From the filmmakers of the award-winning Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart comes a documentary about one of our most important and controversial contemporary Native Americans leaders. Filmed in Nevada on the Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation, Contrary Warrior is an intimate first-person account of the life and work of Red Lake Reservation Minnesota-born American Indian activist, artist, ceremonial leader, author – and enemy of the state – Adam Fortunate Eagle.
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A Film About Anna Akhmatova
“A Film About Anna Akhmatova is an important happening for me, for all of us.”
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
R.E.M. – This Is Not A Show – Live at the Olympia in Dublin
In their acclaimed 2007 “working rehearsals” in Dublin, R.E.M. set up camp at the venerable Olympia Theatre in Ireland’s capital city and tested new material over five nights before passionate, capacity crowds.
Musician
Common sense says you can’t make a living in America playing avant-garde improvisational jazz. But Ken Vandermark does it anyway.
Long Knives Night and Reporting from a Rabbit Hutch
A ferocious film in two parts, depicting and severely criticizing the rise and reign of Alexander Lukashenko, dictator of Belarus.
“Indelible portraits of power’s absolute corruption…an astonishing diatribe…heaves with disturbing scenes of violence against innocent Belarussians…a primal howl of outrage.”
- Jeannette Catsoulis, NY TIMES
Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips
The Legendary Science Fiction Film
From “The greatest U.S. band today” (The Guardian)
It’s Christmastime, and the colonization of Mars is underway. However, when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (the Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips’ Michael Ivins) fear the worst.
I Can See You and The Viewer
“Graham Reznick arrives with a bang…I Can See You heralds a splendid new filmmaker with one eye on genre mechanics, one eye on avant-garde conceits and a third eye for transcendental weirdness.”
- Nathan Lee, New York Times
