Icarus Films: Leninland
Directed by Askold Kurov 52 minutes / ColorRussian / English subtitlesRelease: 2015Copyright: 2013 At the Lenin Museum, outside Moscow, curator Natalya Victorovna promises “a true Soviet-era experience.” Some die-hard Communists still come, but attendance has dwindled, and the museum is struggling. LENINLAND brilliantly captures the absurdities, contradictions, and surreal moments
Icarus Films: Fate of a Salesman
Directed by Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran 27 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2015Copyright: 2013 Emmy-nominee Fate of a Salesman is an intimate portrait of a way of life on the verge of disappearing. In its 60th year of business, Men’s Fashion Center in Washington, D.C. has come to represent identity,
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J.P. Sniadecki is a filmmaker and media anthropologist whose work explores collective experience, sensory ethnography, and the possibilities of cinema. His award-winning films have screened at festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, New York Film Festival, American Film Institute, the Viennale, BAFICI, Ambulante, HOTDOCS, Torino, San Francisco International Film Festival,
Icarus Films: Vulva 3.0
Directed by Claudia Richarz and Ulrike Zimmermann 52 minutes / Color/ English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2014 We live in hyper-sexualized times. The press, advertisements and TV are constantly putting naked women and their genitalia on display. In public we see airbrushed, de-individualized anatomies which conform to the standards of attractiveness used
Icarus Films: The Iron Ministry
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, J. P. Sniadecki’s masterful documentary traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and
Icarus Films: Banking Nature
Directed by Denis Delestrac and Sandrine Feydel 90 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesClosed CaptionedRelease: 2015Copyright: 2014 “Buying landscapes, protecting landscapes, accumulating new landscapes-it’s a phenomenal opportunity.” -Steve Morgan, CEO, Wildlands Inc. BANKING NATURE is a film about the growing movement to monetize the natural world: to turn endangered
Icarus Films: Dreams Rewired
Directed by Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, and Thomas Tode 85 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2015Copyright: 2015 Tilda Swinton’s hypnotic voiceover and a treasure trove of rare archival footage culled from hundreds of films from the 1880s through the 1930s—much of it previously unseen—combine to trace the anxieties of today’s hyper-connected
Icarus Films: School of Babel
Directed by Julie Bertuccelli 89 minutes / ColorFrench / English subtitlesRelease: 2015Copyright: 2013 Welcome to a one-of-a-kind Paris education program for immigrant children from around the globe. In her feature documentary debut, director Julie Bertuccelli (SINCE OTAR LEFT, THE TREE) follows one class of students ranging from 11 to 15
Icarus Films: Saving Mes Aynak
Directed by Brent E. Huffman 58 minutes / ColorClosed CaptionedRelease: 2016Copyright: 2015 SAVING MES AYNAK follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining company is closing in on the ancient site, eager to
Icarus Films: No Home Movie
Directed by Chantal Akerman 115 minutes / ColorEnglish; French / English subtitlesRelease: 2016Copyright: 2015 The final film from groundbreaking auteur Chantal Akerman, NO HOME MOVIE is a portrait of her relationship with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor and familiar presence in many of her daughter’s films. About the Blu-ray: The
