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Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

2010 · ★ 6

Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their environments, and about God(s).

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987 · ★ 7

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

Remember to Forget

A bohemian painter named Artist and a guitarist named James meet at a concert and have an instant connection. They start a philosophical discussion at her apartment, but they are interrupted by strange occurrences which reveal they are no longer in reality but an ominous dream world. Both Artist and James are confronted by characters and situations from their past, and they must work together to put the memory pieces together and escape to reality, if they can.

HoLy Cycles

2017 · ★ 5.5

Steadily reading while/becomes treading into murky waters.

Complainant

2017 · ★ 5.5

There is nothing left to do but complain.

The Illiac Passion

1967 · ★ 4.3

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

Permanent Shadows

2017 · ★ 10

A teenager decides to shut himself off from the world around him after receiving bad news.

Disgruntled

2000 · ★ 4

This meta student film illustrates the trials and tribulations of being a film student.

Chelsea Girls

1966 · ★ 5.5

Follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City.

The Death of Abraham Lincoln (In Three Parts)

1998 · ★ 6.7

An ahistorical re-enactment of the strange and curious events that led up to the untimely demise of our nation’s sixteenth president.

Extra Terrestrial

2004 · ★ 4.5

“A deadpan video art reworking of 1982's highest-grossing movie, EXTRA TERRESTRIAL peels away layers of sentimental narrative goo from its source, exposing a hard core of anxiety, loneliness and dread. Shifting the focus from character to interior, Ben Russell and Rhyne Piggott mine the landscape of a beige-carpeted ranch style house for new insights into the architecture of suburban alienation.” - Anne Reecer, Cinematexas

The Twenty-One Lives of Billy The Kid

2005 · ★ 6

Shot in the abandoned buildings of Gary, Indiana and the cornfields of Western Illinois, The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid presents a fractured historical narrative without any real protagonist, one in which the titular character goes mostly unseen - Billy the Kid as the always-off-screen assailant, as a ghost’s laugh, as a shadow on the road.