Passing Through / 2024

Passing Through is a 16mm music video for the song of the same name. Analog aesthetics in both film and music create a timeless ambiance, with the latter crafting a mature narrative exploring love’s value amid human imperfections.

passing through / 2024

Passing Through / 2021

Set amidst the rich sounds and diverse tapestry of the American landscape, Passing Through tells the incredible true story of a young man who journeys on foot from Pennsylvania to California, collecting stories as he goes. But when his trek brings to light an unresolved family crisis, he must use the lessons he’s gathered to finally confront his past. Don’t miss the musical that celebrates America and the power of what can happen when we open ourselves up to a stranger.

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Carefree retired teacher Tom and his new partner Iona have run away to start a new life together in the South of France, but when Tom's estranged son shows up unannounced with his girlfriend Adele, their past traumas begin to catch up with them. Adele, who was raised in a cult where she was both worshipped and abused, allows her own emotional sacrifices to become the catalyst for others to heal.

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A family on the road pass through an old gold mining town. For Margie, the place triggers childhood memories and she is drawn to two old Koori men who knew her family.

Passing Through / 2023

Isolated in his apartment, a gay man embarks on a road trip across the US to deliver a friend’s ashes, but he finds that his journey takes him further than he could have ever imagined, forcing him to face his own mortality.

Passing Through / 2023

Passing Through is a snapshot of a family's holiday gathering in Trinidad and Tobago that invites the viewer into warm celebration and the rituals of food, cards and music. An ephemeral travelogue of moments that records a journey home using photography, haiku and prose revealing togetherness in a mother's hands, toes in sand and a dance in dappled sunlight.

Passing Through / 1984

Glimpses of life on the run. Shot in Juarez, Mexico, Austin and El Paso.

Passing Through / 2020

A call and response to impermanence.

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Passing Through is a short documentary exploring time, belonging, suburban and rural living and the English landscape through the lens of a 150 mile walk from London to Birmingham along the Grand Union Canal.

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AKA Woni Spotts: First Black Woman to Travel to Every Country.

Passing Through / 2013

Images of snowflakes shot against the darkness of the sky became material for my work, the process of making one thing out of another thing by shifting not just its function but also the movement and directions while still experiencing the constant relationship to the whole. The visuals in Passing Through explore an intense relationship of one and many but at the same time they serve as a metaphor for mysteries of our own destinies and being.

Passing Through / 2018

For decades, the poor and dispossessed have been herded and confined to Skid Row. In Passing Through, the seemingly lost find a new sense of community.

Passing Through / 1977

Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and grandfather, the legendary jazz musician Poppa Harris.

Just Passing Through / 2013

Terry and Parnell Gallant are two rough and tumble cousins from Prince Edward Island who arrive unannounced on their cousin Owen's Toronto doorstep. They swear they're “just passing through” Toronto to sweet jobs in Alberta. But like every family reunion, this one turns out to be more than Owen's bargained for.

Passing Through / 2023

A young woman connects with her hedonistic father in the most unlikely of places - a hospice facility in trashy paradise, South Florida.

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Fresh out of college, Adolfson - a Korean adoptee who grew up in Coon Rapids, Minnesota - decides to return to his land of birth for fun and new experiences. After spending six months at Yonsei University living among drunk foreign exchange students, he relocates to a boarding house, determined to get a better sense of what life outside the dormitories is like. What he finds ranges from the painful to the provocative. He briefly participates in a student demonstration, resulting in his choking on tear gas. He is compelled to volunteer for an orphanage and muses over his own barely remembered childhood. Events culminate when Adolfson is reunited on Korean national television with his three long-lost siblings. An absorbing account of how cultural barriers can stimulate rather than hinder personal growth, PASSING THROUGH offers a unique look at a young man's coming of age.

Just Passing Through / 2013

Just Passing Through is a short documentary film on life as a full-time musician in Australia. Artists’ Gareth Liddiard, Sarah Blasko & Paul Dempsey clear a space in the messy tour van of their lives, to detail the long road behind overnight success. This is fame and fortune Australia style – unglamorous and hardly secure.

Passing Quietly Through /

A blunt and human encounter between a nurse and an aging man.

Not Just Passing Through / 1994

A documentary about lesbians preserving their history, with a focus on the work of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Includes interviews with Joan Nestle, Jewelle Gomez, and Mariana Romo-Carmona, among others. Profiled are Mabel Hampton, Marge McDonald, theater group 5 Lesbian Brothers, and Asian Lesbians of the East Coast.