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Knowledge - Super New
Theatrical Starts November 22, 2023
USA – 1967 – 124 MIN – BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO
BASED ON THE BOOK BY MARK LANE
Mark Lane and de Antonio, for the first time, create a vivid, frank legal brief which asks the still unanswered question: who killed John F. Kennedy?
A critique of the Warren Commission’s report on the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
*Restored to 4K for the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination
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 July 13, 2023
2022 - 80 MINUTES
A FILM BY DAVIDE FERRARIO
A documentary immersion into all things Eco, Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of Umberto Eco’s private library, guided by the author himself. Combining new footage with material he shot with Eco in 2015 for a video installation for the Venice Biennale, Ferrario documents this incredible collection and the man who amassed it. As Eco leads us among the more than 50,000 volumes, we also gain insight into the library of the mind of this vastly prolific and original thinker.
Theatrical Starts May 12, 2023
2022 - UNITED STATES - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY JUDD TULLY & HAROLD CROOKS
The Melt Goes On Forever chronicles the singular career of the elusive African-American art star David Hammons from Watts rebellion era ’60s L.A. to global art world prominence today. Hammons’ category-defying practice – rooted in a deep critique of American society and the elite art world – is in the words of one art critic “an invitation to confront the fissures between races” as the artist seeks to go beyond the dominant culture and his own to a new one for the 21st century.
Theatrical Starts 2025 (TBD)
2024 – ITALY, GERMANY, BELGIUM – DRAMA – 102 MINUTES
A FILM BY YASEMIN ŞAMDERELI
Samia defies taboos by racing through the streets of Mogadishu, in a society where a woman is not supposed to run. Her passion will one day take her to the Olympic Games.
Theatrical starts November 25, 2022
2022 - UNITED STATES - 91 MINUTES - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY SIERRA PETTENGILL
RIOTSVILLE, USA is a poetic and furious reflection on the reaction of a nation’s citizens and institutions to the rebellions of the late 1960s. This artful, riveting documentary consists entirely of archival footage that was shot by the United States military or appeared on broadcast television.
Director Sierra Pettengill shifts our historic gaze from the rebellions in Chicago, Newark, and Detroit, focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called “Riotsvilles,” where military and police were trained to respond to domestic civil disorder.
Dissecting the anatomy of the Johnson administration’s Kerner Commission, which resulted in an explosive increase in federal funding for police, RIOTSVILLE, USA pulls focus on the machinations of American institutional control. Amid today’s shifting reckonings on power and identity, technology companies consolidating power, and a new generation’s coming-of-age, Pettengill delivers insight from a time similar to our own, urging us to understand how the machine of institutional power manages to rumble on.
The Sadies perform songs from their new record COLDER STREAMS in an impromptu concert which could possibly be their last.
AVAILABLE FOR VOD/ TV/ AIRLINE ONLY!
82 MINUTES - USA - DOCUMENTARYA FILM BY TRACIE HOLDER, KAREN THORSENFEATURING: OLYMPIA DUKAKIS, DAVID HARE, DAVID HENRY HWANG
Joe Papp, founder of The Public Theater, Free Shakespeare in the Park and producer of groundbreaking plays like "Hair," "A Chorus Line" and "for colored girls," created a 'theater of inclusion' based on the belief that great art is for everyone.
Theatrical starts January 14, 2021
2020 - 83 MINUTES - LITHUANIA/ LATVIA/ FRANCE
A FILM BY GIEDRE ZICHYTE
It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1970, the Atlantic Ocean. A US patrol boat meets a Soviet fishing vessel. A Soviet sailor jumps across the icy water onto the American boat in a frantic bid for freedom. To his horror, and to the outcry of the world media, the Americans return him to the Soviets. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic, first-person re-enactment by the would-be defector, 86-year-old Simas Kudirka, we relive one of the most unpredictable Cold War muddles.
ETHIOPIA - 2021 - 120 MINUTES - B&W - 1.78:1
A FILM BY JESSICA BESHIR
* TV Only
In her hypnotic documentary feature, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project—Beshir was forced to leave her hometown of Harar with her family as a teenager due to growing political strife—the film she returned to make about the city, its rural Oromo community of farmers, and the harvesting of the country’s most sought-after export (the euphoria-inducing khat plant) is neither a straightforward work of nostalgia nor an issue-oriented doc about a particular drug culture. Rather, she has constructed something dreamlike: a film that uses light, texture, and sound to illuminate the spiritual lives of people whose experiences often become fodder for ripped-from-the-headlines tales of migration.
