Diamond Cut Diamond

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Owen, a young man is dissatisfied with his life. He heads into the forest to escape and learns a lot during his time there.

“We’re not training people to be fighters, we train people to exert energy and to release”, says the trainer at the 'Calais Jungle' boxing club. A few days before the camp’s eviction, energy levels are sky-high. A throbbing documentary impression of a tenacious support group.

See how the group came to be and what it took for each member to be selected into the final group of Now United.

Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised instrumental collaboration with silent Brakhage’s films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews).

A young man returns home for the weekend to discover the difficulty of juggling friends, parents, magic mushrooms and several thousand chickens.

Controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman is on a crusade to expose global nutritional giant Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history while Herbalife execs claim Ackman is a market manipulator out to bankrupt them and make a killing off his billion dollar short.

not there yet

An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip.

Ein Jahr nach den Ereignissen von Hell House LLC II steht das Hotel kurz vor dem Abriss, als es von dem Milliardär Russell Wynn als neue Heimat für seine beliebte interaktive Show Insomnia gekauft wird. Er lädt die Journalistin Venessa Sheppard und ihr Team ein, alles aufzuzeichnen, was im Hotel vor der Aufführung passiert - doch schon bald stoßen sie auf eine noch ruchlosere Verschwörung, die eine wahre Hölle auf Erden zu entfesseln droht.

Hanumantha Rao, the Sarpanch of Dharmapuri, has a foster kid named Suri, who falls for a girl Malli. Her mother disapproves of him and asks Laxmi Rajyam Patel, his father's political opponent to intervene. Will the sarpanch go by the rules or will he help the lovebirds?

A dark story about obsession, cats, and birthday presents.

A young couple purchase their new home to start a life together, only to find out the elderly couple next door have other plans for them.

"I stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only revolves 90 degrees. The trick to this sensation is fundamentally the same as the one used in SPACY. I was aiming at disturbing our awareness of space in the movement from the three-dimensional to a plane and back again." Takashi Ito

A single man has worked most of his life in a supermarket. One night, he unexpectedly meets with his father, and the two are faced with the question of the reasons for their separation.

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Eine Mutter reist ihrem Sohn quer durch Kalifornien hinterher, nachdem er sich entschieden hat die Schule abzubrechen und Surfer zu werden: Als erfolgreiche Lektorin ist es Jackie Durning gewohnt, die Zügel fest in der Hand zu haben. Angelo, der mit seiner alleinerziehenden Mutter in New York lebt, bekommt ihren Kontrollwahn tagtäglich zu spüren. Der Achtzehnjährige möchte Schriftsteller werden und ist bereits bei einer Hochschule für Literatur angemeldet. Nach einem Besuch bei seinem Vater, der mit seiner neuen Familie ein unbeschwertes Leben am Meer in Los Angeles lebt, und weil er New York mit der dominanten Jackie satt hat, lässt Angelo alles hinter sich und geht zu seinem Dad. Endlich fühlt er sich frei und kann seiner Leidenschaft, dem Wellenreiten, nachgehen. Als Jackie die Distanz nicht mehr erträgt, folgt sie ihrem Spross nach Santa Monica.

Ein animiertes Roadmovie, das in der weiten und kargen Landschaft der australischen Nullarbor-Ebene spielt.

A documentary film depicting five intimate portraits of migrants who fled their country of origin to seek refuge in France and find a space of freedom where they can fully experience their sexuality and their sexual identity: Giovanna, woman transgender of Colombian origin, Roman, Russian transgender man, Cate, Ugandan lesbian mother, Yi Chen, young Chinese gay man…

Madrid, Spain, March 2020. As the merciless disease that plagues the world spreads through the increasingly deserted streets of the city, people barricades themselves in their homes and move on with their lives…