Barber (2020)

THE WHOLE SHEBANG

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for money prizes. Baby prepares for WW2. [Originally a 70mm projection-performance, 1982, by Ken and Flo Jacobs. From THRILLS AND CHILLS (Castle Films, c. 1930)].

CRUSH

An Eternalism film.

Waiting Room Window

An Eternalism film.

MOVING ROAD

An Eternalism film.

Bison

An Eternalism film.

City Foliage

An Eternalism film.

Fire Escape

An Eternalism film.

Whirlpool

An Eternalism film.

Rain Clouds

An Eternalism film.

Bargains

An Eternalism film.

Neon Sign

An Eternalism film.

Period Piece

An Eternalism film.

Sleeping American

An Eternalism film.

Chinese New Years

An Eternalism film.

Lazy City

An Eternalism film.

Doyer Street

An Eternalism film.

Brick Building with Red and Green Windows

An Eternalism film.

Broadway Buildings III

An Eternalism film.

Halley’s Comet

An Eternalism film.

Street Commerce

An Eternalism film.

DeKooning Passed

An Eternalism film.

Spiky

An Eternalism film.

Duck

An Eternalism film.

Another Day in Days of Yore

An Eternalism film.

Spaceworks

An Eternalism film.

Broadway Building

An Eternalism film.

Foliage in Moving Car Window

An Eternalism film.

DR. TOOTHY

An Eternalism film.

Street Commerce II

An Eternalism film.

Red Green

An Eternalism film.

Resting Merchant

An Eternalism film.

Garage Wall

An Eternalism film.

PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

An Eternalism film.

Flowers and Bike

An Eternalism film.

Hubble II

An Eternalism film.

Reading Society

An Eternalism film.

Storefront

An Eternalism film.

Facade with Face

An Eternalism film.

RECIPROCAL

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and releasing the viewer, but with the option of repeating.

Natural Collage

An Eternalism film.

Roots of Manhattan

An Eternalism film.

Transparent Apartments

An Eternalism film.

PAINTED POSTER

An Eternalism film.

Broadway Buildings II

An Eternalism film.

Municipal Building Passage

An Eternalism film.

Ken and Flo

An Eternalism film.

Water Balloon

An Eternalism film.

Friendly Building

An Eternalism film.

Working Girls (short)

An Eternalism film.

Chinese New Years II

An Eternalism film.

Clouds and Trees

An Eternalism film.

Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.

Gravel In Her Gut and Spit In Her Eye

Dorothy Johnson was a Western writer ahead of her time. Women saved men, heroes died unwept and unsung, whites lived with Indians and benefited from the experience. Three of her stories were made into films and many critics consider "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" to be the cornerstone of the modern western. This documentary looks back on Dorothy's life, and her place in history.

Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next six decades, her sublime voice would transform the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy. JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS retraces this extraordinary journey.

Howl's Moving Castle

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

Paprika

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

An American Tail

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.

Appalachian Spring

A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

Documentary on animator Chuck Jones.

Box of Rain

This film is an exploration of the Deadhead family, past and present, and the qualities that make it unique. We follow Lonnie as she reconnects with the women she traveled with in her youth, and makes new friends along the way. Through wide ranging interviews, she seeks to dispel the common stereotypes about Dead-heads and document the beauty of the community. We learn how the Grateful Dead touched the lives of so many people, the healing they found through the music, and the memories they cherish most.

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities

A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapologetically Black for 150 years. For the first time ever, their story is told.

Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.

Machines

This portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India, moves through the corridors and bowels of the enormously disorienting structure—taking the viewer on a journey of dehumanizing physical labor and intense hardship.

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.

Winnie

While her husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious forces that combined to take her down, labeling him a saint, her, a sinner.

The Workers Cup

Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own.

Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures

Follow ocean legend Sylvia Earle, renowned underwater National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry, writer Max Kennedy and their crew of teenage aquanauts on a year-long quest to deploy science and photography to inspire President Obama to establish new Blue Parks to protect essential habitats across an unseen American Wilderness.

Seven Days War

In the town of Saima, when summer is about to begin, a group of six high school students intend to live a secret adventure by spending seven carefree days in a ruined mining facility.

Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days

From Regina's personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, who was an artistic inspiration and played a key role in her becoming a filmmaker. A moving tribute to a poet of the everyday.