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Warhola, 2001. DVD B Warho.A Absolut – Video This entertaining and insightful documentary explores Andy Warhol's Eastern European roots by travelling to Miková, Slovakia, where his parents grew up, and interviewing members of his extended family. • Arts, Music & Culture Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty, 1999. Video B Shaml.A Interviews with the Iranian poet. In Farsi with English subtitles. Director: Moslem Mansouri • Arts, Music & Culture • Middle East All I See Is What I Know, 1999. Video 305.8 All Eighteen-year-old Zachariah Webb, a white student at Woodford County High School in Kentucky, describes his feelings about racism and the problem of inequality within the school system. Written and produced by Zachariah Webb, assisted by Mindy Faber. • Youth Produced Media • Multiculturalism & Diversity Amandla, 2002. DVD 968.06 Amandla Tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. Specifically considers the music that sustained and galvanized blacks for more than 40 years. Focuses on the struggle's spiritual dimension named for the Xhosa word for "power." An uplifting story of human courage, resolve, and triumph.Director: Lee Hirsh. Africa; Music, Art & Culture • Africa • Arts, Music & Culture Study guide Ancestors in the Americas, 1997. Video 305.895 Ancesto Part 1 tells the story of how Asians--Filipino, Chinese, Asian-Indian--first arrived in the Americas. Film crosses centuries and oceans from the 16th-century Manila-Acapulco trade, to the Opium War, to the 19th-century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean. Part 2 relates the history of Chinese immigrants in California. Producer, director, writer:Loni Ding. • Multiculturalism & Diversity • Social & Political History • Immigration Study guide Anya (In and Out of Focus), 2004. In this touching documentary, Marian Marzynski films his daughter Anya from infancy to adulthood. A lifetime in the making, this film is a loving and honest account that describes the difficult, yet authentic bond between a father and a daughter. • Fiction Arab Americans After 9-11, 2003. Video 973.04927 Arab Nine years after American-born children of Arab immigrant parents were interviewed in Tales from Arab Detroit, the video crew returns to see how their lives have changed, particularly since September 11. • Contemporary America • Middle East • Multiculturalism & Diversity Around the Corner, 2001. Video 791.433 Alterna Around A documentary about the year-long effort of 10 teenagers from Young People Making a Change (YPMC) to engage police officers from their district in conversations about power, fear, authority, and stereotyping. Alternative Youth Video Festival 2001. Created in association with Video Machete. • Contemporary America • Youth Produced Media Un Asiento de Ventanillo, 2001. Video 791.433 College Asiento Reflects the frustration and fascination of traveling alone, from a female perspective. Created in association with the Radio/TV/Film Dept. at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. • Chicago Filmmakers • Women’s Issues A.W.O.L. from the Fatherhood: Are Fathers Necessary Anymore? 1998. Video 306.8742 AWOL Through personal recollections, social analysis, and statistics, students from several Brooklyn high schools explore the role of fatherhood in today's world and the effects of growing up without a father. Director: Jacqueline Dolly. • Fiction |
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& Papa, 2002. DVD 306.8742 Daddy A documentary exploring the personal, cultural, and political impact of gay men who are making a decision that is at once traditional and revolutionary: to raise children themselves. Director/producer/writer, Johnny Symons. • Fiction • Gay & Lesbian Issues Study guide Dark Days, 2001. DVD 305.569 Dark Documentary about a community of homeless people living in a train tunnel beneath Manhattan. