Archive of Shows from the Athena Cinema
|
Three Films About Finding Someone SpecialSing Me To SleepDirector: Magnus Arnesen 30 min. PolandRobert, a 45-year-old postal worker lives at home with his sick mother. Wanting to fulfill his mothers last wish, Robert goes on a desperate search to find a girlfriend...Or at least someone who will pretend to be.
Director: Mark Buchanan 13 min. United Kingdom |
|
Fati et Aissatta Preceded by Exile ParanoiaExile ParanoiaDirector: Nassrin Nasser 11 min. United KingdomThe metaphorical story addresses the obstacles an immigrant confronts through out her journey. The events are illustrated from her emotional perspective. Her journey resembles a continual nightmare, a fusion between dream and reality.
Director: Baba Hillman 87 min. France |
|
Being At Home: Nine Films About Coming and GoingTiempo al TiempoDirector: Tati Barrantes 12 min. U.S.A.Jesus and Cisco work together as cooks in a New York City restaurant pursuing their shared dream of owning their own business. Suddenly caught between personal success and family obligation, Jesus must choose: will he lead the life he’s always imagined or return home to his awaiting family?
Director: David Moolten 3 min. U.S.A. |
|
AnimationsSkylightDirector: David Baas 5 min. Canada An animated mock documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world.People of the MachineDirectors: Aaron Misler & Josh Beebe 9 min. U.S.A.A town has given up the responsibility of making their own choices to a super computer. HazedDirector: Tanya Beach 2 min. CanadaWhen cute little dead birds start dropping out of a... This film was shown on Monday, April 26th 2010 View This Film |
|
Icyizere Preceded by My Name is MariaMy Name Is MariaDirector: Elio Quiroga 4 min. Spain.Maria is 6 years old, and she is working on her first school composition, but around her, everything is falling apart...
Director: Patrick Mureithi 95 min. Rwanda, U.S.A.. |
|
Welcome to the NeighborhoodLychee ThievesDirector: Kathleen Man 30 min. U.S.A.Trouble ensues when four Hawaiian locals clash over a miraculously bountiful lychee tree on the island of O’ahu.
Director: Dean Yamada 21 min. Japan, U.S.A. |
|
First Peoples: Six Films About Native AmericansLay Claim to an IslandDirector: Chris Kennedy 13 min. Canada, U.S.A.Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as a potential home? And how does that symbol function beyond the boundaries of its geographic limits?
Director: Torry Mendoza 1.5 min. U.S.A. |
|
Vivir de Pie: Las Guerras de Cipriano MeraDirector: Valenti Figueres, Jorge FigueresLiving on Your Feet tells the story of the odyssey of a scavenger and a poacher turned bricklayer, a UGT activist turned revolutionary and man of action in the CNT (National Confederation of Labour). It is the life of a bricklayer who commanded the 4th army corps during the Spanish Civil War and who defeated Mussolini’s generals; a general who took up the trowel again after the war, but who remained firm in his objective: to kill Franco. It is also the untold story of a waiter, a tailor, a railway worker... who in their double lives were: "El Viejo" (the Old Man), "La Leona" (The Lioness), "El Fraile"...This film was shown on Monday, April 26th 2010 View This Film |
|
Making ArtThe World of Film FestivalsDirector: Jim Jacob 5 min. U.S.A.This film is a summary of the variety of locales and activities which one may encounter in the realm of film festivals.
Director: Maile Martinez & Lane Stroud 7 min. U.S.A. |
|
The Man Came and Took Her Preceded by Kleine LiebeKleine LiebeDirector: Marco Wiersch 7 min. GermanySometimes all you are looking for is a small kind of love.... The Man Came and Took HerDirectors: Jedrzej Niestroj, Rafal Przybyl 80 min. PolandJune 14, 2002: eight-year-old Ola went missing. On this day time stopped for the whole family. Despite the lack of support, the girl’s mother Dorota trusts that her daughter is alive, somewhere, waiting to be found. Unfortunately, some hard facts indicate that Ola has been brutally murdered. Seers hired by Dorota follow misleading traces, the... This film was shown on Monday, April 26th 2010 View This Film |
|
Boobheads Preceded by The Continuing and Lamentable Saga of the Suicide BrothersThe Continuing and Lamentable Saga of The Suicide BrothersDirector: Arran Brownlee, Corran Brownlee 10 min. U.K.A dark comic fairy tale set in the wintry forest brothers Barath (Tom Mison) and Bourbon (Rupert Friend) live their clockwork-like monotonous lives despite constantly trying to top themselves every day at the same time. The brothers are ignorant of their fairy godmother (Keira Knightley) who tries to show them there is magic in day-to-day life.
