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This video production documents the life and career of Ed Feigenbaum, "Father of Expert Systems, " through archival photographs, a Computer History Museum oral history (2007), and the recollections of his collaborators and students. Directed and edited by Ryan Cooper

Documentary on the journey of Rituparna Neog ("Xun", "Piku") and her advocacy for queer and trans communities in Assam, India. Focuses on transgender advocacy, familial love, and community building in Assam, featuring Rituparna Neog's story

Serialized five-episode documentary exploring the lives of the Parag/Vijay family in the context of South Asian LGBTQ+ experiences, identity, and belonging

"A reflection on the deep and the creatures that attempt to fathom its resources (such as baked salmon and rubbery crocodile meat). A visual journey into the far reaches of waterlogged consciousness, where the yearnings of the tummy meet the revulsion of the cranium--a cranium mostly made up of water in the first place, like a head of cabbage. Besides, the video is more of a head-trip to the nether reaches of Neptune's haunts where tourists glide through guts of glass to ooh and aah at the mysteries of the deep-end. Taped in Frisco, Baltimore, and Pacifica, let the salt air of this far-flung journey corrode the land-lubber blubber that beaches you upon the sands of sanity and render your sails impotent to the blows of the tradewind. Cast ahoy that anchor of dead meat between your thighs and let it plunge into the deep wetness from which we all ascended."--Video Data Bank streaming site

"Natural Life is a feature-length experimental documentary challenging inequities in the U.S. juvenile justice system by depicting, through documentation and reenactment, the stories of five individuals who were sentenced to Life Without Parole (Natural Life) for crimes they committed as youth. The youthful status and/or lesser culpability of these youths, their backgrounds, and their potential for rehabilitation were not taken into account at any point in the charging and sentencing process. The five will never be evaluated for change, difference or growth. They will remain in prison till they die. The project portrays the ripple effect that the sentence has had not only on the incarcerated youth and their victims, but also on the community at large." -- Video Data Bank streaming site

""If everything is terrible, then nothing is" is the motto of this filmmaking collective, whose pseudonym-loving members make rapid-fire mash-ups from VHS tapes found in thrift stores--forgotten children's shows, religious sermons, no-budget monster movies--to explore the weirdest corners of the American psyche. Leaving little time for reflection, only total submission, its cinema is a kind of psychedelic food poisoning, equally abrasive and hilarious and, in the end, oddly affectionate toward its varied subjects. Everything is Terrible! presents several shorts and its feature-length masterwork Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez! (2012)--a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain with a cast of cinematic canines."-Notes supplied by CaTE

"For millennia, sports have been intrinsic to daily life, physical well-being, education, civic identity, and social harmony. Over the past decade, sports have assumed an even larger, more multidimensional place in our culture. The traditional schisms and antagonisms between sports performance and spectatorship, creative production, and scholarly activity (jocks vs nerds, square vs cool), have been blurred. Featuring works by Haig Aivazian, I AM A BOYS CHOIR, Tara Mateik, Nam June Paik, Keith Piper, Lillian Schwartz, and the Internet, this program deconstructs the athlete's body--how it is used for national, political, and social agendas, and how it is viewed and re-crafted by artists (who are sometimes athletic). For example, Nam June Paik's Lake Placid '80 (1980) is an unruly and slyly subversive commission for the Olympic Winter Games whereas Keith Piper's Nation's Finest (1990) mimics the look and tone of state propaganda with a silky, biting critique of the way predominantly ...