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home for as long as 25 years. Produced and directed by Marc Singer. • Urban Issues Darwin's Nightmare, 2004. DVD 967.8 Darwins 107 min. This Academy-Award nominated film by Hubert Sauper tells the story of globalizations impact on Tanzania after Nile Perch is introduced into Lake Victoria. Their presence in the lake severely affected both the ecology and economy of the region, causing the extinction of hundreds of native species in Lake Victoria. Because the Nile Perch fish is farmed commercially, the meat is sold to European supermarkets, leaving locals to survive on the leftovers, often carcasses of the gutted fish. The film explores the living and working conditions of the indigenous people, a story of extreme poverty and despair for all. • Africa • Environmental Issues • Global Concerns Daumë, 2001. Video 791.433 College Daume A visit to a location inhabited by locals and visitors, all in disguise, and all in plain sight. Created in association with the School of the Art Institute, Film, Video, and New Media, Chicago. • Chicago Filmmakers Daughter From Danang, 2003. Video 959.7044 Daughte Heidi was born the daughter of an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman. At the war's end, her mother, hearing rumors that racially mixed children would be persecuted, placed the seven-year-old girl on an "Operation Babylift" plane to the United States. Twenty-two years later, mother and daughter are miraculously reunited in Danang and are caught in a heart-wrenching clash of cultures. In English and Vietnamese with English subtitles. Sundance Film Festival 2002 Grand Jury Prize Documentary. Directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco. • Asia • Global Concerns • Multiculturalism & Diversity Study guide Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and his Work, 1999. Video 322.4 Democra Legendary organizer Saul Alinsky led the movement to empower disenfranchised communities through collective action. The democratic promise examines Alinsky's life and legacy through work being done by two contemporary people's organizations.Produced, directed and written by: Bob Hercules, Bruce Orenstein. • Chicago Filmmakers • Social & Political History Study guide Depression and Manic Depression, 1996. Video 616.895 Depress Documentary features well-known personalities discussing their mental illness. Originally broadcast on the television program: The Doctor Is In. Production of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; writer and producer: Jamie Guth. • Health Did They Buy It? Nicaragua’s 1990 Elections, 1990. Video 972.85 Did Shows media coverage and political process in the 1990 election in Nicaragua. Directed by Bob Hercules. • Chicago’s Own Filmmaker • Media Studies • South & Central America Digital Divide: Technology and Our Future, 2000. Video 004.071 Digital Part One shows visits to several high schools in an examination of the push to wire America's schools and the effectiveness of incorporating the new computer technology into the curriculum. Part Two looks at economic challenges to community and home access to computers and the Internet, and explores the fundamental alienation felt by many girls and students of color in the computer world and the need for fostering an environment of inclusion. Executive producer: David Bolt. • Contemporary America • Labor and Economy • Media Studies Study guide Dinner for One, 2001. Video 791.433 College Dinner A darkly humorous silent film using trick photography and toy instruments as sound effects. Created in association with Northwestern University Radio/TV/Film, Evanston. Writer and director: Clayton Brown; producer: Stephanie Green. • Chicago Filmmakers Discovering Dominga, 2002. Video 972.81053 Discove A survivor of the 1982 Rio Negro massacre in Guatemala, Denese Becker, born Dominga Sic Ruiz, was adopted by an American family and raised in Iowa. As an adult she begins to confront her memories and nightmares, returning to Guatemala almost 20 years after the massacre and ultimately becoming an advocate for the victims and survivors at great personal cost.Produced and directed by Patricia Flynn. • Global Concerns • South & Central America • War Study guide Displaced in the New South, 1995. Video 305.868 Displac In the 1980s, over 200,000 Latino and Asian immigrants came to Atlanta and north Georgia. This film describes the difficulties and successes they faced in establishing themselves in a different culture. Produced and directed by David Zeiger and Eric Mofford. • Immigration • Multiculturalism & Diversity Divan, 2003. Video 296.832 Divan To reclaim an ancestral couch upon which esteemed rabbis slept, Pearl Gluck travels from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn to her roots in Hungary. Along the way, a colorful cast of characters gets involved – the couch exporter, her ex-communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of matchmakers, and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Filmed by Pearl Gluck. • Judaism Divorce Iranian Style, 1998. Video 346.0166 Divorce Looks inside an Iranian divorce court and shows how women are treated under Islamic law. Narrator: Joanna Rosenthall. A film by Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini. • Middle East • Women’s Issues |
