Movies: Picture Palace Pictures
- 2024
When the Phone Rang (2024)
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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...
- 2021
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
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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 ...
- 2021
Aleph (2021)
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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....
- 2019
Black Bus Stop (2019)
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Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville....
- 2017
Tonsler Park (2017)
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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....
- 2011
Rita Larson's Boy (2011)
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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...
- 2020
Partial Differential Equation (2020)
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A partial differential equation is illustrated by mathematician Tariah Gatlin....
- 2019
8903 Empire (2019)
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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....
- 2011
Quality Control (2011)
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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...
- 2023
If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move (2023)
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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" ...
- 2024
Practice, Practice, Practice (2024)
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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....
- 2011
Early Riser (2011)
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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...
- 2011
Chicken (2011)
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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....
- 2012
Rhinoceros (2012)
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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 ...
- 2012
Ten Five in the Grass (2012)
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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....
- 2019
Condor (2019)
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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....