Alive from Off Center

Season 9

An avant-garde omnibus that features works by off-the-wall artists in many different disciplines.

Where to Watch Alive from Off Center • Season 9

8 Episodes

  • A Short Film Festival for Television
    E1
    A Short Film Festival for TelevisionA new season of works from independent filmmakers opens with "A Short Film Festival for Television: "Fugitive Love" about a woman dumped by her boyfriend; "Sour Death Balls," set in a nursery school class, and "Angry," in which a woman "divorces" her mother; and "Television, the Drug of the Nation".
  • Father's Daze
    E2
    Father's DazeFilmmaker Mark Pellington's personal essay about his Alzheimer's-stricken father.
  • More Not-for-Saturday-Morning Animations
    E3
    More Not-for-Saturday-Morning AnimationsA collection of animated shorting featuring "Screen Play", the 1992 Oscar-nominated short about 'young hearts in love, young hearts in pain'; "Pharaoh's Belt: Cake Excerpt", which explores themes of childhood and memory; and "Milk of Amnesia", capturing the rhythms of life to a tango beat.
  • The Bet/Pro & Con
    E4
    The Bet/Pro & Con"The Bet", the cautionary tale of two brothers who own a New York deli. One of them (John B. Hickey) has dreams. The other (Josh Mosby) has a secret addiction -- gambling -- that threatens his life; "Pro & Con", an animated documentary using clay painting and puppet animation which is a personal journey into prison life told through the point of view of a black female correctional officer (writer-narrator Janice Inman) and a 32-year-old white male inmate who's been in jail most of his life.
  • Club of the Discarded
    E5
    Club of the DiscardedA warehouse of mannequins come alive.
  • Punk
    E6
    PunkCarl Franklin's AFI thesis film, the story of a 9-year-old South-Central Los Angeles boy grappling with sexuality and manhood in the midst of squalor.
  • History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
    E7
    History and Memory: For Akiko and TakashigeRea Tajiri's video work seeks to recover the truth and meaning of the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans in remote desert camps.
  • Defining "what is sin"
    E8
    Defining "what is sin"This look at the "seven deadly sins" allows the MTV generation to define "what is sin" for itself.

 

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