Ruth Maleczech
Nascimento : 1939-01-08, East Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Morte : 2013-09-30
Homeless Caroline
Nick (Michael Cera) e Norah (Kat Dennings) são apaixonantes e apaixonados por muitas coisas. Para essas duas figuras nada como inusitado encontro para revelar paixões musiciais, traumas e o tamanho de uma amizade. Nada como uma noite agitada de Nova Iorque para descobrir o que há de bom em ter afinidade com alguém em ser dois de vez em quando.
A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymptoons", "Nosehair" and "How to Make Love to a Woman". In between, an animated version of Bill answers questions about his life and career.
Goody Osborne
Em Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, algumas jovens fazem "feitiços". Uma delas, Abigail Williams, tinha se envolvido com seu patrão John Proctor, mas após o fim do caso foi despedida. Assim, desejava a morte de Elizabeth Proctor, a esposa deste. Elas são descobertas no seu "ritual" e, acusadas de bruxaria, provocam uma histeria coletiva que atinge várias pessoas, sendo que Abby, a jovem desprezada por John, faz várias acusações até ver Elizabeth ser atingida.
Woman at Subway Station
Quatro garotos da periferia de Nova York são condenados a passar um ano em um centro correcional depois de um trote malsucedido. Trinta anos depois, se reencontram e têm a chance de se vingar das surras e humilhações sofridas durante a detenção.
The Statuary Keeper
With deadpan comedy and rich black and white imagery, STATUARY parallels the stories of a reclusive statuary yard keeper (played by the late great theatre artist Ruth Maleczech) and a college grad looking for meaningful paying work.
Sleepwalker
A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. Precocious, to say the least, Angela has visions of Lucifer coming to take her and her sister away, and one of her remedies for this is for them to remain within a circle of their dolls and toys until they see a vision of the virgin Mary come to them. But such thinking can only lead to an ending befitting of her own mental state.
Person on Ferry
Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
Dutch Housekeeper
The Walter Mitty-esque tale of a Brooklyn dental hygienist who escapes into a painting by 17th-century Dutch master Peter de Hooc. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Shopkeeper
Baseado em uma história real, este é o conto de Josephine Monaghan, uma jovem de meados do século 19, que é jogada para fora da casa de seus pais depois de ter sido seduzida pelo fotógrafo da família e dar a luz a um filho ilegítimo. Josephine aprende rapidamente que mulher jovem, bonita e sozinha é uma combinação ruim para a vida no oeste selvagem. Em seu desespero para sobreviver, Josephine se disfarça como "Jo", um homem jovem, e se esforça para fazer uma vida para si mesma em uma suja cidade da fronteira.
A Polish immigrant go-go dancer dreams of Hollywood. A man living in his car dreams of redemption. They meet. A comical, at times brutal look at the American dream.
Mrs. Rollo
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Narrator
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.
Woman #1 / Woman Named Gloria
Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna finds that celebrity often doesn't travel well, and she must go through a battery of humiliating auditions to try and get work in her adopted land. But when Krystyna and Anna finally meet, they provide a support structure for each other.
The Android Sisters (voice)
The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U.S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy.
Mrs. Monroe
Uma série bizarra de desaparecimentos repentinos nas ruas da cidade de Nova York parece apontar para algo desagradável que vive nos esgotos.
Anna Walentynowicz
FAR FROM POLAND is probably the first American non-fiction film (Godmilow calls it a "drama-tary") to explode cinema verite's mythic claim to be the only trustworthy mode of representation for discussing the real world, and in particular, social and political issues, on film. Refused a visa to travel to Poland, "Jillski" (her Polish nickname in the film) has to literally re-invent the documentary to deal with the Polish situation and she does so with a particular eye to deconstructing not only documentary's specific claims to objectivity, but also the bourgeois audience's desire to sit comfortably in their seats, feel compassion, feel themselves part of the solution (not part of the problem) by having felt compassion for the poor oppressed Poles, who, Godmilow would argue, are far more acutely aware of their situation and what forces oppress them than the liberal American folk in the movie house.
Eleanor
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.