This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary. You can also hear her voice, as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas.
An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but...
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight acti...
This documentary tells two stories simultaneously: it's a profile of Bernard Tapie, a wealthy man wh...
John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart discuss working with John Ford
Three Nicaraguan-American artists from the Washington D.C. Metro area discuss growing up in two cult...
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
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In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angr...
Profile of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.
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"…elegant yet rustic in its simplicity of execution; tugged gently toward different sides of the set...
We Are Not Princesses is a documentary film about the incredible strength and spirit of four Syrian ...
Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the secrets of the universe, w...
After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communis...
Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mou...
A coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees ...
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A biography of the Portuguese-born Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature w...
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