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Dream Team
Movie + 2 extras
Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 93 mins | 2024
Making films together since 2004, Kalman and Horn have developed and refined a style that’s entirely their own, an idiosyncratic blend of ethereal synth-scored reverie, deadpan absurdist humor, sly sociopolitical observation, and genre-ben... -
Neo-Noir x 4
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Avarice and lust have wrought the downfall of many a man, but never so stylishly as in film noir. This selection combines the snaking mysteries and doom-fogged ambiance of the mid-century canon with the bold style and brash sexuality of the post-New Hollywood American cinema, going from the Raymo...
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Spacked Out
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Lawrence Lau | 91 mins | 2000
Set in the massive, crumbling urban developments in Hong Kong’s New Territories with a combination of trained actors and nonprofessionals, Spacked Out depicts a few tumultuous days in the lives of four schoolgirls, filled with desultory mall outings, clas... -
Once a Moth
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara | 110 mins | 1976
Groundbreaking in its critical depiction of the American military presence in the Philippines, Aquino-Kashiwahara’s incendiary political drama tells the story of a young lower middle-class couple (Aunor and Jay Ilagan) and their immediate fa... -
Trilogy by Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand
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First meeting as first year film school undergraduates at NYU, Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew began to collaborate on highly unconventional narrative shorts following their individual stints in the art world, making singularly of-the-moment films about mediated desire (and rankling jealousy) in o...
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Two by Jem Cohen
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With an artistic sensibility nurtured on punk rock and shaped by Jean Vigo and Chris Marker, the Kabul-born, East Coast-raised filmmaker Jem Cohen is a true independent whose work, often peripatetic and implicitly diaristic, straddles the cinema and the art gallery. Both of the films in this seri...
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Leonor Will Never Die
Movie
Directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar | 101 mins | 2022
A festival favorite, Escobar’s debut feature offers a surreal, self-reflexive tribute to Filipino action cinema. Retired screenwriter Leonor Reyes (Sheila Francisco) lays comatose in a hospital after a collision between her skull and a televis...