Actress Diane Gardner talks extemporaneously about life, career goals and struggles in the world of show business, while colorful, animated images comment on, mirror, and probe the hidden meanings of her words.
Tag: USA
A multiplicity of animation techniques enlivens this vision of the struggle between Shakespeare’s hapless buffoon and the forces of enchantment, set to the Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn.
Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the “church tent” Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and “the religion business”, prior to the start of “televangelism”.
After his snowmobile breaks down during a hunting trip, an Inuk hunter leaves his family in Cape Dorset and travels to Frobisher Bay to earn money for repairs. With the help of his cousin, he becomes a taxi driver, but his attempt to adapt to city life soon leads him into drinking and trouble.
This sweet, quiet film is set during World War I. It is the story of Amy, a proper, but lonely housewife whose husband is away at war. She finds solace in a friendship with a more worldly female photographer, only to have her entire world turned upside down when the friendship becomes genuine love and she is forced to choose. Groundbreaking for its powerful yet non-prurient portrayal of lesbian first love.
This program explores the film work of the painter, abstract artist, engineer, animator and film artist Oskar Fischinger, with many examples of his work. Writer William Möritz and Fischinger’s widow Elfriede discuss his work with film animator and historian John Canemaker.
This program presents excerpts from German plays written in the 1920s that illustrate tensions that contributed to the rise of Nazism. The plays are “Gas” by George Kaiser, “Hoopla! Such is Life!” by Ernst Toller, and “The Private Life of the Master Race” by Bertolt Brecht.
A nuclear awareness fan-film satire, from 1984, synced to “Life During Wartime” by the Talking Heads, created as an expression of dismay on that era’s trigger happy leaders. It traveled the world among like-minded films a generation ago, with recognition in Portugal, Tunis, Brazil, and around the US. The MPD awarded it the “Bill Barton Animation Film Award” in 1985.