The work of photographer Diane Arbus as explained by her daughter, friends, critics, and in her own words as recorded in her journals. Illustrated with many of her photographs. Mary Clare Costello, narrator Themes: Arbus' quirky go-it-alone approach. Her attraction to the bizarre, people on the fringes of society: sexual deviants, odd types, the extremes, styles in questionable taste, poses and situations that inspire irony or wonder. Where most people would look away she photographed.
The filmmaker's mother, Ethel Wardrop, talks about her own body and the role it played in her loving...

Kyra Gardner's loving tribute to growing up in the world of the psycho killer doll, Chucky.

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

“Nuuhkuum uumichiwaapim” (« My Grandmother’s Tipi ») is an exploration of the sensorial and textural...

A look at the horror movies of the 1980's.
A village meeting in communist Russia to pay homage to Stalin leads to a gossip marathon, which deve...

Bahman Kiarostami's charming documentary about mourners-for-hire who are called upon to attend funer...

Shot on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Bahamas, Ocean Wonderland brings to you the a...
And urban planner's journey to making the impossible possible.

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city ins...

Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon on Camera 1983

An essay film approaching trauma-related memory loss via reflections on light outside the visible sp...

Life After opens the dialogue surrounding grief and how we experience it. Through conversations with...

Dr. Harvey Wallinger is one of Nixon's aides who rises through the ranks to become the "real" power ...
A young drawing teacher wins a dream trip to the West Indies in a competition. The journey takes her...

The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to docu...

The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photog...

The experiences of a young girl help to focus attention on some psycho-social aspects of the venerea...