When punk erupted in the nation’s capital in the mid to late 1970’s, it was a mighty convergence of powerful music, friendships and clear minds. The sounds and ideas that emerged from those early years of punk/hardcore-punk continue to influence and inspire around the world. Punk the Capital captures that explosive time and situates D.C. punk history within the larger narratives of punk and rock and roll.

The film takes us through the untold story of how the DC punk scene was built from the ground up despite the “hostile environment” of Washington D.C. A legendary artist’s co-op named Madams Organ looms large in the film, as a “free space” where many great punk bands got their foothold (1979-1980). Punk the Capital includes a large amount of never before seen Super 8 footage from the co-op. From the perspective of that family-sized row house, this film dives back into an array of D.C. area bands of the late 1970’s (Slickee Boys, White Boy) and looks forward into the growth of DC’s hardcore punk scene of the early 1980’s (Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Faith).

Starring: Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara

Under constant attack by Angels, NERV introduces two new pilots: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka Langley Shikinami. Parallel to the incursion, Gendo Ikari and SEELE proceed the secret project that involves both Rei and Shinji.

Starring: Yûsaku Yara, Toshiko Fujita, Ichirô Nagai

Two agents – a lady-killer human and a voluptuous demon – attempt to protect a signatory to a peace ceremony between the human world and the “Black World” from radicalized demons.

Starring: Shigeru Chiba, Hisao Egawa, Kayoko Fujii

Memories is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, “Magnetic Rose,” four space travelers are drawn into an abandoned spaceship that contains a world created by one woman’s memories. In “Stink Bomb,” a young lab assistant accidentally transforms himself into a human biological weapon set on a direct course for Tôkyô. The final episode, “Cannon Fodder,” depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unseen enemy.

Starring: Arata Furuta, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Tetsu Inada

The first feature film from the acclaimed Studio TRIGGER and director Hiroyuki Imaishi, Promare is an explosive showdown between Burning Rescue and the destructive Mad Burnish in an electrifying, explosively colorful action-adventure. Thirty years has passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves “Mad Burnish” appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team “Burning Rescue,” and Lio Fotia, the leader of “Mad Burnish” begins.

Starring: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi

The fate of the world is threatened by seemingly monstrous entities known as Angels. NERV is an organisation set up to counter this threat and it is up to young pilots to protect Earth but exactly what are the real motives behind NERV?

Starring: Jim Gaffigan, Logan Miller, Samantha Mathis, Alex Karpovsky, Danielle Campbell, Anna Gunn

Seventeen-year old Philip (Logan Miller) longs to leave his small town for music school in The Big Apple. His dreams are dashed when his overbearing father, Frank (Jim Gaffigan), forbids it. In retaliation to his father’s dictatorial parenting, he sneaks away in search of a wild spring break. However, when he crosses state lines, he instead finds a charming lake community where he spots his father with another woman. Turns out, Frank lives in this town and has an entire other family. With this bizarre revelation Philip realizes he can either blow the whistle on his father’s deceit or take advantage of the surreal situation. With a well-balanced mix of comedy and drama, Being Frank offers an ensemble cast, led by the terrific Jim Gaffigan and Logan Miller, a chance to turn the heartbreaking into the hysterical.

Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Stephen Root

Corporate drone Peter Gibbons hates his soul-killing job at software company Initech. While undergoing hypnotherapy, Peter is left in a blissful state when his therapist dies in the middle of their session. He refuses to work overtime, plays games at his desk and unintentionally charms two consultants into putting him on the management fast-track. When Peter’s friends learn they’re about to be downsized, they hatch a revenge plot against the company inspired by Superman III.

Get ready for a debaucherous selection of sexy shorts will have your palms sweating and your seat squeaking. Join Vimeo curator Jeffrey Bowers as he screens recent and classic erotically-themed animated shorts from the last three decades. From poignant to pure crazy, these 15 shorts run the gamut of sex, from introspective dissertations on small, curved penises to music made exclusively from spanking sounds to straight up porn.

