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Knowledge - Doc Arts
Theatrical Starts April 18, 2025
2024 - 91 MINUTES - USA - ENGLISH
A FILM BY JEREMY WORKMAN
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved.
Now streaming on AppleTV and Vimeo
A FILM BY JOANNA RUDNICK
Story & Pictures By is a captivating documentary exploring the vibrant world of children’s picture books. It spotlights Christian Robinson, Yuyi Morales, and Mac Barnett, pioneers of a new “golden age” in children’s literature, who create groundbreaking works reflecting childhood’s wonders and complexities. The film also revisits classics like Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Snowy Day, and Where the Wild Things Are, uncovering their enduring legacy through rare archives and mesmerizing stop-motion animation.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
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.
Theatrical Starts November 23, 2023
“Orlando, ma biographie politique”
FRANCE - 98 MINUTES - 2023 - IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY PAUL B. PRECIADO
Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando” tells the story of a young man who grows up to become a 36-year-old woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado speaks to Virginia Woolf to tell her that her fictional character has become a reality. The transition of Orlando’s body now lies at the root of all non-binary bodies and there are Orlandos all over the world.
Theatrical Starts October 27, 2023
2022 - 93 MINUTES - USA
A FILM BY JENNIFER LANE
An in-depth look at the career of iconoclastic artist Robert Irwin, whose investigations into the nature of perception have radically expanded the possibilities of what art can be.
Theatrical starts December 16, 2022
CANADA - 2022 - ENGLISH - 103 MINUTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY JACQUELYN MILLS
Hot Docs 2022 - Winner – Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award
Hot Docs 2022 - Winner – The Earl A. Glick Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, guided by naturalist and environmentalist Zoe Lucas who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural world.
Theatrical starts September 3, 2021
FRANCE - 2021 - 100 MINUTES - IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY JULIEN FARAUT
How does a Japanese women’s volleyball team from the late 1950s become an international sensation, feminist role models, the subject of a wildly popular comic book and a still-influential anime? This stranger-than-fiction story is dynamically told by Julien Faraut (JOHN McENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION), with an ironic twist on the original demeaning moniker, Oriental Witches. A group of Osaka textile workers are transformed into a fiercely competitive volleyball team by their astonishingly ruthless coach whose unconventional techniques emphasize speed and aggression. A record-setting winning streak and a dramatic 1964 Tokyo Olympics triumph follow. Wonderful archival footage of the women in training and on the court, animated versions of their championship games, and moving interviews with the women today are set to a pulsating electronic score.
Theatrical starts July 23, 2021
USA - 2020
A FILM BY JEREMY ELKIN
FEATURING ROSARIO DAWSON, JEFFERSON PANG AND CLARK KENT
The streets of N.Y. might be temporarily silent, but in downtown Manhattan in the early 90’s, they were the site of a dynamic collision between two vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Jeremy Elkin’s yet-to-premiere documentary, All The Streets Are Silent, narrated by Eli Morgan Gesner, brings to life the magic of this time period and the convergence that created an urban style and visual language that would have an outsized and lasting cultural effect.
