Four individuals from upstate New York tell their stories encountering UFOs in They’re Here. Upstate New York is a hotspot of UFO sightings and a number of individuals are not afraid to share their stories. The include Cookie Stringfellow, the elderly leader of a local meet-up group, Steve Wood, a man who undergoes hypnosis to…
The subcultures surrounding the world’s most dedicated soccer fans are explored in Ultras. The dedicated fans who crowd into Football stadiums are considered to be the world’s most popular subculture. Ultras are responsible for creating the atmosphere at soccer matches, with their flag-carrying, singing, and elaborate tifo banners. Ultras from Italy, Argentina, Sweden, England, Egypt,…
The Japanese dance form of Butoh is explored in Invisible People. Butoh is a contemporary Japanese dance that flows between revolt, eroticism, trance, prayer, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity. Yoshito Ohno is the son of Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno, who runs a dance studio known as “the Church of Butoh.” Many of Yoshito’s students describe…
British actors try to stage a full production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the world of Grand Theft Auto Online in Grand Theft Hamlet. Unable to find acting roles during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sam and Mark spend their time playing Grand Theft Auto Online. While running from the in-game police, Sam stumbles upon and Vinewood…
In 2003, a group of 8 artists lived in an underutilized space in a Providence, Road Island mall in Secret Mall Apartment. The Providence Place Pall was built in the late-1990s as part of a revitalization effort for the city. A consequence of this gentrification was the demolition of Fort Thunder, an old mill building…
The Hot Docs 2023 Nightvision Shorts Program considsts of unexpected and unexplained films about hauntings, from the Penobscot Nation to Aleister Crowley’s villa, TikTok tics, a ghostly glitch, spirit poop and naked pagans jumping through fiery hoops. Belongings Morgan Talty is a man from the Penobscot Indian Nation, recounting the ghostly experiences he encountered in…
Read Our Interview with Director Shannon Alexander A Brooklyn family hopes to rid themselves of the malevolent spirits haunting them in It’s Coming. Ashley Roland is a mother of five and has been sensitive to supernatural entities since she was 11. After returning to her family’s ancestral Brooklyn apartment, Ashley and her kids witness strange…
The story of a woman and a psychiatrist whose book helped kick off the 1980s Satanic Panic is told in Satan Wants You. In 1976, Michelle Smith visited Dr. Laurence Pazder in Victoria, British Columbia. During their sessions, Dr. Pazder supposedly uncovers repressed memories from Michelle’s childhood in the 1950s. She believes that she was…
Two women live isolated from the world on their farm in Bucolic. 65-year-old Danusia and her 35-year-old daughter Basia live in isolation from the rest of the world on their farm on the outskirts of a village in central Poland. Danusia and Basia live in turn with rhythm and laws of nature, among animals and…
The rise of Wakaliwood is documented in Once Upon a Time in Uganda. Living in Wakaliga, the slum of the Ugandan capital city of Kampala, brickmaker Isaac Nabwana has started to develop a following for the ultra-low budget action films he has produced for his company Ramon Film Productions. When the trailer for Isaac’s film…
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