Sounds in a city are like an invisible landscape. In this experimental documentary, filmmaker Boyi Xu constructs a sensory journey of the intense soundscape of New York City, visiting various places and spaces to draw a sound sketch of everyday urban lives.
Mr Floyd's death, under the knee of a white police officer, unleashed a wave of grief and anger across America. That wave reached Australia's shores with thousands of Australians coming out to protest in support of our indigenous community. In this deeply personal story, Stan Grant gives voice…
Formerly Homeless, Fannie speaks for the speechless and gives us pause to feel and think in perspective.
Severely disabled children need not be immobile and dependent. Present day engineering and electronics can give them the ability to move about at will. The film shows that when doctors, therapists, designers, engineers, parents and even children themselves work together really beneficial results can…
Su Friedrich takes up the camera in a new chapter of her quest to film the battleground of family life. Her mother Lore—who played the lead in The Ties That Bind (1984), a film about her experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War—plays the lead again, this time kicking…
Recordings of the virtual ICAP Conference 2021
Icaros explores the profound spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Young Mokan Rono sets out on a fascinating journey to discover the ancestral knowledge of ayahuasca, mentored by a wise shaman and by his…
Icarus Films is proud to present four dance films - ONE DAY PINA ASKED..., REBELS ON POINTE, IN THE STEPS OF TRISHA BROWN and PHOENIX DANCE. ONE DAY PINA ASKED... (re-released 2013) An encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century, ONE DAY PINA ASKED... is Chantal…
Drug addicts taking 'Ice', or crystal methamphetamine, show us their violent and manic lives. The drug crystal methamphetamine, or ice, is cheap, highly addictive and ultra powerful. Its use is increasing, emergency wards are filling with dangerous psychotic patients. We follow the lives…
Australian Joel Stevenson (47) is surfing world-class slabs in one of the most unlikely places, alone in the Oslofjord, Norway. Only the most obsessed and dedicated would ever dare to dream you could find barrels in these icy, sheltered waters. Shot over three winter-seasons. Directed and shot…
A film about the most insane sport you’ve never heard of. ICE CROSS: LIFE ON THE EDGE follows four athletes racing down frozen tracks at over 40 mph, battling daring jumps, sharp turns, and fierce competition for the Ice Cross World Championship. Beyond the adrenaline, they’re also fighting…
Ice Edge is a short documentary about a group of surfers trying to make surfboards out of ice. It follows the process from freezing the boards, shaping them and taking them out into the sea. There is a lot of trying and failing. Will it work at all? The boards are slippery, and they melt very fast. Everything…
