From East to West, from lighthouse to lighthouse – 800 km bikepacking on a mountain bike through Iceland. In the summer of 2021 a three-person team of colleagues and one filmmaker headed out on the volcanic island. True to the saying, “the journey is the goal,” the crew pedaled from…
In this double feature from David Wexler, two distinctive stories of music and the drive to create are told: Third Eye Blind cannot complete their new album on time. Instead of scrapping the tour dates, they rely on their back catalogue and diverse fan base to break attendance records. And as the 20th…
HBO's miniseries "The Gilded Age" (from Julian Fellowes, the creator of "Downton Abbey") has spurred an interest in the era that followed the Civil War, when industrialization spurred modernization, robber barons made (and lost) fortunes, and New York came of age as a world city. But…
Tormenta takes the viewer on a journey to post-war Paris, passing through the bohemia of Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s to follow the trajectory of this artist who decided to leave cultural circles to live on a self-sustaining farm and continue her art there. Tormenta leva o espectador por uma viagem…
The Maya appeared in Yucatan seemingly out of nowhere in 3100 BC. But recent underwater artefacts tell a different story: a culture was already established there six thousand years earlier. According to the sacred book Chilam Balam, the ancestors of the Maya arrived in 9600 BC from a large island…
Over the past decade, Dr. Yelena Grinberg has produced a Classical Salon Series on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, performing familiar and rarely heard works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire. Though a passionate believer in live performance, Ms. Grinberg approved a rare filming of…
"From Soul Train to fried-fish sandwiches to the Wu-Tang Clan, Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows is a very enjoyable portrait of a singer who, though not quite obscure, wasn't nearly as successful as he might have been." - The Hollywood Reporter Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows…
Dance and battles are an every day part of life in Luanda. It is not uncommon to see young dancers battling each other in the streets. It is this culture that shapes and molds Afrohouse/Kuduro. In celebration of the street dance culture of Luanda, AfroConex hosted its first dance battle. Contestants…
Lacanian interpretation
FRANCESCO is a generous, hopeful and moving film for and about all of us. At a time when we need a bold, new vision and visionary leadership to inspire us to build a better, healthier and more equitable future – one that can be shared widely now and for generations to come. The film touches on…
Don McCarthy was 20 years old on D-Day, when his infantry division landed on Omaha Beach. Don and the other veterans who survived D-Day will someday soon have passed into memory and legend. This realization inspires 20-year-old filmmaker Charlotte Juergens to join Don and seven other D-Day vets on a…
Every Sunday a small group of fun loving people meets up at a park and do various sorts of what they call primal workout.
