Carnivalesque Films (Firm)
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Willem Dafoe, DO DONKEYS ACT encourages us to respect a major language barrier we might not otherwise consider, the mystery and intrigue of donkey utterances. We are invited to "step into their shade and listen closely" as we attune to a series of dramatic performances in which we eavesdrop on donkeys speaking amongst themselves.. Reclaiming the donkey from the indignity of a centuries old master slave relationship in which the dominant...
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly...
3) Kamp Katrina
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning cinéma vérité documentary, follows a small group of people who have taken refuge in a garden transformed into a tent city by an extraordinary New Orleans couple, Ms. Pearl and her husband, David. Kamp Katrina focuses on the dialectic between madness and hope in their pursuit of stability.. SXSW Emerging Visions Award, Best Documentary: Magnolia Film Festival. “Fascinating... Achieve[s] potent dramatic and emotional impact......
4) Downeast
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set during an era of U.S. post-industrialization in which numerous factories have been exported, DOWNEAST focuses on Antonio Bussone's efforts to open a processing factory in rural Maine.. Official Selection: Hot Docs and Tribeca Film Festival. " All those daunting economic numbers that tabulate how many Americans are unemployed and how many factory jobs have been lost in the last 30 years can seem abstract until you run into a documentary like Downeast......
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Ripping Reality Award at the Hot Docs Film Festival, this Southern tale transcends literal interpretations of images in order to open up rich, loamy textures of humor and drama.. Working within the tradition of creative non-fiction, Invisible Girlfriend follows Charles as he rides his big red bicycle 400 miles through rural Louisiana to find his invisible girlfriend, Joan of Arc, in a New Orleans bar. Along the way, he encounters a farmer,...
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A one-shot documentary revealing the experiential sensations of factory laborers who process lobsters and fish inside three interconnected factories on the coast of Prospect Harbor, Maine.. Special attention is given to the rhythms and patterns of workers, the timing of lunch-breaks, delivery of product, and methods of moving the camera to seamlessly flow from one space to the next. The result is a seventy-two minute single, moving shot with no edits...
7) Night Labor
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sherman Frank Merchant, a forty-six year old 6'6" Downeaster transitions from being an independent and rugged clam digger by day to manning a factory at night. With his white smock, arsenal of knives, and signature black beret, Sherman performs the tasks of preparing and arranging tools for the day laborers who arrive to their 6am shift.. NIGHT LABOR is an intimate experience of what the film critic J. Hoberman calls “situation documentary,” a...
8) Intimidad
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An original Mexican love story about family relationships and the meaning of “home.” Cecy and Camilo – ages 21 – recently moved to the border, Reynosa, Mexico, from Santa Maria, Puebla with a dream to save money, buy land, and build a home. A year later they return to their rural hometown to reunite with their two year-old daughter Loida. What seems like a satisfying reunion turns into a confusing dilemma that transforms the course of their...
9) Girl model
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. GIRL MODEL follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with...
10) October country
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A portrait of an American family struggling for stability while haunted by the ghosts of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse, examines the forces that unsettle the working poor and the violence that lurks beneath the surface of American life.
11) Woodpecker
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A tragicomedy involving an amateur poet and his mission to track down the long-thought-extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker in the swamps of Eastern Arkansas.
