Knickknacks

Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have influenced a generation of artists. In 1989 she started to film the leaders of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests who escaped to political exile following the June 4 massacre. Though Choy never finished that project, she now travels with the old footage to Taiwan, Maryland, and Paris in order to share it with the dissidents who have never been able to return home.

Jim and Dave, a dad and a step-dad, have trouble bonding during a 3-day weekend upstate with their son, Branson.

On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour hookup sites for older men.

Grand Jury Award Winner - Slamdance 2023 Jury's notes: “With idiosyncratic music choices, sibling chemistry out the wazoo, and a philosophical Brooklynite as the series lead (played by Howard Lester in his introductory role), Theodore Collatos’s Palookaville explores the surreal existence of JoJo, a man victimized by a random act of violence who now thinks he’s the famous defunct boxer/anti-fascist, Joe Louis. Will you believe that JoJo’s become the Brown Bomber? Doesn’t matter, because you will believe in Palookaville.”

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

In a small suburban town steeped in alienation, residents escape into the night on rollerblades.

A man returns a letter meant for his neighbor but it’s not what it seems.

Jed’s family isn’t how he remembered it.

Doreen and her older brother try to figure out what to do with some loose limbs.

A tour through a labyrinth of mysteriously linked Los Angeles McMansions circa Y2K provides a dreamlike glimpse into the lives of five unique women who live behind the front gates.

A guy asks his friends to see the new Beyoncé movie.

A young woman who paints her nightmares, her wily much-older cousin, and a small apartment-bound therapy group collide.

A man lives in a restaurant where he also works as a waiter. Ian Faria and Edy Modica direct “Waiter Movie: The Short,” a hilarious and oddly endearing portrait of a New York waiter who chops it up with patrons just as well as he waits tables.

Hoss checks in on an empty house and finds a stranger inside.

Two old friends reunite in the wilderness, over which an angry warehouse holds court.

Bill has a psychotic episode on his first day back at work, and his employees aren't happy.