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  • Dream Team
    Movie + 2 extras

    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...

  • Spacked Out
    Movie + 1 extra

    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

    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

    3 items

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...