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

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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
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 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
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
Americas in transition. 1982 Americas in Transition Inc 10:44 Library of Congress
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
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
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
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
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
Dreamland

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

1965 First Run / Icarus Films
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
End Of Innocence

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

1953 First Run / Icarus Films
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
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
GODS OF METAL 1983 Maryknoll World Films Library of Congress
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Library of Congress
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
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
P4w - Prison For Women

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

First Run / Icarus Films
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
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
Property

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

First Run / Icarus Films
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
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
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
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
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
Survivors

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

1988 First Run / Icarus Films
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
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
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 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 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 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 Whole Shootin' Match

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

First Run / Icarus Films
The Wobblies

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

1981 First Run / Icarus Films
There But For Fortune

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

First Run / Icarus Films
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
Track Two

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

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