Night and the City: In the Labyrinth
Just a Director: The Making of “Fanny and Alexander”
Harlan County USA: No Neutrals There
Barbara Kopple’s detailed analysis of a Kentucky mine workers’ strike is a virtual hub of urgent themes, formal tendencies, political debates, and material practices that define post-sixties documentary in America.
Burden of Dreams: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Les Blank’s documentary examines the interaction of premodern tribal existence with European modernity, epitomized by a movie narrative about the invidious clash of brute nature and a singular ego bent on his own mission of cultural enlightenment.
Before the Beginning Was the Word: Stan Brakhage
In Stan Brakhage’s films we enter into momentary perceptual transactions in which we trade unhindered assimilation of images for intensified contact with pictorial or sensory features that might otherwise go unnoticed.