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Dispatch from Aztlán
After nearly fifty years, a public park in Denver’s Northside neighborhood is renamed from Columbus to La Raza Park in honor of the Chicano community that once gave it vitality.
Justin Kiersky
From Scratched Corneas to Critical Focus
The cruelty inflicted upon a Chicano photographer's East LA community in the early 1970s ends up catalyzing his art and perspective.
Harry Gamboa Jr.
In the Grove of Magical Realism
When the pandemic hits, a modern dancer nearing the end of his career returns home to Lake Michigan and undergoes a creative reawakening that merges movement, film and the natural world.
Justin Kiersky,
Emma Kazaryan
Journey To Topaz
A long-awaited family reunion to Topaz, a World War II Japanese internment camp hidden away in the barren Utah wilderness, reignites the trauma that left scars on multiple generations.
Steven Yip,
Mabel Weber
Living Fossils
Amidst a record-breaking heat wave and second year of historic wildfires, a group of dancers experiment with a new form of environmental advocacy in the California redwoods.
Sidd Joag,
Emma Kazaryan
Lower Bottoms
Despite the drug war, urban blight and systemic demolition of neighborhoods, you can still hear the echoes on Seventh Street that once made West Oakland known as the “Harlem of the West”.
Sidd Joag
Megaflora
An experimental film shot in the sequoia and redwood forests of California that is at once an unspoken narrative, a choreographed installation, an elegy to the earth and a call to arms.
Michael Spencer Phillips
Nosebleed on Blacktop
The celebrated photographer, director and performance artist recalls the crucial lessons he learned at school in Boyle Heights, East L.A. in a vivid account of an artist's coming-of-age during the 1960s.
Harry Gamboa Jr.,
Ken Krimstein
Sketches from Solitary
An artist-turned-chaplain and a local muralist working in the world’s most secure prison become conduits of creativity for some of the nation’s most notorious inmates.
Justin Kiersky
Squatch: A Big, Hairy, American Metaphor
Childhood curiosities are awakened during an “encounter” with cryptozoological archivist and Bigfoot Discovery Museum founder Michael Rugg in the redwood forests outside Santa Cruz.
Sidd Joag,
Tian Tian Tan
The Painting
Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre reappears in the bedroom of a deceased woman in rural New Mexico three decades years after it was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in broad daylight. This is the painting's story.
Justin Kiersky,
Ken Krimstein
The Rule of the Gun
Is the finger on the trigger is more important than the life at the end of the barrel?
Justin Kiersky
The Story of Prakash Churaman
A documentary film about an incarcerated man who spends half a life on Rikers Island for a crime he didn't commit at the age of 15 and a cellist who becomes his teacher and advocate.
Jacob Cohen,
Max Cohen,
German Andino