An intimate look at the recession of a local, family farm in rural Pennsylvania and the rich history behind their disappearing livelihood. This documentary illustrates what the disappearance of small farms means for the country.
Katie Supplee with the Laszlo Pal Emerging Filmmaker award. She was granted this award in 2019 by Friday Harbor Film Festival for her film, The Last Crop.
Follow three of the world’s top gymnasts - Morgan Hurd (USA), Angelina Melnikova (Russia), Chen Yile (China) - as they balance life as teenagers with dreams of winning gold at Tokyo 2020. All Around gymnastics documentary series offers unique access to the every day lives of artistic gymnasts.
Directed by Katarina Poljak
A surrealist sci-fi dance drama
Simulated bodies built for exploitation, brains engineered for gore.
A cyborg reflects on the tragedy of human history and the role capitalism has played in human disposability. Eating ourselves alive as we let capitalism destroy the good in us. As humans evolve to become robots, can we stay true to the source architecture of our body and spirit?
Photos by Andjela Preradovic
Our Lady of Staten Island tells the story of how Elissa Montanti formed the Global Medical Relief Fund, and how, over the past 25 years she has helped more than 400 children who have been injured by war, natural disaster, and human cruelty. The film follows the return of four Tanzanian children to Elissa to have their prostheses refitted. They have albinism, and their limbs were hacked off by machete-wielding henchmen in the service of witch doctors who believe the severed limbs of children with albinism confer health and wealth on the recipient.
This video integrates drone and go-pro footage taken on a month-long excursion to Hawaii and American Samoa, combined with footage collected from the lenticular process as well as visual data provided to Burko by scientists at Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It was for Burko’s exhibit ENDANGERED: From Glaciers to Reefs at the National Academy of Sciences, in 2018-19.
The video was installed in a circular drum, giving the viewer an experience of looking down into a portal, referencing the aerial perspective of a satellite, a tide pool, or a microscopic glance into the movements of polyps – the living organisms of a coral. It is intended to be a metaphoric piece on science, art and process. Currently on view as part of Seeing Climate Change at American University Museum.
Artist: Diane Burko (2018)
