This walk in the daily life of several psychiatric institutions, allows us to meet extraordinary people who let us enter their privacy.
Social & External
Dear DOCS is a claymation short about Carol Gallagher, an over-zealous Betty White meets Victoria Beckham housewife whose excessive behaviour and strange community involvement incites her 'physiologically' affected ten year old son to make a video for DOCS, under the impression that he will be rewarded with chocolate brownies.
After her gender identity was denied in her homeland, Lee Li, a transgender asylum seeker, was forced to leave her country, family, and language to embark on a journey toward belonging, freedom, and self-empowerment.
The old granny playing peek-a-boo is gone. Instead, a stranger appears and draws closer to the child. Peek-a-boo involves exercising memory, and looking directly at your partner.
A girl who loves to dance but has talent. ‘Talent’ is not something to be added on, but rather ‘complements what is lacking’. The important thing is to continually keep the easily wilted ‘flower’ blooming beautifully.
13-year-old Anderson Cefola documents his month-long grounding in 2018 with an old handheld camera he kept.
A woman is masturbating when a swarm of fish bursts out from all over her house to disturb her.
A man is waiting for someone in a small boat. In loneliness he keeps waiting for someone. For whom, or why he is waiting is not very important. He wishes to see the sight of formless ‘happiness,’ which can vanish in a blink of an eye as long as possible.
An apple comes out of a man’s mouth. The man’s life goes backward, as video player is reversed. Many kinds of food accelerated to come out of his mouth and the man becomes younger and younger. Time goes back without end.
Story of Hagoromo, or feather robe from heaven, is a legend of Miho Beach. An angel sets her foot on the beach to bathe in the sea. Watching her, a fisherman sneaks her robe out, but returns it due to feeling guilty. That makes the angel very happy and she flies up to. . . heaven, dancing in the sky.
Tobacco has. . . fascinated people for centuries and does not allow them to stop smoking even when they want to. Even though you want to finish with smoking, the spirits of tobacco are just behind you. Let’s enjoy a trip to the world of tobacco.
We covered the area surrounded by [sea] and mountains. Since that day, this town has been in complete darkness. Lights, roads home, a mother and a baby in her womb are hidden in this darkness. This animation depicts the truth hiding behind the facts.
Earth is the place and the established existence. Earth is also a ball of dust, and a capricious object. At the avalanche of time-layer, falling deep down into the ground, you can see the fallacious landscape far from reality. The body recognizes the reality of the world by touching the landscape to regain the reality. It is an adventure between the real and the unreal.
An old couple live in a Japanese village. They make brooms for a living. They have been together. . . and worked together for a long time. Recently, the husband has noticed his wife has had some symptoms of the disease which has caused some obstacles in their work.
Red ribbon of a double helix is the bond to connect the girls; the transmitted touch of. . . soft hands, and the gentle memories only girls can inherit. Those dreamy moments abruptly end and the bodies transform regardless of their intentions. The ‘xx’ gives and takes. It is an inescapable thread of fate. This is a girl’s animation to warn the end of girlfriend to warn the end of girlhood. . .
There once lived two brothers in a town. The elder lived alone. The younger lived with his parents. They did not get along well... They called each other occasionally. The elder one was impatient and emotional and did nothing but work... One day the elder brother’s face turned into a tomato...
The heroin has been living life as an undergraduate. There is nothing remarkable about her. However, she has noticed there is something strange about her friends recently. She learned that they were getting mad about ‘job-hunting’. Without realizing what it is, the heroine also gets drawn into the Nipponese job-hunting swirl.
The everyday life of an elephant and a woman, his wife in a lakeside house. Their life together with a certain distance repeats itself. The traces of the passing time cover the familiar landscape. One day an accident happens to the couple living together with contradictions and secrets
At the waterside surrounded by factories and waste lives a white frog. It loves a goldfish who also lives in the neighbourhood. Recently the goldfish appears to be in poor health, which worries the frog.
Meet Ralph Whittington, who amassed one of the largest private collections of pornography ever. His collection can now be seen and studied at the Museum of Sex in New York City. Produced by Jeff Krulik. Premiered at AFI Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington DC as part of the I QUIT MY DAY JOB FILM FESTIVAL in 1996. –JK
A new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.
Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.
Daft Punk Unchained is the first film about the pop culture phenomenon that is Daft Punk, the duo with 12 million albums sold worldwide and seven Grammy Awards. Throughout their career Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have always resisted compromise and the established codes of show business. They have remained determined to maintain control of every link in the chain of their creative process. In the era of globalisation and social networks, they rarely speak in public and neither do they show their faces on TV. This documentary explores this unprecedented cultural revolution revealing a duo of artists on a permanent quest for creativity, independence and freedom.
A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.
The incomparable Bruce Springsteen performs his critically acclaimed latest album and muses on life, rock, and the American dream, in this intimate and personal concert film co-directed by Thom Zimny and Springsteen himself.
What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
Explore the evolution of Buzz Lightyear from toy to human in the making of Pixar’s Lightyear. Dive into the origin and cultural impact of everyone’s favorite Space Ranger, the art of designing a new “human Buzz,” and the challenges faced by the Lightyear crew along the way.
Long-lost footage from Elvis Presley's legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour, and 8mm from the Graceland archive, plus recordings of Elvis telling "his side of the story" rediscovered during Baz Luhrmann's research for his 2022 film, Elvis.
A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan's space epic.
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
A unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural icon Pharrell Williams. Told through the lens of LEGO® animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music's most innovative minds.
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
A purely observational non-fiction film that takes viewers into the ethically murky world of end-of-life decision making in a public hospital.
A detailing of the rise to prominence and global sporting superstardom of six supremely talented young Manchester United football players (David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Phil and Gary Neville). The film covers the period 1992-1999, culminating in Manchester United's European Cup triumph.
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.
The life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father, and the experience he gains about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest.
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
