Directed by Chloë Sevigny • 2019 • United States
Starring Hailey Gates, Eleonore Hendricks, Kate Lyn Sheil

Five women, a ouija board, and a house with a dark secret: Chloë Sevigny imbues this atmospherically enigmatic ghost story with a bracing feminist jolt.

Directed by Jake Meginsky • 2019 • United States

Surrounded by his fellow Yara practitioners, Milford Graves arrives at the arts center in his neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, for a unique concert, footage of which is interspersed with scenes of the artist in the hospital that same summer.

Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1972 • Belgium

Chantal Akerman’s dialogue with the 1960s avant-garde movement of structural cinema begins here, with the first film she made in New York City—a breakthrough in her experiments with the bending of cinematic time and space. As the camera completes a se...

Directed by Les Blank • 2015 • United States

One of Les Blank’s earliest independent films is an impressionistic travelogue—featuring beautiful color cinematography—of a 1967 trip to Thailand, shot largely in and around Bangkok. The film was put aside and completed after Blank’s death by his col...

Directed by Lotte Reiniger • 1922 • Germany

One of Lotte Reiniger’s first forays into the world of fairy tales tells the story of a poor young man who sets out to rescue a Chinese princess imprisoned by her father in the tower of a pagoda.

Directed by Hal Roach • 1919 • United States
Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels

A beautiful spring day tempts a bookkeeper to play hooky from the office.

Directed by Jessica Bardsley • 2022 • United States

LIFE WITHOUT DREAMS is set in the outer space of consciousness, where the surfaces of far-out planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the disappearance of darkness due to light pollution.

Directed by Mira Nair • 2002 • United States

Based on events surrounding the September 11, 2001, disappearance of Salman Hamdani, a young Pakistani American man from Queens, this film portrays his mother’s struggle with terrorist allegations, her own fears, and her son’s fate that day.

Directed by Ashley McKenzie • 2015 • Canada
Starring Sofia Banzhaf, Andrew Gillis

An overworked student finds his life thrown into chaos when he gets involved with a young drug addict.

Directed by Tze Chun • 2006 • United States

A string of break-ins breeds distrust in a racially mixed neighborhood outside of Boston.

Directed by Richard Lester • 1959 • United Kingdom

This film, directed by Richard Lester, was shot over two Sundays in 1959 for a cost of about seventy pounds. Nominated for an Oscar for best live-action short, it features Lester, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Graham Stark, and Bruce Lacey.

Directed by Jessica Beshir • 2016 • United States
Starring Fred Nelson

In 2016, Jessica Beshir directed this short film about Fred Nelson, a man she met in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park who tap-dances every day on a worn piece of wood.

Directed by Agnès Varda • 2015 • France
Starring Jasmine Thiré, Michel Jeannès, Jacky Patin

A billowing pink dress launches a stouthearted teenage girl on a time- and space-collapsing odyssey from her humble goat farm to the big city and beyond in this playfully meandering feminist fantasia from...

Directed by John Hubley • 1959 • United States

John and Faith Hubley recorded a conversation between their young sons and set it to animated visuals to create this charming, Academy Award–winning adventure in which two boys set out on a late-night quest to capture a bird.

Directed by Alain Resnais • 1959 • France

Poetic and aesthetic visit of a large polystyrene factory.

Directed by Mariama Diallo • 2018 • United States
Starring Kara Young, Taliah Webster, Madeline Weinstein

She’s white and she wants dreads . . . The staff of a Black hair salon in Brooklyn fend off a terrifying new monster: white women intent on literally sucking the lifeblood from Black culture.