Icarus Films: The Forgotten Space
Directed by Allan Sekula & Noel Burch 112 minutes / ColorRelease: 2012Copyright: 2010 The “forgotten space” of Allan Sekula and Noel Burch’s essay film is the sea, the oceans through which 90% of the world’s cargo now passes. At the heart of this space is the container box, which, since
Short Films in Focus: Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers | Short Films in Focus
It’s time to take a break from the kinds of social injustice movies covered in this column for the past few months and, instead, shift to more pleasant fodder, like a lovely grandmother with a salt and pepper collection. Meredith Moore’s “Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers” is the kind
Icarus Films: Miners Shot Down
Directed by Rehad Desai 86 minutes / ColorEnglish / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2014 In August 2012, mine workers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress it, killing 34 and
Icarus Films: Lomax the Songhunter
“Mr. Kappers, in an inspired stroke, travels to places Mr. Lomax visited during a long career of collecting the world’s folk music on tape. He finds some of the people Mr. Lomax captured and plays the old recordings for them. Watching their faces light up is beautiful.” —Neil Genzlinger, The New
Icarus Films: The Absent House
Directed by Ruben Abruna 55 minutes / ColorSpanish / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2013 When Puerto Rican architect Fernando Abruna Charneco began designing buildings in the 1970s, many called him as crazy for putting nature first… a practice which later would be heralded as “sustainable green architecture.” For more than 30
Icarus Films
Maren Grainger-Monsen, a physician and award-winning filmmaker, is currently Filmmaker in Residence and Director of the Program in Bioethics and Film at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. She studied film at the London International Film School and received medical training at the University of Washington and Stanford University
Icarus Films: Bastards: Outcast in Morocco
The acclaimed film BASTARDS: OUTCAST IN MOROCCO, by BBC producer Deborah Perkin, documents one woman’s fight to have her sham marriage recognized and her daughter legitimized by the Moroccan judicial system. It is also a complex and compelling portrait of Moroccan society and its attitudes to women, female sexuality, their
Icarus Films: They Are We
Directed by Emma Christopher, Ph.D. 79 minutes / ColorEnglish; Spanish / English subtitlesClosed CaptionedRelease: 2015Copyright: 2014 The 2019 home video DVD includes both English and Spanish subtitles. THEY ARE WE is the story of a remarkable reunion, 170 or so years after a family was driven apart by the ravages
How films emulate gaming mechanics
Pretend it’s a video game: How films emulate gaming mechanics About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at
Icarus Films: Seed Battles
Directed by Kees Brouwer 50 minutes / ColorEnglish; Dutch / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2014 Hidden deep inside a massive mountain in inhospitable Spitsbergen, Norway, is the most important vault in the world: the Global Seed Vault. It is 20 degrees below zero and the vault is able to withstand earthquakes,
