Personal Movies

The director’s diary told in still images of a dramatic period in which he becomes first a father and then almost loses the love of his life...

An observational documentary following Steven Brooke and how the solitude of painting impacts his life and artwork.

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

During a telephone conversation, Oma reminisces about her life with Opa: how they met, what they built, and what endures.

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now...

Christina Assi spent her life photographing other people’s wars. On October 13, 2023, the war turned on her: a targeted strike on the Lebanese...

As an immigrant from a raceless country, I’m troubled by the American obsession with the color of one’s skin. In 2018 I’ve asked my...

A powerful film that reveals the human side of the industrial pollution crisis in the Limoilou neighborhood. The air itself becomes a silent killer,...

The Text Allows No Interpretation is a personal essay documentary displaying the director’s conversation with his trauma in a stream of...

Mama used to sing and dance. Pabung is a poet. I saw mama crying only once in my life, when she lost her ema. Pabung lost his ema when he was young,...

Milestone No. 3 is a documentary following three lifelong friends as they travel across the country to California for the very first time. Armed with...

A dialogue and home video about belonging, from young people living in modern colonial society.

Based upon a habitual fidget of the filmmaker involving the tags in his clothing, Reilly Mitchell explores the feelings of his past by removing...

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

After running his grocery store for over 40 years, Chuck reflects on his childhood in South Korea and his lifelong commitment to serving the unique...

A short film that explores our dependency on smartphones and the emotional disconnection they create. Endless scrolling isolates us, shatters our...

A data moshed experiment using videos of daily life and textures overlayed with components from older videos creating a personal collage of the last...