Scumrock
Aug 28, 2002A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.
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Courtney Stephens
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Topology of Sirens
Jul 22, 2021After discovering a set of cryptic microcassettes in her new home, Cas is drawn into a meditative mystery of environmental sound and experimental music.
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Terra Femme
Mar 29, 2021Amateur travelogues by women in the 1920s-50s are woven into this meditation on the traveler’s gaze. A mountaineer, a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, an antique merchant and others are revealed through their own optical autobiographies.
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Iris Season
Sep 06, 2020Commission for Cinema-19 (Anthology Film Archives, Zeitgeist Theatre, Northwest Film Forum)
Terra Femme
Mar 29, 2021Amateur travelogues by women in the 1920s-50s are woven into this meditation on the traveler’s gaze. A mountaineer, a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, an antique merchant and others are revealed through their own optical autobiographies.
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Lesser Choices
Sep 30, 2022The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker’s mother. In its account of this intimate and disorienting memory, Lesser Choices summons a time of profound uncertainty—a moment from an era without rights—and offers a warning to the present.
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Jan 01, 1970John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive means for expanding consciousness. The storytelling will be supported by interviews with Lilly’s contemporaries and colleagues, as well as extensive archival records.
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Equestrian Sexual Response
Mar 13, 2010Eleven-year-old Alice lives on a ranch with her father, her favorite horse and confidante, Red, and the love of Red's life, Molly.
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Ida Western Exile
May 06, 2017A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.
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Ida Western Exile
May 06, 2017A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.
Drama
Ida Western Exile
May 06, 2017A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.
Drama
Ida Western Exile
May 06, 2017A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.
Drama
Invention
Aug 11, 2024In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archives from Callie Hernandez's late father, Invention explores the process of grieving a complicated parent, and the filmmaking itself becomes a part of the process.
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Invention
Aug 11, 2024In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archives from Callie Hernandez's late father, Invention explores the process of grieving a complicated parent, and the filmmaking itself becomes a part of the process.
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Invention
Aug 11, 2024In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archives from Callie Hernandez's late father, Invention explores the process of grieving a complicated parent, and the filmmaking itself becomes a part of the process.
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Invention
Aug 11, 2024In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archives from Callie Hernandez's late father, Invention explores the process of grieving a complicated parent, and the filmmaking itself becomes a part of the process.
Drama
The American Sector
Feb 21, 2020A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions or individuals since 1989 and are now scattered across the USA. Cherished or abandoned, they have become silent witnesses to recent history.
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The American Sector
Feb 21, 2020A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions or individuals since 1989 and are now scattered across the USA. Cherished or abandoned, they have become silent witnesses to recent history.
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The American Sector
Feb 21, 2020A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions or individuals since 1989 and are now scattered across the USA. Cherished or abandoned, they have become silent witnesses to recent history.
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Mating Games
May 31, 2017
Labial Quinet
Jun 30, 2017Ida Western Exile
May 06, 2017A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.
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Perfect Fifths
Jul 17, 2020A portrait of the artist and piano tuner Jerome Ellis, and a meditation on intervals in music, nature and language. The act of tuning harmonizes the world, at least temporarily, but time brings suffering and instability.
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Mixed Signals
Oct 01, 2018Stricken with an undisclosed illness, the narrator of this reflexive work draws evocative parallels between the darkened hulls of an industrial ocean liner and an increasingly disorienting mental state. Courtney Stephens was inspired by the nautical imagery and turbulent inner monologue of Hannah Weiner’s maritime code poems.
CINEMA-19
Aug 19, 2020A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.
