텍사스의 한 유령 도시. 이곳에 생기를 불어넣겠다는 꿈을 안고 도착한 인플루언서들. 이들이 악명 높은 살인마 '살가죽 가면'과 마주친다. 《텍사스 전기톱 학살》의 속편.
멀지 않은 미래, 미국의 공업도시 디트로이트는 범죄 집단의 소굴이 되어가고, 시 경찰의 힘이 무력해져간다. 그러던 어느날 유능한 경찰관 머피(피터 웰러)가 범인들을 쫓다 뇌사상태에 빠진다. 사이보그 제작을 실험하고 있던 방위산업체의 과학자들은 즉각적으로 머피의 몸을 티타늄으로 보강하고 지워진 기억 위에 정교하게 짜여진 프로그램을 집어넣어 극비리에 최첨단의 사이보그를 탄생시키는데...
캘빈은 그의 일당들인 에디와 테리 등과 함께 가업인 캘빈 이발소를 운영 중이다. 그러나 바로 옆에 최신 시설을 갖춘 헤어 샵이 개업하면서 전운이 감돈다. 한술 더 떠 대형 개발업자는 ‘mom & pop'이라는 이름의 이발소 체인의 개업을 준비 중이다. 사면초가에 빠진 캘빈 일당은 이번에도 무사히 이발소를 지켜낼 수 있을까?
샌프란시스코가 고향이자 삶의 터전인 흑인 지미. 도시의 빠른 사회경제적 변화에 주변으로 밀려났다. 그러던 어느 날, 할아버지가 지은 어린 시절의 집을 되찾기로 한다. 일단 시작은 이제 고가 주택이 된 그 집에 무작정 들어가 사는 것.
Sitting at the intersection of two main arteries of traffic on Melbournes Northside is a giant yellow rat that is pointing, with a long gnarled claw, to its explicitly large bottom. This yellow rat is the mascot for the small business Glenlyon Motors. This unusual mascot and the absence of an explanation for its existence has many residents of Melbournes north side puzzled. 'A Rats Arse' finally answers the question on every Northside residents lips - “Why?!” - and along the way reveals something about identity, values, community, and the people who exist within them.
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.
Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began making Super8 films in New York that stripped away the stylistic markers of Hollywood, New Wave cinema of the 1960s and ’70s, and classic avant-garde film, leaving only traces of their generic conventions. For the first hour of OK Today Tomorrow, he stages a series of fraught encounters around the city between four gentrified New Yorkers before abandoning his vague narrative of youthful angst altogether in favor of documenting the urban landscape itself. The dusk-to-dawn “city symphony” that ends the film resembles similar Super8 social studies by Vogl’s uptown contemporary John Ahearn; both recorded the daily lives of working-class black and immigrant communities on the streets of a city on the verge of the corporate takeover and sweeping gentrification that followed in the 1980s and ’90s. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
A small bingo hall is threatened by the opening of the country's largest bingo centre nearby.
Victor works in a real estate agency in the well-known Chueca neighborhood of Madrid. He hides a terrible secret: he makes apartments available for sale by murdering the old ladies owners that live in them. Then, refurbishes and decorates the apartments to sell them to gay couples with high purchasing power. His ultimate objective is to transform Chueca into a kind of London Soho area.
Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer profiles the young people of Villaways Park, a housing project on brink of historic change.
On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the islands unique character. Twelve years in the making, One Big Home follows one carpenters journey to understand the trend toward giant houses. When he feels complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, he takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera.
In 1959 New York City announced a "slum clearance plan" by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Guided by the belief that urban renewal should benefit - not displace - residents, Frances Goldin and her neighbors formed the Cooper Square Committee and launched a campaign to save the neighborhood. Over five decades they fought politicians, developers, white flight, government abandonment, blight, violence, arson, drugs, and gentrification - cyclical forces that have destroyed so many working class neighborhoods across the US. Through tenacious organizing and hundreds of community meetings, they not only held their ground but also developed a vision of community control. Fifty three years later, they established the state's first community land trust - a diverse, permanently affordable neighborhood in the heart of the "real estate capital of the world."
The baker, the pie-maker and the diminished long-term community of Hoxton Street face gentrification in this compelling portrait of a rapidly changing London.
A woman risks everything to secure a future for herself and her brother by setting out on a dangerous odyssey in Portland, in doing so confronting her own dark past over one propulsive night.
A taxi drives through the city of Berlin. Its driver is a punk, left and a well-known figure in the autonomous scene. The stations of his trip are the most important places of the autonomous scene: all in the struggle for survival. The last evictions have not yet been processed and the next ones are coming right up.
Diosdado spends his time debating with customers, particularly with his boss, who holds strong opinions about the financial aspects of the convenience store where he works.
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Residents struggle to pay their rapidly rising rents on Wellington Street in Montreal.
A short film focusing on bawdy talk and Italian-American stereotypes of African-Americans.