In the politically fraught climate of Chicago in 1968, two young nuns crisscross the city in order to ask strangers the question, "Are you happy?" The answers vary: "Happiness is the absence of fear," "Avoiding people," "Raspberries," "Joy in knowing Christ."…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/screening-room-ricky-leacock-p388.aspx Robert Gardner color, 64 min, 1973 From his first film depicting his boyhood life in the Canary Islands, Ricky Leacock has been obsessed with capturing on film the feeling…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/screening-room-alan-lomax-p370.aspx Robert Gardner color, 75 min, 1975 Alan Lomax spent over six decades working as a musicologist, author, record producer, filmmaker, concert promoter, singer, photographer,…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/screening-room-jonas-mekas-p384.aspx Robert Gardner color, 75 min, 1975 Jonas Mekas - filmmaker, film critic, archivist, poet, lecturer and curator - is one of the leading figures of American avant-garde film…
FOR HOME USE ONLY - FOR EDUCATIONAL STREAMING AND DVD SALES VISIT https://store.der.org/screening-room-bruce-baillie-p371.aspx Robert Gardner color, 72 min, 1975 Bruce Baillie was one of the founders of the San Francisco avant-garde film movement. Born in South Dakota and educated at the University…
"In Search of Memory: The Neuroscientist Eric Kandel" This compelling blend of autobiography and history, directed by Petra Seeger, recounts the life of Eric Kandel, one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, and illuminates scientific developments in our understanding…
(Subtitles available in Czech, Spanish, Portugese, Russian, Estonian and English for hardhearing) While filming my award-winning documentary "Living Buddha," an even more dramatic reincarnation story about life, death, and rebirth began. On his way to identifying the rebirth of the Living…
Primero fue la palabra, luego la bala asesina y a continuación el silencio. Así comienza el documental sobre Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, la voz de los sin voz en El Salvador, el pastor que en medio de una de las guerras civiles más crudas del continente, se atrevió…
There is a place in Arizona, so peaceful, people come there to die. It's a retirement community, in the middle of the desert, especially designed for seniors, with palm trees and bungalows, blue skies, red sunsets, tons of pharmacies and extra wide streets for a comfortable ride in your golf cart!…
Climate Hustle 2 dives headlong into the overhyped scientific claims and motivations of those clamoring for immediate action to address global warming. Hosted by actor Kevin Sorbo and featuring leading scientists, politicians, celebrities, and policy experts, the film showcases blatant Hollywood hypocrisy,…
2014, in Ukraine. In the city-centre of Kiev, protected from the outside world, this is where Vladimir devotes himself to teaching precise lines, in between cups of coffee. Time seems suspended here, while fragments of the present infiltrate the workshop: the sounds and images of the revolution that…
2014, en Ukraine. Protégé du monde extérieur, Vladimir y prodigue l’enseignement de la précision du trait, entre deux tasses de café. Le temps y semble suspendu, alors que des bribes d’un présent animé y pénètrent : les sons et…