The styles and techniques these films employ range from stop-motion to CGI, but each filmmaker uses them to get at a weird and singular truth that only animation can access. Filmmaker Naomi Uman’s profound Removed finds the filmmaker commenting on gender roles by literally removing a woman from an 8mm porn footage using traditionally feminine products. Acclaimed animator Jeff Scher, whose work often appears on the New York Times, screens his seldom seen Cunning Stunts, a gorgeously hand-painted rotoscope that finds the beauty in hardcore porn. The program, like sex, shifts from moving and deep to fun and WTF including a deranged, meta foot fetish piece from Cool 3D World and a masturbating, life-size bear puppet in The Blindness of the Woods.

Whatever your fetish might be, you’ll find something to satisfy it in this unique screening of very animated sex.

Supervenus (2013)
Directed by Frederic Doazan
A plastic surgeon creates a new Venus.
(3 minutes)

Cunning Stunts (2004)
Directed by Jeff Scher
Using found clippings of French novels, hotel business cards, old show flyers, bits of his stamp collection, and a whole lot of pasteled, goached, and watercolored paintings, animator Jeff Scher honors the rythms and motions of sex.
(2 minutes)

Pussy (2017)
Directed by Renata Gasiorowska
A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
(8 minutes)

Things I Should Stop Thinking about Thinking (2014)
Directed by Dan Castro
A film about boobs, sex and boys being happy – or not.
A brief look at what stress feels like from inside the head of a youngish bloke.
(1 minute)

Teat Beat of Sex #1 & 4 & 7 (2008)
Writer/director Signe Baumane present
A take on sex exclusively from a woman’s point of view. Showcasing three episodes from Signe Baumane’s acclaimed series.
(6 minutes)

Who’s the Daddy (2017)
Directed by Wong Ping
:< A Tinder tragedy.
:0 An unexpected child.
;( A journey finding my root of shame.
Inspired by true story
(10 minutes)

Destiny/Fate (Keep Going) (2018)
Directors Cool 3D World present
Destiny and Fate go toe to toe in the battle for a pornographer’s pleasure.
(1 minute)

Shunga (2016)
Directed by Roberto Biadi
A hypersexualized stream of consciousness animation that sees humans, demons, and animals morphing, exploding and becoming each other.
(1 minute)

Removed (1999)
Directed by Naomi Uman
Removed is a short film made up of pictures from porn films. The naked woman, an object of desire, is removed from the image with bleach and nail varnish. The viewer is forced to think about man-woman relationships.
(7 minutes)

Short Stories About Love (2015)
Directed by Darío Alva
A glitch in the romantic system allowed this shocking and peculiar brand of love to be told.
(4 minutes)

MLX (2017)
Directed by Simon Landrein
This butt can dance.
(2 minutes)

Superbia (2016)
Directed by Luca Toth
The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.
(15 minutes)

Hot Tea (2018)
Directed by Marcel Tigchelaar
In this hand drawn animation without dialogue, a man indulges in the vapour of a glass of hot tea. He drifts off to a colourful world where scents seem to be visualised and assume physical powers. Just when the man’s pleasure builds up to a sensual climax, the glass throws a spanner in the works.
(2 minutes)

The Blindness of the Woods    (2009)
Directed by Martin Jalfen and Javier Lourenco
A mash-up story of fairy tales and 1970s Nordic erotic films.
(12 minutes)

X.Y.U. (2019)
Directed by Donny Sansone
A hand-drawn morphing sexual circus in the vein of Bill Plympton’s famous “Plymptoons.”
(2 minutes)

Starring: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone

Twenty-seven years after the Losers Club defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. Now adults, the Losers have long since gone their separate ways. However, people are disappearing again, so Mike, the only one of the group to remain in their hometown, calls the others home. Damaged by the experiences of their past, they must each conquer their deepest fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all…putting them directly in the path of the shape-shifting clown that has become deadlier than ever.