A study of the art of stone-carving, featuring the work of James McKenna and the Kilkenny sculpture workshop of 1975.
The only film on Frederick Taylor's work and its continuing influence on the modern workplace. The film includes original historical footage which Taylor and his contemporaries, the Gilbreths, shot for the pioneering time-motion studies which paved the way for the modern automated assembly line…
The poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch emerges from an extraordinary, personal and uniquely wonderful place. Other poets strive repeatedly to achieve all that is so naturally present in her poems" (Baruch Kurzweil, Literary Critic, 1959). Ravikovitch struggled with depression and fluctuated between intense…
Closed For Storm is a film detailing the incredible history of a massive, American theme park that was eventually left completely abandoned
Deals with the myths, facts and attitudes about sexually transmitted disease. Intended for audiences of 14 years upwards, it aims to encourage a responsible attitude towards sex, contraception and especially the prevention of STDs. The issues raised include AIDS and the need for medical check-ups and…
Why did the Mayflower become America's foundational myth? Historian James Nevius will use The New-York Historical Society’s current exhibition, "Close Encounters in the Colonies," as a springboard for talking about colonial myths, propaganda, and so much more. We’ll not…
SUNDANCE NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY This stunningly shot experimental documentary has at its heart a poignant character study of a 17 year-old lesbian living in Newcastle, England. Closer, an official selection at Sundance Film Festival 2001, innovatively explores the process of documentary filmmaking…
Sundance Nominated, Winner Planet Out Short Movie Award This stunningly shot experimental documentary has at its heart a poignant character study of a 17 year-old lesbian living in Newcastle, England. Closer, an official selection at Sundance Film Festival 2001, innovatively explores the process of…
In CLOSE RELATIONS, Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore the country’s society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area…
Closer Than You Think is an inspiring, first hand look inside the lives Cuban artists. You're brought along on a journey of discovery into the heart of Cuban culture rarely seen by the outside world.
CLOSER TO GOD – ein Film über Musik, Spiritualität und Kultur in Pakistan Der Film taucht ein in den spirituellen Alltag des Mystikers Gogha Sain und des Meistersängers Ustad Saami. Der Meistersänger widmet sein Wirken ganz der Musik, einem uralten Erbe des ungeteilten Subkontinents,…
In this remarkable film, First Nations people and European settler descendants come together to confront legacies of violence from Australia’s pastoral frontier. Can the scars of past atrocities be reconciled and healed through the act of truth-telling? In September 1852, in South Australia’s…
