The rise and fall of a peasant boy from the Swiss mountains who revolutionizes the world’s hotel business: Cesar Ritz is the notorious dishwasher who becomes emperor of the most famous hotel of the world - with amazing speed and grace, only to collapse when his most ambitious goal, the coronation…
Composer Adrian Ellis is charged with scoring the strangest, most violent film of his career. He abandons his classical instruments to create music from items as ugly as the film itself: discarded metal boxes, power saws, jars, crowbars. He plays them with drumsticks, with violin bows, he pulls apart…
Two men, one a white segregationist and Klansman, a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, and the other a white SNCC—Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee—civil rights worker, first met, violently, in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1965 and barely avoided ruining each other's lives. They…
Found in Korea is a youth-friendly 74m documentary film about adoption, birth search, country of origin travel, and identity. English and Korean with English subtitles. Directed/Executive Produced by Korean American adoptee: Meggin Nam Holtz, LMSW Directed/Produced by: Allison Lane, Kevyn Settle More…
Fatimah Taliah talks about getting to know herself during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. She talks about how former president Donald Trump ran the country like a rapper. Fatimah gets personal about what she learned from her mistakes in life.From conversations with her mother and God,to sex money and pre…
Believe chronicles comedian Eddie Izzard's rise to fame from her early influences - losing her mother to cancer at a young age before being sent with her brother to boarding school to his close present day relationship with her supportive father.
Artificial intelligence is reaching our mental and physical existence like never before in the history of human kind. This documentary dives into the world of cyborgs, sex robots, and androids and challenges us to face our values, ethics, and rethink what it means to be human.
American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late 80s, it was revealed that Tipton was assigned female at birth, and his life was swiftly reframed as the story of…
すごい民族誌映画を観て語る！記念すべき第一夜は《修験の芸能》 山形県の出羽三山で伝えられる羽黒修験。その門外不出の秘密の修行「秋の峰」を史上初めて詳細に記録した民族誌映画『修験 羽黒山秋の峰』（北村皆雄監督/115分/2005年）。 擬似的に死を体験し、母親の胎内で受精、最後には新たな生を得て生まれ出る９日間の修行。修験道のエッセンスを詰め込んだ精緻な儀礼や勤行が行われ、その呪法や所作は、様々な芸能の成り立ちに影響を与えている。 修行の核心にカメラでどのように迫ったのか、監督と専門家を交えて語り明かす！ ※このコンテンツはトークイベントです。映画『修験 羽黒山秋の峰』本編は含まれません。 ■収録日時：2021年6月30日（水）19:30〜21:00 ■ゲスト ●北村皆雄監督（映画『修験…
Painting the invisible is a fascinating journey into the creative mind of the painter Pierre Parsus who, without concession, devoted his entire life to painting. Over the course of 80 years, he created a prolific and diversified work in which he tackled about twenty different themes ranging from classics…
"Sea Lions: Life by a Whisker" is a classic coming of age tale filled with hope, humor and wonder, told through a vast ocean that connects us all. Between a jagged cliff face and a roaring ocean, lives one of the rarest marine mammals on the planet, the Australian Sea Lion, and one very…
A look at the early filmmaking of Maine poet, novelist and producer Holman Francis Day. Using interviews with participants, actual footage from Day’s now rare productions and meticulous research, this program by Everett Foster reveals an early chapter in Maine’s film history. It points…
