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Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
YOU CAN'T KILL MEME follows a filmmaker’s three year descent into the anonymous internet underworld, tracking the spread of an insidious strain of extremist occult magic. While investigating the influence of online misinformation on the 2016 election, the filmmaker infiltrates the shadowy corners of Internet forums 4chan and Reddit. There, she learns of the book Memetic Magic, a field manual for conjuring “thought viruses” capable of sowing...
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood Signs is the documentary that celebrates autograph collecting, collectors, and our obsession with celebrities. It focuses on autograph dealing, the history of the autograph, autograph conventions, celebrities' point of view, and, of course, the folks whose lives revolve around autographs. Hollywood Signs is a love letter to a world with characters you definitely don't see every day.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Follows the rise of the sports card industry, becoming a place for people to become millionaires overnight and showcases how a piece of cardboard can turn into a {dollar}1M+ investment by simply adding an athlete’s face and signature to it.
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one year old Ben is following his TV-obsessed Dad to explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next. Television used to bring people together. Does television now fragment us as a culture? Nominated for Best Documentary at **New York City International Film Festival**, **Los Angeles CineFest**, and **WorldFest Houston**.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how to look and feel? What do they tell us about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? This new film based on Katherine Sender's book The Makeover explores these questions against the backdrop of American ideals of self-invention and upward mobility. Asking what it means to be an authentic...
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When the world-renowned cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall died in 2014, he left behind an unfinished 300,000-word memoir. In this interview with MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally, Bill Schwarz talks about the challenges of preparing the final published book, detailing his negotiations and conversations with the disembodied words of an author who cherished dialogue above all else.
8) A Brony Tale
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Canadian voice-over artist, Ashleigh Ball, has been the voice of numerous cartoon characters. However, when she was hired as the voice of Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash on the 4th generation installment of Hasbro’s ‘*My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic*’ series, she had no idea she was about to become an internet phenomenon and voice celebrity among a very unique type of fan, the Bronies. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated...
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Over the past three decades, speedrunners have been collaboratively digging for secrets, working to uncover mind-blowing shortcuts and glitches which are used to streamline their runs. Running with Speed follows top runners, from the past and present, of gaming franchises that are pillars in speedrunning: Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid. World records in these retro classics are especially revered. The series culminates at the...
10) A Song For You
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From Willie Nelson to Wilco, Ray Charles to Radiohead, A SONG FOR YOU: AUSTIN CITY LIMITS offers the ultimate backstage pass and front row seat to 40 years of incredible music from the longest running music show in TV history. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the **Nashville Film Festival.** "*This stem-to-stern look at the institution centered in the "Live Music Capital of the World" traces the...
11) Art of the Prank
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary is about New York artist Joey Skaggs, the godfather of the media hoax. Famed for such media fictions as the Celebrity Sperm Bank, the Cathouse for Dogs, the Fat Squad, and Portofess, all reported as fact by prestigious journalists, he's one of America's greatest living satirists. When Skaggs decides to pull off the most demanding hoax of his career, filmmaker Andrea Marini gets a unique view into the mind of this most unconventional...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This documentary enters the unexplored realm of professional eSports, as told through the eyes of two of the world’s best StarCraft II players. Together with striking visuals and a mesmerizing original score, go behind the scenes and experience the high-pressure, high-stakes lifestyles of professional gamers.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Exploring the revolution in journalism sparked by the turbulence of the 1960s, this documentary tells the story of maverick editor Harold T.P. Hayes, who made Esquire magazine a galvanizing force in American culture. A leading architect of the 'New Journalism', Hayes granted unprecedented journalistic freedom to the most talented artists and writers of the time including Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron, Peter Bogdanovich, Gore Vidal, Diane Arbus,...
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
We Live In Public is a riveting and cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world takes control of our lives. We witness it through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of” futurist, and visionary, Josh Harris.
16) American Rapstar
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Justin Staple offers an eye-opening exploration of the SoundCloud rap phenomenon, a scene of troubled, young, lo-fi rappers that has emerged within the last few years. Exploiting the possibilities of social media to engage with a rabid fan base, a new breed of stars like Lil Peep, XXXtentacion, Smokepurpp, and Bhad Bhabie have disrupted the music industry, sidestepping traditional gatekeepers to shock the world with their rambunctious antics,...
Publisher
Daedalus Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE’S NEW YORK is a feature-length documentary film which tells the story of the rise and politically motivated fall of the Photo League, (1936–1951) which for fifteen years served as the center of the documentary movement in American photography at a time when the camera was held to be, in James Agee’s words, “the central instrument of our time.” The Photo League’s membership roster reads like a Who’s...
18) After Porn Ends
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the lives of several former adult performers who have retired from the porn industry. As teenagers, and young adults, none of them thought that porn was in their future. They hailed from the rural South, steel towns, and the San Fernando Valley. They were artists, baseball players, child prodigies, and even Ivy Leaguers. Now, after their lives in porn, they're TV stars, bounty hunters, writers, and social activists. Can they really...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most impactful children's series in TV history. From the iconic furry characters to the classic songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed our world.
20) Afghan Star
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to Afghanistan. Since 2005, millions have been tuning in to Tolo TV's wildly popular American Idol-style series Afghan Star. Like its Western predecessors, people compete for a cash prize and record deal. More surprisingly, the contest is open to everyone across the country despite gender, ethnicity or age. Two thousand people audition, including...
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