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- Just a few decades ago, owing more money than you had in your bank account was the exception, not the rule.
- A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misconceptions and trace the historical development of the movement. The film explores the movement both as a native American philosophy stemming from 19th century American traditions of individualism, and as a foreign ideology brought to America by immigrants. The film features rare archival footage and interviews with significant personalities in anarchist history including Murray Boochkin and Karl Hess, and also live performance footage of the Dead Kennedys.
- Independent documentary exploring the little-known story of Jewish refugee scholars teaching at historically black colleges before and during the Second World War.
- In-depth documentary for Court TV re-examines the trial and the impact of notorious mass murderer, Richard Speck, including reactions to the massacre from the sole survivor.
- Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own stories. Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact.
- Dramatically portrays immigrant life in the United States as seen through the eyes of the sweatshop workers who made up the Jewish anarchist movement.
- A documentary from a group of New York filmmakers who agitate the police and FBI to uncover law enforcement's secret activities.
- WE SEE a kaleidoscope of real and subliminal images. Swans in a pond. A float in a communion parade. A young man punching his reflection in a mirror. A man falls from a window. Swans again. Snow falls on evergreens. An aerial shot of New Jersey's industrial parks like a family of Giacommetti sculptures standing in the snow belching smoke. Peace. Violence. Juxtaposing beautiful images with an undercurrent of rage and uncontrolled excitement, LE MIS POPOTE explores situations, events and feelings that suggest the conflicts inherent in mankind's chaotic life and the world. Mental images, childhood memories and emotions are revealed as dreams or nightmares. the soundtrack and Bramsen's original poetry synthetically generated as voice-over, work to construct a sense of honesty in the subconscious. creating an unorthodox visual atmosphere, the filmmaker uses inventive editing, giving the film edge and nerve. LE MIS POPOTE is frantic, plot-less and extraordinary. The images show new and old moving and still pictures (a retrospective) of Bramsen's work.
- New York's fashion district - otherwise known as the Garment Center - has always held sway over the imaginations of the style-conscious and those seeking glamour. This little slice of Manhattan has nurtured the likes of retailers and designers - from Hattie Carnegie to Donna Karan - in their quest to create world-class fashions that have made generations of Americans feel and look stylish. It has also provided employment for countless metropolitan area residents and it continues to draw visitors from around the world - many of whom come to study at the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology. Dressing America will tell a quintessentially American story.
- A series of odd dream stages where an isolating psychology predominates.
- A meditation on age, aging and the false perceptions created by adoring filmmakers. Alfred Levitt was a truly extraordinary artist, radical, philosopher and adventurer, who died in 2000 at the ripe old age of 105. Having lived through three centuries, Levitt reminisces about some of his friends and colleagues, including Jack London, Marcel Duchamp and Emma Goldman! But was this cute old man really the sum of all these wonderful experiences, or, was there something deeper and darker, waiting to emerge - things that would sully the character of this great man?
- An electric look at the silence before the storm. We see: people-empty streets while original poetry is presented both in voice over and in subtitles traveling across the screen. The video documents the last hours of the twentieth century, capturing downtown and suburban Copenhagen, Denmark. Footage shot on New Years Eve 1999/2000.
- Martin Scorsese's uniquely versatile vision has made him one of the cinema's most acclaimed directors. One whose relentless search for the furthest emotional reaches of his genre have led him to the center of the American psyche.