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Goldman, 2004. DVD B Goldm.E Emma Goldman was a Russian immigrant whose activism in the name of free speech and attacks against the United States government led to her deportation in 1919. Written, produced, and directed by Mel Bucklin. • Social & Political History Study guide The End of Suburbia, 2004. This provocative documentary examines the history of suburban life. Post-World War II suburbia attracted droves of people, giving rise to sprawl and all that comes with it -- good and bad. How has the environment been affected by this lifestyle, and is it sustainable? • Environmental Issues • Contemporary America Study guide Erased, 2000. Video 616.831 Erased Combining old home movie footage with recent answering machine message, the film creates a look at the effect of the Aging process on the filmmaker's mother. Background instrumental music is Shalom Aleichem from the album Songs of our Fathers performed by Andy Statman and David Grisman. Written, directed, and edited by Jay Rosenstein. • Aging • Fiction Every Mother's Son, 2004. Video 363.232 Every Explores the involvement of the New York Police Department in the high profile slayings of three men, and the mothers working for their cases to be brought to justice. Produced and directed by Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson. • Contemporary America • Urban Issues Study guide |
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Roy: Inside the School of Assassins, 1997. Video 355.007 Father
Describes the military assistance and training that the United States provides to Latin American countries at the U.S. Army School of the Americas, and Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a human rights advocate who would like to see the school closed, on the basis of torture training at the facility. Writer, producer, director: Robert Richter. Narrated by Susan Sarandon. • Global Concerns • South & Central America • War Study guide Fenceline: A Company Town Divided, 2002. DVD 363.738 Fenceli Depicts the struggle of an African-American community in Louisiana's "cancer alley" to be relocated from under the shadow of a Shell chemical plant. Led by activist Margie Richard, the community tries to convince the corporate bosses that the plant is a health hazard. Others in town, especially Shell employees, feel the risk is overstated. • Environmental Issues • Health Study guide Fighter, 2000. DVD 940.5318 Fighter Documentary film that follows Holocaust survivors and friends Jan Wiener and Arnost Lustig on a trip to Europe in 1998. The trip recreates the journey made by Wiener as he escaped from Nazi occupied Prague, through Slovenia and Italy, on his way to joining the British Royal Air Force before his return to Prague after World War II. Produced and directed by Amir Bar-Lev. • Holocaust • Judaism Films of Thomas Edison, 1993. Video 778.5309 Films v.1 Motion pictures produced by Thomas Edison between 1898 and 1905. Library has Vol. 1 only. Silent. • Cinema History 5 Girls, 2001. Video 305.235 Five Follows five young teenage girls going to schools in Chicago. Looks at their family life, their behavior at home and school, and their friendships and other relationships. Produced and directed by Maria Finitzo for Kartemquin Films. • Chicago Stories • Chicago Filmmakers • Issues Facing Youth Study guide The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans, 1989. Video 071.471 Forward The story of the world's most successful Yiddish-language newspaper, The Jewish Daily Forward, and its special role in the lives of millions. Produced by Marlene Booth, Linda Matchan ; directed by Marlene Booth ; written by Linda Matchan, Marlene Booth. • Judaism • Media Studies Fossil Fuel, 2001. Video 791.433 College Fossil Using a toy car and toy dinosaurs, filmmaker Jacob Borshard gives a view of extinction, decaying matter, and the predominance of oil culture. Created in association with the School of the Art Institute, Film, Video and New Media, Chicago. • Chicago Filmmakers • Labor and Economy Free of Eden, 1998. Video 791.4372 Free A high school dropout realizes that education is the only way out of a dangerous dead-end neighborhood. Sidney Poitier plays the tutor. Also featured is his daughter Sydney Tamiia Poitier in her film debut. Screenplay and original story by Delle Chatman. Executive producer: Sidney Poitier. • African American Issues • Fiction • Urban Issues Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda, 2004. Video 967.571 Ghosts Chronicles the Rwandan genocide of 1993, one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. Includes interviews with key government officials, diplomats, and eyewitness accounts. Written, produced, and directed by Greg Barker. • Africa • Global Concerns • War Study guide Future of Food, 2004. DVD 363.192 Future In-depth investigation into unlabeled genetically-modified foods which have become increasingly prevalent in grocery stores. Unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat. Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, wife of Jerry Garcia. • Environmental Issues |
