Sean Price Williams

Val (2025)

Set over the course of a single afternoon in a claustrophobic office, "Val" is a sexually charged meditation on intellectual property, creative labor, and the raw power dynamics between two women: boss and employee. ...

Magic Farm (2025)

A misguided American documentary crew working for an edgy media company travels to rural Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong small town. As they collaborate with locals to attempt to fabricate a viral trend ...

Harvest (2025)

Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. ...

Between the Temples (2024)

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection. ...

Turn in the Wound (2024)

Abel Ferrara explores human conflict and the search for peace and balance through the music and words of Patti Smith and the experiences of people at war in Ukraine. ...

Snow White (2024)

"The visual is essentially pornographic", wrote Fredric Jameson, adding that "pornographic films are thus only the potentiation of films in general, which ask us to stare at the world as though it were a naked body". Turning down the Prince's invitation to ...

The Sweet East (2023)

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over. ...

The Wyrm of Bwlch Pen Barras (2023)

Early one winter morning in the town of Ruthin in North Wales, three men are called upon once again to carry out a terrible assignment on the Bwlch Pen Barras mountain pass. ...

What Doesn't Float (2023)

An anthology of New Yorkers at their wit's end. ...

Funny Pages (2022)

A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul. ...

The Braves (2022)

Best friends Alma and Margot are inseparable, whether it's terrorizing cheating lovers or crashing wedding parties. The two women also share the same dream of a successful career on the stage. They get one step closer when they are cast as lead and underst ...

Project Space 13 (2021)

The movie follows Nate, an emerging performance artist, who finally gets a coveted show at a Manhattan gallery, but right when he begins his provocative piece, the entire city shuts down for COVID-19. Unswayed, he locks himself in the white cube space to c ...

Zeros and Ones (2021)

Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters ...

Zanaar (2021)

The Birthday Cake (2021)

On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Gio's life is forever changed. ...

Robert Downey: Moment to Moment (2021)

To pay tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes, Sean Price Willams adopts a style that's just as out there as his subject, mixing new material and never-before-seen archival footage in this portrait of the underground film titan Robert Downey (A Prince). ...

We Are (2020)

When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls unde ...

Ainu Mosir (2020)

Kanto, 14, a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, decides to visit a hole in the forest — a path to the other side of the world where dead people live, hoping to see his deceased father. ...

Sportin' Life (2020)

Sportin' Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laurent's creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. This project is an artistic commentary on society while emphasizing the complexity of various individuals throug ...

Tesla (2020)

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world. ...

Memory Xperiment: Kathy Acker (2020)

A short film based on the literary work of author Kathy Acker. Set in the 60's and 70's, a young female writer explores her identity through sex and writing. ...

Let's Get Lost (2020)

Ozzy, beset on all sides by the eccentricities of the artists around her, meets Jack, a city-dwelling forest sprite jazz singer. Together, they escape Dante's, the jazz club Ozzy manages, and losing herself, Ozzy finds something else. ...

The Lonedale Operator (2020)

The writings and movie memories of renowned poet John Ashbery are refracted in a kaleidoscope of film clips that open up an illuminating dialogue between his work and cinema ...

Paul Schrader: Man in a Room (2020)

In the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers series, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell, Listen Up Philip) visits the ever-iconoclastic auteur Paul Schrader during the making of his 2017 masterpiece First Reformed. On set and at ...

Tokyo Telepath 2020 (2020)

Summer 2018. Tokyo has become a giant building site in the run-up to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Behind the ambitious buildings' facades, an even more far-reaching transformation is unfolding: the city is being digitised, inhabitants and all. Th ...

Villains (2019)

When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do ...

Uncut Gems (2019)

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching a ...

The Follower (2019)

Fueled by the hope of escaping her dreary suburban life, a misunderstood teen entertains the increasingly sinister advances of an Internet friend in a riff on the 1966 Joyce Carol Oates story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? ...

The Projectionist (2019)

In his first New York City-set documentary in nearly a decade, filmmaker and provocateur Abel Ferrara uses the experience of one longtime cinema owner to chart the vast changes to the city's theatrical landscape. ...

Her Smell (2019)

A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success. ...

One Man Dies a Million Times (2019)

A true story, set in the future. About seeds and genetic diversity, about growth and decay, about love and war, about hunger of all kinds. About what it means to be human, even when all your humanity is stripped away. ...

Jobe'z World (2019)

A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies. ...

Wobble Palace (2018)

A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence. ...

The North Wind's Gift (2018)

A magic microwave ensnares a starving family and their landlord. ...

I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead (2018)

Reframing our current political moment in intimate terms, Gibson's urgent snapshot of worldwide social calamities doubles as a document of practical resistance. In Gibson's hands, the music of Pauline Oliveros and the words of poets CA Conrad and Eileen My ...

