Movies: Nowness
- 2014
Tongue Tied (2014)
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Artist and filmmaker Quentin Jones joins forces with Miley Cyrus in a kinky collaboration, stripping away the pop phenomenon's cartoonish persona in "Miley Cyrus: Tongue Tied"....
- 2018
Where are the African Gods? (2018)
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A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, who has previously worked with powerhouse music video director Khalil Joseph. Reading from her own wor...
- 2013
Real Life Exp. (2013)
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Two girls find themselves locked in an Oslo public swimming hall and bond over school gossip, boys and dancing to the psychedelic sounds of Lindstrøm....
- 2016
Muxes (2016)
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In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes” - men who consider themselves women and live in a...
- 2022
Lucky Fish (2022)
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Two Asian-American teenagers meet in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant while having dinner with their families....
- 2018
Anatomy of Goth (2018)
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What does it mean to be goth—to be an outsider, to live both on the margins and in the midst of society? Filmmakers Jordan Hemingway and Alban Adam prize open the coffin on a world of darkness and light, exploring its multiplicities and intersections...
- 2022
Unauthorized (2022)
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Director Evan Rachel Wood and choreographer Angela Trimbur join forces in this love letter to Fiona Apple and her most recent album 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters', released during the initial lockdown of 2020....
- 2018
Lou (2018)
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Lou, a teenage tomboy in a small Californian town, idolizes her single father. When he has a date over one night and she is cast out of the house, Lou wanders to the outer reaches of town and into a new era of teenage identity....
- 2019
Touch (2019)
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After recently going blind, a young gay man struggles to navigate his new life in the shadows....
- 2014
Fruits De Mer (2014)
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A frazzled adulteress played by Parisian beauty Zoë Le Ber wakes up in the familiar surroundings of Bar Chateau Marmont, only to find herself trapped in a prank at the hands of her restaurant-owner lover, Fred....
- 2015
The Foley Artist (2015)
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A master of sound at work on a fashion film. If you’ve ever wanted to see the chasm between the finished product and the extraordinary lengths taken to produce it, this short is for you....
- 2020
Face to Face (2020)
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Face to Face is an online made-to-order project created in response to the current global crisis. After a virtual consultation with Nakazato, a client will ship a simple, white shirt to the designer’s atelier in Tokyo. Based on the client’s backstory...
- 2020
Call of the Heart (2020)
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“When you go to dig your fields or make a pot from clay, you are disturbing the balance of things. When you walk, you are moving the air, breathing it in and out. Therefore you must make payments.” —The Arhuacos The Arhuaco are the indigenous people...
- 2021
Night Belongs to Love (2021)
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Xiaomei, a factory girl played by Xiao Wen Ju, spent a long night looking for her lover but he never shows up....
- 2018
The 99 Names of God (2018)
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Arab-American filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi embraces the rhythmic rituals that have run alongside Islamic tradition throughout the centuries in this surreal and poetic short film. Piecing together old and new, Al-Rashi's dream-like imagery breathes fresh...
- 2014
In Residence: Ricardo Bofill (2014)
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There are houses, and then there’s Ricardo Bofill’s house: a brutalist former cement factory of epic proportions on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain. A grandiose monument to industrial architecture in the Catalonian town of Sant Just Desvern, La Fab...
- 2014
Bang Bang (2014)
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- 2016
On (Dis)Covering (2016)
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A 16mm account of the power of wearing a headscarf....
- 2012
Pretty Pretty Peggy Moffitt (2012)
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- 2016
His Sweat (2016)
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In the first of a new series of Define Beauty, Berlin-based directer Matt Lambert—known for his often-NSFW work exploring sex and intimacy—gets under the skin of our infatuation with sweat. Read more on NOWNESS...