Icarus Films | New Releases

Views on Vermeer

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:55:07 GMT

10 contemporary artists and writers invite us to discover or re-discover the painter's work, and to appreciate it in new ways.

Grand Paris

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:32:07 GMT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to turn Paris into the model super-metropolis for the 21st century, and plenty of world-class architects would like the job.

Paris Ring

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:53:53 GMT

The story of the road round Paris, the most significant 'redevelopment' project in Paris since Haussmann's time.

Paris, 19th Century

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:52:54 GMT

Architectural historian François Loyer, an expert on 19th-century Paris, examines the foundation of the modern city in Georges-Eugène Haussmann's massive "renovation" of the 1860s.

Karen Refugees: Fleeing Burma’s Forgotten War

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:36:05 GMT

A courageous band of "backpack medics" slips through the jungle, avoiding army checkpoints, to deliver medical supplies and care to their people, the Karen minority of Burma.

Henry Miller

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:27:50 GMT

An intimate and revealing look at Henry Miller, and his life and work through this program from the archives that originally aired on television in Quebec in 1969.

Jack Kerouac

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:00:33 GMT

A charming program from Quebec television 40+ years ago. Jack Kerouac talks about his childhood, writing On the Road and the origin of the word "beat."

This Way Up

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:59:57 GMT

Near Jerusalem, the construction of the separation wall continues, a few feet from a senior citizens' home.

Art Safari

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:14:16 GMT

Meet the superstars of the Contemporary Art World, including Matthew Barney, Takashi Murakami and Sophie Calle, in this playful series of 8 films, along with "art geek" Ben Lewis, as he travels the world in search of great art, and art that might be great.

The Bicycle

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:13:44 GMT

Fighting AIDS with community medicine in Malawi.

Drawing From Life

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:13:14 GMT

A half-hour film that goes inside a group therapy workshop for people who have attempted suicide more than once

Food Design

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:12:45 GMT

A look inside the secret chambers where designers and scientists are defining your favorite mouthful of tomorrow.

Hand-Held

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:12:24 GMT

A documentary anthology on health and homelessness, and a frank and invaluable resource for anyone interested in how media and medicine can work together to change lives.

The Interventionists

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:12:03 GMT

A mental health nurse and a police officer ride the streets of the inner city in an unmarked police car, responding to 911 calls involving what are officially called "emotionally disturbed persons" (EDP).

Making Mothers

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:11:37 GMT

Profile of the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, D.C. which primarily serves and is likewise staffed by the African American community.

Not Just a Bad Day

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:11:13 GMT

Living under the shadow of one of the most commonly misunderstood and misdiagnosed mental illnesses - bipolar dIsorder.

The 7 Interventions of Filmmaker-in-Residence

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:10:39 GMT

The story of a groundbreaking project in media intervention at an inner-city hospital. What happens when documentary filmmaking, photoblogs, digital storytelling and more are used to investigate complex health issues?

Stolen Art

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:10:08 GMT

In New York City in 1978, an unknown Czech artist by the name of Pavel Novak held an exhibit entitled Stolen Art.

Tagged

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:09:36 GMT

Playful, smart and engaging, TAGGED stealthily taps into a widespread sense of unease raised by the technological development of human implanted microchips.

Three Songs about Motherland

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:09:09 GMT

A film about collisions between the past, present, and future in three Russian cities today.

A Change of Character

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:04:35 GMT

Truett Allen's personality changed drastically after a series of strokes resulted in damage to the frontal lobes of his brain. This captivating video features neuroscientist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, author of The Executive Brain, as well as neurologist and best-selling author Dr. Oliver Sacks (Awakenings).

Oedipus in China

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:24:29 GMT

Over the last ten to fifteen years, the development of psychoanalysis in China reflects the changing needs of a society that is just learning how to express personal feelings.

14 New Releases from the Fanlight Productions Collection

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:01:03 GMT

Fourteen new titles added from the newly acquired Fanlight Productions Collection.

Agustín's Newspaper

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:00:46 GMT

Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile.

The Battle for the Arctic

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:00:20 GMT

As the polar ice caps shrink, an international contest for control of the Arctic, is escalating.

