Juan & Lou

Artist, musician and art magazine publisher Noah Becker gives us an art world insider's view of New York based contemporary art in 2011. Important New York based curators, critics and auction houses lend their views on New York's relevance as an international art scene in relation to globalized culture. Other topics include art value and how contemporary art is presented to the public through pop culture and the media. Featuring interviews with art world figures including Lee Ranaldo, Richard Phillips, Michael Halsband, Spencer Tunick, Bibbe Hansen, Bill Powers and Richard Butler. Musical performances by Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth with additional music by Moka Only and Noah Becker.

Let Me Sing tells the story of NJ-based 67-year-old musician, singer, joke-teller and pied piper, Bobby Byrne, offering an intimate and often humorous portrait of a man whose uncompromising dedication to his fans reveals the significance of his work as an entertainer.

OurStory: Six Sisters of the Stolen Generation' is a 45 minute documentary about an Australian indigenous family of the town of Moora - the Warrells. We experience their warmth and humor and become friends with them. Then, woven in between their love for family and their fight to retain their culture, hear their tragic childhood memories of being taken from their families and raised with cruelty in an aboriginal mission. Finally, taking them back to the Benedictine mission, some for the first time, reveals that on it's new walls as a museum their personal stories are at best whitewashed, at worst, completely absent. Though at times deeply emotional, the documentary is also a heartwarming story of humanity and family.

Kent Butcher has been putting up Christmas lights for 30 years. With an entire corner property full of lights and decorations, his display draws a crowd. Christmas is a time when Kent's lights bring smiles to the faces of others, but being visually impaired, the lights are also an opportunity for him to see.

This documentary is part of the series "The Conquerors of the Impossible (2/3)". From the 1950s to the 1980s, René Desmaison achieved a large number of "firsts". A specialist in normal routes (west face of Les Drus, Pilier du Freyney, Shroud...), he experienced a tragedy at the Grandes Jorasses, where his exceptional resistance allowed him to survive against all logic. He is the first to claim the practice of the mountain as a high level sport. A man of contrasts, his apparent strength hides great shyness and an unalterable enthusiasm despite the years. Beyond mountaineering, it is the spirit of adventure that has always inhabited him. A whole life devoted to mountaineering.