While making a pair of leather sandals in her cluttered East Village shop, pioneer NYC craftswoman Barbara Shaum muses on her craft, her history-making sip of ale, and her pickiest client ever – Chiki the llama. Lind shot “Barbara Leather” with a hand-wound 16mm Bolex camera, edited on an ancient flatbed, and preserved resulting splices [...]

In 1945, 21-year-old Truman Capote wrote the harrowing short story ‘Miriam’ which launched his career. This film is a faithful adaptation of that tale. Mrs. Miriam Miller is an elderly widow living a quiet existence in her Manhattan apartment. She has no friends and even her neighbors never seem to notice her. One day, during [...]

A girl and her love for her fan. She searches the city for another way to beat the heat. In the end she returns to her true love.

After being hit by a car, a thirty-something American awaits an eye operation in a Berlin hospital. He calls the only other person he knows in Berlin, a female Icelandic ex-patriate whom he involuntarily stood up because of the accident. To his surprise, she too is confined to her apartment following recent knee surgery. In [...]

“Mambo Madness” takes place in a totalitarian state called Silencio City. The film unfolds in an asylum designed to resemble a night club that has been specially created to detain citizens that have been infected with “clave”: the erotic and propulsive rhythms that keep time on the dance floor of the imagination.