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the Kingdom, 1989. Video 305.48696 Half Jewish women from the United States, Canada and Israel talk about their struggle to redefine their roles in Jewish life and attempt to incorporate feminist values into their religion. Directed by Francine E. Zuckerman and Roushell N. Goldstein. • Judaism • Women’s Issues Halsted Street U.S.A., 1998. Video 977.311 Halsted Tracing Halsted Street from Southern Illinois’ cornfields to Chicago’s boisterous soul, Halsted Street, USA offers a crash course in cultural geography. Directed by award-winning Chicago filmmaker David E. Simpson and narrated by Studs Terkel, this kaleidoscopic road movie traces the length of one vibrant, disparate thoroughfare, bringing into focus issues simmering up from the asphalt of main streets across America—racism and tolerance, gentrification, economic adversity, cultural/national identity. Colorful and entertaining, Halsted Street, USA reveals the American melting pot at full boil. Produced, directed, written, and edited by David E. Simpson • Chicago Stories • Chicago Filmmakers • Contemporary America Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story, 2003. DVD 345.0231 Heir This personal documentary chronicles filmmaker Ivy Meeropol's journey to come to terms with the lives and deaths of her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of relaying the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets and executed as traitors in 1953. A 2004 Sundance Film Festival selection. • Judaism • Social & Political History Study guide Here's Where I'm Comin' From, 2001. Video 791.433 Alterna Heres An evocative and haunting video poem about the power of art to overcome internalized wounds. Alternative Youth Video Festival 2001. • Youth Produced Media Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, 2000. Video 956.7 Hidden A two-year investigation, Hidden Wars of Desert Storm, brings answers to many questions based on documents never before seen on television and backed by interviews of such prominent personalities as Desert Storm Commander General Norman Schwarzkopf, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, former UN Iraq Program Director Dennis Halliday, former UNSCOM team leader Scott Ritter and many others. Produced, written, and directed by Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy; narrated by John Hurt. • War Study guide Hiding and Seeking: Faith & Tolerance After the Holocaust, 2003. Video 940.5318 Hiding In this compelling documentary, a father takes his grown-up Orthodox Jewish sons to Poland to teach them about the perils of putting up walls to keep those they deem dangerous outside. After he introduces them to the Polish family who helped their grandfather during the Holocaust, they discover the value in building bridges.Written, directed, and produced by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky • Faith • Holocaust • Judaism Study guide Hip Hop, a Culture of Influence, 1999. Video 781.649 Hiphop The Youth Organizers Television (YO-TV) crew interviews their peers, authors of hip hop culture, hip hop artists, and persons on the street, collecting a range of opinions on various themes relating to hip hop, including race, sexism, homophobia, commercialization, the influence of youth on hip hop, and the influence of hip hop on youth. • Arts, Music & Culture • Youth Produced Media Home to Tibet, 1995. Video 951.5 Home Focuses on the dangerous journey of Sonam Lama from his exiled residence in Massachusetts to Tibet, a place he has not seen in 12 years. Includes his meeting with the Dalai Lama, visits with friends exiled in India, and his reunion with his sister and others from his home village. In English and Tibetan with English subtitles. Written and directed by Alan Dater and Lisa Merton. • Asia • Global Concerns Hope is the Thing With Feathers, 1999. Video 155.937 Hope This touching portrait, told through Beau Riley's poetry, art, and spoken words, depicts his inner and outer journey as he cared for his lover David Whitmore during his illness and death while confronting his own illness and impending death. A film by Andy Abrahams Wilson • Health • Gay & Lesbian Issues Study guide Hybrid, 2002. Video 633.155 Hybrid This personal documentary is about a 100-year old Iowa farmer and his life-long obsession with hybrid seed corn. Milford Beeghly, the filmmaker’s grandfather, began experimenting with hybrid seed in secret in the 30s, peddling it to skeptical farmers at a time when intervening in the natural process was seen by some as an oddity, a hoax, even a sin. Mixing animated footage of crawling and mating corncobs with meditative nature scenes, Hybrid uses dry Midwestern wit to look at one man’s life story, while simultaneously peering into the history and science of agriculture. Hybrid takes on fuller resonance because of the current fears about the harm that might be done by genetically engineered crops. Directed by Monteith McCollum. • Environment and Agriculture • Experimental |
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Too, Sing America, 2002. Video 973.04927 Itoo A young Arab-American Muslim woman sings the Star-Spangled Banner. In this poetic video by Joan Mandell and Rich Wieske. • Multiculturalism & Diversity I Was a Zero in City 2000, 2003. Video 917.7311 Iwas A privately funded photographic project called Chicago in the Year 2000 (aka. City 2000) asked filmmaker Tom Palazzolo to submit photos and videos to document the city of Chicago in the year 2000. Only one of his photographs was accepted and none of his videos. This quirky, personal film shows his rejected work, which includes various street scenes, street musicians, actors and art, and outdoor celebrations such as the annual Democratic senior citizen picnic. • Chicago Stories • Chicago Filmmakers If the Mango Tree Could Speak, 1993. Video 972.8 If A documentary about children ages 12 to 15 growing up in the middle of war in Guatemala and El Salvador. Producer and writer: Patricia Goudvis; directors: Patricia Goudvis, William Turnley. • South & Central America • Issues Facing Youth Study guide In Her Own Time, 1985. Video 296.8332 In Focuses on cultural anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff's study of the community of Hasidic Jews in Los Angeles's Fairfax neighborhood. Tells how, after exhausting medical treatment for cancer, she found strength among the traditions, faith, and caring of these Orthodox Jews. Directed by Lynne Littman. • Aging • Judaism In the Light of Reverence, 2001. Video 970.1 In Across the United States, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. This film presents three indigenous communities in their struggles to protect their sacred sites from rock climbers, tourists, stripmining and development and New Age religious practitioners. Produced and directed by Christopher McLeod. • Environment and Agriculture • Native American Issues Study guide In the Mood for Love, 2002. DVD 791.4372 In The poetically told story of two lonely people who discover in each other the intimacy they have lost in their marriages. Produced, written, and directed by Wong Kar-Wai. In Cantonese and Shanghainese with optional English subtitles. • Asia • Fiction In the Shadow of Memory, 1998. Video 940.5405 In The film focuses on Evanston resident Jerri Zbiral, daughter of a survivor of Lidice, a Catholic village in Czechoslovakia destroyed by the Nazis. At the 50th anniversary of the massacre, she speaks with survivors, their children, and others about how Lidice affected their lives. Directed by Jacky Comforty. • Chicago Filmmakers • Holocaust • Judaism In Whose Honor? 1997. Video 970.1 In A critical look at the practice and controversy surrounding the use of American Indian mascots and nicknames in sports. Charlene Teters, a Spokane Indian, mother of two and a graduate student at the University of Illinois, began a protest against the use of the Indian mascot at the University.Written and produced by Jay Rosenstein. • Native American Issues • Multiculturalism & Diversity • Sports Study guide Inside StreetWise, 1997. Video 362.5 Inside This Emmy Award-winning documentary profiles the successful newspaper StreetWise, which is produced and distributed primarily by homeless Chicagoans. A documentary by Evanston filmmaker Bill Glader. • Chicago Stories • Chicago Filmmakers • Labor & Economy • Urban Issues Invisible Revolution: A Youth Subculture of Hate, 2000. Video 305.8 Invisib Profiles racist youth groups and the anti-racist youth group Anti Racist Action (ARA). Produced, directed, and edited by Beverly Peterson. • Multiculturalism & Diversity • Issues Facing Youth It's Elementary: Talking about Gay Issues in School, 1996. Video 306.766 Its An exploration of what happens when experienced teachers talk to their students about lesbians and gay men. Students are asked to consider issues related to homosexuality at six elementary and middle schools. Directed by Debra Chasnoff. • Gay & Lesbian Issues • Issues Facing Youth Study guide |
