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16mm B&W Film 50 minutes (2025)
Cast: Ariel Shafir, Kate Valk, Maria Perez, Spencer Quartin, Lexie Waddy, Jay Dobkin, Miranda Dobkin, Joanie Fritz Zosike, Amaya Montañez, Stella Noor Hamza, Leila Ibragim-Zade, Eli Fliakos, Johnny Anthony
Set in New York’s Lower East Side in the early years of the 20th century, the film centers on a real storefront cinema, Frank Seiden’s Variety Theater. Here silent movies were anything but. The film follows a group of radical young garment workers who gather here to figure out how to fight for women’s rights and change their world.
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Digital 34 minutes (2025)
Cast: Kate Valk, Ben Katchor, Maria Perez, Jay Dobkin, Joanie Fritz Zosike, Carol Freeman, Ilana Wallach, Trudi Cohen, Stella Noor Hamza, Eli Fliakos
The film is a work of remembrance. It asks but does not answer the question how does everyday art bring people together? One by one, the community that is the Mouse People, recite the text of Franz Kafka’s short story on New York’s LES, presenting Josephine’s story, as something transmitted across time, that comes from inside the body of an oppressed people; spoken alone, summoned mysteriously, at the edge of consciousness. Why was it that Josephine’s voice so captivated them?
THE TRAMP'S NEW WORLD
62 minutes (2021)
Cast: Barrett Martin, Diana DeLaCruz
In 1948 the James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero, Charlie Chaplin. Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Agee imagined New York destroyed. In the ruins, Chaplin’s Little Tramp builds a shack in Central Park. The film focuses on his imaginative journey and what it might mean for us today.
Stereoscopic 16mm Film 40 minutes (2005)
Cast: Tea Alagic, Greg Mehrten, Josh Stark, Steven Rattazi, Kevin Maher, Eileen White, Eliza Fernbach
Augustine was the most extensively photographed of the young women hysterics at the Salpêtrière in Paris of the 1870's She was 'the Sarah Bernhardt' of the asylum. This is her story.
51 minutes (2018)
Cast: Afshin Hashemi, Eric Berryman, Paul Lazar, Marie Pohl
The philosopher Walter Benjamin and his friend the playwright Bertolt Brecht spent time together in exile from Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.
This film imagines they are still in exile in New York, 2017. In the intervening years they have changed because in the contemporary world, refugees and victims of racism look different. Brecht is Iranian.
Benjamin is African American. Picture them as a down and out comic duo, vagabonds in the tradition of Laurel and Hardy or Vladimir and Estragon, still doing what they always did, showing us how society works with whatever they
have at hand.
21 minutes (2015)
Cast: Kate Valk, Jim Fletcher
A film based on Sergei Eisenstein’s notes and drawings for a science fiction movie that he pitched to Paramount Studios in 1930. Its theme is the architecture of surveillance.