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50 results for ""First Run/Icarus"".

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What Could You Do With A Nickel

Tells the story of two hundred black and hispanic women in the south Bronx who formed…

First Run / Icarus Films 26 min
WAITING FOR THE INVASION: U.S. CITIZENS IN NICARAGUA 1984 Library of Congress
Track Two

Describes the evolution of Toronto's gay community, focusing on the 1981 bathhouse raids that galvanized…

First Run / Icarus Films 90 min
Todos Santos: the survivors

This film is a haunting sequel to the director's documentary Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Report from…

1989 First Run/Icarus 60 New York Public Library
There But For Fortune

Chronicles the Latin American concert tour taken by Joan Baez, a journey impeded by government intimidation…

First Run / Icarus Films 60 min
The Wobblies

Looks at the work of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies…

1981 First Run / Icarus Films 90 min
The Whole Shootin' Match

Depicts the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of two 'good ole boys' from America's…

1978 First Run / Icarus Films 109 min
The Satellite sky

Using rare archival material, including Soviet and American science fiction and government propaganda films, U.S…

1990 First Run/Icarus 60 New York Public Library
The New Wave by Itself

Assuming familiarity with this genre, reviews the French New Wave movement in France as of 1964…

1995 First Run/Icarus 57 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
The Centerfielder

This film, made in Nicaragua, is set in a prison during the Somoza dictatorship. A poor…

1985 First Run/Icarus 18 New York Public Library
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, Prague's alchemist of film

In June 1984, a special Channel 4 program entitled Visions, devoted itself to animator Jan Svankmajer…

1984 First Run/Icarus 13 New York Public Library
The Architecture of doom

Archival film, photographs and propaganda footage are co-mingled to present an essay on the Nazi…

1989 First Run/Icarus 119 mi New York Public Library
Talking trash

Combining historical footage, television and industrial clips,statistics and personal stories, this documentary is a humorous…

1994 First Run/Icarus 54 New York Public Library
Survivors ▶

Cataloged from contributor's data Camera, Len Aitken ; editor, Barry Corbet ; music, Paul Conly Examines the…

1988 First Run / Icarus Films
Street of crocodiles

A decrepit caretaker enters a museum and, by accident or design, lets a drop of saliva…

1986 First Run/Icarus 21 AV Geeks Archive +1
Spectre of Hope

Presents a meeting between British writer John Berger and Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado in which they…

2001 First Run/Icarus 52 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Routes Of Exile - A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey

Examines the ancient origins of the Jews of Morocco, covering their Berber roots, illustrious Spanish heritage…

1982 First Run / Icarus Films 90 min
Roses In December - The Story Of Jean Donovan

Chronicles the life of Jean Donovan, a lay missioner who was murdered by members of the…

First Run / Icarus Films 55 New York Public Library
Rehearsals for extinct anatomies

This experimental animation takes the viewer on a non-linear, dreamlike trip into the Quays' surreal…

1988 First Run/Icarus 14 New York Public Library
Property

Celebrates the exuberance of a nonconformist group from the Sixties caught in the world of Seventies…

First Run / Icarus Films 92 min
Positive

Positive, the second part of Praunheim's AIDS trilogy after Silence=Death and before Asses on…

1990 First Run/Icarus 84 New York Public Library
Pericles in America

This documentary is a musical portrait of immigrant clarinetist Pericles Halkias and the Epirot-Greek community…

1988 First Run/Icarus 70 New York Public Library
P4w - Prison For Women

Looks at Canada's only federal penitentiary for women, focusing on five women who have been…

1981 First Run / Icarus Films 81 min
One nation under God

This documentary explores Christian fundamentalist organizations dedicated to curing homosexuals. In particular, the film focuses on…

1993 First Run/Icarus 84 New York Public Library
One hundred children waiting for a train

On Saturday mornings, Professor Alicia Vega conducts a film workshop for youngsters living in a slum…

1987 First Run/Icarus 57 New York Public Library
Nicaragua: report from the front.

Looks at U S foreign policy toward Nicaragua as it is being played out along the…

