A look at the traditional 50s housewife and her attempts at counter-culture. Brought to you by Phantastik.
Filter Films
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An autotopographical portrait of someone through what was left behind and what is missing.
though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been.
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“Maverick” is a meta-film. Part lucid dream, part manifesto and part autobiography; the film is an affirmation of the power of film flicker. Embracing the potential of an indeterminate process this Super 8 film has been entirely hand-processed, experimenting with alternative chemical process to achieve unique and unpredictable images. The films visual dialogue implies that these are not “special effects” but rather the mediums main mode of expression. Less about interpreting images and more about capturing them, Maverick traverses time in the medium of light to construct a particularly analog view of the world mediated by the mechanical eye.
Maverick
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“Focus Woman” is a celebration of the independent art house theater and the tasks of a lone projectionist as well as an exploration of gendered work place violence through the feminist lens.
Focus Woman
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Inspired by the alarming increase in real-life tragedies involving high school bullying and suicide, “Teens Like Phil” tells the story of a gay teen, Phil, and one of his classmates, Adam, who brutally bullies him. The film explores the complicated and painful circumstances surrounding this relationship in an effort to better understand the roots of this epidemic. Phil’s story is ultimately a tale of survival and transcendence from this cycle of abuse.
Teens Like Phil
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Two men meet up at lunchtime for some fast backseat action, but the money shot may not be as expected. – Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival Spanish with English subtitles
Fuckbuddies
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Madeleine, caught between a painful past and an uncertain future, must come to terms with the loss of her lover, Claire. Making her way through Paris, Madeleine follows Aubrie, a beautiful and elusive woman who happens to work at the café below Madeleine’s apartment. – Inside Out LGBT Film & Video Festival French and English with English subtitles
Lust Life
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“When I was a kid in Singapore, the same person served me chicken rice every day. I didn’t know if that person was a man or a woman, and that was awesome.”
Hawker, The
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A version of family. From mother, grandmother, great-grandmother to me, stories flow through our matrilineal heritage to explore the remarkable life of my Inuk great-grandmother.
her silent life
