A snapshot of San Francisco based queer artist Rex Ray, told through the objects he collected during his life. Ray was best known for his innovative pop aesthetic in fine and commercial art—on canvases, wood panels, album covers, paper, book jackets, murals, and rock and roll posters. His early designs include the first graphics for the San Francisco chapter of Act Up; many guerilla marketing flyers and posters for queer nightclubs; book covers for City Lights Books and HIGH RISK/Serpent’s Tail, and he later designed work for David Bowie, The Residents, Bill Graham Presents, DreamWorks, Levis, Frameline Festival, and Apple.

Rex Ray: A Portrait

A queer woman's instructional haircut video is taken over by an unconscious exploration of her gender identity.

Women's Cut

A journey through the contrasting urban and natural spaces within San Francisco's 49 square miles.

Urban Oasis

Enter the world of artist David Fullarton and discover why pictures are better with words on them, why happiness is overrated and why runners should ride bicycles.

I Lied About Being An Artist

"Lead Change" explores the journey of Oakland, California based Polo player Dale Johnson and his horse and teammate Sunny. This short sports documentary explores how a person from a non-traditional Polo background, is working everyday to represent and change notions of where Polo players and equestrians come from, look like, and how they feel. To ask a horse to make a lead change is to subtly direct redirect which leg dominates the horse's stride and that is what "Lead Change" was created to do, to subtly shift the narrative. Ultimately, it's a lesson in what we all can do to go about breaking down barriers, honoring traditions, updating narratives and leading change our own lives and the lives of others.

Lead Change

RAMINI is a short documentary about a water buffalo farm in Tomales Bay, CA. Narrated by Audrey, one of Ramini Mozzarella's co-founders, RAMINI navigates the day-to-day maintenance of the farm. It showcases Audrey's unique sustainable farming approach - one that demonstrates a mutually beneficial relationship between animal and farmer - as well as her deep bond with the water buffalo in her care.

Ramini

The film follows a historic New Years Eve for the Redwood Valley Railway in the Tilden forest of Northern California.

Railway of the Redwood Valley

Marcela grew up in a remote indigenous village in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, with parents who were healers, and surrounded by a wild natural world that she was taught to love and respect. She learned about autonomy from the Zapatistas, and studied women’s liberation with the women’s groups organized by Nachita, the local parish nun. Nachita helped her to escape from the oppressive patriarchy of her village to become a powerful healer and organizer. Now she and her husband share their knowledge and healing practices as they struggle, along with the National Indigenous Congress, against the capitalist megaprojects that are threatening nature and life itself.

Marcela

This documentary helps tell the stories of California farmworkers and documents their perseverance during one of the most challenging times in recent history, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Campesinos: America's Unsung Heroes

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The short film — what a perfect genre. Like the perfect snack. Or the very best poem: intensity and imagination distilled down to the most crucial and poignant of words. Short films are the quintessential starting point, and for some filmmakers, the definitive end goal.

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