Directed by Mira Nair • Documentary • 1979 • 20 minutes

Mira Nair's (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!) personal record of street life around the Jama Masjid, or Great Mosque, in the old city of Delhi, India.

Director Nair discusses her thoughts on confronting people uncertain what to make of her...

Directed by Suzanne Davenport • Documentary • 1974 • 26 minutes

Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family struggles with racism, inflation and a threatened strike, as Winnie learns what it mean...

Directed by Jerry Blumenthal, Alphonse Blumenthal, Susan Delson, Sharon Karp, Peter Kuttner, Gordon Quinn, Richa • Documentary • 1974 • 26 minutes

Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The ...

Directed by Douglas Wilkinson • Documentary • 1949 • 10 minutes

A demonstration of igloo-building in Canada's Far North, showing how the site is selected and how blocks of snow are used to make a snug shelter in only an hour and a half. As the camera follows each stage, the commentary explains t...

Directed by Chris Marker • Drama • 1973 • 21 minutes

One of Chris Marker's few fiction films, THE EMBASSY shows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country. Over the next few days, more and more people fleeing the military assa...

Directed by Jenny Alexander and James Rutenbeck • Documentary • 2023 • 9 minutes

Richard Nixon was on the verge of providing guaranteed basic income for all Americans. Then a story from 1795 changed his mind and the course of history.

Directed by Jenny Alexander • Documentary • With Martin Luther King • 2023 • 7 minutes

“A Call to Action: The Freedom Budget of 1966” tells the story of a little-known grassroots push for guaranteed income during the civil rights movement. 

Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland, Esy Casey • Documentary • With Lori Baker and the Baylor Forensic Anthropology Team, Jim Hustler + Neptune Memorial Reef, Jennifer Johnson + Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve • 2017 • 69 minutes

A coral reef made of cremated remains, a green burial wildlife...

Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland • Documentary • 2021 • 8 minutes

A Hemlock forest in Western Massachusetts that is dying due to the Woolly Adelgid beetle infestation tells a larger story about climate collapse and the interconnections between the natural and the built environments.

Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland & Alessandra Lacorazza • Drama • With Brittany Henry, Claire Jamison, Rebecca Lovett, Samuel Dunning, Joe L. Hunt, John Jarusiewicz, Clarence C. Williams • 2020 • 7 minutes

At a border checkpoint, pregnant people are forced to endure invasive and emotionally abusi...

Directed by Marie Ashton • Drama • With Sigrid Wurschmidt, Tom Dahlgren, Susan Lynch • 1989 • 14 minutes

This short dramatic film brings to life the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman story of the same name, which has become an important addition to American literature course curricula. Set in the...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2020 • 3 minutes

In July 1971, language poet Bernadette Mayer decided to document an entire month of her life. She called the project Memory. Each day, Mayer exposed a roll of 35 mm slide film and wrote in her journal. The result was 1,100 snapshots and a ...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • With Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer, Gunvor Nelson • 2018 • 9 minutes

From 2015 to 2017, Lynne visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives. Fro...

Directed by Nurith Aviv • Documentary • 2005 • 17 minutes

In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Frederic Bruly Bouabré created several hundred pictograms, based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété, to help people in the Bété community learn to read more quickly. Although some 600,000 Bétés l...

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...

Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • With Dr. Kimberly Looney, Anonymous Driver • 12 minutes

In the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade, “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. We listen to an ob...

Directed by Leandro Katz • Documentary • 1999 • 30 minutes

Investigating death and the power of photography, EL DIA QUE ME QUIERAS is a meditation on the last picture taken of Che Guevara, as he lay dead on a table surrounded by his captors.

After Guevara was captured and killed, in 1967, a wir...

Directed by Tiffany Sia • Documentary • 2023 • 32 minutes

Directed by artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia, “The Sojourn” imagines a restless landscape film in Taiwan. Visiting scenic locations shot by King Hu, the short experiments with the road movie genre and its intersection with the martial art...