American Teenagers

Synonymous With(en)

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

The Mobilized Generation(en)

A short documentary chronicling the coming-of-age story of generation z punctuated by numerous culturally significant moments, known as period effects, that have bred a generation of young activists.

Birth of a Nation(en)

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Begins (โผบิน)(th)

The untold state of mind dealing with an incurable disease. One is wondering if there's still a dream to achieve in life. One is running as if this free spirit of mine has never been taken away.

this evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom(en)

Reminiscences of a trip to Čáslav

Der Kern, der dich zusammenhält(de)

Hotel Diaries(en)

Made over six years in the hotels of six different countries, Hotel Diaries charts the 'War on Terror' era of Bush and Blair through a seven-part series of video recordings that relate personal experiences to the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel/Palestine. In these works, which play upon chance and coincidence, hotel rooms are employed as 'found' film sets, where architecture, furnishing and decoration become the means by which the filmmaker’s small adventures are linked to major world events.

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches(en)

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

In the Bathtub of the World(en)

On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.

June(en)

A letter of love to my past self who discovered himself.

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty(en)

A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

beer cans under my bed(en)

This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.

Corrupt Colour(en)

Corrupt Colour follows childhood friends and self-proclaimed internet pop-stars, Emily and Gia as they set up their first live concert but their delusions of grandeur are compromised when the live show of their dreams becomes a nightmare. The show must go on and with the help of their closest friends, irreverent leads Emily and Gia are forced to reckon with their true place in the public eye. With poignant lyrics, loud personalities, and unique creative decisions, Emily and Gia take us on a hilarious and melancholy journey through identity in the digital age that leaves us all asking "who am I trying to be?"

Ventana en Carrer de Badajoz(es)

Return to Khodorciur—Armenian Diary(it)

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his son's camera and read an excerpt from his memoirs, translated from Armenian into Italian.

China Dolls(en)

Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".

Homeo(en)

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.

My Son's Wedding to My Sister-in-Law(en)

A short documentary by Jim McBride.

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life(en)

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

Lost, Lost, Lost(en)

Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.