• “Cartune Xprez” Animation Screening

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Cartune Exprez is a curated program of experimental animations and performances from across the United States and Canada. This event converges hypercolor flash graphics, hand drawn stories, newspaper cut-outs, photo […]

  • “The Camden 28,” Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    How far would you go to stop a war? Anthony Giacchino’s film The Camden 28, tells what happened on August 22, 1971, when twenty-eight men and women in Camden, New […]

  • The Sabir Mateen Quartet

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Composer and bandleader Sabir Mateen has been a musician most of his life. Born in Philadelphia, he started as a percussionist and moved to flute as a teenager. Gradually evolving […]

  • “The Net” Premiere With Political Theorist Langdon Winner

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    More of a film essay (of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker) than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck's The Net: The Unabomber, the LSD and […]

  • “Independent America” Premiere with Author Michael Shuman

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    The author of The Small-Mart Revolution and Going Local introduces a screening of a thought-provoking new documentary by Hanson Hosein, Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop […]

  • Talking Points + Talking Ponies with Media Artist Ben Coonley

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Multi-disciplinary artist Ben Coonley presents a selection of underground art videos, Internet curiosities, and avant – PowerPoint performances that defy the logic of corporate aesthetics in favor of an ecstatic […]

  • Premiere of “Kabul Transit” with Filmmaker David Edwards

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Kabul Transit is a documentary that explores the soul of a city devastated by nearly three decades of war. The film follows city residents in the course of their daily […]

  • Be The Media! Workshop with Daniela Kostova: 100% Video

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Can you make a video in 4 hours? This workshop is an introduction to basic audio-video recording and in-camera editing techniques. The participants will learn how to work with a […]

  • Jason Kao Hwang and Edge

    Composer, violinist and educator Jason Kao Hwang's new jazz quartet Edge features: Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet; Andre Drury, percussion; Ken Filiano, bass. Nested in the urban mountains of New York […]

  • Screening with A/V Geeks Founder, Skip Elsheimer

    A/V Geeks founder Skip Elsheimer spends most of his time collecting, archiving and showing 16mm educational films. He'll share some of his favorites. The A/V Geeks Film Archive is an […]

  • “Black Gold” Screening

    The documentary Black Gold (2006) by directors Marc Francis and Nick Francis tells an unresolved modern version of the age-old David and Goliath story. The giants in this case are […]

  • “El Inmigrante” Screening

    El Inmigrante (2005) is a film by David Eckenrode, John Sheed­y and John Eckenrode about the Mexican-American border crisis, exemplified by the story of Eusebio de Haro — a young […]

  • “Roots,” “Nest,” and “Limbs”

    Three separate multimedia performance works by local women artists: Ryder Cooley and Sara Worden; Aaryn Zev; and Melle Dragon assisted by Victoria O'Hanlon.  Co-sponsored by Dat-Inoxia Projects.