Triple Canopy Presents: Standard Deviations

Bill Gunn’s seductive and radical Trojan Horse turns the vampire film into a meditation on eroticism, Afro-diasporic identities, religion and power.

This exploitation masterpiece is an unexpectedly humanizing portrait of four young nurses navigating their careers and love lives in the 70s, with surprising political commentary.

Six 1970s EAI video works are experiments in troubling the materiality and ideology of the image through techniques that include montage, explosions, sledgehammers, mirrors and talking to the camera.

Trailblazing director William Greaves inverts and democratizes the filmmaking process by offering his film crew the chance to decide exactly what kind of movie they want to make.

Started by Chilean experimental master Raúl Ruiz in 1990 and completed by his wife in 2017, this dreamy, interconnected series of vignettes is a gloriously political sendup of the telenovela—and Chile itself.

Haunted textures, fragmented silhouettes, and veiled intimacies dance across the cinematic practices of experimental artists Maryam Tafakory and Edward Owens.

Shot on an iPhone and smuggled into France for its debut at Cannes, this clandestine documentary shows the day-to-day life of director Jafar Panahi while on house arrest in his Tehran apartment.

This program brings the party—and the hangover—to the big screen with a selection of videos that thoughtfully consider the club as a site of pleasure, communion, and criticism.

Drawing on militant pro-Palestine films of the 60s, 70s, and 80s that swept through Japan, this hybrid work explores how two different peoples can feel connected through images.

A low-budget declaration of world war, this grainy, handheld propaganda film follows Japan’s Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Lebanon as they prepare for revolution.

This alchemical convergence pairs moving image works from experimental Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto with live performance by Baltimore-based jazz musicians Konjur Collective.