An intimate film that does nothing less than re-imagine death's rituals for a new generation of the chronically mortal, UNLOOSENED AND ROOT expands artist David Dixon's video, performance, and sculpture practice into a film independent of the common conventions of cinema. A "Viking" funeral, Mardi Gras in pre-Katrina New Orleans, a colonoscopy searching for cancer, and a lonely campground that leads to the brink of consciousness: UNLOOSENED AND ROOT interweaves two stories - one documentary and one fiction - to tell a singular tale of mourning and loss.
The depth and breadth of our creative accomplishments since the earliest known cave paintings, roughly 1,500 generations ago, is astonishing. Learn More »
less than a minute ago
"Songs of Hope" explores the life and music of Kayhan Kalhor, a master of the kamancheh, or Persian spike fiddle.
less than a minute ago
The sexually charged tale of a woman's journey of self-discovery
less than a minute ago
Academy Award winning portrait of Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio as a child and spent much of his life in an iron lung
DISCUSS UNLOOSENED AND ROOT