Roberta Cantow
Roberta Cantow is a filmmaker and storyteller. She received a N.Y. area Emmy for her film Clotheslines about the symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women’s lives. Her films and videos have garnered several Best of Category citations in film festivals around the country as well as an Award of Excellence for Dreamtime in 2008, and an Award of Merit for Not a Still Life, and in 2016 for Accordions Rising, all in the documentary category, from the Global Accolade Competition. Roberta has made a decision to step away from documentary filmmaking to pursue both digital and live storytelling.
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Accordions Rising
Directed by Roberta Cantow • Documentary • With Guy Klucevsek, William Schimmel, Pauline Oliveros • 2016 • 74 minutes
What if everything we thought we knew about the accordion were wrong? This film shatters the mistaken notions and tells the real story. Accordions have returned, not only with am...
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Clotheslines
Directed by Roberta Cantow • Documentary • 1981 • 32 minutes
Clotheslines presents an enduring, vivid account of “women’s work,” showing how the creative energies of women have often been zapped by mundane tasks—and, in turn, how such tasks often reflect a ritualistic approach to life and surviv...
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If This Ain't Heaven
Directed by Roberta Cantow • Documentary • With Jacob Gaymon and Africa, his cat. • 1983 • 28 minutes
If This Ain't Heaven offers a portrait of an African American man that may very well challenge any number of sterotypes and assumptions about masculinity and African American men. The film shows...
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Not A Still Life
Directed by Roberta Cantow • Documentary • 2014 • 59 minutes
Not a Still Life is a portrait of Steve Stone, an older gay, Jewish man who shares the naked truth of the struggles, joys and sorrows of his unconventional life a life full of captivating tales. With both humor and raw honesty, Steve t...