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Jack Bull, 1999. Video 791.4372 Jack A search for justice in the Wyoming territory becomes a feud between two proud men: a rancher, played by John Cusack, and a wealthy landowner. The film premiered on HBO in April of 1999. Written by Evanstonian Dick Cusack. • Chicago Filmmakers • Fiction Jane: An Abortion Service, 1995. Video 363.46 Jane The story of how "Jane," an abortion counseling/referral service, came into being in Chicago in the 1960s. Includes interviews with the founder, Heather Booth, and other women who were involved with the service. Jane provided a much needed service for women at a time when abortions were illegal. A documentary by Kate Kirtz and Nell Lundy. • Chicago Filmmakers • Women’s Issues Study guide Frontline: A Jew Among Germans, 2005. For years, Marian Marzynski lived with a fear of the people who had invaded his county and wiped out his family. When the German government announced it was planning a memorial on the Holocaust, he decided that it was finally time to visit “the land of the enemy” and to find out – how does a new generation of Germans live with the crimes of the past? • Holocaust • Judaism Study guide The Jew in the Lotus, 1998. Video 296.39 Jew Writer Rodger Kamenetz describes his spiritual transformation when he accompanies a group of rabbis invited by the Dalai Lama to discuss how the Jews survived their exile. • Faith • Judaism Study guide Jews and Buddhism: Belief Amended, Faith Revealed, 1999. Video 296.39 Jews The effect of Eastern religion on Jewish life and religious practice is widespread in the United States, where 30% of non-Asian Buddhists are Jewish. This film includes interviews, historical film clips, and rare footage of the Dalai Lama meeting with Jewish religious leaders. A film by Bill Chayes and Isaac Solotaroff • Faith • Judaism Jung (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin, 2000. Video 958.1046 Jung In 1999, a surgeon and a war correspondent join forces to found a hospital in Afghanistan, a country that has been devastated by civil and border wars for the last 20 years. In Arabic, Italian, and English with English subtitles.A film by Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati. • Middle East • War Justice and the Generals, 2002. Video 972.84053 Justice On December 2, 1980, three nuns and one lay worker were abducted, raped, and murdered by El Salvadoran National Guardsmen. This documentary covers the initial investigation, the trial of the Guardsmen, and later attempts to bring to justice the military leaders who ordered the murders. Written, produced, directed, and narrated by Gail Pellette. • South & Central America • War Study guide |
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Gimp, 2000. Video 616.836 King Dan Keplinger, a disabled artist, tells the story of his life from the age of 13 through his early 20s. Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Short Subject. Directed and photographed by William A. Whiteford ; produced by Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford ; written by Dan Keplinger • Disabilities Study guide King of the Jews, 2000. Video 305.8924 King An Experimental work about fear and transcendence. It explores the filmmaker's troubled childhood relationship to the figure of Jesus Christ and examines the roots of Christian anti-Semitism. Written, directed, edited, and produced by Jay Rosenblatt • Experimental • Faith • Judaism Kings on the Hill: Baseball's Forgotten Men, 1993. Video 796.357 Kings A documentary about the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues and the ending of segregated baseball which caused the demise of the institutions that were a major source of black pride. Narrated by Ossie Davis. Produced by Rob Ruck and MollyYoungling ; directed by Molly Youngling; written by Rob Ruck. • African-American Issues • Multiculturalism & Diversity • Social & Political History • Sports The Knowledge of Healing, 1996. Video 615.899 Knowled Tibetan traditional forms of healing. Director: Franz Reichle; producer: Marcel Hoehn. Portions in Tibetan and other languages with English subtitles. • Asia • Faith • Health |
