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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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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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...
See moreElizabeth 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...
See moreLiving 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...
See moreDead Birds Re-Encountered
Robert Gardner returns to the Dani villages where he made his seminal 1964 ethnographic documentary Dead Birds.
See moreLooking 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...
See moreMoving 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...
See moreElephants: 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...
See moreVoices & 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...
See more226-1690
Rogers created this "minimalist soap opera" out of messages left on his telephone answering machine over the course of an entire year. Together...
See moreQuarry
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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