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Weaving with Spanish Threads is an hour-long (62 min.) documentary about the Spanish immigrants who arrived in Hawaii under 3-5 year contracts in the early 1900s. They came to work in the sugar cane and pineapple plantat
Zoologist turned microlight pilot, Amellia Formby, is on a mission to share her love for migratory shorebirds, whilst searching for solutions to the many threats they face.
Ancestral Threads follows Joleen Mitton on her mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver's Indigenous community. A former fashion model, Joleen is now a community leader and founder of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion
"Basima- Our Threads of Life" is a short documentary I filmed in Cairo. It tells the story of Basima Mohammed, a tapestry weaver at the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center, and a woman l've had a deep connection with since ch
A Singaporean family’s silenced grief over the death of an uncle parallels the country’s removal of diverse dialects and funeral rituals that conceal mourning.
“Shreds of Violence, Threads of Repair,” a film by Assiya Issemberdieva, is a video essay that interrogates Soviet colonization and its cinematic representations. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Frantz Fanon and
An observational short film that that depicts the various creative techniques and its intricacies that the artisans have formed through their craft of working with wool in the Deccan and Kullu Valley region of India.
Woven Threads is dedicated to telling stories through which our shared humanity compels us to recognize and, perhaps, identify with the universality of the refugee experience.
An original animation about spiders, webs, and DNA, inspired by a viewing of Louise Bourgeois’s sculptures at MoMA.
Drawing inspiration from traditional weaving techniques, oral storytelling, and contemporary modes of production, Tiɣrist - The Threads of Exile invites reflection on textile as a language of resistance and a vessel of m
For centuries Hmong people have lived in the mountains of China and Southeast Asia. They have in more recent history fled Laos as refugees and resettled in the Americas, Australia, and Europe. This documentary was filmed
An homage to the women who worked in the motion picture industry in the early part of the 20th century. Scraps from old footage – sprocket holes, light leaks, film leaders, scratches (parts of the film material not inten
A boy crowns himself as king, unaware his kingdom is already losing someone.
The fascinating and partially hidden story of this woman and other former “guest workers” in Germany is told by her daughter, who as a member of the next generation is struggling with her own identity and her relationshi
"I attempt to render sections from the spectral analysis of things, to show them in many aspects and permutations simultaneously: their relations, sequences and oppositions. Unfortunately I am unable to observe things f
Instructional footage of how to thread film in a 16mm Cine-Kodak Special movie camera
Wu Dehua is a frustrated young man who has experienced abandonment and crime and starts having suicidal thoughts. However, with the help of the nurses who cared for him, he's understanding the meaning of helping others a
A documentary event exploring the designers, photographers and makers shaping South Australia’s fashion scene.
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatri
