Pictures from a Revolution

Pictures from a Revolution

In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandanista revolution. Ten years...

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A Midwife's Tale

A Midwife's Tale

To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through...

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The Windmill Movie

The Windmill Movie

Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until...

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Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

Illustrates the writer's wandering spirit, from a childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, and the central themes of her work: geography...

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Living At Risk

Living At Risk

Originally broadcast on PBS, the film features the Barrios, a middle-class family both activated and fractured by the conflict. Instead of fleeing...

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Dead Birds Re-Encountered

Dead Birds Re-Encountered

Robert Gardner returns to the Dani villages where he made his seminal 1964 ethnographic documentary Dead Birds.

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Looking at Forest of Bliss

Looking at Forest of Bliss

Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The...

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Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica

Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica

This film shows the Polish master animator Jan Lenica working on his film Landscape, and explores the relationship of the artist between the real...

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Elephants: Fragments in an Argument

Elephants: Fragments in an Argument

A self-portrait of the filmmaker at twenty-nine, this provocative collage of photographs, street scenes, and interviews with family and friends...

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Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams

Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams

This remarkable New Jersey poet-physician established an American kind of poem distinct from European forms. His work demonstrates an innovative...

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226-1690

226-1690

Rogers created this "minimalist soap opera" out of messages left on his telephone answering machine over the course of an entire year. Together...

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Quarry

Quarry

This portrait of an abandoned quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, captures the striking natural beauty of the site as it explores the social rites of...

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