Following the hazardous journey of one of Afghanistan's pioneering girls' schools. The Zabuli Education Center is the first school for girls in Deh’Subz, rural Afghanistan. Founder Razia Jan must juggle threats from the Taliban, interference from disapproving family members and teenage…
In 1963 The Beatles burst onto the world stage and single-handedly transformed popular culture. This film traces the group’s role as youthful revolutionaries, providing a completely new take on the most important band of all time. Featuring Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo…
In light of the catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire in London, which claimed at least 80 lives, ABC Four Corners reveals how public buildings all across Australia have been built with the same flammable aluminium cladding that caused Grenfell to go up in smoke. This incisive investigation identifies a colossal…
A century after the Balfour Declaration of November 1917 the argument over the land – then known as Palestine – rages on. Politicians, clerics and school teachers living in the Gaza strip, the West Bank and the Old City of Jerusalem, teach their children, teenagers and young adults that…
Nominated for the 2002 Student Documentary Academy Award, BECOME THE SKY maps an ecology of power spanning 4,000 miles across Texas. From offshore oil-rigs to the mouth of the Rio Grande, BECOME THE SKY weaves a web of energy and politics in the context of war–and capitalism. West Texas wind-farms.…
SUBTEXT chronicles two years in labor relations at Yale through the director’s point of view. Dunn, a junior at Yale when the conflict ensues, interviews workers, administrators, students and professors in an effort to make sense of the dissonance on campus. The film opens with Freshman invocation…
On June 6, 1944, the greatest military operation in the history of the world succeeded in landing more than 150,000 Allied troops on the beaches of northern France. Before the battle of Normandy was won in late August, these troops endured some of the most costly fighting of World War II. Overlord:…
The situation of India’s Dalit community, formerly known as the Untouchables, is a disgrace in the modern world. These three documentary films expose the systematic oppression of the Dalit people while offering practical solutions for healing and change. India’s Hidden Slavery (57 minutes)…
Muri Romani is I suppose a kind of documentary in a somewhat radical form. In appearance it is utter simplicity: the image of a patch of wall in Rome, today. As one watches the wall seems to change, invisibly, without technical means. The sound is a collage of street sounds: motorinos, bells, people…
Part 3 of an extended seminar on archetypal astrology (six two-hour lectures) featuring Drs. Stanislav Grof and Richard Tarnas, presented at the International Transpersonal Conference in 2004 as a two-day seminar and just now (2017) released to a wider audience.
In the early 1990s the property was bought on contract by Herb Baumeister, a local business owner and family man. Although never brought to trial, he was the prime suspect in the disappearance of a number of individuals from the Midwest through two decades.
6 Easy Pieces is a compilation of shots and sequences made over the period 1996 - 1999, which seemed to find themselves draw together by a kind of gravitational attraction. The work is intended as a kind of sampler of the potential aesthetic range of DV and consumer-level NLE systems, though, of course,…