Director: Theodoros Maragos 105 min. Greece |
|
The Politics of Memory Four Films About History and RemembranceTerrorist Activity Radio HourDirector: Jane Steuerwald and Henry William Baker 10 min. U.S.A.Multi-layered images of fluid color and pattern explode into acts of violence triggered by musical cues and Hollywood clichés. The political, the philosophical, the satirical, the visceral, and the tumultuous are united in an image/sound collage.
Director: Lynne Sachs 40 min. U.S.A. |
|
Short ComediesNon SequiturDirector: Gary Ravenscroft 13 min. U.S.A.Several people are inexplicably drawn to a convenience store in an otherwise ordinary suburban neighborhood in this tale of unrequited love, homeless people and irritable bowel syndrome. There are times in life when everything seems to align and everything makes sense and all is right with the world. This is NOT one of those times.
Director: Bradley Glenn 19 min. U.S.A. |
|
Hold the Sun Preceded by Lie TogetherLie TogetherDirector: Jeanette Buck 13 min. U.S.A.In one afternoon Margot and Claudia’s relationship is sliced open to reveal those moments when what is, what was, and what could be, collide. An exquisitely edited piece in which a relationship is examined from beginning to end in a non-linear kaleidoscope of events.
Directors: Laura Zaylea, David Yun 93 min. U.S.A. |
|
Grab Bag of FunMy Beast FriendDirector: Ewan Torrance 1 min. United KingdomA young man’s attempt to move on with his life is thwarted by his domineering cat.
Director: Martina Amati 7 min. United Kingdom |
|
Dirty Business Preceded by LetâLet’s PolluteDirector: Geefwee Boedoe 7 min. U.S.A.In the spirit of 50’s & 60’s educational films, Let’s Pollute is a modern animated satire on how pollution is our heritage and keeps our economy growing strong, while instructing us how to be better polluters for a better blighted tomorrow.
Director: Peter L. Bull 89 min. U.S.A. |
|
International Short StoriesThe Abyss BoysDirector: Jan-Hendrik Beetge 26 min. South AfricaSet in the slums of a small fishing community on the stormy coast of Southern Africa, the world of illegal abalone poaching has become a dangerous life that Jimmy, a legendary ex-diver has to escape from. Wanting to save his rebellious young brother from Gonyama, the ruthless gangster whom A.B admires, Jimmy devices a plan to give both of them a new life somewhere else. But on a stormy winter’s day when Jimmy gets his chance to escape, nothing can prepare him for what lies ahead.
View This Film |
|
Newspaper of Record: The Pittsburgh Courier, 1907-1965Director: Kenneth LoveRated Not RatedA new documentary by Kenneth Love reveals the whole story of The Pittsburgh Courier, the leading black newspaper of the last century. It was both a journal of African American life and a muckraking crusader in the vanguard of the civil rights movement. This documentary captures and preserves the stories of the men and women who created and sustained an important Black institution, and who, through the Pittsburgh Courier, helped to change the world.This film was shown on Sunday, April 25th 2010 View This Film |
|
Working for a LivingNo Ten Dollar RideDirector: Vigneswaran Rajkumar 8 min. SingaporeThe documentary documents two trishaw riders and the tiring work of this backbreaking profession. In a series of short interviews, the film reveals a trishaw rider’s average earnings and some of the unpleasant experiences they often face at work. References are also made to the 2007 bullying incident in Singapore.
Director: Victoria Kereszi 60 min. U.S.A. |
|
My Neighbor My KillerDirector: Anne AghionRated Not RatedIn English and Kinyarwanda English subtitles
Could you ever forgive the people who slaughtered your family? In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus were incited to wipe out the country’s Tutsi minority. From the crowded capital to the smallest village, local ‘patrols’ massacred lifelong friends and family members, most often with machetes and improvised weapons. Announced in 2001, and ending this year, the government put in place the Gacaca Tribunals—open-air hearings with... This film was shown on Sunday, April 25th 2010 View This Film |
more  1 2 34 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14  | |
