Massachusetts

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Theme Song Rebel

Sep 2016

Theme Song Rebel
2014 | Directed by Luke Patton

In a dystopia where a person’s social class is determined by their theme song, Louise wants to change her tune.

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Crest Of The Hill

Sep 2016

2015 | Directed by Amanda Kowalski and Samantha Broun

As his Alzheimer’s progresses, Greg O’Brien prepares to sell his family home.

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Memorial

Sep 2016

2016 | Directed by Ben Pender-Cudlip

Craftsmen are dwarfed by giant, abstract sculpture in Memorial, an experimental documentary. Monumental sculptures appear first as silhouettes, emphasizing their geometric purity and reminding us that cinema itself is act of reduction and representation. Human craftsmen provide scale, and the eyes through which we perceive the work. Crawling about and even soaring, God-like, over the rusty plates and tubes, they simultaneously humanize and deify this inanimate work. Archival footage introduces a sense of temporality, and asks us to consider how the scales of time differ for humans and our creations.

Memorial chronicles the complete lifecycle of its steel subject, but leaves the biggest question—why must it be destroyed?—to the audience. In considering this, we confront our own mortality and choices to express ourselves through art, even if it will not outlast us.

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All My Voice

Sep 2016

2016 | Directed by Zoë Morgan Chiswick

A view into the mind of a brilliant yet challenged scientist.

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Trench

Sep 2016

Trench
2015 | Directed by Nathan Hunt

A wounded Australian sergeant comes across an armed Turkish soldier in a trench during World War One.

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So Help Me God

Sep 2016

2016 | Directed by Rebecca Maddalo

A short comedy about a hapless guy trying to make it through his day who gets help from an unlikely friend.

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Portle

Sep 2016

2015 | Directed by Oliver Shahery

Matt Portle and I started off as strangers. This narrative documentary is about how we became friends.

 

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First Light

Sep 2016

2015 | Directed by Adam Mazo & Ben Pender-Cudlip

First Light independently documents the work of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the first such task force in US history to investigate issues important to Native Americans. The TRC was dedicated to uncovering and acknowledging the truth about what happened to Wabanaki children and families involved with the state’s child welfare system. First Light is the first film in a series, anchored by the feature film Dawnland slated for release in 2018.

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Ribbons

Sep 2016

Ribbons
2016 | Directed by Brandon Cordeiro

Provincetown, a small harbor village at the very tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was already a home to the LGBT community for a few decades when AIDS devastated its population in the mid-1980s. Ribbons is a short film that explores an episode in the life of a second generation Portuguese boy when his mother brings him to a community memorial service by the sea. The boy experiences firsthand the loss incurred by the epidemic, but also his community’s inspirational response to it; an event that as an adult helps him understand the power of forming a bond with a kindred tribe.

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A Mother’s Love

Sep 2016

A Mother’s Love
2015 | Directed by Zachary Clarence

A short film, following a mother’s battle of discovering how to save her son from himself.