Pearl lives a solitary life. Her time is divided between paperback romances and gardening. While weeding in her back yard, she unearths a large seed wrapped in the roots of a particularly stubborn plant. Puzzled, she takes the seed into her little house where she hopes it will sprout. What develops is a surprising story of horror, discovery and romance.
Filter Films
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Betsy Brick is having a bad day. On the eve of her 40th birthday, the compulsive poker player crosses the point of no return – and all debts, spiritual and earthly, demand repayment. Starring Lea De Laria as the main character.
Mercury in Retrograde
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She stared out the window. The children hadn’t called for weeks. “Out of sight, out of mind…” she thought. Florence Hutton was a local newspaper advice columnist. Now she is dead and her daughters have returned to their childhood home to sort through the belongings.
The Holes Remained
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On a journey to find the origins of the number zero, a woman discovers more than she was expecting. The journey begins as a quest for the cultural roots of zero and how this concept touches human consciousness in unexpected ways. The search leads her to India, said to be the birthplace of the mysterious number, and the ancient city of Varanasi. There she maps her inner world onto the powerful mix of Hindu ritual and spirituality she encounters, finally confronting a traumatic event in her past. More than a film about the number that is not, “ZERO the inside story” is a commentary on the ways in which humans have come to perceive and fear voids. The film reveals how by facing our own sense of emptiness – and its hidden secrets – we can experience insight, hope and ultimately transcendence.
ZERO the inside story
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In 1974, Christo built a valley curtain across a mountain pass in the southern United States. This is a record of his struggle and stunning achievement. “‘Valley Curtain’ is by far the finest film I have ever seen about an artist and his work. Technically brilliant, beautifully paced, with not an image wasted or held too long, the film somehow makes it possible for the viewer to become involved at a deep and personal level with the whole marvelous epic. ‘Christo’s Valley Curtain’ is never didactic; it neither explains nor describes and this is its great strength . On its own terms, the film is as novel, as surprising, as hilarious and, in the end, as beautiful as the work of art with which it deals.” – Calvin Tomkins, New Yorker Magazine
Christo’s Valley Curtain
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An unconventional psychological mystery, “Mad Shadows” unfolds into a humanistic tale about faith. When Mike, an orderly at St. Belvedere, starts suffering from hallucinations, he comes to believe that a newly admitted catatonic patient is a devine entity who must be saved.
Mad Shadows
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Zombie business is unleashed as the “invisible hand” of voodoo economics produces disposible people. Shot in Super 8, the film evokes the silent era, while also mixing B-movie horror, experimental cinema and political satire.
Zombie Business
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“Body Scares” is a journey through four generations of women. Generation after generation the body is printed with secrets and wears all the memories of the past.
Body Scares
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“Ladies Room” reveals young women in their most intimate environment – the bathroom. From sterile public schools to underground warehouse raves and glitzy hotel rooms, it takes an insightful, playful and provocative look at a group of NYC girls in a variety of situations and bathrooms. Seen through the lens of fiction, documentary and satire, the range of their experiences and emotions – straddling strength and vulnerability – defines growing up female. Special Jury Award, Arizona International Film Festival, 2004
Ladies Room
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Since the days of King Henry IV, Paris’s Pont Neuf has inspired artists. Now it is the focus of the environmental sculptor Christo – and the millions of Parisians who watch him create an astounding architectural poem from the oldest bridge in their city. Rich in political intrigue and artistic debate, “Christo in Paris” charts the fulfillment of the artist’s ten-year obsession: the wrapping of the Pont Nuef, the same bridge where he courted his wife, Jeanne-Claude. The result is a ravishingly beautiful tapestry of art and romance.
Christo in Paris
