Ma Sewing
My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago. (Amy Halpern)
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My mother, now 94. Filmed more than 30 years ago. (Amy Halpern)
Sewing Woman chronicles the bittersweet journey of one woman's determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to working class comforts in modern America.
A delirious sewing of a lost vision inside a labyrinth.
For 25 years Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army terrorized Northern Uganda. Children were stolen from their families and brainwashed to be soldiers. Girls were degraded to sex slaves for Kony's officers. The gunf
How are borders constructed and how do they impact people's lives? Through personal tales of displacement, Beirut residents adapt different maps of the city and region by sewing borders onto them. Archival maps, internat
Sewing Machine is a film about the town of Pechory (Petseri) and its people, told through the life story of my great-grandmother. My great-grandmother’s father, who was the deputy mayor of Pechory, was killed by the Bols
A Mowelfund experimental film
While a mother busies herself with sewing, a clock counts down the last minute of her daughter’s life as we hear a chilling voiceover reminding us to keep watch over our children when they're near traffic.
Heather, a young fashion designer, is working on her latest collection when a knock at the door changes everything. Left on her doorstep is a mysterious sewing machine, seemingly a gift - but it carries a lot more than j
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, girls aged 12 to 16 began working at Pyeonghwa Market. Running sewing machines, they also study the Labor Standards Act under the tutelage of Jeon Taeil. On September 9, 1977, they were
Innovative possibilities of erotic crafts.
"Nisik Panguripan" (Sewing Life) follows the inspiring journey of Mustakim "Fendi," a man who opened a garment business in his village during the COVID-19 pandemic. While many businesses were forced to shut down and peop
When youthful, Golden-Age starlet Laura Hall shows up late to a secret support group for queer women, a deadly plot is unveiled that threatens the safety of Laura and the group.
Kembra Pfahler invites director Richard Kern to document her latest piece of provocative performance art.
An instructional film on sewing different types of seams.
The mechanical roots of the film. It seems to be the mechanism of a sewing machine. I have in my hands the broken 8mm projector and 8mm film. And next to it was a shiny, still-working 16mm projector. I was determined to
Innovative possibilities of erotic crafts.
Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon falls in love with the assistant shipping clerk, Roy Davis, and is promot
Why can't I hear the sound of sewing machines anymore? A meeting with my family and the history of all their sewing machines.