Coming Soon: ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE...

The chilling documentary, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, will begin a run at Living Room Theaters in January. Recently shortlisted for a Best Documentary Oscar, the film explores, 30 years later, the massacres commited by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. Critically acclaimed, the film currently has a 100% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Close to two million Cambodians lost their lives when Pol Pot came to power in 1975 and set out on a bloody purge of what he considered bourgeois influences, a campaign that came to be known as the Khmer Rouge. Thet Sambath was one of many Cambodians who lost loved ones in the massacre — his father and brother were executed, and his mother, after being forced to marry a Khmer soldier, died giving birth to his child. But unlike many, he’s struggled to come to terms with the past by obsessively documenting the crimes of Pot and his henchmen, sometimes at the expense of the security of himself and his family.

STRANGE POWERS Begins Dec. 10!...

STRANGE POWERS: STEPHIN MERRITT AND THE MAGNETIC FIELDS begins Friday, December 10!

With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop’s most beloved and influential artists. Both a prolific recording artist and composer of theater and film scores, he performs most famously as the Magnetic Fields, whose 1999 three-disc opus 69 Love Songs is widely considered a masterpiece of traditional songcraft and irresistible synthpop.

Ten years in the making, STRANGE POWERS explores Merritt’s songwriting and recording process, and focuses on his relationships with his bandmates and longtime manager Claudia Gonson, revealing an artist who has produced one of the most engaging and confounding bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook.

WASTE LAND begins Dec. 10!...

The extraordinary documentary, WASTE LAND begins a run at Living Room on December 10! The film was recently shortlisted for a Best Documentary Oscar and currently enjoys a 100% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. You can read a whole lot more about the film in New York Magazine, on NPR, Black Book Magazine, and My Modern Met.

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT, COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.