Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love

A Doll Like Me

The Amsterdam doll shop Colorful Goodies sells Barbies, boy dolls, and cuddly dolls that every child can recognize; from dolls with different skin colors and professions, to dolls with disabilities. This documentary follows three families of color who take home a doll. What does such a doll mean for your self-image if you struggle with it because you are of color, or because you have to learn to live with albinism? Is our dominant white society as tolerant as we think?

Living Dolls

A lighthearted look at the weird and wonderful world of doll collectors. The film features individuals whose lives are ultimately shaped by their obsession. It taps into why the subjects would risk everything just to spend their best time all dolled up. Some are loveable, others you may love to hate, but we delight in watching all the collectors and their passions come to life in this off-the-doll-centric universe.

Barbie Uncovered: A Dream House Divided

The film spotlights the soaring success of Barbie, with sales of three hundred thousand dolls in the first year, to over two billion before Ruth Handler died. The enormous financial rewards for both multi-millionaire parents are exposed, and this leads to a surprising story of betrayal, sex, drugs and excessive partying.

Love Me, Love My Doll

This special focuses on a group of men who have fallen in love with their life-size dolls, called "Real Dolls." For these men, their $10,000 lifelike, built-to-order creations have replaced human women. For some people, finding a partner in life can be difficult. For these men, it's almost impossible. Some years ago, a small factory in California began making an alternative partner. Each one is tailored made to suit every taste. There are now 3000 real dolls across the world providing some of those with love and companionship that real women cannot.

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The Doll Boy

A mother and her son have left the marital home. The mother entrusts her son Jacques to a friend for the day. This is an opportunity for the little boy to play with Julie. But Jacques has a secret: he loves playing with dolls.

House of Dolls

Three estranged sisters return home to collect an inheritance only to confront each other and trigger a downward spiral of murder inside of a giant Doll House.

Taxidermia

Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who becomes obsessed with taxidermy.

Holding Water

Over the course of an afternoon in late spring, two longtime friends reunite under a mulberry tree to confront the ways their time apart has changed them.

Day of a Lion

After their father's death two sisters reunite at their childhood home to uncover forgotten secrets and rip open old wounds.

137.7

A semi-found-footage artistic film exploring shifting self-perceptions and the horror of liminality.

Existentiality

Two friends, plagued by bouts of 'existentiality', begin to doubt their existence and spiral into trying to find what life is truly about.

Exit Through the Sky

A painter with artist's block is sent on a disorienting journey after a mysterious painting appears in his home.

scratch

A nonverbal voodooist hunts unmannerly commuters while concocting an ill-fated plan to ease an unscratchable itch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhqIvQmLSlg

The Beast

In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.

Mint in Box

Abby awakens to find herself trapped inside a crate, with unknown figures outside and her only hope is to find a means of escape.

When Dogs Bark

After his father’s lambs are brutally slaughtered, an intellectual son returns to his widowed father’s remote shack, confronting haunting signs of violence his father fears is returning.

The Doll's Revenge

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

Dope Fiend

Fran is waiting for her partner to join her for therapy. Consumed by her internal voice, the waiting room becomes transformed.