Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

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Alma's Rainbow

Comedy · Lesbian · Drama

Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn who live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.

Amnesia

A one-minute video that compresses with an economy of time and textual editing a direct assault on the languages of hate and intolerance.

The Annihilation of Fish

Romance · Drama

This charming film by celebrated Black independent filmmaker Charles Burnett stars Lynn Redgrave as a woman with an imaginary lover, Margot Kidder as her energetic landlady, and James Earl Jones as her love interest who is also battling unseen demons.

Boatman

Documentary · Environment · Earth Day

Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over. His first feature, Boatman (1993), captures life and death on the Gang…

High Heel Nights

Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and all the fine lines around it. The film is an important reminder that for us today drag queen performances are accepted in the mainstream, however there was a time when it was strictly underground.

Household Saints

Romance · Comedy · Religion

Nancy Savoca’s chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family boasts memorable performances from Vincent D’Onofrio, Tracey Ullman, Lili Taylor, and Michael Imperioli, and showcases a unique voice in 1990s independent filmmaking.

One Hand Don't Clap

Documentary

ONE HAND DON’T CLAP captures the vibrant story of calypso and the emergence of soca, through the eyes of two legendary artists, Lord Kitchener, the Grandmaster of the music and Calypso Rose, the first woman to break through in a traditionally male arena. Forging onscreen the connections betwee…

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

As an intense study of the physical, psychological and social breakdown of the human condition, the documentary questions a system that has lost its aspiration to reform while adding the television docudrama style of the late-20th century that drives our knowledge of accepted views of truth and mora…

Poison

Drama

Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves trio of transgressive tales-“Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo”-that build toward a devastating climax.

Slam

Drama

A young Black poet (Saul Williams) is imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge, where he meets a writing teacher (Sonja Sohn) who inspires him to use his creative expression to fight for his freedom in this Sundance and Cannes award-winning film.

The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation

Documentary · Sundance Film Festival

Director Chuck Workman examines the lasting cultural significance of the Beats, focusing mainly on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady.

Stigmata

A half dozen men and women, each addressing the camera directly and alone, speak of their involvement with drugs.

Thanatopsis

In collaboration with legendary downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, Beth B creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism (literally, a "meditation on death"). In a hypnotic narrative, a beautiful young woman negotiates the banalities of life. In a mesmerizing voiceover wh…

Thousand Pieces of Gold

Period Drama · Western · Drama

Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie (Chris Coope…

Under Lock and Key

Speaking to the entrapment we feel when caught in the violence of being attacked and of the attacker himself caught in the web of his own imagined powers and fears and eventual incarceration, the work exposes the perpetrators of violence by revealing their words and the words of their victims. The w…

Visiting Desire

An exciting, playful and amusing psychological experiment in New York City in the mid-'90s. Bringing together a group of total strangers, locking them in a bedroom with cameras for five days, they were encouraged to act out their fantasies and desires. In this twisted version of Big Brother, the div…

Voices Unheard

In this disturbing documentary about juvenile sex offenders, Beth B uses interviews with the offenders and with officials who work with them, on the subjects of sex, abuse, family and the legacy of abuse, to dismantle taboos. Exploring the challenges of integrating these youths back into society, sh…

When Night Is Falling

RT Certified Fresh · Drama

When Camille meets Petra, a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Camille pursues this sensual, dream-like woman, throwing her whole conservative life, not to mention her engagement, into disarray.

White Room

RT Certified Fresh · Drama

When an aspiring writer with writer's block witnesses the murder of famous singer Madeline X, he attends her memorial and encounters a woman connected to her. He follows her home and discovers her nightly visits to a secret room.