Fringe & Outsider Cinema

Artist-writer-poet-filmmaker Jonas Mekas documents his early years building a life and discovering an arts community in New York.

A chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels

Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. In this short time they find themselves falling in love with each other, and they decide to get married before Joe has to return to camp.

On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it's making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his Mastercard, and $3,000 from his Uncle Bill, Mark strives over three years to finish "Coven," a short horror film. His own personal demons (alcohol, gambling, a dysfunctional family) plague him, but he desperately wants to overcome self-doubt and avoid failure. In moments of reflection, Mark sees his story as quintessentially American, and its the nature and nuance of his dream that this film explores.

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

A mafia leader's brother is captured in a shootout, prompting a revenge attack on the army camp. But when troop leader Captain Alex is killed during a raid, a violent war escalates between the two sides. The captain's brother takes matters into his own hands, while mafia henchmen take to the skies to bomb Kampala. Narrated with energy and wit by 'Video Joker' Emmie, ultra-low budget thriller Who Killed Captain Alex became an international viral sensation when its trailer first hit YouTube. Self-taught film-maker Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey produced, directed, shot, wrote and edited the film from his home in the slums of Uganda (a.k.a 'Wakaliwood') for under $200.

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

This experimental film by director Maya Deren immerses viewers in a mysterious dreamscape where reality and dreams intertwine. This enigmatic masterpiece employs repetitive imagery to unravel a woman's inner desires and fears, blurring the lines between time and space. Deren's avant-garde storytelling challenges conventional narrative, creating a hypnotic and thought-provoking cinematic journey into the human subconscious. For those intrigued by unconventional cinema, this emotionally charged exploration of the mind is a must-watch.

In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war, humanity faces imminent extinction in Paris. Through time travel and a series of still images, one man's voice unfolds as he embarks on a desperate mission to gather resources and save civilization. Along the way, he confronts the memories of a lonely woman, echoes of the past on an airport pier, and the thin line between life and death in this iconic experimental film by Chris Maker.

Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.