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.
A photographer and a filmmaker challenge each other to shoot—one to photograph the other to film—two...
Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their...
In Echigo in Japan the snow often lies several feet deep well into May covering landscape and villag...
Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.
This documentary profiles iconic journalist Helen Thomas who has held a front-row seat at White Hous...
This character-driven film considers the evolving sex trafficking landscape as seen by the main play...
After Marta had decided to become a nun at a young age, filmmaker Maud Nycander followed her and her...
This 3-D film chronicles the love, community, and life of festival-goers during Electric Daisy Carni...
HBO stand up comedy presents Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Connolly.
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This French-Canadian co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose econom...
Meet Jack English, a 93-year-old legend who lives in a cabin isolated deep in the Ventana Wilderness...
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
"A Long Journey" tells the story of three siblings who reach adolescence in the late 1960's. The doc...
It was the year 1984 when a group of architects decided to organize a one night music band as a New ...
Half a million people descend upon a tiny Serbian village for the 50th anniversary of the world's la...
A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which ...
A bunch of stories, portraits and images about people of amazing destinies, including Parajanov and ...
More than sixty years after leaving high school, former classmates Alicia, Gema, Angelica, Ximena an...
Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murd...