The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin (2018)

During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin – a farmer-soldier, a veteran of the Revolutionary Army and the Napoleonic Wars, "father" of the chauvinism that bears his name – embarks on a monologue and recounts his lif ...

86'd (2018)

Four seedy stories transpire over the course of one late-night order at a 24-hour deli in Koch-era NYC. ...

The Great Pretender (2018)

The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically. ...

Golden Exits (2018)

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides. ...

Human Affairs (2018)

This richly earnest drama follows Geneviève, a surrogate who must reckon with her ambivalence about the pregnancy and her precarious feelings for the parents-to-be ...

Aware, Anywhere (2017)

30 years after his debut, Olivier Assayas is back in New York to present his latest feature film shot in Paris, London, Prague and Oman - This portrait of the filmmaker is part of the collection « Cinéma, de notre temps » created by Janine Bazin and And ...

Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie (2017)

Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York's city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers' early features and shorts. P ...

Thirst Street (2017)

Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou. ...

Good Time (2017)

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail. ...

Maineland (2017)

Chinese teenagers from the wealthy elite, with big American dreams, settle into a boarding school in small-town Maine. As their fuzzy visions of the American dream slowly gain more clarity, their relationship to home takes on a poignant new aspect. ...

Marjorie Prime (2017)

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband. ...

Toback Vs. Mailer: The Incident (2016)

Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, this punchy short features James Toback recounting a bizarre, years-long rivalry sparked by a drunken argument with Norman Mailer over bourbon versus Scotch—an ego duel that escalates from boozy barbs to a tense Jets– ...

White Girl (2016)

Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back. ...

Kate Plays Christine (2016)

Follow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck's story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes increasing ...

Contemporary Color (2016)

In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to celebrate the art of Color Guard: synchronized dance routines involving flags, rifles, and sabers. Recruiting performers that include the likes of St. Vi ...

Pyramid (2016)

A foreign woman befriends a couple. ...

Christmas, Again (2015)

Noel travels from upstate New York every year to sell Christmas trees in New York City. Returning without the help of his long-time girlfriend, this year Noel finds it impossible to do the one thing he knows so well: sell Christmas trees. As Noel begins t ...

God Is an Artist (2015)

In the wake of Shepard Fairey's arrest for vandalism, Dustin Guy Defa explores graffiti and street art in contemporary Detroit. What is vandalism? And how will the city define itself going forward? ...

Sin Alas (2015)

'Sin Alas' follows the tumultuous life and love of Cuban writer Luis Vargas as he chooses the excitement and possibilities of the revolution over the wealth of his dysfunctional family. His passion for a beautiful young ballerina, married to an important m ...

Heaven Knows What (2015)

A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random. ...

Queen of Earth (2015)

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality. ...

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015)

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subve ...

Listen Up Philip (2014)

Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoti ...

Whiffed Out (2014)

An abandoned bicycle in a narrow hallway ruins an anxious New Yorker's summer, while his shifty friend hopes to stave off eviction from a charity foundation's apartment by getting hired as a pizza deliveryman. ...

We Could Be King (2014)

Germantown and Martin Luther King High Schools were bitter rivals for over 40 years. This past year, a budget crisis caused Philadelphia to lay off over 4000 employees and close 37 schools, including Germantown High. Now Germantown must merge with their fo ...

Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2014)

Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore. ...

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014)

A descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature. ...

I Will Paint Your Spirit (2013)

An abstract portrait painter is enchanted by a woman whose images he discovers after buying a laptop from a shadester in a city park. ...

Hellaware (2013)

Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. ...

The Sun Thief (2013)

On the day before leaving New York for graduate school in a Iowa, a writer's plan to spend a romantic day at Rockaway Beach with a woman he's secretly dating is disrupted by an oddball surfer. ...

Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman (2013)

A young woman invites a vagabond to stay the night at her house but her feelings of insecurity threaten to overshadow the visit. ...

Weasel (2013)

Weasel, villain of fables, known for sucking out eggs and leaving shells intact. Weasel, a film concerned with man, boy, and rope. ...

Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013)

Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpa ...

Candy Rides (2012)

A painter charms an elusive young woman while bicycling in Brooklyn. ...

The Color Wheel (2012)

JR, an aspiring news-anchor, forces her younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover's place. Traveling through New England, they uncomfortably run into old school-mates or revisit familial history ...

Kuichisan (2012)

A story from the lost town of Koza - a silver paradise. ...

The Black Balloon (2012)

While escorting a group of children through New York City, a harried man loses hold of a bouquet of one hundred balloons. Among them, a single black balloon drifts free, seemingly lifeless, only to revive and embark on a strange journey through the city. S ...

