Is there such thing as love before first sight? This doc explores the mail-order bride industry, chronicling on a group of Ukrainian women and the Western men they marry, in a search for modern love.
Marcia Resnick photographed many of the downtown personalities that populated the New York City underground art and music scene in the 1970s and '80s, which included Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, John Belushi, and others. ART/new york interviewed her in 2020 in her Greenwich Village apartment about…
For digital streaming licenses and institutional use, please contact artny@bestweb.net. This unusual program takes a rare look at the private, often secretive, creative process of an artist making a painting. In a rare moment in her downtown studio, ART/new york looks over Joan Semmel’s shoulder…
OFFICIAL AUTHORIZED EDITION, DIRECTLY FROM THE BROADCAST MASTER TAPES NEW YORK CITY IN 1976 WAS BANKRUPT AND THE BRONX WAS BURNING. Alan and Susan Raymond, experimenting with Sony PortaPak video equipment, ventured into the most dangerous neighborhood and captured it all. In dramatically raw scenes,…
The surprising, bittersweet story of the now-legendary Stephen Sondheim/Hal Prince musical MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, which opened to enormous fanfare in 1981, and closed after just 16 performances. An acclaimed meditation on choices and their often unexpected consequences. Featuring Stephen Sondheim, Hal…
**EDUCATORS, email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Rea Tajiri 1991 | 32 minutes | Color/BW -- Groundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese…
“il Tacco tiene la Drag sospesa tra il cielo e la terra. Per questo ci definiamo Divine!” Il film parla dell’unico corso teatrale in Italia – a Milano – dove si insegna a diventare Drag Queen. Quattro insegnanti, loro stessi Drag, lavorano con allievi e allieve per tirar…
The film tells the story of the Schneeberger family a.k.a The 9 Wheels. Mountain bike stars of the future, Emric (10) and Raoul (13) are home schooled by their parents Toni and Laetitia. They live in their motorhome going from bike park to bike park across Europe, a decision prompted by the discovery…
Lacanian talk on Phantasy
A team of middle-aged women, who have never considered themselves athletes, head to the remote Australian outback to test their physical and mental limits in a desert ultramarathon. Back-of-pack endurance athlete, Cath, has found training for and taking part in ultramarathons to be life-changing. Wanting…
Rejecting the mainstream tradition of hiring funeral professionals to care for the deceased, families in search of a more personal and fulfilling way to say goodbye are taking an active role in caring for relatives who have died. Both a critical look at the American relationship with death and an…
Brad Mays' "Aiden's Butterflies" is a short film about a young New Jersey boy, Aiden Wang, who has developed a deep love and understanding of Monarch Butterflies, an endangered species. The film was produced by Olga Taylan for the Environmental Education Fund, and features Yuki Azumi,…
