Sock Ads: Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California / 1987

Judith Williamson examines consumer culture in America, from the multiplication of products and their functions to capitalism’s colonization of the body. What is the meaning of freedom in modern day America? Is it the freedom to change the world or the freedom to change our socks?

Tears For Fears - Californian Nigths / 1992

California Girls / 1983

In an effort to boost his ratings, a radio DJ holds a three-day competition looking for California's most exciting girl.

California Romanza / 20116.01 voti

Lena heads to her Auntie JoJo and Uncle Pops' for annual Christmastime festivities. Little does she know, this Christmas will be like none of the rest.

Barstow, California / 2018

Documentary about a small town in California.

Riding the California Trail / 1947

Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but engaged to Dolores. Learning that all her money will got to her uncle Don Jose when she marries Raole, Cisco suspects a plot and sets out to unravel it.

The Advocate Presents: Gay Marriage in California / 2008

"The Advocate" was on hand to cover the highs and lows of the first few days of gay marriage in California.

Drive Thru California Expedition / 2002

This comedic real life approach to a road rules type of surf adventure features the misadventures of Greg Browning, Donavon Frankenreiter, Tim Curren and Shawn 'Barney' Baron. Filmed in 30 days, it covers the four surfers' journey down the coast of California while living in a rented RV. Along with the surf footage are practical jokes, footage of mishaps and complications on the trip, and the general comedy of the four guys living in such close quarters for a month.

Joey Yung x Leo Ku - California Red 903 Concert Live /

California Report #6: Berkeley Murals and Mudflats / 1978

Kodachrome film diary.

Dignidad: California Domestic Workers' Journey for Justice! / 2023

Coming to this country with dreams of a better life, frontline caregivers, nannies and house cleaners risk it all to support their families while fighting for workplace protections during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through grit, activism and unbending solidarity, these mostly female and largely undocumented workers show how change can happen—even when the odds are stacked against them.

California Limited, A.T. & S.F.R.R. / 1898

Taken on 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch, Santa Anita, Cal. Shows an engine and five cars approaching from a distance.

Hot'hell California / 2022

California Love / 2010

Take a pill and follow Eazy on his crazy quest for love.

California Dreaming /

John is about to win a multi-million dollar lottery draw, when two robbers barge in for a stick-up!

The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley / 2008

A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmakers, Naomi Uman and Lee Lynch).

Little Manila: Filipinos in California's Heartland / 2008

Known as “The City of Gold,” Stockton became a major hub for Filipino immigrants coming to the U.S at the turn of the 20th century. By the 1930s, this lively area had the largest population of Filipinos outside of the Philippines. Many worked as farm laborers traveling up and down the west coast harvesting fruit and vegetables in California, Oregon, and Washington and then working in the canneries in Alaska during the winter. But Stockton was where Filipinos could always return home.

Far Out West: Inside California's Kerista Commune /

The Kerista Commune shared sex, love and parenting, while getting rich selling Apple computers. But Kerista was as fragile as it was alluring, and the former members are still debating whether their utopia was actually a cult in disguise.

The California Trail / 1933

Santa Fe Stuart, leading a relief train bringing food to the peasants, gets caught up in the Commandante and his brother the Mayor's effort to starve out the peasants. Thrown in jail and about to be hung, he escapes and joins the peasants in their fight against the brothers and their troops...

California Street / 1979

The reiteration of information in a constant scrolling of 24 frames per second, the coupling of positive and negative bands, then front and rear focal length variations progressively fragment the cinematographic space according to a recurring structure, highlighting the mechanism of the focal device. kinetic. This decreasing fragmentation disarticulates filmic continuity and hampers the discursive act, by which an observer apprehends a “reality” in the cinematographic field and sends it back to the construction of the perceived space.