Fake It So Real (2012)

Dive head-first into the world of independent pro wrestling as we follow a group in Lincolnton, North Carolina over the week leading up to a big show. ...

The Love We Make (2011)

"The Love We Make", a film directed by Albert Maysles ("Gimme Shelter") and Bradley Kaplan, follows Paul McCartney as he journeys through the streets of New York City in the aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. It ...

Beijing Taxi (2011)

BEIJING TAXI is a timely, uncensored and richly cinematic portrait of China's ancient capital as it undergoes a profound transformation. The film takes an intimate and compelling look at the lives of three cab drivers as they confront modern issues and cha ...

Eyes Find Eyes (2011)

Trapped in a dirty double deal, Ernst Ipsum, celebrated art authenticator, is in trouble. With nowhere to turn but inward, Ernst becomes the perfect portrait of anguish. This film traces the collapse of a man littered with the diversions of sex and sin and ...

Happy Life (2011)

New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the ...

Mulberry St. (2010)

Born in the Bronx and raised in upstate New York, Abel Ferrara started his professional film career on Mulberry Street in 1975. For the past year he's been living on the block, and the feast of San Gennaro is the subject of his new film. While he has used ...

Kati with an I (2010)

An intimate portrait of Kati, a teenage girl about to graduate high school, who endures a moment-by-moment emotional transformation over the course of three tumultuous days that leave her future in doubt. ...

Muhammad and Larry (2009)

In October of 1980 Muhammad Ali was preparing to fight for an unprecedented fourth heavyweight title against his friend and former sparring partner Larry Holmes. To say that the great Ali was in the twilight of his career would be generous; most of his adm ...

Impolex (2009)

Impolex tells the story of Tyrone S., a United States soldier in Operation Paperclip, the mission to locate and retrieve German rockets and rocket science after the end of World War II. Tyrone is tasked with finding what he believes are the last V-2's. Los ...

Alexander the Last (2009)

An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations. ...

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009)

Untangling the web of cultural and historical ties underlying Japan's deep fascination with insects. ...

John Wayne Hated Horses (2009)

A father and his young son share a house, a yard and very different ideas about masculinity and appropriate uses of army toys. The father and son both assert themselves with action rather than words. ...

An Omar Broadway Film (2008)

.An incarcerated gang member sneaks a video camera into prison in order to document the use of excessive force and corruption among the institution's guards. ...

Yeast (2008)

A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships. ...

Frownland (2008)

Keith is a disturbingly maladjusted social outcast and self-described "troll" whose neuroses plunge him into an unstoppable spiral of self-obliteration as his crummy coupon-selling job, pitiful living situation and last remaining human relationships disint ...

Small Apartment (2007)

A middle aged man, his son, and his daughter-in-law explore love and perversion in 700 square feet of space. ...

Sans Supervision (2006)

A young couple spend their summer days running away from their responsibilities. Eventually, their responsibilities learn how to outrun them. ...

Sean's Beach (2004)

A short film made by the American cinematographer Sean Price Williams. ...

Water People (2004)

WATER PEOPLE is an erotic and painful allegory of dark desire featuring blazing performances by its lead actors. Stew, a guitarist and intellectual, is traveling to the country with his girlfriend Carrie and their dog, Max, to Stew's recently-deceased gran ...

Frantic Fran's Jewish Stuff (1998)

From a 16mm workprint transferred to VHS (then to miniDV). ...

The Sweet East (2023)

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over. ...

Kim's Video (2023)

Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of rare films thanks to Kim's Video, a small empire run by Yongman Kim, an enigmatic character who amassed more than fifty thousand VHS tapes. ...

Honky Kong (2021)

A soul-battered New York chef begins unraveling during a trip to Hong Kong. ...

Jobe'z World (2019)

A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies. ...

Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie (2017)

Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York's city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers' early features and shorts. P ...

Ophülsesque: The Look of Letter from an Unknown Woman (2017)

Cinematographers Ben Kasulke and Sean Price Williams discuss their relationship to and the cinematography of Letter from an Unknown Woman. An extra on Olive Signature's Blu-Ray release of Letter from an Unknown Woman. ...

Temporary Color (2016)

A true crime concert doc about David Byrne and two escaped convicts. ...

A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What (2015)

The story behind the acclaimed film, "Heaven Knows What," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, and inspired by the life of Arielle Holmes. ...

Hellaware (2013)

Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. ...

Silver Bullets (2011)

An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film. ...

Happy Life (2011)

New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the ...

Daddy Longlegs (2010)

After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he ...

Alexander the Last (2009)

An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations. ...

Yeast (2008)

A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships. ...