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Nash the Slash Rises Again!

Nash the Slash Rises Again!

Theatrical Starts TBD. Available for Film Festivals.

A FILM BY TIM KOWALSKI
FEATURING: IGGY POP, GARY NUMNA, GARY TOPP, VALERIE BUHAGIAR, DON MCKELLAR

NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN! A new film that uncovers the sinister Canadian electronic music innovator who took his name from the killer butler in a 1927 Laurel and Hardy silent film, covered his head in surgical bandages and performed an unearthly one-man-show surrounded by half a ton of electronic sound processors and a couple of tape recorders. It’s about artistic integrity, courage and the price-tag that comes with it. Iggy Pop called him “so unusual and brilliant”.

High technology meets the age of horror, surreal and demented… NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN!

E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

Theatrical Starts July 20, 2025

90 MINUTES - SWITZERLAND - 2024
A FILM BY BEATRICE MINGER & CHRISTOPH SCHAUB

A cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. The Irish designer builds a refuge on the Côte d'Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day. A story about the power of female expression, and men’s desire to control it.

The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane

The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane

Theatrical Starts July 22, 2025

USA - 2023 - 108 MINUTES
A FILM BY MAUREEN GOSLING

Barbara Dane: Folk, blues and jazz singer, international social justice activist and recording star, wife, mother of three, feminist, record producer, unwavering maverick and general troublemaker on the road at 90. THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is a sonic boom, an explosion of music and passion, a celebration of one woman’s groundbreaking artistry and moral leadership. Standing strong with her singular confidence, Dane emanated the people-powered connectivity of folk, the defiance of blues and the elemental cool of jazz while propelling major historic events with boldness and subversion that cut through commercial artifice and earned her a 5” FBI file.THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE is an underground history of a singer-agitator whoseunbending principles guide her through notoriety, obscurity, and finally, music legend.

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (4K Restoration)

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (4K Restoration)

Theatrical starts Fall 2025

DIGITAL RESTORATION BY SPHINX PRODUCTIONS PRODUCED WITH THE GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF TELEFILM CANADA

CANADA - 1994 - 92 MINUTES
A FILM BY BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
WITH WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, BETTY CARTER, NICK CAVE, ELVIS COSTELLO, LOU REED

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill is a visually arresting and musically rich tribute to the legendary German-American composer Kurt Weill. Directed by Larry Weinstein and made in collaboration with visionary music producer Hal Willner, the film was originally released in 1994, and is now digitally rerstored by Sphinx Productions for re-release in September 2025.

Careful (4K Restoration)

Careful (4K Restoration)

1992 - CANADA - 100 MINUTES - ENGLISH
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN

Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents —adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid, luminescent tints, Careful resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet—something that could only emerge from the singular mind of Maddin.

Point of Order (4K Restoration)

Point of Order (4K Restoration)

Theatrical starts Fall 2025

NEW 4K RESTORATION
USA – 1965 – 97 MIN – BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO

DIGITAL RESTORATION BY THE WISCONSIN CENTER FOR FILM AND THEATRE RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON AND SPHINX PRODUCTIONS

The great demagogue, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, at bay before the establishment. Lawyer Welch: "Have you at long last, sir, no sense of decency?" Silence and the end of a meteoric career.