Danton's Death
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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1h 5m
Leaving January 1
Directed by Alice Diop | 65 mins | 2011
Skillfully illustrating the persistence of racialized stereotyping and its impact on the individual, Diop’s documentary follows the professional struggles of a young Black actor from Aulnay-sous-bois, a disadvantaged community on the outskirts of Paris where the filmmaker herself grew up. Even studying at the prestigious Cours Simon drama school, Steve Tientcheu finds, to his mounting frustration, that his Blackness delimits his opportunities on stage.
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Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew | 12 mins | 2019
A teenager lives her life, toggling seamlessly between her physical and digital self. She walks over a bridge at sunrise, follows a stranger through the streets of the city, and meets up with a friend to wander their favorite spots in NY... -
Fun's Over
Directed by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn | 6 mins | 2006
News of a gonorrhea infection only briefly sours the mood in this early Kalman and Horn short, which telegraphs a cheerful and occasionally violent beach party set in a winkingly lo-fi future.
