When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely...

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first...

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve...

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl...

Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

In this filmic memoir, German director Rosa von Praunheim returns to New York, a city he knew and loved in the woolly 1970s, to see what he might...

A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's...

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly...

Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garrel. Includes footage of The Living Theater in...

The story of legendary New York City disc jockey Bob Fass who pioneered free expression on the airwaves with his long running FM program 'Radio...

After fishing out coins from a water fountain in Italy, cynical New Yorker Beth Harper finds herself being wooed by several ardent suitors. As she...

Signals Through the Flames is at once a history and a celebration of the Living Theatre. Founded in the late 1940s by husband-and-wife performers...

A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Belgian director Chantal Akerman avoids her usual "real time" technique in Histoires d'Amérique. The anecdotal nature of the subject matter compels...

Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded,...

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the...

Two young lovers meet on a series of snowy days in high school.

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough...

The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1925-1985), painter and poet, and the actress and...

A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.

Leonardi's film about the Living Theatre is less concerned with a straight documentary presentation of the exile theatre group from New York, but...

A cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrification New York City

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and...

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front...

British director Peter Brook talks about his theatre experience from his first directing gigs of Oxford to the foundation of a company of...

Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams...

The husband-and-wife acting team of Julian Beck and Judith Malina heads the cast of the "theatre on film" presentation “Emergency”. Screened at...

Documentary about the making of Household Saints.

The title Amore amore ( Love Love) defines the primary emotive motor of the film and constitutes the filter through which are selected the materials...

A film poem, a re-telling of the Greek myth in modern terms. In the traditional pool the water has become muddy and Narcissus finds that mirrors are...

Images of the life of the Living, the material that composes it was originally shot for the film: "The Unconscious Rebels". The shots were re-edited...

An enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he starts putting his store's profits on the line.

The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the season of the Living Theater group in Brazil. The...