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A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jill Sands

In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Fonda

A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Gibbons

Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus' Garden immerses...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Emily Bishton

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: LaTanya Richardson Jackson

A performance piece written by Sam Shepard, enacted by Joseph Chaikin and directed by Shirley Clarke, a dying man reflects on his life while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Chaikin

Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tinka Menkes

Consistent stylistic-thematic structures link and merge throughout the bewildering event chain. The distinction between organic forms and human...

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A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Anton Wilson

When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community...

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"Marlborough" and "The Arab", lounging on the pool terrace, are alienated characters in some future time, living in a world where art work comes to...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Susan Jane Tanner

Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Orson Welles

A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fannie Drayton

Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris...

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Cast: Doris Cross

Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent...

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This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...

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Cast: Robert Ashley

A PBS documentary on the life and work of writer Raymond Carver. It features interviews with his family and friends, and provides an insightful look...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ed Sampson

Story about the last original "American Diner" in Miami, Florida. Since 1938 the S & S has been owned and operated by the family of the present...

Genre: Documentary

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