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At twenty-five, Judith was diagnosed with DES-related cervical cancer. After a radical hysterectomy she went to her family’s home to heal and picked up her…
MORE ›This sincere fiction film captures detailed human nuances and the subtleties of racism and hatred for the disabled. Alan Arkin plays a deaf-mute man who…
MORE ›When Seattle filmmaker Ward Serrill met Bill Resler, a college tax professor who moonlights as a girls’ basketball coach, he didn’t realize that he was…
MORE ›Animated drawings and extraordinary shots of Mindy Alper’s sculptures create a lovely portrait of the artist as she unabashedly examines her experiences with a mental disorder (that prevented her from speaking) while discussing art, love, and life.
MORE ›Michael Cimino’s bleak anti-Western, based on events in 1890’s Johnson County, Wyoming, is likely the first Western to celebrate the role played by Central and…
MORE ›The chief engineer of a steam-driven power plant creates installations that whistle and mist. As he grapples with retirement, a celebratory show takes place.
MORE ›On June 19th, 1953, the US government executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for “conspiracy to commit espionage.” The world looked on that day as their…
MORE ›A rebellious young hippie marries a prominent Republican politician twenty-six years older than her. Four decades later, as they anticipate his death, she wrestles with their marriage, her sexuality, and what’s been lost and won through a life by his side.
MORE ›From the turmoil of war in Afghanistan to the anguish of recovery back home, this film captures what war feels like to a Marine.
MORE ›While Helmut Newton shoots his iconic high fashion photographs, his wife June shoots him with her video camera. She tells us her story—and his—with charm,…
MORE ›An insightful examination of typography, graphic design, and global visual culture through the lens of the iconic typeface. Festival Year: 2007
MORE ›The history and impact of the ubiquitous typeface, from its origins in Swiss International style to its proliferation around the world in corporate and institutional…
MORE ›Jacques Richard pays tribute to one of the most important and overlooked figures in film history in this engrossing and lovingly sprawling portrait of French…
MORE ›A portrait of the immensely appealing and articulate activist Henry Spira and his successful media-savvy campaigns for animal rights against such formidable foes as chicken…
MORE ›Using brand-new portable video technology, a pioneering collective of 1970s radicals captures counterculture happenings ignored by TV network news.
MORE ›Almost two decades after her mother’s suicide, filmmaker Kathy Leichter delves into a trove of audiotapes recorded by her mother and uncovers candid documentation of her struggles with mental illness.
MORE ›Jackie Sumell is inspired most by the lives of everyday people. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work transcends the boundaries of art and activism in…
MORE ›A film about two-time Olympian Chris Ernst, who galvanized her rowing team to storm the Yale athletic director’s office in 1976 to protest the lack…
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