Black Sun

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:59:52 GMT

A history of the esoteric ideas and myths that served as a breeding ground for Nazi ideology and inspired Adolf Hiter.

The Inheritors

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:59:18 GMT

An immersion in the daily life of children in Mexico who, with their families, survive only by their unrelenting labor.

Lotman's World

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:58:43 GMT

The story of Yuri Lotman (1922-1993), little-known - except maybe in Estonia! - pioneer of semiotics.

The Moving Earth

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:57:37 GMT

A chronicle of the revolution that shaped the world as we know it, made by Galileo, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe to Newton.

The Nine Lives of Norodom Sihanouk

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:57:06 GMT

The life story of Norodom Sihanouk, by turns Cambodia's King, Prime Minister, Prince, Head of State for Life, Exile, and Prisoner.

Secret Museums

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:56:36 GMT

For millenia erotic art has been created, often by some of the world's best-known artists. But it is rarely on public display.

Seeds of Hunger

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:56:10 GMT

A global investigation into the evolving nature of food production, and the crisis it may portend.

War and Love in Kabul

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:55:42 GMT

Hossein's and Shaima's love is a story about honor, tribal laws, disgrace, fear, and hope for change in a war-ravaged Afghanistan.

The World's Next Supermodel

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:55:17 GMT

Asia, Brazil or Western Europe - which will be the world's next economic superstar?

In Search of Memory

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:56:10 GMT

A compelling blend of autobiography and history that recounts the life of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.

Three New Online Catalogs

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:28:34 GMT

We've added PDFs for three new catalogs:

We All Fall Down

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:31:30 GMT

The rise and fall of the mortgage system and the damage in the wake of its collapse: How did it all happen?

Battleship Antarctica

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:31:05 GMT

An intimate look at the crew of the Greenpeace ship Esperanza as they embark on a journey to save whales from Japanese hunters and are faced with difficult decisions when their expedition takes an unexpected turn.

Lucanamarca

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:15:32 GMT

High in the Peruvian Andes, in the town of Lucanamarca, old wounds are re-opened when the Truth and Reconstruction Commission arrives to investigate a massacre from 20 years ago.

Meet the scientists of Hidden Face of Fear

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:38:07 GMT

Biographies of the scientists featured in the new release Hidden Face of Fear.

Meet the scientists of Mind in Motion

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:36:53 GMT

Biographies of the scientists featured in the new release Mind in Motion.

The Hidden Face of Fear

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:34:59 GMT

Studying the traumatic impact of 9/ll, neuroscientists and psychologists are approaching a common understanding of how the brain's fear circuitry works, and changes.

Malls R Us

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:34:31 GMT

From impressive architectural projects to environmental and social concerns, everything you ever wanted to know (and didn't suspect) about shopping malls.

Mechanical Love

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:33:59 GMT

As modern technology develops, and increasingly life-like robots move from factories into our homes, how will human beings interact with these machines?

Mind in Motion

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:33:29 GMT

An exploration of the latest scientific discoveries about the human brain, an inner cosmos as complex as the universe itself.

The Moroccan Labyrinth

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:33:02 GMT

The little-known history of Spain's bloody colonial ambitions in North Africa, and how they became a prelude to the Spanish Civil War.

North-South.com

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:32:30 GMT

In West Africa many young women, who dream of escaping a life of misery by marrying a rich, white foreigner, surf the Internet for marriage proposals.

Oblivion

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:32:02 GMT

Heddy Honigmann's latest film focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing the contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis and corruption.

Rapayan

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:31:32 GMT

High in the Andes mountains of Peru, above a small village that scarcely seemed to notice, archaeologists have found the ruins of an indigenous settlement that predates the Incas.

A Road to Mecca

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:30:55 GMT

The spiritual journey of Leopold Weiss, a Viennese Jew who converted to Islam in the 1920's and became the Muslim scholar Muhammad Asad

Sacred Soil

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:30:27 GMT

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year in order to identify them, and return the remains to their families.

Svetlana About Svetlana

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:30:06 GMT

A rare filmed interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter.

