Smoke and Rubber: Inside Modified Car Culture
2025 · 13m · Documentary · Action
Speed, emotion, dream. Smoke and Rubber follows the drivers of Istanbul who dedicate it all to modified car culture. Beyond the noise, it traces how speed, sound, and the performance of masculinity define a way of living, from the garage to the streets. Based on ongoing research, this is a reflective portrait of a noisy world.
More Like This
High Performance Imports: Volume 5
2002
This time High Performance Imports visits Ebisu Circuit for the draft matsuri, tours the Veilside factory and attends some drag meetings.
More info →Lotoko
2023
Short ethnographic documentary showing a leopard dance based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK).
More info →Nkumi, everyday life
2023
Short ethnographic documentary showing some everyday life scenes based upon footage shot by director Luc de Heusch in Congo in 1954 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK).
More info →
Live, song, live!
2022
The film tells the story of ancient Ingush lullabies - Ingush women and men tell the lullabies of their families and the stories associated with them: love, friendship, blood feud.
More info →
The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess
2011 · ★ 6.6
The Little Cars get their wheels dirty when they investigate the legendary Monster Tractor, Mr.V8 s grease trails get mistaken for fine art and the circus comes to the town of Rodopolis!
More info →
Stoley 2 (Street Transporters)
2024 · ★ 5.5
A car thief gets into it with his rival who's on top of his game for territory and the war falls in the streets of Kansas City with the police cracking down on stolen car's and their sight set on Mac's crew and the Kia Boyz Officer's are closing in fast Now Mac has to pick between his freedom and his friends
More info →
In April
2016
A man drives away from home waiting for that moment to opt for suicide. On the verge of insanity, he discovers a strange travel companion.
More info →
High Performance Imports: Volume 3
2002
High Performance Imports checks out Tokyo Auto Salon 2002, tours Mine's factory and demonstrates drift action from Mitsui Mike plus an update on the HPI project car tuning.
More info →
High Performance Imports: Volume 8
2004
High Performance Imports v8 brings you more driving action than ever before!
More info →
Arba'een
1970
Short ethnographic documentray about Arba'een, a Shia Muslim religious observance
More info →Untitled
2010
A revealing one-shot portrait of two Nepali newlyweds in a moment of rest and playful interaction, Stephanie Spray's Untitled challenges our perception of two themes at the very core of ethnographic filmmaking: human relationships and the ways in which they can be experienced by the viewer. Only fourteen minutes long, Untitled is uncut, rejecting the implications of edited sequences and also purposefully excluding subtitles over the couple's conversation. The style of the film confronts the history of ethnography as a controversial study of the "other" by refusing us any clear messages or meanings behind what is being presented, challenging the viewer to come up with their own answers to any questions that may arise.
More info →Burial among the Tetela
2023
Short ethnographic documentary on the Tetela tribe in Congo based upon footage and commentary by director Luc de Heusch from 1953 reassembled by Damien Mottier (Université Paris Nanterre) and Grace Winter (CINEMATEK).
More info →