“…reminiscent of seeing 1982’s Koyaanisqatsi for the first time… Shen’s In Pursuit of Silence incessantly inspires and sometimes takes the breath away and can even accomplish both at once.” -Austin Chronicle "In Pursuit of Silence" is a meditative exploration…
"You´ll die. Or get kidnapped by Al Qaeda. What you want to do is impossible!" That is what all experts, analysts and the Yemenis themselves told me. But I have done the impossible. I have made my way into what many say is one of the most difficult countries in the world to enter,…
ROMA is a hastily drawn together documentary/essay on Rome, drawn from a large amount of material collected over two or three years, and put together in a hurry for an Italian television commission. The material had all been done for myself, but this particular collection of material was drawn together…
Ishmael Muslim Ali is an American convicted of murdering eight people on a Rockefeller-owned golf course in the US Virgin Islands. After years of trying to get his conviction overturned, he took matters into his own hands and hijacked an American Airlines plane full of passengers to Cuba on New Years…
In the wake of a devastating personal tragedy, struggling would-be filmmaker Parker Smith decides to take a road-trip across America. Intending to make a "lo-fi" documentary about his journey he purchases a decade old camera off of eBay, and is surprised to discover that it holds a long forgotten…
Following the hazardous journey of one of Afghanistan's pioneering girls' schools. The Zabuli Education Center is the first school for girls in Deh’Subz, rural Afghanistan. Founder Razia Jan must juggle threats from the Taliban, interference from disapproving family members and teenage…
In 1963 The Beatles burst onto the world stage and single-handedly transformed popular culture. This film traces the group’s role as youthful revolutionaries, providing a completely new take on the most important band of all time. Featuring Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo…
In light of the catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire in London, which claimed at least 80 lives, ABC Four Corners reveals how public buildings all across Australia have been built with the same flammable aluminium cladding that caused Grenfell to go up in smoke. This incisive investigation identifies a colossal…
A century after the Balfour Declaration of November 1917 the argument over the land – then known as Palestine – rages on. Politicians, clerics and school teachers living in the Gaza strip, the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem, teach their children, teenagers and young adults that…
Nominated for the 2002 Student Documentary Academy Award, BECOME THE SKY maps an ecology of power spanning 4,000 miles across Texas. From offshore oil-rigs to the mouth of the Rio Grande, BECOME THE SKY weaves a web of energy and politics in the context of war–and capitalism. West Texas wind-farms.…
SUBTEXT chronicles two years in labor relations at Yale through the director’s point of view. Dunn, a junior at Yale when the conflict ensues, interviews workers, administrators, students and professors in an effort to make sense of the dissonance on campus. The film opens with Freshman invocation…
On June 6, 1944, the greatest military operation in the history of the world succeeded in landing more than 150,000 Allied troops on the beaches of northern France. Before the battle of Normandy was won in late August, these troops endured some of the most costly fighting of World War II. Overlord:…
