Movies: Picture Palace Pictures

  • 2024
    When the Phone Rang

    When the Phone Rang (2024)

    When the Phone Rang

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    Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist's eleven year old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity and hi...

    When the Phone Rang
  • 2021
    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

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    Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step ...

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
  • 2021
    Aleph

    Aleph (2021)

    Aleph

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    Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives, experiences, stories and musings of protagonists spanning ten countries and five continents....

    Aleph
  • 2019
    Black Bus Stop

    Black Bus Stop (2019)

    Black Bus Stop

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    Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville....

    Black Bus Stop
  • 2017
    Tonsler Park

    Tonsler Park (2017)

    Tonsler Park

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    Tonsler Park observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of Election Day, November 8, 2016....

    Tonsler Park
  • 2011
    Rita Larson's Boy

    Rita Larson's Boy (2011)

    Rita Larson's Boy

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    Rita Larson's Boy portrays ten actors auditioning for the role of Rollo Larson in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son. Rita Larson's Boy is one of three films included in the Tombigbee Chronicles Number Two. The series of films are based on famous peopl...

    Rita Larson's Boy
  • 2020
    Partial Differential Equation

    Partial Differential Equation (2020)

    Partial Differential Equation

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    A partial differential equation is illustrated by mathematician Tariah Gatlin....

    Partial Differential Equation
  • 2019
    8903 Empire

    8903 Empire (2019)

    8903 Empire

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    Kevin Jerome Everson and his collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai filmed the comings and goings in front of a trap house on Empire Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Loosely inspired by Andy Warhol's 1964 film "Empire," which also runs for eight hours....

    8903 Empire
  • 2011
    Quality Control

    Quality Control (2011)

    Quality Control

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    Quality Control consists of a series of 16mm single take shots filmed in the summer of 2010,over a two day period, in a dry cleaners facility in Pritchard, Alabama, near Mobile, Quality Control exhibits the acts as well the conditions around labor an...

    Quality Control
  • 2023
    If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move

    If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move (2023)

    If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move

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    If You Don't Watch the Way You Move features Derek "Dripp" Whitfield Jr. and Taymond "choSkii" Hughes of the music group BmE composing and recording their latest composition, "Shiesty", in the Columbus, Mississippi studio of Jermaine "Country Blakk" ...

    If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move
  • 2024
    Practice, Practice, Practice

    Practice, Practice, Practice (2024)

    Practice, Practice, Practice

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    What Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein....

    Practice, Practice, Practice
  • 2011
    Early Riser

    Early Riser (2011)

    Early Riser

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    This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton in the novel and film comes from the region around Columbus, Mississippi. Shot in noir-style, the film foc...

    Early Riser
  • 2011
    Chicken

    Chicken (2011)

    Chicken

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    Centred on a scene from Tennessee Williams’s play Kingdom of Earth (1968). Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus. Filmed as if it were a stage play, the title character, Chicken of Kingdom, struggles with how people view him....

    Chicken
  • 2012
    Rhinoceros

    Rhinoceros (2012)

    Rhinoceros

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    "Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate appeal to rally the good people of Florence. Shot in the Villa la Pietra in Florence, in black and white ...

    Rhinoceros
  • 2012
    Ten Five in the Grass

    Ten Five in the Grass (2012)

    Ten Five in the Grass

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    A film about Black cowgirls and cowboys preparing themselves for the rodeo event of calf roping. Filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana and Natchez, Mississippi the title refers to the type of rope they use to capture fast calves....

    Ten Five in the Grass
  • 2019
    Condor

    Condor (2019)

    Condor

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    The July 2, 2019 solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality, over the Chilean coast, in 16mm black and white. Condor is the national bird of Chile....

    Condor