1983 FIRST-RUN FEATURES 144 BLEEKER ST NEW YORK NY 10012 32 min Library of Congress
Manly games

Live action and a melange of animation styles - cut-out, claymation, and pixilation - are used in…

1988 First Run/Icarus 14 New York Public Library
Making "Do the right thing"

For ten weeks during the summer of 1988, director Spike Lee took his cast and crew…

1989 First Run/Icarus 58 New York Public Library
Machito: a Latin jazz legacy

In a career that spanned fifty years, Cuban bandleader Frank Machito Grillo embodied Latin jazz, influencing…

1987 First Run/Icarus 58 New York Public Library
Linnea in Monet's garden

Placing pictures in her scrapbook, a little girl named Linnea recalls a memorable trip to France…

1994 First Run/Icarus 30 New York Public Library
Last Dance

Goes behind the scenes of a collaboration between the Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Maurice Sendak's…

2002 First Run/Icarus 84 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Isle of flowers

Set in Brazil, Furtado's sardonic, unpredictable and ultimately damning polemic builds its argument with seemingly…

1990 First Run/Icarus 15 New York Public Library
In the shadow of the stars

Swelling the ranks of the operatic spectacle as peasants, soldiers, slaves and ladies-in-waiting, choristers…

1990 First Run/Icarus 93 New York Public Library
GODS OF METAL 1983 Maryknoll World Films Library of Congress
Eye to Eye (1954) ▶ First Run/Icarus Prelinger Archives
Eye to eye

The life and work of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (sick with AIDS at the time of…

1989 First Run/Icarus 18 New York Public Library
Epic of Gilgamesh

Swift and savage, this short [animated] film shows a tricycle-riding monster who traps a strange…

1981 First Run/Icarus 11 New York Public Library
End Of Innocence

Recreates the events of June 19, 1953, the day that 'Atom Spies' Julius and Ethel Rosenberg…

1953 First Run / Icarus Films 28 min
Eisenstein: The Master's House

Chronicles the life and filmmaking of Sergei Eisenstin, one of the most influential Russian filmmakers of…

1998 First Run/Icarus 1:02 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Dreamland

Presents a biographical drama which follows the real-life career of Joanne Crayton, better known as…

1965 First Run / Icarus Films 90 min
Dolly, Lotte and Maria

Praunheim pays tribute to three legendary stars of the German stage and screen who escaped the…

1988 First Run/Icarus 60 New York Public Library
Cane toads, an unnatural history

This film investigates the biological facts, ecological impact and cultural influence of Bufus Marinus, the cane…

1987 First Run/Icarus :46 New York Public Library
Binocular vision

This lighthearted documentary about bird watchers and birding focuses on the National Audubon Society's annual…

1988 First Run/Icarus 26 New York Public Library
Before the nickelodeon: the early cinema of Edwin S. Porter

This documentary traces the history of filmmaking from 1896-1909, focusing on the work of Edwin…

1982 First Run/Icarus 60 New York Public Library
Back to Ararat

1.5 million Armenians were massacred during the First World War by order of the Turkish…

1988 First Run/Icarus 100 mi New York Public Library
Americas in transition. 1982 Americas in Transition Inc 10:44 Library of Congress
Alice

In his first feature-length work, Czech animator Jan Švankmajer pays tribute to Lewis Carroll's…

1988 First Run/Icarus 84 New York Public Library
A Virus knows no morals

This underground farce by a filmmaker of the New German Cinema is a black comedy concerning…

1986 First Run/Icarus 82 New York Public Library
A Jumpin' night in the garden of Eden

For nealy a millenium, vigorous and soulful klezmer music was an integral part of Jewish life…

1987 First Run/Icarus 76 New York Public Library
A Crime to fit the punishment ▶

In 1954, during the height of McCarthyism and the Cold War, the controversial labour film ‘Salt…

1982 First Run / Icarus Films 00410000 Australian Centre for the Moving Image +3