A comedic, satirical sci-fi musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists, this bizarre film tells the story of two Miami girls and how they deal...
After witnessing a neighbor's embarrassing antics, a bored family man is eager to report the story back to his office chums, but before he can he’s ensnared in a...
There is a hypnotic power in David Lowery’s films, as with his debut feature, St. Nick (Rooftop 2009, leading to his receiving the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund and...
“Before Losing Everything,” a young boy pretends to go school, a teenage girl in tears waits at a bus stop, a woman picks them up and races to a shopping mall,...
When a movie opens with a naked guy passed out in a tent, you know you’re in for a treat. This is where Jim (the responsible one) tracks down his brother Dave (the...
What do you do when an ex-boyfriend calls you after mysteriously disappearing years before? What do you do if you’ve moved on from that painful loss, happily...
Chris Schoeck is a pint-sized powerhouse of a personal trainer. He spends his days pushing others to push themselves, but rarely challenges himself. In his mid-40s,...
A dark drama that follows Ian, a husband, father and heavy metal musician struggling with the guilt and blame of a tragic and senseless murder.
An African family, lost in America, travels to a Louisiana church to cure its problem child, played by the now legendary Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern...
The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscience and a...
They say that when the festival begins, time stands still, as once a year half a million brass fanatics descend upon the sleepy valley town of Guča, Serbia for the...
Sunrise, somewhere in New York City. Eight young men raise eight brass horns to the brightening sky. A thrilling harmony of single notes spills forth. “Long tones...
Catnip is all the rage with today’s modern feline, but do we really understand it? Once and for all the facts about this controversial substance are frankly...
Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund recipient. A dark comedy about foreclosure, heisting, and makeshift casinos.
“Like Rabbits” follows the fish-headed man’s melancholy ramblings, spreading bad luck and discontent inside a fairground. And if you see this film as a sordid...
The mementos of a lost love spark cherished memories and episodes best forgotten.
Jamie (Michael Cera) is the typical 21st Century “Ugly American Tourist”: inconsiderate, not even attempting to speak the language, adorned in a hipster uniform...
A reflection on love, sacrifice, and the creative spirit, this candid New York story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio...
A New Orleans-style voodoo celebration of a previously unsung piece of architecture.
Joe Swanberg's unabashedly scrappy profiles tend to focus on perpetually inelegant people in search of meaning in their lives as they often struggle to find romantic...
For most people, sleep comes naturally, but for some, the night turns into an ongoing struggle to drift off into oblivion. This trance like documentary explores what...
An overwhelmed young woman, out on a date, unexpectedly discovers everything she needs in a conversation.
On the first day of a five-year probation sentence, a teen gets a desperate call for help from a friend in crisis, and moving through the city has never been so...
Shot in black-and-white that lends this New York odyssey an enjoyably scrappy feel, Frances Ha foregrounds a characteristically endearing Greta Gerwig performance...
"Frankenstorm: From Across The East River" is a visual and emotional account of the night that ended in the horrifying Con Edison explosion, darkening half of...
Fuck For Forest, the environmental group that lends its name to this documentary, describes itself as an erotic non-profit ecological organization. Underpinned by...
Spectacular and strange brief moments of life stolen from passing-by strangers form a sequence of events hidden in plain sight.
Gold is a commodity that thrives in uncertain economic climates, and rising gold prices have created a boom industry around precious metal scrap. There’s a harvest...
History’s top scientists have created an all-powerful robot, but mankind still worships Jesus. A final battle of ping-pong may determine our future.
After years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown apart: he lives on the floor and she on the ceiling. A little glimmer of hope that love can prevail through the...
Seems like a great day for a walk. Seems like a good-- hey doggy!
The indignities of life add up, so much that your head might feel ready to explode, shrieking with colors and shaking jaggedly. But we’ll be fine. Sure we will.
An animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland, where beautiful objects preserve everyday history.
Sam Green first showed a film with Rooftop in 2000, and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004 for his documentary The Weather Underground. In recent years,...
Inspired by the uncanny animations of Jan Svankmajer and the Quay Brothers, a man travels through rooms haunted with ephemera, on a journey of self-discovery, diving...
Past technology once seemed ready to conquer the world, but in the end nature prevails, as seen in this artful documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with...
Marcel survives the bird flu, sleeping pills and his son Max. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.
9/11 memorials are contested sites, where conflicting visions and voices clash. But most are quiet and deeply personal. This short non-fiction film examines some of...
Like many Americans, Robert is attempting to keep himself healthy and fit in order to live as long as possible, unaware of what that really means.
Winner of the Rooftop Films and Edgeworx Studios Post-Production Grant, Shaka King’s feature film debut is an insightful dark comedy about love and marijuana. Lyle...
As if it weren’t hard enough find a hip chick in these post-modern noir-ish days, imagine if you’re also being stalked by a Night Giant. So uncool.
Four characters, four screens. The audience immersed, as stupefied as in a shopping mall electronics shop. Your attention flickers, trying to take it all in, not...
More games of contrasts: if we have a counterpart in a parallel world, can we meet and become entwined?
