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Buster Keaton is at the height of his slapstick mastery in this love letter to movie-making. Live scored by Order of the Illusive.
a dreamy snapshot of the South Jersey shore in the ‘90s, this luminous Super 8 documentary captures the rush of summer freedom on the boardwalk.
Nellie Kluz's debut feature observes the clash between fantasy and reality faced by international student workers newly arrived in Wisconsin Dells – the self-described “Waterpark Capital of the World.”
a moody, anti-authoritarian coming-of-age story and a cautionary tale about the abuses committed by those in power. Guest presented by Azazel Jacobs.
a powerful family drama about three estranged sisters who come together to care for their ailing father during his final days. Director Azazel Jacobs in person.
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a love triangle between a repo man, his wanderlusting girlfriend and marijuana. Director Shaka King in person.
two friends in L.A. have one day to pay the local bully the money he’s owed, or they’re in trouble. This iconic comedy is guest presented by Shaka King in person.
an intimate and deeply moving chronicle of a teenager’s struggle to get an abortion. Director Eliza Hittman in person.
a deadpan love story between two misfits from the Long Island suburbs. Guest presented by Eliza Hittman.
a shoreline cleanup, cyanotype workshop & free screening of Deborah Stratman's LAST THINGS, a glittering view of life on Earth from the perspective of rocks.
a sensory experience that navigates the cosmos through live music and liquid light.
a 16mm film and projection performance co-presented by PICTOBEACH.
Agnes Martin's anomalous only completed and rarely-screened film with a live score performed by Rockaway Chamber Music.
In otherworldly rituals and inventive parables, these coastal mythologies offer alternate visions of the future.
A fresh and clever comedy of misunderstandings, this film explores how people become connected or separated on the basis of language. U.S. premiere. Plus a live music performance.
A collection of documentary portraits, fictional narratives, and philosophical fables about our unusual relationships and desired closeness to the animal world.
Light Industry’s ongoing program for kid cinephiles returns for a special edition with Marie Menken's DWIGHTIANA and Charlie Chaplin's THE GOLD RUSH.
A free, all-ages stop-motion animation workshop led by Buena Onda Collective in partnership with Materials for the Arts.
A gorgeous and sweeping portrait of the two dozen remaining inhabitants of the tiny Danish island of Mandø and their reckoning with the rising tides. New York premiere.
Congolese director Nelson Makengo documents his hometown’s remarkable resilience and resourcefulness in a surreal nocturnal portrait that locates alternate sources of light.
Reaching across real and virtual worlds, our digital devices become modes of connection and mirrors of perception. These shorts fall into wormholes of self-presentation and online identities, blurring the line between performance and reality.
Sci-fi visions collapse into dystopian realities in these shorts exploring alternate algorithms of navigation on the open road.
Two films exploring the way we look at—or look away from—images of suffering.
Our annual independent animations program guest-curated by Jonah Primiano.
Honduran-American video essayist Adrian Quetzal Randall traces the origins of radio and television across military histories, global politics, and into the human psyche.
An observational process story of the installation of new coastal infrastructure in the Rockaways. Live music performance by Deakin & Geologist of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE before screening.
A girl enters a guided simulation to ease her growing anxiety. In psychedelic sequences combining scripted scenes, found footage, and AI-generated imagery, Baltimore artist Corey Hughes considers virtual space as a site for technological transcendence.
A collection of shorts by trailblazing animator whose joyful and stunning free-form creations marked a new era of independent animation. Live music performance before screening
These new shorts from emerging voices explore impulses of escape, zooming in on moments of clarity from outsiders teetering on the edge.
An ultra-meta autofictional account of Zia Anger's experience creating and abandoning her first film. Live music performance before screening.
Visionary cinematographer Ed Lachman provides a behind-the-scenes account of Wim Wenders’ production of THE STATE OF THINGS.
With the opening sequence shot on the Rockaway boardwalk, we present one of the most breathtaking road movies of all time on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Live music performance before screening.
A collection of intergenerational memories, these personal poems linger in a limbo between places of belonging.
a documentary that follows the lives of Black surfers in New York City, centering on a surf shop in Far Rockaway that fostered a diverse community of surfers that became an aquatic tribe.
Anonymous Ensemble presents a film created live across continents: Rockaway, NY ◦ Hawaii ◦ Venezuela ◦ Australia.
a window into the visionary Chilean provocateur's psychedelic space opera that never was.
the sci-fi saga continues in this year's dark and colossal blockbuster starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.
the cult classic and first cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert's famous 1965 novel.
by Chilean master Patricio Guzmán, with stargazing courtesy of the Amateur Astronomers Association.
performing classical pieces by Michael Nyman, Paul Wiancko, and Arnold Schoenberg.
a newly restored lost gem of American independent cinema, co-presented by ALFREDA'S CINEMA.
by Betzy Bromberg. 2011. 95 min. Co-presented by Prismatic Ground.
performing music by Caroline Shaw, Benjamin Britten, and Antonín Dvořák.
by Guy de la Valdene & Christian Odasso. 1973. 52 min. Presented in collaboration with SURFRIDER.