Film Category: Thematic

The Battle of Chile (Part 2): The Coup d’État
Patricio Guzman

The Battle of Chile (Part 2) opens with the attempted Chilean military coup of June, 1973 which is put down by troops loyal to the…

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Winter Soldier
Winter Soldier Collective: Fred Aranow, Nancy Baker, Joe Bangert, Rhetta Barron, Robert Fiore, David Gillis, David Grubin, Jeff Holstein, Barbara Jarvis, Al Kaupas, Barbara Kopple, Mark Lenix, Michael Lesser, Nancy Miller, Lee Osborne, Lucy Massie Phenix, Roger Phenix, Benay Rubenstein, Michael Weil.

A rare documentary classic, Winter Soldier captures the terrifying testimonies of more than 200 ex-GIs at the 1971 Detroit Winter Soldier Investigation concerning American atrocities…

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Family Name
Macky Alston

When filmmaker Macky Alston was a child in Durham, North Carolina, he wondered why so many African-American children in his class had the same last…

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Andy Warhol: Screen Tests
Andy Warhol

Warhol’s filmmaking in the mid-60’s experimented with aspects of art that he applied in other mediums throughout his career, here the serial portrait. In 1964-1966…

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A Bronx Morning
Jay Leyda

Jay Leyda takes the viewer around The Bronx, his black-and-white cinematography as perky as René Clair’s of Paris, as gently touching as a witty poet’s…

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Story of the Desert
Celia Galán Julve

In 1962, Rosita Guzman, known as “La Mocha,” cut off her only thumb to escape from prison and escaped into the Mexican desert. Forty years…

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Jackson Pollock
Paul Falkenberg, Hans Namuth

“It was during the act of painting that Pollock engaged in the act of communicating,” noted Namuth, who convinced the artist to be filmed while…

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Met State
Bryan Papciak

The camera in this short film takes the viewer on a ride through an abandoned mental hospital, racing through rooms, around corners, down and out…

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Nostalgia
Hollis Frampton

Experimental photographer/filmmaker Frampton records burning on camera, on a hotplate, 13 of his photos from an unhappy period in his career, 1959-1966. Each photo is…

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Paradox Lake
Przemyslaw Reut

Highly original and impossible to classify, the film dares to plunge into the world of autism, in a verité-style study of the experience of a…

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