Controlling Britney Spears
Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her.” This New York Times investigation reveals much of how it worked, including an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored every move she made.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Samantha Stark
Actors: Alex Vlasov, Britney Spears, Dan George, Felicia Culotta, Liz Day, Tish Yates
The Dilemma of Desire
The Dilemma of Desire explores the work of four women who are shattering myths and lies that women are being told about their sexual desire and their bodies. Coined by…
Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production
Up until just over 30 years ago, when the desktop computer debuted, the whole design production process would have been done primarily by hand, and with the aide of analog…
Lincoln’s Last Day
We all know the main story of Abraham Lincoln’s death, how he was killed, where it took place, and who pulled the trigger. But what exactly happened during the last…
Michelangelo: Love and Death
To coincide with a new exhibition at the National Gallery of London, Love and Death offers a fresh, full biography of Michelangelo. Spanning his 89 years, Michelangelo – Love and…
Wasted Talent
Wasted Talent is a gritty documentary where director Steve Stanulis and producer Noel Ashman together examine the temptations and struggles many young celebrities go through on their rise to stardom….
Delphine and Carole
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used…
Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich
Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York…
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20×24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her studio:…
Genesis 2.0
A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.
The Frozen Kingdom of The Snow Leopard
Join the big cats as we get up close and personal with their journeys through growing pains, adulthood, survival struggles and unfamiliar territories. These seven films follow the lives of…
The Unbelievers
Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and the rational questioning of religious belief.
Sweetgrass
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer…