Field Notes #10: Distance

Eighteen fleeting freeway encounters with Eagle Rock, a Los Angeles landmark that sits alongside a freeway

Notes From a Besieged City

Kherson was occupied by the Russians for almost nine months. In November 2022, Ukrainian forces liberated the city, yet it remains under fire. It is separated from the enemy only by the Dnieper River – a distance of less

My Independent Living Notes

Notes before the Wind

A loose collection of scenes in Hong Kong shot over a five-year period, this film begins with the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and ends right before the summer of 2019, when large-scale social unrest and violent resistance

Healey Willan: Doctor of Notes

For over half a century, Healey Willan, the "Dean of Composers", influenced generations of classical and choral musicians in Canada and throughout the world.

Notes to the Past

The whole world knows his pictures — the Victory Banner over Berlin, the traffic controller, the Victory Parade. Printed in millions of copies, minted on gold coins, included in all encyclopedias and textbooks, neither b

Shqipëria - Notes from Albania

Mad dictators, trigger-happy mobs, archaic blood feuds - this pretty much sums up what Western Europeans know about Albania. But reality in this long forgotten Balkan country is much more complex and multilayered. SHQIPE

Paul Gilbert: Eleven Thousand Notes

Asian exclusive DVD release for the heavy metal guitar virtuoso who's played with Racer X and Mr. Big, featuring live footage, 'Bold As Love' (live from Fukuoka School of Music), 'The Ballad of the Last Lions' (live in t

Notes on a Pine Forest

Based on films depicting military excersises at the Baltic Sea island Gotland, from the 1930s until today. Through montage, the film is following cinematic tropes in the source material, and studies its materiality and c

Notes from sometine, later, maybe

1939, the end of the Great Depression. Ivan Besse took his camera out to the streets to film his fellow citizens in Britton, South Dakota. Eighty years later, a filmmaker travels to Britton to see what remains of that fo

Robotics; Notes: The Stage

The stage is Tanegashima in the near future. Sho Yashio, who belongs to the "Robot Research Department" of Chuo Tanegashima High School, commonly known as the "Robo Department", I happened to discover a mysterious senten

My Notes from the Underground

The document consists of recordings collected in the years 1982-1987 by an informal group that included Jacek Petrycki, Bohdan Kosiński and Marcel Łoziński. The film reveals the backstage of the activities of the anti-co

Notes from the island

The confessional documentary, skilfully composed of diary entries, convincingly and authentically evokes adolescent confusion.

Arthur Jafa: Sequencing the Notes

Throughout his practice, artist Arthur Jafa appropriates materials mined from the entirety of American culture, ranging from iconic films and photographs to videos posted on social media, sequencing and juxtaposing them

Guantanamo Notes I, II, III

Presents the plight of Haitian political refugees (men, women, and children) who were held at Camp Bulkeley, a U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Most of these refugees were diagnosed as HIV positive, and for that

Notes from a Low Orbit

An affectionate portrait of the local communities, rituals and routines of Hawick in the Scottish Borders that is deeply invested in the sometimes absurd ways in which a town’s cultural identities are shaped, intuited an

Notes from the Dead House

The film is a confession about the inhabitants of the island of Fire, near Vologda. The pardoned murderers — one hundred and fifty "suicide bombers" for whom the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment by Preside

Diabetes: Notes from Indian Country

In 1993, the U.S. Public Health/Indian Health Service reported that 40% of all persons, 40 years and older, residing on American Indian reservations are diabetic. This video visits the Winnebago Indian Reservation in Neb

Notes of a Wind Chime

"What started as a COVID response film and because I missed a street in NYC evolved into a diary jukebox essay on navigating connection and healing. I wanted this to be my first truly 'positive' film. If Jonas is insanit

Schoolgirl's notes

A coming of age story about a dreamy girl.