Apparatus Productions Movies

The true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker who finds God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers.

A child who withdraws after witnessing a suffocation death has nightmares about what he saw, while his uncomprehending parents struggle to understand him

This bizarre parody of the animated religious children’s show Davey and Goliath uses actors but looks like Claymation because of the stop motion, distorted voices, giant prosthetic ears and hair and sets that make Pee-Wee’s Playhouse look realistic. Davey’s father whips him with a belt for...

Richard and Janet are an upwardly-mobile black couple keen to “make it” in New York City. Inspired by Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, which Richard is reading, they take social climbing to new heights by adopting a white child. Larry Carty’s delicious satire was selected for the...

Brooke Dammkoehler’s meditation on the rise to stardom of a glamorous movie idol (modelled after Greta Garbo), draped in gorgeous black & white photography and a tone of delirious grandeur.

A state employee tasked with photographing road conditions tracks a mysterious man (played by Steve Buscemi) who leaves suspiciously large garbage bags along a snowy country road.

The only black American family in Maine has a son, a blind bodybuilder, who falls in love with a white "mer-boy."

An odyssey about two women trying to stop a young girl from biting the Host at her First Communion.

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a television documentary about Malaysian rites of passage.

A cunning storyteller presents a curious tale of blackmail to two friends invited to lunch. As the story unwinds we realise that the blackmail plot is merely a cover-up for a far more sinister plot involving revenge and murder. This fast-paced, ironic black comedy provides the spectator with a...

A priest wakes repeatedly from a dream in which he sees attractive, partially-disrobed man in his room. The hypnotic repetition and anxiety of his vision gains tension from the minimalist score.

This faux newsreel spoof documents the rise and fall of four Chinese musicians who rose from the ashes of the Cultural Revolution to rock 'n' roll at Max's Kansas City. Al- though this loopy rockumentary is basically a one-note joke, it has particular resonance in light of Tiananmen Square