Pissies not Sissies (IML 2003 - PART ONE) a short documentary film by Charles Lum A first-hand account of the jovial goings-on in the men's room at a renowned international leather contest. WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE, NUDITY AND SEX. MATURE VIEWERS ONLY. Charles Lum (1958–2021)…
The film accompanies the life of an artist in Barcelona and Leipzig, who lives, works and organizes parties in former industrial buildings. She improvises and designs these industrial spaces from things that others throw away. The result is a life-size collage that serves to bring people together and…
After Work in Progress and Why do we even work? Samuel Durand's third documentary, Time to Work, questions our relationship to time spent working. Should we choose our own rhythm? What if it was the very definition of work that needed to be rethought? Thinkers, entrepreneurs, researchers and…
In Behind the Shield, celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was somehow free of politics before Colin Kaepernick and other Black NFL players took a knee. Digging deep into the history of the league, and navigating a stunning excavation of decades…
The first ever feature documentary in Scottish Gaelic, Iorram is an immersive and poetic portrait of life in the Outer Hebrides, as the islands and the language face an uncertain future. This unique cinematic film is entirely composed from rare archive sound, edited from over 30,000 recordings, and contemporary…
Below Surface follows longboard surfer Lucy Small as she grasps the baton from the renegades who fought for equal opportunity in the world of surfing decades before her. After winning a surf competition in Sydney’s Northern Beaches in 2021, and receiving a prize of less than half the male division’s…
Is there such thing as love before first sight? This doc explores the mail-order bride industry, chronicling on a group of Ukrainian women and the Western men they marry, in a search for modern love.
Marcia Resnick photographed many of the downtown personalities that populated the New York City underground art and music scene in the 1970s and '80s, which included Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, John Belushi, and others. ART/new york interviewed her in 2020 in her Greenwich Village apartment about…
For digital streaming licenses and institutional use, please contact artny@bestweb.net. This unusual program takes a rare look at the private, often secretive, creative process of an artist making a painting. In a rare moment in her downtown studio, ART/new york looks over Joan Semmel’s shoulder…
The surprising, bittersweet story of the now-legendary Stephen Sondheim/Hal Prince musical MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, which opened to enormous fanfare in 1981, and closed after just 16 performances. An acclaimed meditation on choices and their often unexpected consequences. Featuring Stephen Sondheim, Hal…
**EDUCATORS, email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Rea Tajiri 1991 | 32 minutes | Color/BW -- Groundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese…
“il Tacco tiene la Drag sospesa tra il cielo e la terra. Per questo ci definiamo Divine!” Il film parla dell’unico corso teatrale in Italia – a Milano – dove si insegna a diventare Drag Queen. Quattro insegnanti, loro stessi Drag, lavorano con allievi e allieve per tirar…
