New Releases

New Releases

New videos from the WILDsound Festival. Daily MOVIES to watch. Plus, screenplay readings, poetry readings, audience feedback videos.

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  • IN THE BASEMENT OF APOLLO HALL short film, Experimental Festival film review

    IN THE BASEMENT OF APOLLO HALL, 16min., Sweden
    Directed by Hans Appelqvist
    A furry TV host, an opera diva, and a music expert come together to answer the simple yet impossible question about the origin of music.

    http://sifantin.net/
    https://www.instagram.com/hansappelqvist/

  • WEST WIND short film, DANCE Festival film review

    WEST WIND, 9min., New Zealand
    Directed by Kelly Nash
    The movement is influenced by Butoh, a practice that among many things can be viewed as a turn away from the Western styles of dance, ballet and modern, to create an aesthetic that embraces an earthbound physique and natural movements.

    http:...

  • EVA. HERO GIRL short film, DOC Festival film review

    EVA. HERO GIRL, 30min., Kazakhstan
    Directed by Temirbek Amanzhol
    "Eva. Hero Girl" is an inspiring documentary film about Eva Zhigalina, who became a trailblazer in the world of Kokpar in Kazakhstan—a traditional male game of nomadic peoples.

    https://evaherogirl.kz/
    https://www.instagram.com/eva...

  • EPICYCLE short film, Experimental Festival film review (interview)

    EPICYCLE, 7min., Canada
    Directed by Deb Ethier
    A surreal experimental animated allegory of the cyclical rise, fall and evolution of social order.

    https://rustybolttheatre.zyrosite.com/
    https://www.facebook.com/rustybolttheatre/

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this fil...

  • STRANGER short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review (interview)

    STRANGER, 5min., USA
    Directed by Julia Hayden Fung
    This film shows the experience of lost relationships through the eyes of a young girl. "Stranger" is a story of love, longing, and the regret through passing of time.

    https://www.instagram.com/jhf.ilms/

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What mot...

  • MEMORY DREAM MAN short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    MEMORY DREAM MAN, 2min., USA
    Directed by David H. Fein
    A man caught between his memories and his dreams.

  • THE COLORS OF BUSHWICK'S STREETS short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    THE COLORS OF BUSHWICK'S STREETS, 4min., USA
    Directed by Jesus Zaldivar
    Murals and graffiti became a certain feature of urban landscapes everywhere. New York City is one of them.

  • MAJDRESCHER short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    MAJDRESCHER, 3min., France
    Directed by Antoine Gandubert
    This film crew was initially filming a TV add for a Tractor... but the shoot went wrong.

  • EL CAPITAN PACO film, Music Film Festival video review (interview)

    EL CAPITAN PACO, 25min., Mexico
    Directed by Rodrigo Oliva
    Paco is a public transportation driver who deals with his stressful job every day, until the imagination of Sarah, his daughter, turns him into the captain of a spaceship and gives him another perspective on his problems.

    https://www.ins...

  • SIGUR ROS film, Music Film Festival video review

    SIGUR ROS, 6min., USA
    Directed by EKATERINA GIMRO
    Short-form documentary of people's emotions listening to the new Sigur Ros album, which will be released in June 2023. 50 people share their first reaction with the camera and tell us about how Sigur Ros has impacted their lives.

  • MAKING USA ENAMEL short film, DOC Festival film review (interview)

    MAKING USA ENAMEL, 17min,. USA
    Directed by Regan Vasquez
    The documentary “Making USA Enamel” takes viewers on a three-year journey to bring colorful enameling to US soil—in the middle of a global pandemic, too. Meet the people of Lodge Cast Iron who helped create USA Enamel™ in this documentary b...

  • YOU JUST CAN'T SEE THEM FROM THE ROAD short film, DOC Festival film review

    YOU JUST CAN'T SEE THEM FROM THE ROAD, 49min., USA
    Directed by Keely Brazil Covello, Michaela Brazil Gillies
    An immigrant family in California’s Central Valley faces the loss of their land and way of life. One of the few remaining ranchers in the Bay Area watches urban sprawl creep in from every...

  • IMPOSSIBLE TOWN feature film, DOC Festival film review

    IMPOSSIBLE TOWN, 90min., USA
    Directed by Scott Faris, Meg Griffiths
    When her father dies unexpectedly, Dr. Ayne Amjad is thrust to the helm of a decades-long struggle to aid a southern West Virginia town beset by cancer-causing chemicals. Haunted by her late father’s mandate to “help others” at a...

  • GREAT OCEAN LOVE short film, DOC Festival film review (interview)

    GREAT OCEAN LOVE, 30min., Australia
    Directed by Ella Bourne
    Great Ocean Love is part documentary, part road-trippin’ surf flick that follows Belinda Baggs, Linley Hurrell, and Lilly Pollard on a journey of discovery along the Great Ocean Road. Centred around the teachings of Gunditjmara whale dre...

  • YOURS short film, DANCE Festival film review

    YOURS, 9min., UK
    Directed by Flaminia Graziadei
    The body of a dying old woman lies in a bed in stillness, while her soul is dancing on the magic stage she dreamt to be all her life. The blinding lights and the clapping of an imaginary audience, accompany her to the final curtain call. In this poe...

  • NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES short film, DANCE Festival film review

    NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES, 20min., USA
    Directed by Laura Perdrizet
    “we are the dream the city is having about itself.” ~ “the city is the dream we are having of where we belong” Nomadic Mythologies is a genre bending tale of a woman and the imagination of the city. As she maps each site with her body, ...

  • CONNECTION film, Music Film Festival video review

    CONNECTION, 3min., USA
    Directed by Konstantin Mazov
    Listen
    To the Woods
    Trees
    Two- and four-legged beasts of earth and sky and
    I am made aware
    In context of discrepancy and disconnect connected

    https://music.apple.com/ru/music-video/connection/1605829959

  • FEAR CITY short film, DOC Festival film review

    FEAR CITY, 20min., USA
    Directed by Nathaniel Pinheiro
    As New York protests the death of George Floyd by day, Jose LaSalle spends his nights with his video camera on a mission to make police afraid of being watched.

  • BIRDIE short film, Under 5 Minute Festival film review

    BIRDIE, 1min,. Ireland
    Directed by Declan Davis
    Birdie is a story of a bird overcoming her fear of flying for the first time.

  • BEFORE THE OIL short film, DOC Festival film review (interview)

    BEFORE THE OIL, 11min., Netherlands
    Directed by Roel Swierenga
    Deep in the mountains in southern Norway Odd Kvinen runs a husky farm. Teaching about the energy transition from before the oil was found until the present day, about respect for nature and choices we have to make.

    http://www.roelsw...

  • DOC Feature Film Festival - ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL. Nov. 27/28 event

    ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, 94min., Australia
    Directed by Chris Eipper, Declan Mortimer Eipper
    In Ireland, If you re hungry enough, you ll dig up the tar on the road with your teeth to get a vote. It s not only the other parties who are a threat to you; it s your running mate. Indeed, it is the inte...

  • 7-KAMI RIVER_review

  • FLOWERS short film, LGBTQ+ Toronto Festvai film review (interview)

    FLOWERS, 20min., USA
    Directed by Nicholas Hansell
    Over a weekend in spring, a high school boy reconnects with an old friend and begins to discover what it really means to be in love.

    https://www.instagram.com/flowerstheshortfilm/

    Get to know the filmmaker:

    1. What motivated you to make this ...

  • 6-THE PEOPLE CALLED MONGOLS_review