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Created in association with Columbia College, Michael Rabiger Center for Documentary, Chicago. • Aging • Chicago Filmmakers • Fiction • Health Mamadrama: The Jewish Mother in Cinema, 2001. Video 306.8743 Mamadra A unique exploration of the maligned mother figure in Jewish 20th-century culture. Writer, director, producer: Monique Schwarz. • Cinema History • Judaism The Man We Called Juan Carlos, 2000. Video 972.81 Man The story of an ordinary man whose life affected the lives of the filmmakers for over 25 years. Wenceslao Armira, a Mayan Indian who was an illiterate peasant until the arrival of a foreign aid project, became a teacher, community organizer, guerilla, and Mayan priest. His life raises questions about social justice, life choices, and the cost of commitment. Produced and directed by Heather MacAndrew and David Springbett. • South & Central America Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992. DVD 302.23 Manufac Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic collage of new and original footage, biography, archival gems, and imaginative graphics, the film highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media. Appearing in the film are major journalists and critics, including Bill Moyers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Tom Wolfe, Peter Jennings, Jeff Greenfield, philosopher Michel Foucault, White House reporter Sarah McClendon, New York Times editorial writer Karl E. Meyer and revisionist author Robert Faurisson. • Global Concerns • Media Studies Study guide Masters of Russian Animation, 2000. DVD 791.433 Masters A collection of award-winning animated short films by Russia's world-renowned directors and artists. Russian with English subtitles. • Animation Maxwell Street: A Living Memory, 2002. Video 977.311 Maxwell Captures the essence of this once famous Chicago market through the children and grandchildren of the Eastern European Jewish immigrants who built it. Produced and directed by Shuli Eshel. • Chicago Stories • Chicago Filmmakers • Judaism • Urban Issues Study guide Maxwell Street Blues, 1983. Video 781.643 Maxwell Chicago's urban legend where ethnic groups mingle in a unique and true representation of the melting pot and where great blues music continues to be born and reborn on the street corners. Directors: Linda Williams, Raul Zaritsky. • Arts, Music & Culture • Chicago Stories • Chicago Filmmakers Me and My Black & White World, 2001. Video 791.433 Alterna Me A one-minute Experimental film. Alternative Youth Video Festival 2001. Created in association with Street Level Youth Media. • Youth Produced Media Means of Grace, 1996. Video 362.2 Means Using home movies, archival footage, and dramatizations, the film presents an inside view of "madness" using the diary entries and writings of the filmmaker's mother. Narrator and filmmaker: J. Clements. • Fiction • Health • Women’s Issues Measurements, 2000. Video 791.433 College Measure A young Oriental woman describes what physical features she likes and dislikes in a man. Writer, director, producer: Daniel Peltz. Created in association with the Radio/TV/Film Dept. at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. • Experimental Memory, 2000. Video 791.433 College Memory A woman remembers an event that may or may not have happened. This film plays out as a personal opera of betrayal and abandonment: a mother packs her suitcase as her infant daughter plays at her feet. The mother goes down the stairs and out the door, leaving the infant. Created in association with the Radio/TV/Film Dept. at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. • Experimental Men Are From Moon, 1998. Video 612.665 Men An excerpt from Elizabeth Sher’s documentary When Women Go Through Menopause, Where Do Men Go? Men interviewed on the street are asked what menopause is and how it affects women. • Health • Women’s Issues Mercury Moon, 2001. Video 791.433 College Mercury Three short science fiction films by Kim Collmer. Created in association with the Film, Video, and New Media Dept. of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. • Experimental Message in a Bubble, 2003. DVD 338.04 Message A documentary that focuses on the Internet industry. Written, directed, and produced by James Stanford. • Contemporary America • Labor and Economy • Media Studies