Torch Films (Firm)
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (42 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After the Norwegian Ministry of Culture's Human Rights Award was bestowed upon Thomas Østbye's previous film IMAGINING EMANUEL, Emanuel uses the money to buy fake identity papers and smuggle himself out of Norway and back to Liberia in order to start a new life.. With a single handheld camcorder, Emanuel films his escape into Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast and his eventual return to his home village in Grand Bassa, Liberia,...
2) Tectonics
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (61 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The immigration debate is at a fever pitch, and some politicians insist that a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico will solve our problems. But what does the common person know about topography of this border? With approximately 350 million crossings per year, the Mexico-US border is the most frequently traversed international border in the world. Beginning where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico and working its way backward, step-by-step,...
3) INAATE/SE
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A re-imagination of an ancient Ojibway story -- the Seven Fires Prophecy -- which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans, INAATE/SE/ is a kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary, narrative, and experimental forms. INAATE/SE/ transcends linear colonized history to explore how the prophecy resonates through the generations in their indigenous community within Michigan's Upper Peninsula.. With acute geographic specificity, and...
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Great Wall is a visually hypnotic and disturbing study of borders and immigration in a contemporary Europe increasingly preoccupied with its own fortification.. In a simple but highly suggestive manoeuvre, we hear Kafka's short story, "The Building of the Great Wall of China" being read over searing images of concrete walls, maps, barbed wire and armed guards, which chart the ominous security culture that aims to protect EU citizens from the perceived...
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A century ago, the Jewish grandparents of film director Peter Entell fled the persecution and pogroms of Ukraine, a land torn apart by war and massacres, and found refuge in the United States. Returning to seek out the village of his ancestors, Entell finds himself in the middle of a civil war.. He finds that people continue to kill in the name of the mother country, flag, culture, and religion. The memory of the atrocities suffered by the Jews, the...
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Emanuel arrived in Norway in 2003 as a stowaway on a container ship. He arrived with no papers, claiming to be from Liberia and to have fled its civil war in the early 1990s to spend the next decade on the streets of Ghana. But Norwegian authorities suspect he is of Ghanaian origin, and have sent him to Ghana twice, only to have Emanuel rejected and returned to Norway.. He is held for a year in a Norwegian detention center, where he is subject to...
7) Topophilia
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline is one of the world's longest conduits for crude oil, stretching 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay in the north to Port Valdez in the south. Mostly raised due to permafrost and only 48 inches in diameter, the pipeline has moved 17 billion barrels of oil since its completion in 1977.. TOPOPHILIA is both a matter-of-fact examination of the entire pipeline and downstream ports and refineries in Los Angeles, as well as a geographic...
8) Pine Ridge
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Filmed on the Native American reservation of the same name in South Dakota, where Americans with native blood live a life in the middle -- and yet outside -- of American society, PINE RIDGE explores what shapes the lives and dreams of today's Native American youth.. Depicted on their own terms during a long warm summer, Lance Red Cloud, Kassel Sky, Cassandra Warrior, her young daughter Diamond Rose, and their friends and families know one thing for...
9) Haunted
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As the Syrian Civil War began to slowly bear down on Damascus, its residents were forced to decide whether to stay and protect their homes or to flee and leave everything behind.. Some residents appear perpetually ready to leave, but seem to be staying nevertheless. They ask themselves how many artillery shellings are too many. The simple act of deciding which family heirlooms to pack carries a sense of loss. Some who had hoped to have finally found...
10) The Lab
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Israel invests heavily in military weapons research, which isn't surprising given it's history and location. Large companies develop and test deadly technology, which is sold worldwide by private agents, often to countries with oppressive regimes and abysmal human rights records. This process takes place among a highly developed network of military officials, politicians, and consultants who advise nation-clients on how to conduct counter-insurgency...
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The protagonists in BROTHERS OF THE NIGHT are young Bulgarian Roma men. Poverty and a sense of adventure has brought them to Vienna. They sell their bodies because they don’t want to beg for money or peddle newspapers. Their customers are lonely, usually older men who live in public housing. The guys do “business” with them, a word they choose to make a clear distinction between work and pleasure. Then they get to the blue and pink nightlife...
12) Call Me Marianna
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Unable to deny the intense feelings of her true gender identity any longer, middle-aged Marianna began the transition from man to woman. The risk of estrangement from her wife, children, and parents became her reality. Homeless for three winter months, she was finally taken in by a few strangers who had previously transitioned themselves.. The bliss that follows her transition is not immune to the vicissitudes of life however, and she soon experiences...
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Aysén, a region in Chilean Patagonia, is the size of England but has only 90,000 inhabitants. They live isolated with nearly no roads in a stunning rough landscape. Somewhere in this lost world, a mysterious city is hiding. Five hundred years ago a group of conquerors built a city entirely of gold. As legend describes, whoever sets foot on it becomes immortal but loses their memory. It is the City of the Lost Caesars.
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The belief in demons, or “djinn,” is an aspect of Islamic culture that is open to interpretation. In a subjective investigation of this controversial topic, POSSESSED BY DJINN follows the true story of Aya, a four-year-old Jordanian girl killed by her father in the belief that she was possessed.. As the director investigates this case, she finds herself on a journey into an obscure world of ritual and tradition. Her intriguing, disturbing, encounters...
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On the brink of the Syrian uprising, in the refugee camp of Yarmouk, the Shebabs, a young close-knit collective of third-generation Palestinian refugees, are preparing for a future of profound uncertainty. Now facing adulthood, they possess a genuine thirst for life in constant confrontation with the harsh realities of the camp and their own sense of rootlessness.. THE SHEBABS OF YARMOUK is a poignant lament for the lost youth of Yarmouk, captured...
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Nominated for Best Documentary at Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND illuminates the refugee experience and its contradictions.. The Italian island of Lampedusa has increasingly become a rescue point for migrants and refugees seeking a gateway into Europe. Omar, a refugee who fled Tunisia during the Arab Spring, was taken in by a doctor and set up with a job as an interpreter in the local center for refugees. Adam,...
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (64 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Beginning at origins in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY tracks the flow of water, step-by-step, through Owens Valley, aqueducts, and concrete troughs in the city of Los Angeles, to Long Beach delta and the Pacific Ocean. Constructed from tens of thousands of still images and their neighboring sounds, the film is also a journey through a natural and industrial topography of striking conflicts and contradictions. In its contemplation of...