An Urban Allegory

An Urban Allegory 2024

8.14

A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs the director to give her a chance.

2024

Faces Places

Faces Places 2017

7.70

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

2017

Omelia Contadina

Omelia Contadina 2020

6.67

A farming community gathers on a plateau on the border of three regions for the funeral of traditional agriculture. It’s a film to ward off the disappearance of a millenary culture.

2020

Tehachapi

Tehachapi 2024

7.57

French visual artist-director JR (co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary FACES PLACES with the legendary Agnès Varda) situates his latest social-art intervention in a Southern Californian supermax prison, where he has imagined an enormously ambitious collaboration with the facility’s inmates.

2024