En Route

Four boys from Okinawa Island have been friends since their childhood. Together with Rin, who is also from their hometown, and who has always been the girl of their dreams, all of them set out on a journey to let Rin see beyond the world of Okinawa. However, after they hitchhike a ride from a truck and encounter the world of adults, their journey starts to change drastically.

Route 3 is a film a surrealistic and ethnographic account of a newly completed highway in rural Laos. Paid for by Chinese and Thai development funds it is the first modern highway to connecting China to Thailand through the former Golden Triangle. Route 3 has accelerated Chinese development of Lao agricultural, gambling, and prostitution industries, and the migration of rural Lao minority populations to the growing roadside towns. The video considers the enigmatic changes in the visual landscape including the proliferation of hair salons, casinos, and markets for cheap industrial Thai and Chinese products. Continuing the directors’ work with performance and landscape, the film results in a ethno-fantastic panorama of this site.

A film by Rudranil Chaudhuri.

John T. Davis travels westward down Route 66 in his red Chevy Impala, documenting American life from the perspective of an Ulsterman.

A plane crash. A journey backwards through the life of Harry to a pivotal moment in his childhood.

In 1995 five hundred dock workers in Liverpool were fired for refusing to cross a picket line, sparking the Dockers' dispute of the 1990s. In protest, when the Neptune Jade – a Mersey-loaded ship – set sail from England dock workers across the globe refused to allow the ship to dock and unload its cargo – first at Oakland CA., then Vancouver, Canada and then Yokahoma and Kobe, Japan. The ship eventually sailed to Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan where it was disbanded and sold. Neptune Jade stands as a significant event in the dock workers struggle and of their international solidarity. In The Route, Chen re-presents history by interspersing archive film footage with new footage of a picket line staged by Dockers at Port of Kaohsiung. A symbolic connection between workers in Liverpool and Taiwan, the artist's home, is created, echoing the Dockers' phrase 'The world is our picket line'.

Up Route tells the unnerving tale of a hitchhiker who is picked up by a strange man and his (even stranger) potted plan

Debra Miller reflects on her decision to start living in a van at the age of 70.

Zhenya, simple and extremely good girl, living in a hostel, and works as a trolley bus driver. The main thing in life for her - to help people. She replaces colleagues at work, free lodges in her former teacher and gives hardly known girl her unique dress. Three friends make fun of her behind her back and are confident that her personal life does not shine. But Zhenya's inexhaustible optimism continues to believe that her trolley bus is traveling on the happy path. And once in her life comes a miracle.

Herve, the head of a press agency, is traveling fast down a road headed in only one direction: self-destruction. He is an alcoholic, and his drinking is wrecking his marriage, family and career. In desperation and still in denial, he checks into a detox clinic in Geneva, his last-chance saloon. There he meets a group of fellow sufferers and one person in particular, a young woman named Magali, who help him to see life other than through the bottom of an empty bottle.

The aura of recognition only heightens the effects of this bending, twisted world.

An exploration of the dead-ends in downtown Paris juxtaposed with the endless roads of Russia, as a metaphor to the lives of their inhabitants. A musical of techno loops, boundless tracks of humans in transit.

Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who spent many years in Africa, returns to the U.S. and decides to reconnect with his home country by walking the legendary Route One.

Tommy DiNello, a freelance videographer, moves back to North Branford Ct. from New York City after two years on his own. His extremely close cousins, Marie and Dom Jr., are reluctantly accepting their father's new young foreign wife Varya, just two years after their mother's death. Since Tommy's parents moved to Florida when he was away, he has no choice but to stay with his Uncle Dominic and cousin Marie while battling memories of the reason he left town in the first place. His dear friend, Angela and him are reunited, This is bittersweet as she is the only one with clear knowledge and witness of his past.Tommy moves back to North Branford Ct. after two years in NYC. He resides with his uncle and close cousins as they reluctantly accept their father's new marriage just two years after the death of their mother.

A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe island.