Love is dangerous and powerful, sometimes to the beholder, in this tragic political commentary, stunningly told without words.
A playful animation in a black and white world of male and female plugs and cords, where the intermingling of light and dark equal the balance of power and love.
You can call me Professor Soap. I have my doctorate in cool and I run my own private practice.
All he discovers is a slipping sense of reality and a series of simulacrums fading into history, as the desert town becomes the old desert town becomes the ancient...
Presented in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Special FREE Sneak Preview “Short Term 12” follows Grace (Brie Larson), a young...
When a 30-year-old American woman attends a teenage party in the south of France, guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.
In Soul Food Junkies, Hurt sets out on a historical and culinary journey to learn more about the soul food tradition and its relevance to black cultural identity.
When you’re having that talk that no one wants to have, even the most banal clichés and sounds can get a little distorted.
When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his...
A stark and haunting look at some of the realities surrounding the ongoing oil boom in the Bakken region of North Dakota, cold and bleak but intimate and fascinating.
A young boy seeks unconventional ways to help his mother through her grief.
Synaesthetic Object (Coltrane) is a live audio-visual performance that uses computer analysis of John Coltrane's Ascension (1965) as the basis for a real-time 3D...
You know that feeling of coming up out of the dark subway into the lights and noise and movement of Times Sq.? That’s what life is like for NY author Maureen...
For the respectable citizens of Baltimore, the 12 O’Clock Boys, a notorious urban dirt bike pack, are a nuisance. They dangerously — yet magnificently — make...
Four uninspired friends try to come up with a terrific idea for how to spend their Saturday afternoon.
A son’s tribute to his father (a once famous jazz guitarist from Fiji) goes awry when the son can't help but shed light on dark areas of their past. Humorous,...
With CDs, VHSs, and old cassette tapes stacked head high, Rainbow Music is a hoarder's paradise, but its quirky owner knows exactly where everything is. Amidst all...
An evocative and intimate essay film made of stolen materials, mediating on shoplifting, depression and Winona Ryder.
Nobody wakes up after a hard night and finds everything's just worked out, do they?
Throughout New York’s highs and lows, the legendary Central Park has remained, as Mayor Ed Koch says, "Holy.” But on April 19, 1989, a 28-year old white woman...
Matt and Owen are high school best friends and social outcasts whose only salvation and saving grace is film. They constantly quote, watch, and re-enact scenes from...
In a cramped Brooklyn apartment nine days after the earthquake in Haiti, a pregnant refugee fears she's carrying a stillborn while Haitian children play a dangerous...
In the north east of Greenland, permafrost has encased the earth for thousands of years. Now the ice is melting, exposing some of the last uncharted land remaining...
Pam White is amazing at everything she puts her mind to — from modeling to social work to parenting. For years, she’s been the spark plug at the center of a...
A tender and playful portrait of four boys, ages 11 and 12, growing up and growing apart.
In a landscape filled with sprawling meadows, rocky rivers, and a giant evergreen forest, the beautifully-crafted The Kings Of Summer- a unique coming-of-age comedy...
In this drama as vast as a novel by Tolstoy and as poignant as a story by Turgenev, an old fisherman who lives in a remote village in the Far North receives a letter...
When love blossoms, it isn't always comforting, as a melancholy boy sheds his memories of his estranged father’s wedding on a cramped boat in shark-infested waters.
Frank V. Ross is a true American independent: his playfully meandering films are blatantly low-cost affairs with a precise style that reflects the filmmaker's...
In honor of women's history week in Pheasant Crest, the 'Timeless Seasons' hosts are visited by a living legend: makeup mogul Raven Williams!
Through taking council with a local village elder, Tina discovers the benefits of a goat, delivers the goat, says hi to mama and papa and behbeh, takes a photo, and...
An old man is torn between the memory of his wife, a fish in a jar, and the reality of his lonely existence.
In pop music the background singer is both an unseen presence and a very much on-display performer. Often uncredited on recordings and on stage, she stands just...
Two former waste dumps, hidden islands within the city: here NYC maintains a separate public burial ground for its strangers.
A short film by Kahlil Joseph featuring music from the Flying Lotus album.
In a tiny village in Malawi, a teenage boy decided to do something himself. Though forced to drop out of school for financial reasons, the boy hungered for...
The true story of Staten Island resident Robert Fitzpatrick, who spent $140K on subway ads and a book that warned of the apocalypse. The film follows him up to May...
Everybody does. Some people will try to come back. New York filmmakers Koury and Kane take a look at the surprisingly matter-of-fact operations at the Cryonics...
Small-town big-box-store employees kill time by plotting to kill zombies, warping the way they see the store and its customers.
A hypnotic short about a woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, filmed during the fallout of a real hurricane.
The Buddha and his son, Kurt Jr., fly through the brownness of space on a rescue mission, but perhaps humans cannot be saved from themselves. An animated music video...
A lot of documentary filmmakers think they are interesting subjects, confidently turning the lens on themselves. Joanna Arnow challenges that paradigm. Seemingly...
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