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The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
The campaign for a montage style that preserved the intelligibility of film as a historical record was bolstered by the 1927 release of Esfir Shub's compilation film THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY. Universally acclaimed, the film established Shub as a new type of documentarian, an editor-director. Made...Start your free trial to watch
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The Family Album
THE FAMILY ALBUM is a one-hour experimental documentary utilizing a vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. These raw materials are woven into a composite lifetime, passing through the celebrations and struggles from childhood to adulthood, from innocence to experience....Start your free trial to watch
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Her Heart is Washed in Water and Then Weighed
HER HEART IS WASHED IN WATER AND THEN WEIGHED is a meditation on motherhood and mortality that takes its title from a procedure in the autopsying of a human corpse. Subtle juxtapositions evoke parallels between static monuments and living families to suggest what is lost to time and age. When you die,...Start your free trial to watch
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Her Name is Sabine
An intelligent, moving and beautiful portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, the famous French actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Through personal footage filmed over a period of twenty-five years, it is revealed that Sabine's growth and many talents were crushed by improper...Start your free trial to watch
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I Was There in Color
While combing the world's archives for historical material to use for an Israeli history channel that never came to fruition, Avishai Kfir discovered a remarkable cache of color home movies shot by a Jewish-American businessman who made frequent trips to Israel during its early years. I WAS THERE IN COLOR...Start your free trial to watch
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Intimate Stranger
INTIMATE STRANGER is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of director Alan Berlner's grandfather’s life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In NOBODY’S BUSINESS, Berliner takes on...Start your free trial to watch
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Jews
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families from the 1920s through the 1940s. Much as in similar found footage soliloquies by Péter Forgács, Jay Rosenblatt and Ken Jacobs, director Roger Deutsch wrings unexpected pathos from mundane traces of the past. Children mug for the...Start your free trial to watch
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Nobody's Business
In NOBODY’S BUSINESS, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son....Start your free trial to watch
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Private Parts
Working in the diaristic mode of lyrical cinema, Marjorie Keller arranges fleeting impressions of a summer vacation as pearls on a string. Her deliberate rhyming of color and light contrasts wondrously with the incidental nature of the scenes depicted. Rockets are fired off in the backyard, mussels collected on a rocky shore...Start your free trial to watch
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The Sweetest Sound
In THE SWEETEST SOUND, Alan Berliner is tired of being mistaken for people who might share his name and decides to rid himself of the dreaded Same Name Syndrome. His solution: invite all the Alan Berliners in the world over to his house for dinner. In the end, Berliner leaves us with a greater sense of the...Start your free trial to watch
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This Existence is Material
THIS EXISTENCE IS MATERIAL weaves together two tales: one of an unlikely friendship between an elderly male writer and a young female filmmaker; the other of a poet who flies to Rome to incite an uprising against fascism in the 1930s. THIS EXISTENCE... is a counter-archive of the past in which public...Start your free trial to watch
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The Waiting Time
THE WAITING TIME is an experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation. It is a study of a year in the filmmaker's body at age thirty-five, becoming a mother for the first time. As a thinking woman's sex education film, THE WAITING TIME is a feminist...Start your free trial to watch
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The Windmill Movie
What if someone wrote your autobiography? Would it be true? What if someone took the images of your life and made a film? Culling from a two-hundred-hour trove of footage, filmmaker Alexander Olch has cleverly invented an autobiography-by-proxy of his mentor, legendary documentary and experimental...Start your free trial to watch