The Agronomist
The true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.
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Santo Domingo Blues: Los Tigueres de la Bachata
Santo Domingo Blues is the fascinating tale of how Bachata, a music genre once vilified by the Latin upper class as the bawdy ghetto soundtrack of brothels and vulgar cabarets, came to rival meringue and salsa as the preferred music…
Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic Discordian Pope. Whatever the label and rank, Robert Anton Wilson is undeniably one of the foundations of 21th Century Western counterculture. Maybe Logic – The Lives and…
Jon E. Edwards Is in Love
In the age of pre-packaged teeny-pop franchises like Britney Spears, O-Townand The Backstreet Boys, it’s a tough go for the true iconoclast. Jon E. Edwards, self-proclaimed ‘”Number 3′” soul man in the world wantsto be ‘International Soul Rocker Number One’…
Divan
Divan is the quest for a turn of the century Hungarian couch upon which Hassidic rabbis slept.
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World
A groundbreaking documentary on the internationally renowned painter, designated by ARTnews Magazine one of the world’s top-ten living artists. This documentary was shot over a period of four years, from 1998 through 2002, Agnes Martin’s ninetieth year. Interviews with Martin…
Scratch
A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world’s best scratchers, beat-diggers, party-rockers, and producers wax poetic on beats, breaks, battles, and the infinite possibilities…
Paperboys
Life through the eyes of several paperboys.
Modern Tribalism
Journey into America’s primitive soul in this documentary about the resurgence of humanity’s oldest and most intense rituals. From garden-variety tattooing, to frenzied effigy-burning festivals, to the disturbing extremes of body-piercing, Modern Tribalism explores the cultural context surrounding this underground…
Last Party
Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the…
Drive-in Movie Memories
This film chronicles the drive-in’s birth and development, its phenomenal popularity with audiences of all ages, its tragic decline, and its inevitable comeback as a classic form of Americana.
The Gleaners & I
In this documentary director Agnès Varda deals with the issue of wealth and poverty in modern day France by exploring the world of gleaners and pickers. Gleaners are individuals who search farmers’ fields for produce the mechanical harvesting equipment may…