonment experienced by women who try to find freedom – not only in times of social isolation.
Endgame
After a tough week at the office, Richard and George like to play war games over the weekend to relax. The dispassionate atmosphere and minimalistic style with which the growing brutality is handled slowly wipes the smile from your face, before making sure that it doesn’t return.
John Adams conducts John Adams
Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” anxiously awaits the bomb’s first test in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Adams adapted the work into a symphony, comprising its three main acts. In the second half of the program, Adams conducts his 2015 violin concerto, Scheherazade.2, which restages the tale of the One Thousand and One Nights heroine as a strong woman navigating a patriarchial society, incarnated by the solo violin part. The work was composed specifically for Canadian-American virtuoso Leila Josefowicz and co-commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, who perform it to perfection. The evening then closes out with Tromba Lontana, an orchestral fanfare written to mark the 150th anniversary of Texas’s independence from Mexico in 1836.
The New Mother Earth
The New Mother Earth is a documentary film by Michael Lanfield, based on his book of the same name. With forewords by Damien Mander, Freelee the Banana Girl, and Oberom, and an afterword by Aurora Ananda, the work offers a spiritual and philosophical call to awaken from cycles of fear, violence, and disconnection. Exploring humanity’s need to return to love, truth, and compassion, it presents a vision of healing and unity with animals, the Earth, and one another. Through its message of sovereignty, nonviolence, and higher consciousness, The New Mother Earth invites viewers and readers alike to imagine a more harmonious way of living, rooted in reverence for all life.
Mária Kerényi, 41, July 1970
In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her in slow motion. Upon her arrest, diplomat Mária Kerényi is interviewed by the state television. Her story in espionage confronts the mechanisms of autocracy and the concept of guilt in a closed society.
Under Control
In a silent world ruled by routine and precision, a man's search for order reveals a deep inner disturbance that leads him to a sudden moment of collapse.
Mente Minimalista - Um Documentário sobre o Minimalismo
Hamvas Béla út 11.
Hamvas Béla út 11. is a meditative avant-garde exploration bridging two great Hungarian visionaries, released in honor of director Béla Tarr’s legacy and philosopher Béla Hamvas. Set within a socialist-era housing estate where a fifth of the population lives in uniform concrete panels, the film offers an intimate portrait of an unnamed protagonist maintaining human dignity amid isolation. His daily rituals carefully preparing instant soup, washing dishes, and reading in bed are performed with a poise that serves as a shield against spiritual decay. He navigates the building’s decline, from paper-thin walls to a rickety elevator, with stoic calm. From his balcony at sunset, he gazes past the concrete sprawl toward the Citadella. The final shot captures the night estate as a massive grid of glowing windows where residents return to individual concrete cages, creating a surreal image in its raw reality where image and silence converge to evoke the metaphysical depths of existence.
Kanade
Widely considered an important milestone in Indian Architectural history, the Kanade brothers are a testimony of how life and work can coexist with honesty as the fundamental driving factor. The film ‘Kanade’ gives an insight into the journey and experiences of Shankar & Navnath Kanade as architects and teachers.