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After a strange nightmare, a young factory worker's life and home become haunted by bizarre phantoms.

Two roommates are divided after a mysterious skull appears one night.

Jack O'Keefe is a young, streetwise kid who's created a life by taking advantage of the people around him. Things change, though, when he witnesses a gruesome murder on the streets and is pulled into the vicious world of mysterious killers.

16mm, B&W

A man goes on a fast food run.

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive. It 's a film that establishes the passage of rolling between two friends, and Brocani Schifano, shared the same passions, and from living the cinema as a challenge urgent and vital, suspended between dream and action.

The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introduction for the vaudeville number was an inflammatory impetus. Export provides precise instructions for the use of a wrapped box of chocolate-covered candy produced by the renowned Viennese company Hofbauer. However, she has not made an advertisement for them and their presentation, but instead, she extols the packqge and confection as a work of art. Severe degradation of the surviving tape further blurs our perceptions.

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Inspired by true events, NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION follows Jay Trotta (Nick Thurston of DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES), a young man and recovering addict who was recently released from prison. Eager to begin making money, he becomes the a co owner of a new hookah bar. He soon begins making and marketing an incense that is a powerful marijuana like drug, and he sidesteps the law by labeling the product as not for human consumption. Although Jay is making money hand over fist, he becomes torn between his conscience and his pocketbook. When tragedy finally strikes, he must face the moral ramifications of his legal business. Michael Rispoli (PAIN & GAIN, KICK ASS FRANCHISE) co stars.

A stop-motion film exploring the mechanisms and materiality of consumerism and recycling culture.

Dana Claxton uses low-grade video equipment to create degraded images that correlate the treatment of the earth with the treatment of women’s bodies. A figure stands enmeshed in cutting barbed wire among ravaged forests and chopped tree stumps. Grainy black-and-white images have been electronically ripped, cut and torn in post-production while repeated images of the artist’s open-mouth scream silently against a volatile red sky. A video work from the early 1990s continues to resonate in our contemporary moment—and with decades of missing and murdered Indigenous women across exploited lands.

This is an observational film following a group of women hunters in Montana, and their relationship to public land, conservation, and alternative to the industrial food complex.

A compilation of commercials from 1981-1984 recorded off of Chicago television. 360 hours of footage edited down to 80 minutes of capitalism.

In an insect food farm, millions of crickets are being bred, frozen, packaged, and fried. The ordinary, everyday process in the farm is a one-time catastrophe for the crickets and usually ends with their certain death. Nevertheless, one cricket survives and escapes.

A woman comes face to face with the physical manifestation of her eating disorder.

Lost Film Dora production

A group of friends is terrorized by a cult hellbent on resurrecting their dead god in the snowy and isolated Utah mountains.

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Logistics or Logistics Art Project is an experimental art film. At 51,420 minutes (857 hours or 35 days and 17 hours), it is the longest movie ever made. A 37 day-long road movie in the true sense of the meaning. The work is about Time and Consumption. It brings to the fore what is often forgotten in our digital, ostensibly fast-paced world: the slow, physical freight transportation that underpins our economic reality.

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In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still celebrates its most important festivities, but also learns that the construction of a new commercial complex called Mítikah will threaten the existence of both the traditions and the town itself.

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For most of the world, consumption has been the unquestioned duty of every individual. Then garbage activist Annie Leonard brought her two-hour lecture to Free Range who helped her turn it into a 20-minute animated revolution. Shown in thousands of classrooms, endlessly blasted by Fox News, viewed more than 10 million times, The Store of Stuff finally opens the door to a serious cultural dialog about the costs of consumption.

Every day, we eat and breathe tiny plastic residues. What effects does this insidious contamination have on our bodies? Rigorous and lucid, this scientific investigation gathers the most recent discoveries and sounds the alarm.

In a magicians’ private stand-off, two practitioners must brave tricky challenges to demonstrate a hidden ability. They conjure animal illusions, consume light bulbs, and face the choice between antagonism and friendship.