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Randomly selected films from the Hoodox library.

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  • Kawergosk: Home Made of Cloth

    After fleeing war in Syria and crossing the border into Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Syrian Kurds attempt to build a life in Kawergosk Refugee Camp. Music, food, and education provide families some comfort and meaning while they struggle with camp conditions and the persistence of waiting. Kawergosk: ...

  • PreEnact: A Neighborhood That Ought To Be

    Neighbors on the near northside of Indianapolis gather to share the stories of their past and dreams for the future, culminating in a massive, immersive theater event with the hope of strengthening their neighborhoods without gentrifying them.

  • Chad Perdue - Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary

    Learn more about Hoosier filmmakers in the Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary series.

  • Third Space: Center for Inquiry & Anila Agha

  • Full Hand Farm: A More Than Corn Story

    Husband-and-wife farmers Genesis and Eli share their journey of operating a produce farm in Noblesville, Indiana. As they work to grow crops year-round, each season brings its own challenges, triumphs, and plenty of hard work.

    Full Hand Farm embraces all four of Indiana's seasons, highlighting t...

  • Sleeze Lake - Trailer

    Set among the foggy memories and ephemera of the world's largest custom van club, "Sleeze Lake" tells the story of a wild van party thrown in the middle of a fictitious resort town and the people who dreamt it up.

  • Onward Ever - Trailer

    In weaving together interviews from city infrastructure workers, environmental activists, illustrators and sculptors, youth volunteers and more, Onward Ever explores the need for a clean and viable river system, on which so many people along Indiana’s White River depend. In doing so, the film ask...

  • Six Feet Above

    Craig Arnett is a gravestone cleaner and it is his favorite thing to do. This job comes with all the baggage one might expect, not only the physical labor but the mental toll of kneeling over the deceased. Craig's life has been filled with death, and he naturally leans towards it. Almost his enti...

  • Larry from Gary - Teaser

    A dedicated dance teacher continues inspiring his current and former students even after the arts high school in Gary, Indiana where he's taught for decades is shut down by the state.

    By seeing a person who's devoted his life to teaching have to leave his position because of the financial crisi...

  • The Supper Club

    The menus were printed. The space was ready. The date was set. Then the world shut down. This is a story of heartbreak, adaptation, and great food.

    The dream was a neighborhood bistro - fresh, local ingredients, thoughtfully and expertly prepared. So, they packed up their belongings, left Denver...

  • Hoodox - Streaming Platform Teaser

  • Bike Story

    When a bike shop owner and a filmmaker discover four vintage bicycles tucked away like time capsules in a dark corner of an old building, they take on the challenge of bringing them into the present while exploring the gripping nostalgia of bikes in the past.

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Tonagels Featurette

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring Tony Vasquez

    Glass Breakfast is an online archive project serving as an alternative space for the appreciation and conversation of contemporary art.

  • Xuè

    "Xuè" highlights a Chinese artist named Xiaoman Gu at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) during her final year before moving back home to China. It documents her time in the studio, and her thoughts on representation in the art world in Indianapolis.

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring Sean Starowitz

    Glass Breakfast is an online archive project serving as an alternative space for the appreciation and conversation of contemporary art.

  • Counting the Cost

    A mother recollects her family's experience in leaving an Amish community.

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring Peter Shear

    An Interview with Peter Shear for Glass Breakfast.
    Directed, produced and edited by Ian Carstens. Starring Peter Shear.

  • A Legacy Etched in Glass: The Ball Brothers in Muncie

    This film examines the lives of the five brothers, the family legacy in Muncie and the core values that propelled them to success: hard work, philanthropy, entrepreneurship and beneficence.

  • Stories and Legends: Historic Preservation in Muncie, Indiana

    "Stories and Legends," which won an Aurora Award for Platinum Best of Show, explores historic preservation while tracing the efforts to restore structures in several of Muncie's nationally recognized historic districts, including the hospital where bank robber John Dillinger stayed (Whitney Hospi...

  • Goshen: A Sundown Town's Transformation

    ‘Goshen - A Sundown Town’s Transformation’ explores Goshen, Indiana’s past as a racially exclusionary Sundown Town and how the community is finding ways to acknowledge this history and move forward.

    There have been thousands of such communities in the U.S., but Goshen is among the first to make...

  • The Aviators: A Father/Son Story

    After tragedy strikes, a son seeks to connect with his father through the joy of flight.

  • Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

    The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film explores the question: why has let...

  • No Limits - Trailer

    The No Limits Art Series aims to strengthen inclusiveness and remove social barriers in the arts for individuals with disabilities. The Indiana Blind Children’s Foundation (IBCF), through a grant by Lilly Endowment Inc., organized high school students from the Indiana School for the Blind and Vis...