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.

When filmmaker Chris Wilcha (The Target Shoots First) revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his youth slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times. Flipside documents his tragicomic attempt to revive the store while revisiting other documentary projects he has abandoned over the years. In the process, Wilcha captures This American Life icon Ira Glass in the midst of a creative rebirth, discovers the origin story of David Bowie’s ode to a New Jersey cable TV hero, and uncovers the unlikely connection between jazz photographer Herman Leonard and TV writer David Milch (Deadwood). This disparate collection of stories coheres into something strange and expansive—a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices and satisfaction of trying to live a creative life.

Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations, such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin and the Casa da Música concert hall in Porto, are working examples of the Dutchman's visionary theories about architecture and urban society. A Kind of Architect is an engaging portrait of Koolhaas that takes us to the heart of his ideas. Directors Markus Heidingsfelder and Min Tesch have made a visually inventive, thought-provoking film about the architect, prompting Koolhaas to state, "It's the only film about me that I have liked."

Written and directed by Faraut and narrated by Mathieu Amalric, In the Realm of Perfection revisits the rich bounty of 16-mm-shot footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe, at the time the world’s top-ranked player, as he competes in the French Open at Paris’s Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Close-ups and slow motion sequences of McEnroe competing, as well as instances of his notorious temper tantrums, highlight a ”man who played on the edge of his senses.” Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe’s attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the sport of tennis and the human body and movement, and finally how these all intersect with cinema itself.

Oil Capital Underground documents a largely overlooked chapter of American underground music history: the punk, new wave, hardcore and thrash scenes that developed in Tulsa, Oklahoma from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. Director Bryan Crain traces how musicians created an alternative culture within a city better known for the Tulsa Sound and its oil-industry heritage, building their own venues, recordings and networks far outside the musical mainstream.

The essential document of New York’s 1980s New Wave scene and the archetypal "Midnight Movie" from director Slava Tsukerman returns home to Night Flight. In what is one of the most delectably stylish Science Fiction films ever produced: A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.

RIP Slava Tsukerman (1939-2026). Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro talks to the writer, producer and director of Liquid Sky, Slava Tsukerman. Originally aired at the Roxy Theatre in NYC for Night Flight's screening on June 12th, 2024. Available for Night Flight Plus members.

The origins of the universe.

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.

A group of young actors inhabit an empty apartment and each cast member recounts painful personal life episodes.

An adaptation of Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio.”

A woman named Sonja’s past, present and future.

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.

The micro and the macro.

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.

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.

A poem of the flesh.

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.

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.