Puenting (Leap of Faith)

The Rape of a Nun

1983 · ★ 6

Irini, a young and beautiful woman, is promised by her father to a secluded convent where the corrupt abbot exploits the nuns. With the help of her childhood friend Dorothy, she tries to escape to Athens, only to find herself drawn into a world of wealth, desire, and sexual exploitation.

36 Fillette

1988 · ★ 5

A 14-year-old pursues romance with a man while vacationing with her family in Switzerland.

The Meldy Movie

A feature length autobiographical film showcasing the life story of Melody Contreras-Williams, famed Lyric Video Creator, Artist, and DJ.

Midnight Talk

2022

After her mother’s death, Sarah lives isolated with her aunt. One night, she confesses experiencing the feeling of a presence, something malicious and relentless.

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget

2013 · ★ 7.3

On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await the return of the mysterious John.

X/Y

2014 · ★ 4.8

As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.

The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

2013

This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied by text. By deconstructing the body, we turn it into a memory: of the body, of life, of texts. The biographical references to Joyce and Mando Aravantinou, combined with the diagonal slicing of the image, cancel the realism of the landscape, including that of the Narrator’s space/study. As a culmination, Joyce’s letter “A request for a loan in Greek” functions as a timely denunciation. Various routes through cities, such as Trieste, London, New York, and Athens; languages such as Greek and English. In addition to the primal myth of Ulysses, there is another issue: Greek is “the language of the subject of Ulysses”

The Performance

2024 · ★ 5.8

Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up: a large sum to put on a show in Berlin. The German does not know that Harold is of Jewish origins; the year is 1937 and, once they arrive in Germany, the company discovers that he will have to perform in the presence of Adolf Hitler.

Bloody Belly

2024

Haunted by a strange pain in her side whose cause she cannot explain, a young woman examines her body and the possible causes of her increasingly severe illness. Only a friend, a doctor and a florist helped her.

Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song

2010 · ★ 6.5

Sarah is a debt collector who lives among the inhabitants of the village of Guimbal on the island of Panay. She wants to find the young man who appeared to her in a dream and goes to the island of Negros. Here, as she interacts with the inhabitants, Sarah continues her search, gathering memories of life and war, dreams, myths, legends, songs and stories that she takes part in and at times revolve around her. She is the daughter of an ancient mermaid, a revolutionary, a primordial element, a virgin who was kidnapped and hidden away from the sunlight. “The film is a retelling of fragments of the American occupation. Dialogue, shot in the Hiligaynon language, is not translated but used as a tonal guide and a tool for narration. Using unscripted scenes shot where the main character was asked to merely interact with the villagers, I discard dialogue and draw meaning from peoples’ faces, voices, and actions, weaving an entirely different story through the use of subtitles and inter-titles.”

Mapang-akit

2011

"Mapang-akit" is an offshoot of a documentary project made with an Icelandic filmmaker and uses the outtakes from the Hudas Hudas festival in Antique, where a community bonds over a large effigy of Judas Iscariot during Holy Week. Amidst it is a found story of a man who returns home to his death after pursuing a woman in a neighboring village.

Boys Don't Cry

1999 · ★ 7.4

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.