The Sadness of the Trees
Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature. Mikel Guillen's film is dedicated to the artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto. Scott Barley's film is dedicated to the artist, Vija Celmins.
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Two separate, yet poetically connected films that act as a threnody on nature. Mikel Guillen's film is dedicated to the artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto. Scott Barley's film is dedicated to the artist, Vija Celmins.
In the quiet beauty of Currimao, Ilocos Norte, a community stands between progress and preservation as the expansion of a solar farm threatens the forests they call home
A young woman struggles to provide for her son while waiting to receive money from her husband. When she hears that a neighbour’s husband has returned from abroad with gifts, she undertakes the long, humbling journey to
A Belfast housing project simmers with resentment at an influx of Polish immigrants. But Iris is too busy for "them and us." She pulls pints and struggles to raise her nephew's baby. Jamie has turned to drugs and lost hi
Despite knocking the price down to a mere six quid, Del Boy can't shift his telescopic Christmas trees (lights, bangles, beads and baubles inclusive). He only has 149 more to sell to make a tidy profit. Stuck for a solut
Mel is a photographer who preferably takes pictures of trees, used hotel rooms after sexual encounters and the streets of her hometown Trujillo. After her mother dies, she learns about a large debt she has left her. In a
A Secrets of Nature short.
Deep in the boreal forest, a mature pine tree and a seedling begin a conversation.
An elderly millionaire woman spends her last days longing to see her grandson and his fiancée. Her acquaintances attempt to fulfill her wish, but news arrives that her grandson has died in a plane crash. Knowing that she
An ex-prostitute, now a washerwoman, asks for a pension for her previous "employment", which socialism, with its human principles, does not disapprove. To realize her right, she needs two witnesses, and she has many more
On May 5, 1993, three eight-year-old boys (Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers) were reported missing in West Memphis, Arkansas. The following day all three boys were found dead, stripped naked, bound, and
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with violence and pain, with blood and death; a story of terror, a journey
The Car Becomes Trees is an experimental film by Jake & Scott. Poem is by River. Songs recorded by Will.
A young woman celebrates her last night of college, but soon finds herself alone in the woods with a cult.
Two Trees in Jerusalem, an animated documentary produced by Humanity in Action, profiles the remarkable history of Eberhard and Donata Helmrich, who together saved the lives of countless Jews during the Holocaust. The pa
A man embarks on a journey deep into the wilderness in search of the thing he's been studying his entire life. Meanwhile, his daughter knows something he doesn't and is in pursuit to track him down and stop him from the
Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.
The lowly onion that burrows into the soil and spends most of its life underground is cast as an interpreter or potential sensory prosthetic that offers a different way of understanding (and perhaps communicating with) t
This short documentary demonstrates how to efficiently manage a woodlot in order to maximize yearly income. Joe Kelly, a farmer who sold his trees to be cut down wholesale, illustrates the danger of short-sighted plannin