An ode to the cycles of life charts the passages of infancy, youth, maturity Read More »
Documentary
The Murmuring / Najeun moksori (1995) Young-Joo Byun, Sun-deok Kim, Ok-nyeon Park, Yeong-suk Lee
The first installment in Byun Young-joo’s trilogy documenting the past and present lives of Korean women Read More »
TV Party (2005) Danny Vinik, Robert Aaron, Babs, Jean Michel Basquiat
From 1978 to 1982 Glenn O’Brien hosted an insane punk rock New York City cable TV show called TV Party. Read More »
Blue Water, White Death (1971) Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb, Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody
Peter Gimbel and a team of photographers set out on an expedition to find and Film Read More »
Seventeen (1983) Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy Read More »
How to Cook Your Life (2007) Doris Dörrie, Edward Espe Brown
Doris Dörrie’s camera greets Edward Espe Brown when he arrives in Australia to give a class on cooking, Zen, and meditation. Read More »
In Jackson Heights (2015) Frederick Wiseman
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. Read More »
American Swing (2008) Jon Hart, Mathew Kaufman, Bryce Britton, Irwin Corey, William Davidson
The parallel stories of Plato’s Retreat, a Manhattan sex club for straight couples that operated from 1977 until the mid 1980s Read More »
East of War AKA Jenseits des Krieges (1996) Ruth Beckermann
A controversial photography exhibit about atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front Read More »
Ur-Musig (1993) Cyrill Schläpfer, Rees Gwerder, Jakob Alder, Jakob Duesel
Mainly about people and the music we make, this ethnographic documentary, set in the Swiss Alps Read More »