Courtney Stephens Movies
- 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...
- 2021
Terra Femme
Terra Femme02021HD
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...
- 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...
- 2020
CINEMA-19
CINEMA-1902020HD
A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.
- 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.
- 2020
The American Sector
The American Sector02020HD
A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions or individuals since 1989 and are now scattered...
- 1970
Untitled John C. Lilly documentary
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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...
- 2017
Ida Western Exile
Ida Western Exile52017HD
A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.
- 2010
Equestrian Sexual Response
Equestrian Sexual Response6.82010HD
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.
- 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...
- 2017
Labial Quinet
Labial Quinet02017HD
An exploration of the "five labia types," as claimed by an aesthetician.
- 2020
Iris Season
Iris Season02020HD
Commission for Cinema-19 (Anthology Film Archives, Zeitgeist Theatre, Northwest Film Forum)
- 2020
Perfect Fifths
Perfect Fifths02020HD
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...
- 2018
Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals02018HD
Stricken with an undisclosed illness, the narrator of this reflexive work draws evocative parallels between the darkened hulls of an industrial ocean...
- 2017
Mating Games
Mating Games02017HD
A film comprised of 1960s home movies shot on Muscle Beach, Los Angeles.