Movies: Courtney Stephens

  • 2024
    Invention

    Invention (2024)

    Invention

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    In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring archives from Callie Hernandez's late father, Invention explores the process of grieving a complicated paren...

    Invention
  • 2021
    Topology of Sirens

    Topology of Sirens (2021)

    Topology of Sirens

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    After discovering a set of cryptic microcassettes in her new home, Cas is drawn into a meditative mystery of environmental sound and experimental music....

    Topology of Sirens
  • 2022
    Lesser Choices

    Lesser Choices (2022)

    Lesser Choices

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    The bleached palette and home-movie aesthetics of Super 8 footage provide the image track for this testimonial about an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s, delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker’s mother. In its account of this intimate an...

    Lesser Choices
  • 2020
    CINEMA-19

    CINEMA-19 (2020)

    CINEMA-19

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    A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler....

    CINEMA-19
  • 2002
    Scumrock

    Scumrock (2002)

    Scumrock

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    A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity....

    Scumrock
  • 2017
    Ida Western Exile

    Ida Western Exile (2017)

    Ida Western Exile

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    A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls....

    Ida Western Exile
  • 2020
    The American Sector

    The American Sector (2020)

    The American Sector

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    A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions or individuals since 1989 and are now scattered across the USA. Cherished or abandoned, they have become silent witnesses to recent history....

    The American Sector
  • 2017
    Labial Quinet

    Labial Quinet (2017)

    Labial Quinet

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    An exploration of the "five labia types," as claimed by an aesthetician....

    Labial Quinet
  • 1969
    John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

    John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (1969)

    John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

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    John C. Lilly is the inventor of the isolation tank, as well as pioneer of studies in dolphin intelligence and support of psychedelics as a positive means for expanding consciousness. The storytelling will be supported by interviews with Lilly’s cont...

    John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
  • 2021
    Terra Femme

    Terra Femme (2021)

    Terra Femme

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    Amateur travelogues by women in the 1920s-50s are woven into this meditation on the traveler’s gaze. A mountaineer, a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, an antique merchant and others are revealed through their own optical autobiographies....

    Terra Femme
  • 2010
    Equestrian Sexual Response

    Equestrian Sexual Response (2010)

    Equestrian Sexual Response

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    Eleven-year-old Alice lives on a ranch with her father, her favorite horse and confidante, Red, and the love of Red's life, Molly....

    Equestrian Sexual Response
  • 2018
    Mixed Signals

    Mixed Signals (2018)

    Mixed Signals

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    Stricken with an undisclosed illness, the narrator of this reflexive work draws evocative parallels between the darkened hulls of an industrial ocean liner and an increasingly disorienting mental state. Courtney Stephens was inspired by the nautical ...

    Mixed Signals
  • 2017
    Mating Games

    Mating Games (2017)

    Mating Games

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    A film comprised of 1960s home movies shot on Muscle Beach, Los Angeles....

    Mating Games
  • 2020
    Iris Season

    Iris Season (2020)

    Iris Season

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    Commission for Cinema-19 (Anthology Film Archives, Zeitgeist Theatre, Northwest Film Forum)...

    Iris Season
  • 2020
    Perfect Fifths

    Perfect Fifths (2020)

    Perfect Fifths

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    A portrait of the artist and piano tuner Jerome Ellis, and a meditation on intervals in music, nature and language. The act of tuning harmonizes the world, at least temporarily, but time brings suffering and instability....

    Perfect Fifths