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  • Henry VIII & Trump: History Repeating?

    Documentary offering a fresh perspective on the question of how history will judge Donald Trump, by setting his life next to that of a controversial leader from our own past.

  • Henry VIII

    Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King’s wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.

  • Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

    Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.

  • My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

  • You vs. Wild: Out Cold

    After a plane crash leaves Bear with amnesia, he must make choices to save the missing pilot and survive in this high-stakes interactive adventure.

  • Out in the Cold

    John Koepke, along with director J.D. O’Brien, sleep on the streets and in homeless shelters for 7 nights. During that time, they interview people experiencing homelessness. They do their best to build an understanding how people end up experiencing homelessness, the challenges they face, and their dreams for the future.

  • Out of the Cold

    An American entertainer and an Estonian woman are torn apart by hate and prejudice.

  • Out In the Cold

    On a night so cold it hurts to breathe, Soft as Snow and Cold as Ice meet Thomas, a drunk young man, who’s been dumped on the outskirts of town. When Thomas suggests the two men should walk back with him, they persuade him to stay the night.

  • When the Plug is Pulled Out and the Set is Cold

    Inspired by a Bill Viola essay which relates three different kinds of ‘video black’ to closing one’s eyes, sleeping, and dying, this work thinks those states of darkness through rapidly failing and increasingly unsupported electronic equipment. Briefly remembered fantasy images, soft crackles of chromatic snow, and explosions of violent feedback form a death dream of analog video.

  • The Making of Drugstore Cowboy

    Portland, 1988. Filmmaker Gus Van Sant shoots Drugstore Cowboy, the project that will bring he and his collaborators a formidable burst of mainstream attention. Starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, and Heather Graham, the film follows a roving quartet of drug addicts — and, consequently, drug thieves, especially from the businesses of the title — who wash up in Portland’s then-gritty Pearl District. A death among their own spooks the leader of the pack into trying to clean up, and an encounter with a sepulchral junkie priest does its part to convince him further. Or maybe we should call him a Junkie priest, portrayed as he is by a controversial cameo from writer William S. Burroughs. “I’m going back to the old days,” Burroughs says of his role early in the above documentary on the making of Drugstore Cowboy. “The old days when they used to give people morphine in jail. The old days before the methadone programs.”