S1.E4 ∙ Moon Phases

Dusk Chorus - Based on the long-term project "Fragments of Extinction" by David Monacchi.

This film tells a story of the House of One Heart, a nursing center for mentally challenged people. The director moves to the center's neighbourhood and records the life of the people living there. His camera becomes a mediator to help him enter this space and a friend to understand its residents. The film observes them as they deal with their symptoms with the help of medication, repress their anger for fear of being sent back to a hospital, bear with unfair payment for their work and an inability to to choose their own places to live. The director, as I, narrates in the film in the way that sounds more like a private confession rather than an explanation. This film is especially notable as it approaches the mentally challenged people not as an anonymous group but as independent individuals with their own names and pays attention to their lives and voices. It sees them not as a bunch of Alices in Wonderland but as neighbours living next door. It observes and records them closely with warm and intimate eyes.

"Sex, Sulphur and a Fishy Business" - An overall Scandinavian environmental movement wants to warn against acidification.

The Road to Q'ero: A Journey Home explores the transformational journey of a New York family traveling with Lorenzo, an Andean shaman back to his homeland in a remote part of Peru. The travelers are Iva, a film producer and writer living on a sustainable farm in New York's Hudson Valley, her son Jack a New York City filmmaker and photographer; his girlfriend Julie, teacher and linguist; and family friend Katherine, a researcher and recent college graduate from university in England. They have been invited by the Q'ero to do something unprecedented, something that had never been offered to anyone: to enter with cameras and film the sacred initiation ceremonies of these famously reclusive people.

A lyrical documentary about the underlying desire for family and community, told through the voice of the filmmaker. When David's working-class, parents decide to celebrate their 46th wedding anniversary without inviting his partner, this All-American, rural family is dragged into the 21st century.

'Into the Night' is the story of indie rock musician who is looking for vocal.