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
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
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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
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,
Icarus Films: Foucault Against Himself
Directed by Francois Caillat 52 minutes / ColorFrench / English subtitlesRelease: 2014Copyright: 2014 “Don’t ask me who I am, and don’t tell me to remain the same.” -Michel Foucault From the history of madness, to sexuality and pleasure in classical antiquity, to the law and penal institutions, the breadth of
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BLU-RAY Newly restored, and now on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time ever! The epic chronicle of Chile’s open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it in 1973. Patricio Guzmán | 2023 | 275 minutes | English subtitles BLU-RAY Short films from the French New
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