23rd Century Giants: The Story of Renaldo & The Loaf
A decades-long friendship drives an architect and a bio-medical scientist to make the weirdest music you’ve ever heard in your life.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Alex Wroten
Actors: Brian Poole, David Janssen, Graeme Whifler, Hardy Fox, Homer Flynn, Jay Clem
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise and features interviews…
Henry Glassie: Field Work
A chronicle of the worldwide travels and unique cultural finds of renowned American folklorist Henry Glassie.
Yosemite Americas Treasure
Experience Yosemite’s incredible wonders with breathtaking cinematography, including such icons as the granite monoliths El Capitan and Half Dome, and the spectacular Bridal Veil and Yosemite Falls. Learn about Yosemite’s…
Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
Starting with the image of a tour bus warming its engine in the stillness of an empty lot, this haunting, personal portrait of music legend Levon Helm evokes the mood…
My Winnipeg
The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven…
I Want My Name Back
Thirty years after recording “Rapper’s Delight,” Master Gee & Wonder Mike come back to reclaim their identities and rightful place in Hip Hop history.
Not a Game
This documentary offers an honest look at our fraught, complex relationship to video games from the perspectives of gamers and their concerned parents.
The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father and his Son
The Hague, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Two ambitious lawyers face each other in the trial of Milorad Krstić, who’s accused of committing war crimes as a…
Know Your Mushrooms
KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a…
The Big Payback
Funded by a tax on cannabis, Evanston, IL, earmarked $10 million to compensate descendants of enslaved Africans for 400 years of unpaid labor. Alderwoman Simmons leads her constituents through this…
Rue Daguerre in 2005
Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier in Daguerréotypes (1976).
Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music
This riotous concert film documents New York theater legend Taylor Mac’s joyous, challenging, and ostentatiously queer 24-hour musical performance. Featuring virtuoso musicians, innovative costumes, and the American myth as told…