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Caniba

Caniba

Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017 1h 36m

Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.

Foreign Parts

Foreign Parts

Véréna Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki 2010 1h 21m

A portrayal of a hidden enclave of auto shops and junkyards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants – where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce – as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City's development scheme.

Leviathan

Leviathan

Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2012 1h 27m

Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast. The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.

Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass

Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash 2009 1h 41m

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 pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

Manakamana

Manakamana

Pacho Velez, Stephanie Spray 2013 1h 58m

A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.