Study guide Missing Allen, 2001. Video 364.1523 Missing After Chicago filmmaker Allen Ross disappeared in 1995, fellow-filmmaker Christian Bauer began a haunting journey in search of his friend, which ultimately reveals a cult group to be at the center of Ross’ tragic disappearance • Chicago Filmmakers • Chicago Stories Missing in Tibet, 1997. Video 951.5 Missing In 1949, China invaded Tibet, devastating Tibetan culture and tradition; over 100,000 Tibetans have fled into exile. In 1995, one Tibetan exile, Ngawang Choephel, returned to Tibet to document remnants of traditional music and dance. This videotaped footage was sent out of Tibet prior to his arrest. Directed by Robin Garthwait and Dan Griffin. Narrated by Goldie Hawn and Peter Coyote. • Arts, Music & Culture • Asia Mud Peoples Video 738.092 Jolly M Mudpeop A documentary about artist Marva Jolly • Arts, Music & Culture My Germany: Unqualified Remarks of a Distant Observer, 1995. Video 943.0879 My Triggered by the widespread resurgence of Neo-Nazi groups in Germany in the early 1990s, this personal essay video reflects on the filmmaker’s troubled feelings toward Germany, the country she grew up in, but left behind when she moved to Chicago in the mid-80s. Reflections on German history, interviews, and personal stories form the core of this video, which illuminates how a younger generation of Germans has learned (or not learned) about the Holocaust from their parents and in school. By Ines Sommer • Chicago Filmmakers • Experimental • Holocaust My Girl, 2001. Video 791.433 Alterna My Three videos: My Girl deals with death and healing; Female Riot deals with issues of sexuality, representation, and self-esteem; What's Ghetto consists of interviews of people defining what the word ghetto means to them. Created in association with Street Level Youth Media. • Youth Produced Media My Mother Dreams The Satan's Disciples in New York, 1998. Video 791.433 My A comedy about a Midwestern elderly woman, who travels to New York City for the first time and begins to spin a fantasy about the motorcycle club across the street from her daughter's apartment. Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short, 1999. Directed by Barbara Schock • Aging • Fiction |
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New Americans, 2003. Video 304.873 New This Moving and insightful documentary depicts the journeys of five families from their homes in the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Mexico and India to new lives in the United States. Directors (Dominican story), Susanna Aikin, Carlos Aparico ; directors (Palestinian story), Jerry Blumental, Gordon Quinn (Nigerian story), Steve James • Contemporary America • Immigration Study guide Study guide Nigel & Me, 2001. Video 791.433 Alterna Nigel A mentally disturbed young man chooses to have a popsicle as a friend, which he names Nigel. Alternative Youth Video Festival 2001. • Animation • Youth Produced Media No Loitering: Teens Searching for a Place, 2001. Video 305.235 No Set in the small town of Sitka, Alaska, home to a large Alaska Native population, the video chronicles the creativity, concerns, and dreams of youth growing up today. Directed and produced by Ellen Frankenstein. • Issues Facing Youth Nobody’s Business, 1999. Video B Berli.O Oscar A. Berliner, father of director Alan Berliner, is the reluctant subject of this study of family history and memory. Family members add their comments to this portrait of a retired Jewish sportswear manufacturer and salesman who describes himself as "just an ordinary guy." • Fiction • Judaism • Aging Not in Our Town, 1995. Video 305.8 Not Documentary about the people of Billings, Montana who joined together to stand up for Native American, African American and Jewish neighbors who were under attack by white supremacists. Producers: Patrice O'Neill and Rhian Miller. • Contemporary America • Multiculturalism & Diversity Study guide |
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Day Longer: The Story of the Frontier Strike, 1999. Video 331.892
One Recounts America's longest running strike by restaurant workers of the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Produced and directed by Amie S. Williams. • Contemporary America • Labor and Economy Study guide One Hundred and One Nights, 1994. DVD 791.4372 One French new wave director Agnes Varda's tribute to the history of cinema. Simon Cinema, an Aging director, hires a film student to give his memory a daily workout and to reminisce about the movies. Cameo appearances by Jean-Paul Belmondo, |