Film Category: Thematic

Luke: A Tribute to Fred
Frank Easts, Jr.

A film about Fred Wolfe, 85-year-old brother of author Thomas Wolfe, whose personality and lifestyle were depicted through the character Luke Gant in his brother’s…

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Two or Three Things but Nothing for Sure
Tina DiFeliciantonio, Jane Wagner

Interweaving evocative imagery with powerful performance footage, this short film explores writer Dorothy Allison’s life, from the oppression of poverty and childhood abuse to a…

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She/Va
Marjorie Keller

A young dancer re-choreographed through film editing. This film was originally made in standard 8mm, from a home movie.

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Teenagers Under the Gun

An A&E investigative report that focuses on several teenagers who’ve committed extremely violent crimes. One blames the movie Natural Born Killers; another blames the lyrics…

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Express Yourself

An MTV documentary about young people standing up for their beliefs.

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Warning Signs
MTV Neworks, American Psychological Association

School shooters, from the point of view of the kids. Premiered the day after the Columbine Massacre.

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A New Year. Living Inside. Me and Rubyfruit. If Every Girl Had a Diary. Jollies.
Sadie Benning

At age 15, Sadie Benning began using a pixelvision camera to produce these frank, funny and remarkably self-aware diaries about growing up as a lesbian.

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Flight
Greta Snider

“Meticulous and fleet, Greta Snider’s Flight is a high contrast memento mori, an impossible dialogue of father and daughter mutual address.” —Mark McElhatten, New York…

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My Name is Oona
Gunvor Nelson

“My Name is Oona captures in haunting, lyrical images fragments of the coming to consciousness of a child girl. Gunvor Nelson, as true poetess of…

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William Faulkner’s Mississippi
Don Horan

A stirring film that invokes the uncommon world of William Faulkner through his personal writings and striking black and white footage of Mississippi in the…

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