Picture Palace Pictures Movies

  • 2024
    When the Phone Rang

    When the Phone Rang

    When the Phone Rang

    02024HD

    Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the...

    When the Phone Rang
  • 2021
    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    42021HD

    Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
  • 2021
    Aleph

    Aleph

    Aleph

    6.72021HD

    Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives,...

    Aleph
  • 2019
    8903 Empire

    8903 Empire

    8903 Empire

    52019HD

    Kevin Jerome Everson and his collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai filmed the comings and goings in front of a trap house on Empire Street in Cleveland,...

    8903 Empire
  • 2011
    Quality Control

    Quality Control

    Quality Control

    52011HD

    Quality Control consists of a series of 16mm single take shots filmed in the summer of 2010,over a two day period, in a dry cleaners facility in...

    Quality Control
  • 2012
    Rhinoceros

    Rhinoceros

    Rhinoceros

    02012HD

    "Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate...

    Rhinoceros
  • 2017
    Tonsler Park

    Tonsler Park

    Tonsler Park

    4.62017HD

    Tonsler Park observes, in black and white 16mm, the democratic process in action, at Charlottesville, Virginia voting precincts, over the course of...

    Tonsler Park
  • 2023
    If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move

    If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move

    If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move

    02023HD

    If You Don't Watch the Way You Move features Derek "Dripp" Whitfield Jr. and Taymond "choSkii" Hughes of the music group BmE composing and recording...

    If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move
  • 2024
    Practice, Practice, Practice

    Practice, Practice, Practice

    Practice, Practice, Practice

    02024HD

    What Richard Bradley did before he took down the Confederate flag at City Hall in San Francisco during the mayoral term of the late Senator Dianne...

    Practice, Practice, Practice
  • 2019
    Condor

    Condor

    Condor

    02019HD

    The July 2, 2019 solar eclipse, filmed in 100% totality, over the Chilean coast, in 16mm black and white. Condor is the national bird of Chile.

    Condor
  • 2011
    Early Riser

    Early Riser

    Early Riser

    02011HD

    This short is based on Chester Himes’s novel Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and its adaptation for the screen by Ossie Davis in 1970. The cotton...

    Early Riser
  • 2019
    Black Bus Stop

    Black Bus Stop

    Black Bus Stop

    52019HD

    Students reclaim a popular gathering spot on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

    Black Bus Stop
  • 2011
    Rita Larson's Boy

    Rita Larson's Boy

    Rita Larson's Boy

    02011HD

    Rita Larson's Boy portrays ten actors auditioning for the role of Rollo Larson in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son. Rita Larson's Boy is one of three...

    Rita Larson's Boy
  • 2012
    Ten Five in the Grass

    Ten Five in the Grass

    Ten Five in the Grass

    62012HD

    A film about Black cowgirls and cowboys preparing themselves for the rodeo event of calf roping. Filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana and Natchez,...

    Ten Five in the Grass
  • 2011
    Chicken

    Chicken

    Chicken

    82011HD

    Centred on a scene from Tennessee Williams’s play Kingdom of Earth (1968). Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus. Filmed as if it were a...

    Chicken
  • 2020
    Partial Differential Equation

    Partial Differential Equation

    Partial Differential Equation

    02020HD

    A partial differential equation is illustrated by mathematician Tariah Gatlin.

    Partial Differential Equation