Young Freud in Gaza

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:29:38 GMT

Ayed is a young psychotherapist in Gaza. The film shows his consultations with a variety of patients, and the challenges he and they face.

The UP Series

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:14:00 GMT

Starting in 1964 with Seven Up, the concept of the UP Series was to interview 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future.

Meeting Resistance

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:13:10 GMT

What would you do if America was invaded? MEETING RESISTANCE raises the veil of anonymity surrounding the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with individuals who are passionately engaged in the struggle.

A Mayan Trilogy: Life, Death & Migration

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:22:14 GMT

Now on one DVD, Olivia Carrescia's three films on the Mayan Indians of Guatemala preserve a record, and provide an acute observation on how the indigenous culture has been affected by, yet survived, that country's tumultuous history.

Baghdad Twist

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:33:42 GMT

A "visual memoir" blending photos, archival footage and Super-8 home movies of the filmmaker's Jewish family in Iraq until their departure for a new home in Canada in 1970.

Between Madness and Art

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:33:05 GMT

The story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) and his collection of art by schizophrenic patients. What is art? And, what is illness?

Damages

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:32:32 GMT

Behind the scenes at Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder, a leading law firm specializing in personal injury cases. What is an injury, or a life, worth?

Dishonored

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:32:03 GMT

The story of Mukhtar Mai, whose demands for justice after being raped, led to an historic series of legal proceedings in Pakistan, and media coverage worldwide.

Fat Chance

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:31:35 GMT

Yuka, almost 200 pounds and fast approaching fifty, decides the time has come to lose weight in hopes of becoming healthier and happier.

Hidden Gifts

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:31:09 GMT

The mysterious relationship between artistic expression and mental illness, glimpsed through the story of Scotsman Angus MacPhee, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1946.

An Island Calling

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:30:37 GMT

A morally complex postcolonial tragedy, the story of a murder and of Fiji, a small country divided along ethnic and class lines, told through the eyes of two very different families.

Jesus Politics

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:30:10 GMT

A personal investigation into the role of religion in American politics, and specifically this year's presidential election.

Killer's Paradise

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:29:43 GMT

Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala. Yet law enforcement and government turn a blind eye.

Milk in the Land

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:29:18 GMT

How did milk become so popular, and iconic? An entertaining and innovative history and deconstruction of milk and American culture!

Milosevic on Trial

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:28:47 GMT

Four years of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, charged with 66 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

Mustapha Kemal Ataturk

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:28:14 GMT

The story of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, called Atatürk ("the father of the Turks").

On the Side of "Angels"

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:27:24 GMT

The stories of several prominent corporate "whistleblowers" around the world, including Sherron Watkins who helped uncover the accounting fraud at Enron.

Recipes for Disaster

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:26:56 GMT

Concerned about the world's addiction to oil, and its disastrous environmental consequences for the planet, the filmmaker convinces his family to live "oil-free" for one year.

Recycle

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:26:25 GMT

A portrait of life in Jordan's second largest city, Zarqa, of the poverty, political humiliation, and role of Islam, through the eyes of an ex-mujahid from the Afghan-Soviet war.

Revue

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:25:48 GMT

A portait of life in the USSR in the '50s and '60s, this is the new film by Sergei Loznitsa (Blockade).

Strait Through The Ice

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:25:13 GMT

Climate change is opening the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic for shipping. Examines the ecological and geopolitical ramifications.

Syria, Chess Match at the Borders

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:24:30 GMT

A chronicle, enriched by archival footage and interviews, of how Syria became simultaneously a player and a pawn in the geopolitical "chess match" that characterizes the Middle East today.

Tracing Aleida

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:23:52 GMT

Thirty years after being separated when their parents "disappeared" during Mexico's "Dirty War" in the '70s, Aleida searches to uncover the truth, and to find her brother.

Umbrella...

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:23:07 GMT

Conceptual and observational but fundamentally a telling look at changes in China today, particularly between rural and urban society.

20 New Films for the Fall

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:16:49 GMT

Icarus Films is proud to release twenty new compelling and thought provoking films this month. With subjects as varied and timely as the environment, the situation in the Middle East, this year's US electoral campaign or urbanization in China, these new titles help us understand the stakes of our changing world.