Explores the folk horror phenomenon and its culturally specific manifestations in international horror, from its first wave in the 1970s to today.
Chocolate Road is a discovery of where chocolate comes from. Three renowned chocolatiers - Maribel Lieberman, Susumu Koyama and Mikkel Friis-Holm - take us through the process of craft chocolate-making, starting from the plantations and all the way to the final chocolate piece. On their journey, each…
This short course examines Freud's responses to this question and his introduction of the concept of the repetition compulsion, together with Lacan's reformulations of the problem.
Freud's 3 Essays on Sexuality
For centuries, a closed institution served as a final destination for socially transgressive women at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. The outcast women were kept there in detention to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the scientists now focus on…
A harsh and dreamy story of a young girl and her loning heart. Through Betty, living below the poverty line in suburban Colorado Springs, we experience a tight family clan of children born by children where love and dependency go hand in hand.
Independent filmmaker spends 3 years making a movie. In the ensuing time, a shift in culture makes the film's release problematic. He decides to reframe the film in the style of a faux documentary to show how a film was so ahead of its time, it ended up being behind the times.
This documentary chronicles one of the most Top Secret missions of World War II, called Operation Carpetbagger. These brave soldiers were responsible for providing the French Resistance behind Germany's lines with supplies, weapons, agents and spies, sent in to infiltrate the German High Command…
Boy Soldiers: The Secret War in Okinawa (2018) (with English Subtitles) A documentary by Chie Mikami and Hanayo Oya The greatest taboo of the Battle of Okinawa, kept secret long after World War II ended, for over 70 years. Guerrilla units composed of boy soldiers, malaria epidemics, spy massacres… Until…
The Targeted Island : A Shield Against Storms (2017) (with English Subtitles) A film by Chie Mikami In Henoko, the construction of the U.S. Marine Corps base continues despite the objections of 80% of Okinawans. In Takae, the Government deployed over 1,000 riot police officers to facilitate the…
We Shall Overcome (2015) (with English Subtitles) A film by Chie Mikami The Okinawa Islands――They constitute only 0.6% of Japan's land area, but are burdened with 74% of the nation's U.S. military bases. A documentary that closely follows the people's struggle against the construction…
Blending documentary techniques with surrealist and silent filmmaking, LOST ALIEN captures the Afrofuturist cosplay of ZiggZaggerZ the Bastard as a photosensitive black alien stranded on a sunlit planet. Having lost her way from the continuum of cosmic blackness, we watch as she wanders through the planet’s…
