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Leaving November 6
Directed by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, and Quentin L’Helgouac’h | 97 mins | 2023
Filmed entirely within a post-apocalyptic online game, this pioneering documentary visits with zombie-hunting players to ask them about their life philosophies. The conversations are alternately profound, silly, funny, and deeply unsettling, producing insights about human nature, role playing, and our fantasies about how to run the world.
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Directed by Edo Bertoglio | 72 mins | 2000
In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie abou... -
Orchard Street
Directed by Ken Jacobs | 27 mins | 1955
Ken Jacobs documents the tradition of eager haggling and bargain hunting that once took place on the Lower East Side commercial thoroughfare of the title. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the... -
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Directed by Liu Jian | 77 mins | 2017
Liu’s second animated feature follows a construction worker who decides one day to double-cross his boss and make off with a large amount of contraband cash intended to fix his fiancée’s botched plastic surgery, initiating a down-the-rabbit-hole chase that le...
