NEW RELEASES

Mare's Nest unfolds in a world without adults, where Moon wanders through unfamiliar landscapes, encountering solitary figures who reveal alternative ways of living. Guided by a sage and his translator in a remote mountain hut, she seeks meaning amid uncertainty. Blurring documentary and fiction, the film reflects director Ben Rivers’s ongoing fascination with lives lived apart from mainstream society, following Moon’s quiet observations as she moves through this enigmatic realm toward an open, unknowable future.

NADJA (4K RESTORATION)

Merging elements from Dracula's Daughter (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing. Edgar’s private nurse, Van Helsing’s nephew Jim, and Jim's wife are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania. Executive produced by David Lynch.

SAVING THE GREAT SWAMP: BATTLE TO DEFEAT THE JETPORT

Saving The Great Swamp: Battle to Defeat the Jetport chronicles the events, people, and politics behind the 1959–1968 struggle to preserve a little-known rural area of New Jersey known as the Great Swamp after the Port of New York Authority announced plans to build a 10,000-acre jetport that would have obliterated entire towns, destroyed the aquifer and wildlife destroyed, and a threatened a way of life for thousands.

MAINTENANCE ARTIST

After motherhood disrupted her art career, Mierle Laderman Ukeles issued a radical manifesto declaring childcare and housework as performance art. Entering the male-dominated 1960s avant-garde, she challenged art’s scorn for maintenance and care. Expanding her vision, Ukeles collaborated with overlooked museum workers and, in 1977, became artist-in-residence at NYC Sanitation, honoring essential labor. Using newly digitized archives, Maintenance Artist traces her transformation of maintenance into a powerful force in contemporary art.

ECCE MOLE

Part 36 of Heinz Emigholz’s Photography and Beyond series, Ecce Mole juxtaposes two buildings by Alessandro Antonelli in Turin, 500 metres apart: the private Casa Scaccabarozzi (1840) and the monumental Mole Antonelliana (1889). Originally planned as a synagogue, the Mole became a symbol of national unity in Turin, now housing the National Museum of Cinema. A concise study of opposites—public and private, interior and exterior—Ecce Mole is the first of five short films commissioned for the Mole's 25th anniversary.

FLICKERING LIGHTS

In the remote hills of northeast India lies Tora, a Naga village long neglected by the state and shaped by decades of insurgency, where basic amenities are absent. Seventy years after independence, villagers hear that electricity may finally arrive, though skepticism runs deep. Khamrang, the village elder, doubts the promise, dreaming instead of sovereignty for his people. Jasmine, more pragmatic, sees hope and opportunity. Will electricity reach Tora—and will it deliver the joy it promises?

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHASING STORMS

The tornado is both a destructive event and a uniquely American icon, one often fraught with collective tragedy. With wit and humour, this film unfolds like an episodic road movie, raising questions of memory, inequality, colonization, climate change, and disaster capitalism as it examines legacies of weather within this area of the United States dubbed “tornado alley."