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From Mind to Brain: The Story of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

9 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

The story of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.

(2015) Directed by Josh Kastorf

MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, now a world leader in neuroscience and cognitive science, evolved from the Department of Psychology founded by Prof. Hans-Lukas Teuber in the early 1960s and based on the revolutionary idea that the study of mind and brain are inseparable. This film, produced for the department's 50th anniversary, tells the story through the eyes of distinguished BCS professors who first came to MIT as students or junior researchers.

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The Long Awake

6 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

Every day is night....Everyone is asleep...Everyone...Except one man.

(2015) Directed by Evin Charles Anderson

Every day is night.

Everyone is asleep.

Everyone … except one man.

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To my Love

6 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

film noir

(2013) Directed by Claudio Jimenez

Mark is tired of covering her delinquent pass. He is unwilling to help her.

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The Lake of Simon

5 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

(2015) Directed by Neal Desrochers

Amelia Harris and David Trevane used to be a couple, after they had
been friends for years, David, Simon, Amelia and Jo Strong. Jo has a
homophobic evil dad and she is really tall and kids tease her all the
time and she's been heavily bullied. David's mother is also abusive
and his dad has a job that keeps him away a lot. Amelia puts
everyone's problems on her own shoulders to avoid her own feelings.
Truth is, her parent's divorce hurt her, but she distracts herself by
befriending troubled people. When Simon commits suicide in front of
them all she breaks up with David and avoids Jo because the pain is
too much. She comes back eventually but now Jo is a little crazier
than before, and taller, too. David has had his heart broken by the
beautiful and evil Tara Hewitt, who enjoys dating unstable boys
because they feed her own ego. Her mother left her father and she
hates her for it, but takes it out on the boys.

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Paperthin

5 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

What Would You Share In Private?

(2015) Directed by Trent England

When Susana leaves Romania with a dream of experiencing a richer life, she arrives in Boston, a city full of strangers and foreign culture. She settles into an apartment and eases into her new life by writing in a journal every evening and committing a private life to its pages. She strikes up a friendship, and eventually a relationship, with her roommate Adam, a budding writer who commits his private life to poetry he reads onstage.

Just as Susana feels comfortable in her new home in Boston, her journal goes missing. Frantic, she tears the apartment apart, looking for the pages that contain intimate information and deep secrets. When she begins to suspect that Adam may have taken the journal, she must ask herself if the one person she has let into her life is the last person she can trust.

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Chaos & Order:Making American Theater

5 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

The film explores the organizational and creative challenges facing today's theate

(2005) Directed by Tim Jackson

Through the prism of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge Massachusetts, the film explores the organizational and creative challenges facing today's theater and describes the flexibility and resilience arts groups must have to survive in today's cultural climate.
Two time Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones narrates

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Disrespectful Co-Workers

4 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

Real situations. Unrealistic solutions.

(2015) Directed by Dion Owens

A bunch of co-workers disrespect each in the most inmaturest manors imaginable.

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Unsure/Positive

4 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

Kieran just got diagnosed with HIV... he's pretty down about it. Will he be able to stay positive?

(2015) Directed by Christian Daniel Kiley

Kieran (Christian Kiley) goes to get tested for HIV, something he's done many times before. While he waits for his results, he asks the counselor administering the test (Tommy Derrah) about all the questions regarding his 'risk factors.' If the test relies on a chemical reaction to produce its result, then how do his 'risks' 'factor' into the chemistry of the test? A fair question, but an irrelevant one. His test has come back positive.

Three months on, Kieran still hasn't told anyone about his HIV status. Not his roommate, not even his best friend Allie (Amy DePaola). The only person he opens up to is his therapist Alan (Lance Williams), who he finds (ironically) attractive.

After a fight with Allie, Kieran, feeling alienated and detached, makes his way downtown to a small gathering of young gay men, who are smoking crystal meth-- and engaging in the usual risky behaviors.

After missing the next night of work due to the comedown, Allie appears at Kieran's doorstep to confront him about whatever is going on. Kieran relents, and (finally) lets her in. After a difficult heart-to-heart, Allie seems to finally understand why her friend has been so miserable and distant-- but the story doesn't end here. There are plenty more complications coming down the pike.

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The Search for Cleopatra’s Crown

4 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

Napoleon found Cleopatr's crown in 1799 and it turns up present day Boston

(2015) Directed by Mick Cusimano

When Napoleon traveled to Egypt in 1799 his archaeologist Pierre-François Bouchard discovered the Rosetta stone, mummies and statues of Pharaohs which were later confiscated by the British in 1801. Bouchard also discovered the gold crown of Cleopatra which he hid from Napoleon and the British and brought with him on an expedition to the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue. In dire straights he sold the crown to a Boston sea merchant shopping for sugar cane. 200 years later the gold crown is spotted in Boston (valued at $20-30 million) and the streets are alive with people scouring the city searching for Cleopatra's Crown

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The Cobblestone Corridor

2 Jun , 2015 | Posted by:

There's always more to the story...

(2015) Directed by Erik Bloomquist

Allan Archer, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper club at Alfred Pierce Preparatory School, has taken on the biggest case of his academic career: investigating the suspicious termination of English department chairman, Dr. Peter Carroll.