Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm)
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
When four young orphans, Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura, first meet, their parents' bodies are being turned into dust. They are like zombies; devoid of all emotion. With no family, no future, no dreams, and no way to move forward, the young teens decide that the first level of this new existence involves salvaging a gaming console, an old electric bass, and a charred wok from their former homes, just enough to start a band, and then conquer the...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Young Pietari lives with his stern reindeer-herding father Rauno in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, an enormous excavation at a nearby mountain disturbs the locals and captures Pietari's curiosity. When Rauno's reindeer herd is mysteriously slain and the children in town go missing, Pietari realizes that the dig has unearthed the evil Santa Claus of local lore, who no one wants coming to town.
3) Poser
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Wallflower Lennon Gates yearns for access to the inner sanctum of the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio. When she creates a podcast to interview the local artists she adores, Lennon discovers her musical ambitions, develops a fast friendship with the striking, confident performer Bobbi Kitten, and in the process creates an identity not wholly her own. Soon, Lennon's aspirations, with some constructive coaxing from Bobbi to find her voice,...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best places to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse "prison break,"...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a loving home, brothers, Peter and Matthew are crazy about each other, but also constantly at each other's throats. Displaying their individual idiosyncrasies, Peter is obsessed with the TV show Survivor, while younger brother Matthew struggles to overcome his intense fear of dogs, the brothers spend one formative summer in their suburban Maryland neighborhood. Ben Mullinkosson's revealing and endearing film is an affectionate portrait...
6) Silo
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Disaster strikes when teenage Cody becomes the victim of a grain entrapment accident. Family, neighbors, and first responders must put aside their differences to rescue him from drowning in the 50-foot-tall silo where corn quickly turns to quicksand.
7) November
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a Medieval Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her. This title is in Estonian.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Writer and director Faraut revisits the rich bounty of footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe as he competes in the French Open at Paris's Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Far from a traditional documentary, Faraut probes the archival film to unpack both McEnroe's attention to the sport and the footage itself, creating a lively and immersive look at a driven athlete, a study on the sport of tennis and the human body and movement, and finally...
9) Bellflower
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building Mad Max-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies.
10) Cane River
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Written, produced, and directed by the late Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, this recently rediscovered landmark of American independent cinema is a charmingly laid-back, socially incisive love story set in the heart of Louisiana. It's there that a forbidden romance between an aspiring writer and an ambitious, college-bound woman reveals the tensions between two black communities: the wealthy Creoles and...
11) The king
Publisher
Oscillscope
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.
12) Kedi
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Türkçe
Description
Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame, and they bring joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to the people, allowing them to reflect on their lives...
Publisher
Exclusively distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Deep in the Southern swamps, the Grimes family operates a baby farm where unwanted or "lost" children are cruelly underfed and overworked. When the children are threatened, Mama Mollie, the oldest of the kids, leads her troop through an alligator-infested swamp in one of the most harrowing escapes in cinema history.
15) Gods of Mexico
Publisher
Oscillscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, Gods of Mexico is a poetic survey of the rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using deeply saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through the salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines--paying tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization"--
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio's award-winning documentary is an intimate portrait of the acclaimed North Carolina band The Avett Brothers, charting their decade-and-a-half rise while chronicling their collaboration with producer Rick Rubin on the multi-Grammy-nominated album "True Sadness", released on American Recordings/Republic Records.
17) Animals
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of Bobbie and Jude, a young drug-addicted couple who exist somewhere between homelessness on the streets of Chicago and the fantasy life they imagine for themselves. Though they masterfully con and steal in an attempt to stay one step ahead of their addiction, they are ultimately forced to face the reality of their situation.
18) Sophie Jones
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this debut feature by filmmaker Jessie Barr, sixteen-year-old Sophie Jones grapples with the recent death of her mother. Physical intimacy with another person becomes the only way for Sophie to feel anything. Eroticism becomes the antidote to her mother's death. She tries to keep her relationships strictly for her own empowerment and as a means of distraction. But what happens when Sophie finds that she does want more than physical intimacy but...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Persian
Description
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
20) Wrestle
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate coming-of-age documentary about four members of a wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools. Teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the state championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health struggles, and run-ins with the law threaten to derail their...