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Vienna, 1913, Europe is on the brink of WWI. Two young men become friends: Hugo, a musician from a privileged family, tries psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud; Adolf, a struggling vegetarian artist, falls in love with German nationalism.

After two miscarriages and --in her own words-- "losing" her husband, a Brazilian woman goes to Paris to see Jacques Lacan, reputedly "the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud."

A docufiction film shot during Hurricane Sandy.

With levity and sadness, two grown children and their aging parents struggle with the decision whether the older generation should stay in the house where they have lived for fifty years.

Self-styled "revolutionary" Chris (T. Ryder Smith) is besotted with critical theory and can't stop talking about it. He is about to self-publish a book entitled "On Distraction", and is wrestling with "branding" himself, as per the advice of Laura, (Mitzi Akaha), a photographer with a special interest in ikons and a sideline baking pot brownies. In NYC over the course of several weeks, as Covid restrictions ease, Laura, Chris and his long-time on-and-off girlfriend, sociology professor Vanessa, (Betsy Aidem), meet virtually and in person to debate a vast range of thinkers and issues including identity politics, universality, praxis, the lumpenproletariat, escape from capitalism, the Haitian revolution, #MeToo, BLM, Guy Debord, Bernard Steigler, Achille Mbembe, the plays of Sophocles, the Twilight Zone, art-house cinema and fully-automated communism. The film culminates in a trip Chris and Laura take upstate where their hotel balcony overlooks Indian Point nuclear power plant. Will Chris stop talking long enough to make either relationship work? Does everything have to change for anything to change? And more importantly, have the birds of Central Park been replaced by cleverly-designed machines?

In the story of a mere moment, "Shadow" peeks into the room where seven spirits toast one another while a gruesome plague ravishes the streets beyond their fastened brass door.

A contemporary mediation of the Eumenides by Aeschylus and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles. Athens Sanctuary aims to be readily accessible and yet subversively to hook the viewer into a more complex reflection on the relevance of these tragedies, allowing for the emergence of a more mediated understanding of our time. Both The Eumenides and Oedipus at Colonus have to do with a non-citizen being received into the polis of Athens: in the case of Orestes, in order to find justice, and, in the case of Oedipus, in order to end years of exile and exclusion. In the first play Orestes comes to Athens fleeing the Furies who seek vengeance for the matricide he has committed and is provided a jury trial. In Oedipus at Colonus, the blind figure of Oedipus who has been guided to Athens by his daughter Antigone, after years of wandering in exile for parricide and incest, is offered sanctuary.