Films
This portrait of the pop culture icon revisits the years before he took the art world by storm. Archival footage and intimate stories from a circle of friends, lovers, and neighbors recall both a singular talent and the New York City scene that influenced his career.
MORE ›The residents of Slemence wake up one morning to find half their village in Slovakia and the other half in the Ukraine, the random new border dividing family members and friends for the next 60 years.
MORE ›“High sheriff on my heels, I better be on my way,” sings Peg Leg Sam near the end of Born for Hard Luck — Peg…
MORE ›“The great-grandmother’s a prostitute, the grandmother’s a prostitute, the mother’s a prostitute,” says Zana Briski about one of her photography students. The children of Calcutta’s…
MORE ›A look at America’s upper class by one of its own. Both investigative and personal, the film reveals the self-centered arrogance and ruthlessness by which…
MORE ›Vinh is a Cambodian boy sick from arsenic poisoning who knows he may not have long to live but dreams of falling in love and becoming a karaoke star.
MORE ›“Action architect” Elizabeth Streb choroegraphs performances that push the human body to extremes in this exhilerating portrait of Streb and her company of dancers as they take to the air.
MORE ›This breathtaking short follows Raimberdi as he ingeniously constructs a hydroelectric generator to better survive in the mountains of Tajikstan.
MORE ›Durham, North Carolina’s own Bouncing Bulldogs have no peer when it comes to precision jump roping. Boys and girls leap, tumble, whirl, flip and entwine…
MORE ›The stuff of legend in pop culture. David Vetter was a real boy who, due to a rare immune system disorder, was forced to live…
MORE ›From a very young age, Evan Perry was obsessed with death and dying—on vacation, he talked about killing his father with a rifle; when he…
MORE ›The mischievous Afghan boy featured in The Boy Who Played on the Buddhas of Bamiyan grows into a still-cheerful young man struggling to make it in a turbulent Afghanistan.
MORE ›Behind the relatively recent international headlines about Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban are the many more stories of everyday people who have lived the…
MORE ›This film delves into the turbulent life of seven-year-old Robert Oliver and his family in impoverished Europa, Mississippi. Robert’s mother turned over custody of both…
MORE ›This film dramatically captures the political motivations and strategic calculations of a group of young men who, among a thousand other Texas high school students, take part in a weeklong exercise to build a representative democracy from the ground up.
MORE ›“Nebraska…the good life.” When 20-year-old Brandon arrived in rural Falls City, his handsome looks and boyish charm won him several friends in town and even…
MORE ›Sergei Dvortsevoy depicts the relentless daily life of a desolate and isolated hamlet in Kurdistan. From a distant fork on the main route, each Tuesday,…
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