Iowa Movies
- 2022

Plastic Him
Plastic Him02022HD
A self portrait filmed with a modified PXL 2000 Camcorder. The camcorder itself records on to audio cassette tape. The tapes themselves are recycled...
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- 2016

Marriage of Lies
Marriage of Lies52016HD
When Rachel’s husband disappears, the police have one suspect: her. While trying to prove her innocence, she uncovers many secrets about the...
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- 2021

East of Middle West
East of Middle West8.62021HD
A teenage runaway and a widowed father each fight to take matters into their own hands to redeem their dark past.
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- 2019

The Burial
The Burial02019HD
A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service.
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- 1943

Happy Land
Happy Land7.11943HD
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...
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- 2010

Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer
Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer02010HD
A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he...
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- 1984

Country
Country6.51984HD
Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous,...
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- 1933

State Fair
State Fair6.41933HD
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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- 2009

Haunting Villisca
Haunting Villisca82009HD
Professor David Salt's guilty secrets draw him to the fabled town of Villisca. Past and present collide as he is driven to help the trapped spirits...
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- 2014

State of Bacon
State of Bacon02014HD
State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival....
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- 1970

Gable
Gable01970HD
Chronicles the journey of Olympic gold medalist wrestler Dan Gable, as a working-class kid from Waterloo, Iowa who overcame an unthinkable family...
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- 1935

Village Tale
Village Tale7.21935HD
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
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- 1995

Alkali, Iowa
Alkali, Iowa5.51995HD
On his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the...
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- 1993

Shimmer
Shimmer7.81993HD
The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention...
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- 2013

James Bearden: Man of Metals
James Bearden: Man of Metals02013HD
An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...
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- 2003

Jefftowne 2
Jefftowne 202003HD
Jeff Towne revisited four years after the release of the original film.
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- 2026

Kamal's
Kamal's02026HD
In rural Iowa, a Muslim chef and his Catholic wife fuse their cultures in the kitchen and beyond, serving dishes that blend Middle Eastern tradition...
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- 2011

Message from Jerusalem
Message from Jerusalem62011HD
Made exclusively for the Hail to the King Tribute Show at Finder Creepers in Des Moines, Iowa. A surreal and non linear adaptation of the short story...
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- 2013

I See What Is Here
I See What Is Here02013HD
The shots used in this piece were from first test shots with the Mobile Phone 60x microscope. Subjects included the fur of a cat, hair of a girl, a...
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- 2007

King Corn
King Corn6.32007HD
King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden,...
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