More than simply calling attention to the gaps in the story of the Japanese American internment, this important film raises questions about collective history – questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.
A new documentary series from filmmaker, Arielle Nobile. Each episode tells the life story of an individual, our neighbor, and is framed by historical context and cultural influences, the wisdom this person has garnered as a result of their experiences, and what "belonging in the USA" means to them.
Muros (In)visibles / (In)visible Walls is an itinerant film series that has traveled through, across, and over walls, borders and borderlands from Peru to Los Angeles.
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This movie is characterized for an experimental Super 8 language with purposed technical and performing imperfections, wrapped in an organic fantasy effect.
In a world seemingly devoid of human beings and inhabited by only a select few animals, an undefined presence manifests, embodied as the wind. It passes through the valley, lake, and the woods, leaving only mysterious deaths in its wake. As the night creeps in, the supernatural forces at work transcend into the natural, with apocalyptic consequences.
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Portals are openings, specific entrées through which something might be viewed or moved: elaborate and glamorous in of themselves -- the destination is elevated by the threshold itself. In fantasy, portals operate as a symbol for cataclysmic change, the moment after which the protagonist's worldview is not the same.
Our Paradise is concerned with exploring utopia, dystopia and looking through the lexicon of how one might arrive at an idealized space, real or imagined.