Courtney Stephens Movies
- 2020
CINEMA-19
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A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.
- 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...
- 2024
Invention
Invention02024HD
In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device. Featuring...
- 2017
Ida Western Exile
Ida Western Exile52017HD
A would-be exile explores her Georgia O'Keeffe fantasies through customer support calls.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 1970
Untitled John C. Lilly documentary
Untitled John C. Lilly documentary01970HD
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
Labial Quinet
Labial Quinet02017HD
An exploration of the "five labia types," as claimed by an aesthetician.
- 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...
- 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...
- 2017
Mating Games
Mating Games02017HD
A film comprised of 1960s home movies shot on Muscle Beach, Los Angeles.
- 2020
Iris Season
Iris Season02020HD
Commission for Cinema-19 (Anthology Film Archives, Zeitgeist Theatre, Northwest Film Forum)