Dark Days
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For years, a homeless community took root in a train tunnel beneath New York City, braving dangerous conditions and perpetual night. Dark Days explores this surprisingly domestic subterranean world, unearthing a way of life unimaginable to those above. Through stories simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, intimate, and off the cuff, tunnel dwellers reveal their reasons for taking refuge and their struggle to survive underground.
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
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Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California's modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public.
Art and Craft
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Mark Landis has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. His body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods that including 15th Century Icons, Picasso, and even Walt Disney. Art and Craft starts out as a cat-and-mouse art caper – but what emerges is an story of obsession and the universal need for community, appreciation, and purpose.
OBEX
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NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS STREAMING PREMIERE: In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons. But when he begins playing OBEX, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-art computer game, he finds himself trapped in a low-tech, but high-stakes analog hellscape as the line between reality and game blurs. Audacious and uncanny, writer-director Albert Birney's OBEX is a delightfully skewed lo-fi fantasy. Shot in striking black and white, this surreally nostalgic nightmare revisits the dawn of personal computing to reflect on the loneliness of our always-online present day.
Vulcanizadora
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In director Joel Potrykus's Vulcanizadora, two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can't stay hidden for long.
Once Within a Time
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Celebrated director Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) returns after ten years with a new experimental film unlike any other from his already daring career. Once Within a Time is a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world and the beginning of a new one, tinged with apocalyptic comedy, rapturous cinematography, unforgettable vistas, and the innocence and hopes of a new generation. Featuring an electrifying score composed by Reggio’s longtime collaborator Philip Glass with additional vocals from Sussan Deyhim, Once Within a Time is an indie revelation.
Pickle
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Pickle is an ode to man's capacity to care for all creatures throughout their sometimes greatly protracted existence until their occasionally sudden and unfortunate demise.
Freeze
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When Joy's fairytale romance crashes and burns on the eve of her 35th birthday, the TICK-TOCK of her biological clock pushes her to try new things.
Balloonfest
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The city of Cleveland was abuzz on September 27, 1986. Over 1.5 million balloons were about to be released at once, breaking the world record. What could go wrong?
Tabula Rasa
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A village engulfed by the 1950 Red River flood experiences a surreal resurrection.
Enfant Terrible
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Two gallery employees realize they've made a huge mistake and race to fix it before anyone finds out.
Kim Bush's Abduction
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Everyone freaks out at a Christmas party when Kim goes missing.
Esophagus
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The origins of the universe.
Dignity
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Agents Mr. Rainbow and Mr. Lamb are sent to an alien planet fighting a civil war. Their mission to destroy a perpetual motion machine is interrupted by their capture. While their interrogations proceed the two men struggle to come to terms with their suffering and impending death.
Jerusalem
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A group of young actors inhabit an empty apartment and each cast member recounts painful personal life episodes.
Pinocchio
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An adaptation of Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio.”
Final Obscura
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A woman named Sonja’s past, present and future.
Two Girls
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The story of young sisters in the American Midwest left alone with their increasingly unstable mother while their father is fighting in the Civil War. The film traces the girls’ naturally fraught sibling dynamic and the ways that their father’s absence ignites their imagination. When they meet a stranger in the forest they become enchanted by a world of creative work and nature, a welcome distraction from their volatile mother. Play and the dreamlike space they inhabit provides an expansive and ultimately grounding setting for the girls’ response to war.
Celestial Visions
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The micro and the macro.
The Ant Hill
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When a cult leader’s vision of the end of the world is not fulfilled he begins the systematic humiliation and destruction of his followers.
Timon
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An adaptation of Timon of Athens from the works of Richard Cumberland, Lucian of Samosata, Herman Melville, William Painter, Plutarch, Thomas Shadwell and William Shakespeare.
Hymn
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A poem of the flesh.
The Sky Song
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In the old west a man’s family is slain by his doppelganger: Mr. Lamb. The man’s quest for revenge takes him on a journey to reconcile the horrors of his past – illness, murder, lost love and war.
The Given
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A New York City based actress goes to an audition. Afterward she attends meditation class and then winds up at a party of artists viewing a film. At home, she and her girlfriend explore buried memories. Later she begins to sleepwalk. Finally, the actress enacts a childlike performance inspired by a Frank Wedekind play.
Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka
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A NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS EXCLUSIVE: From music film director Tony Palmer comes an extraordinary inside look at the life and music of VANGELIS. It’s hard to escape the music of VANGELIS. His music for the cult movie Blade Runner is among the most influential film music ever written. Vangelis had never previously allowed himself to be filmed, but as he approached his 65th birthday, he relented - principally, and surprisingly, because he hoped his music would make a significant contribution to matters of global concern. In addition to rare footage of Vangelis composing in his studio, the film features inside comments from film directors and actors Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire), Ridley Scott (Blade Runner & Gladiator), Oliver Stone (Alexander) Roman Polanski (Bitter Moon) Sean Connery and Harrison Ford.

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