SPECIAL EVENT :HAIR OF THE DOG

Join us on our closing day with a hair of the dog at 10am at the marfa film festival lounge. meet Tommy Wiseau + Greg Sestero  the duo who created and starred in the icon cult film "The Room”. "Best F(r)iends their newest collaboration will have its Texas Premiere at 12pm at the Crowley Theater. Wiseau's personality and career were brought to life this year in James Franco's story and performance in "The Disaster Artist" which Garnered Franco a Golden Globe as best actor.  

PHANTOGRAM - 'FUNERAL PYRE'

Phantogram's new video for their song “Funeral Pyre” which follows various people in Los Angeles from the view out of a car window. In a statement, Minucci describes it as “a phantom drive in a land of nowhere, where love meets grief, loneliness, violence and desperation.” He continues, “It’s a tragic, Pynchonian elegy, of a world destined to a destroying, but perhaps purifying, fire. A descent to hell, the swan song of a city that celebrates its funeral pyre.”

Gianluca Minucci

MUSIC VIDEO | USA | 5mins.

EXILE

In the summer of 2016 the Chinese government issued a demolition order to some of Tibetan-China's most prominent Buddhist institutions and monasteries. Likely the last and most complete footage before the closure to foreigners + demolition commencement, 'Exile' acts as an homage to these sacred places, their people and their customs, a rare view into a hallowed world of which much is now left in ruin and rubble.

Danielle L. Davis

SHORT DOC | 10mins.

LAVOYGER

 El Tule ranch is a private playground for Texas oil barons and powerful politicians like the Bushes but the manager, Lavoyger Durham has discovered over 20 bodies of people avoiding a nearby border patrol checkpoint. Durham examines his heritage, social media habits and immigration over the course of a quail hunt.

Rachel Bardin

SHORT | USA | 24mins.

THE GOOD FROM THE BAD

An outcast combat veteran living amidst the desolation of the South Texas border country finds common ground with an undocumented immigrant fighting for her life on the migrant trail.

Edward Tyndall

SHORT | USA | 17mins.

EL AGUACATE

After several unsuccessful attempts, Raul finally gets the courage to ask his co-worker, Rosa, out on a date. To his surprise, she says yes, but when the anticipated day arrives, Raul is met with an unforeseen event that changes his life forever.

Darwin Serink

 SHORT | USA | 11mins.

SIN CIELO

In the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, two teenagers pursue young love in a region where violence may be inescapable.

Jianna Maarten

SHORT | USA | 25mins.

AMERICAN DREAM

American Dream is the story of a Chinese immigrant attempting to achieve her dream of becoming a singer in Chinatown, New York City. Things do not go as planned as the image of her dream deteriorates into a harsh reality.

Alexia Oldini

SHORT | USA | Texas Premiere, 12mins.

FIRST GENERATION

We explore the boundaries of self-expression and what it is like growing up in America as a first generation Asian American in the late 90's. We follow a young Asian American protagonist, My-Linh, through her challenges and realization of acceptance and embracing her Asian features. Beauty is subjective and can be challenging for a young Asian American girl growing up where the media pushes the objectification of women and often portrays white, tall, blonde female as the ideal woman.

Jeannie Nguyen

SHORT |  Texas Premiere, 10mins. 

MASK WORLD

In a dystopian future of high tech and social decay, a woman struggles to find her own identity as everyone seems to hide behind masks.

Francisco Castaneda

SHORT | USA | 10mins.

STORIES OF REFUGE

Najwa, a Palestinian separated from her Syrian husband, resides in Lebanon off the Syrian border. Caleb, a young American, faces the challenge to use his voice for an individual suffering from the Syrian Cold War. Syrian millennials across Europe and the Middle East speak with him as he questions his beliefs about free speech.

Caleb P. Hobart

 SHORT DOC |World Premiere, 32mins.

LIONS OF WEST TEXAS

Lions of West chronicles the mountain lion research conducted in the Davis Mountains outside of Marfa, TX by Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University.

Ben Masters

SHORT | USA | 8mins.

DEPORTING MYSELF

After 20 years of living in New York as an undocumented immigrant, Zsuzsanna is leaving the U.S voluntarily, out of fear of deportation.

Julia Neumann

SHORT DOC | USA | Texas Premiere, 12mins.

INSTINCT

A psychosexual thriller about Isabelle, a lonely gallery owner who meets a dangerously seductive performance artist and discovers they have more in common than expected. Will Isabelle allow herself to let Camila in without giving in to her true nature?    

Maria Alice Arida

SHORT | USA | Texas Premiere, 18mins.

DYKES, CAMERA, ACTION!

A history of queer cinema from the women who made it happen. Lesbians didn't always get to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, they built visibility, and transformed the social imagination about queerness. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, Yoruba Richen, Desiree Akhavan, Vicky Du, film critic B. Ruby Rich, Jenni Olson, and others share moving and often hilarious stories from their lives and discuss how they've expressed queer identity through film.

Caroline Berler

FEATURE | USA | 59mins.

MAYA : RITES OF SEMBLANCE, SIX COMPLETED OCCURRENCES

Russian-born American filmmaker, poet, writer, photographer, choreographer, and theorist Maya Deren (1917–1961) endures as one of the most significant independent experimental filmmakers and innovators of avant-garde cinema. 

Programed by KB Thomason | 75mins.