Rite: Walking Performance

A performance presented in the form of a rite. A group of people walks together toward a goal, turning an ordinary journey into a symbolic act of movement, distance, and collective presence.

Funeral rite

Namskyi Velikden is the widespread Day of Dead in the Polesie. According to the old legends it is believed that souls of the dead ancestors come back to earth.

Rite of the Shaman

A high school boy must follow in his shaman grandfather's footsteps to become the beacon of light he was meant to be.

The Rite of Loss

Rite of Passage

A man enters a passage and must choose to embrace either the persistence of time or the will of nature. Through improvised movement and choreography, this short film is a playful meditation on the body, space, and the pr

Rite of spring

The simple and poetic gesture of children burning mounds of white poplar fluff implies a promise—the promise of renewal. Some are street kids, some have a family and some do not, some have a home, some are nomadic, and s

Rite of Spring

Black-and-white film projections by Bill Morrison, using archival footage of frigid Arctic scenes.

The Black Rite

Inspired by the landmark 1922 film ‘Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages’, this new short is led by a buzzing, pulsating score designed by Häxan and composer Ephraim Lovelace. The film imagines our blue earth in the grips

Rite of Passage

The transvestites of the Rio nights in testimony about their professional difficulties, moralism, repression and stardom

The Rite of Spring

A priest is called to a rural farming community that hides an ancient secret.

Rite of Guerrilla Theater

Commissioned work by Julian Beck and members of The Living Theatre (featuring Beck and Judith Malina, co-founders of The Living Theatre, in performance) for broadcast on KQED-TV, San Francisco. The Dilexi Series represen

Rite of Identity

In this animation integrating Deaf symbols and motifs, Hana, a deaf child, has exceptional artistic talent but struggles with an overwhelming soundscape. Hana represents a collection of deaf people’s childhood stories.

The Rite of Passage

Ludwik starts one of the best high schools in Krakow. His life changes with a growing storm of conflicting emotions. First love infatuations, sexual contacts, a rebellion against unjust authorities and the desire to imit

The Rite Gift

A birthday party is nothing without an appropriate gift.

Rite of Passage

Aliens invaded our planet, waging war until we agreed to a peace treaty. On each human's 13th birthday, one of their young would be sent to battle one of ours-- a new rite of passage.

Rite of Passage

A semi-autobiographical narrator "Charlie" sets out on an unlikely journey on foot to Gatwick Airport. On his journey, he is forced to come to terms with the extent of his own complicity in a system of neo-colonial oppre

Rite of Passage

In this atmospheric elegy for the MTA’s MetroCard, we learn that each new technology has a “privacy tax.”

Rite of Passage

After getting a D in Physical Education a teen's father brings him to the forest and leaves him for dead.

The Rite of Spring

This film came into being on a farm in the village of Hakushu, Min Tanaka's home. Min Tanaka is a very distinctive personality of Japanese alternative theatre in which the mind questions the tongue and so the body become

The Rite of Spring

Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her co