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| Alternative Youth
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Screening of videos made by teenagers from Evanston
Teen Empowerment Project and other young people from around the country
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Video Festival
This screening event highlighted videos produced and
directed by suburban and Chicago area teens. Filmmakers from Evanston
Township High School, Video Machete, Street Level Youth Media, and Community
Film Workshop's Youth in Motion presented.
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| A Place called Chiapas
Nettie Wild, producer and
director
The film traces the uprising of the Zapatista National
Liberation Army, led by Subcommandante Marcos, a charismatic, Internet-savvy
intellectual from Mexico City, who sparked the revolt of Indians seeking
to reclaim their lives and their land by taking control of five towns
and more than 500 ranches.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 972.75 Place
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| A Singing Stream
Yvonne Welbon, producer and
director
The story of a remarkable family from the rural south,
this film shows how the musical gifts, religious faith, and black cultural
traditions equipped them to rise above difficult circumstances. A 57-minute
documentary by Davenport Films.
Evanston Public Library Call
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| A Tajik Woman
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, producer
and director
A brave, poetic and articulate reflection on issues
of exile and cultural conflict faced by Muslim women living in the United
States. A 20-minute personal journey documentary.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 305.48 Tajik
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| Blurred Boundaries:
Film at the Turn of the Centuries.
In celebration of the Millennium, film scholar Scott
Curtis led a discussion about the cinematic experience circa 1900 and
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Bob Hercules
In celebration of Illinois Artists Month Reeltime is
screening a retrospective of local filmmaker and activist Bob Hercules.
Acclaimed Evanston filmmaker Bob Hercules will screen and discuss selected
works representative of his 20+ years working in film and video. |
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| Breathing Lessons:
The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
Jessica Yu, producer and
director
This 35-minute Academy Award winning documentary by
Jessica Yu is the remarkable story of a man who contracted polio in
childhood and subsequently spent most of his life in an iron lung. For
more than 40 years he has fought to lead an independent life. Incorporating
the vivid imagery of O'Brien's poetry, and his candid, wry and often
profound reflections on work, sex, death and God, this provocative film
asks: What makes a life worth living? By presenting O'Brien's life from
his point of view, the film provides an intimate window into the reality
of the life of a severely disabled man, as well as an illuminating portrait
of a remarkable artist.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 362.4 Breathi
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| Carved from the
Heart
Ellen Frankenstein and Louise
Brady, producers and directors
After the loss of his son to a cocaine overdose, a
Native American wood carver creates a totem pole and invites the town
to help. An inspirational story about personal and community healing.
A 30-minute documentary.
Evanston Public Library Call
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| Classified X
Melvin Van Peebles and Mark
Daniels, Producer and Director
Classified X offers an in-depth look at nearly a century's
worth of denigrating images of African Americans in Hollywood movies.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 791.4309 Classif |
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| College
Clips
Jeff Spitz, Producer and
Director
An evening of videos produced and directed by Chicago-area
college students majoring in film and video. Work presented by graduate
and undergraduate students from Columbia College, The School of the
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Cyberman
Peter Lynch, Producer and Director
An 85-minute documentary by Peter Lynch. Set not in
some distant unrealized world but in the present, 'Cyberman' follows
the experiences of Steve Mann, inventor, activist and cyborg. He sports
sunglasses equipped with information-reception devices. Laser-powered
cameras imprint images on his eyeballs. On his body, he wears computers
and recording devices. His objective: to share his visions in a way
that the audience not just sees his world but also experiences it with
him. To be me, not see me, is his mantra.
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| Depression and Manic
Depression
CBS reporter Mike Wallace; psychiatrist and author,
Kay Redfield Jamison; artist, Lama Dejani; and State Department official,
Robert Boorstin are among those who share their experiences of depression
and manic depression in this outstanding documentary. The video explores
the realities of depression and manic depression and provides an overview
of available treatments, including a list of resources.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 616.895 Four
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| Divorce Iranian
Style
Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini,
producers and directors
Tragic, stirring, and sometimes humorous, this fly-on-the-wall
perspective provides a unique window into the proceedings that take
place over several weeks in an Iranian divorce court. A subtitled, 80-minute
documentary.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 346.0166 Divorce
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| El' Lustrador
James Prater, producer and
director
A 6-minute experimental documentary produced by James
Prater explores a moment in the life of a young boy who shine shoes
on the streets of Guatemala.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 305.562 Lustrad
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| El Silencio
de Neto
Luis Argueta, producer and
director
An award winning 106-minute feature film produced In
Antigua, Guatemala. This Sundance Film Festival selection tells the
story of a young boy's coming of age during the 1950's while his country
struggles to preserve democracy amidst CIA cold war propaganda. Spanish
with English subtitles.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 972.81 Silence
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| Free of Eden
Delle Chatman, screenwriter
High school dropout Nicole Turner discovers that education
is the only way out of her dangerous, dead end inner city neighborhood.
Sidney Poitier plays the tutor she hires who realizes that true learning
is a two-way street.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 791.4372 Free
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Gabbeh
Moshen Makhmalbaf
A 75-minute feature film from Iran directed by Moshen
Makhmalbaf. A beautiful young woman emerges from a woven carpet to
tell her story of romantic longing. Visually stunning film with gorgeous
imagery.
Evanston Public Library Call Number: Gabbeh
Video 791.4372 Gabbeh
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The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda, Producer and Director
An 82-minute award-winning documentary by Agnès
Varda. Varda trains her ever-seeking eye on "gleaners",
those who pick at already- harvested fields for the odd potato or
turnip, who insist on finding a use for what society has determined
it has no use for. Varda's own ruminations on her life as a filmmaker
(a gleaner of sorts), gives her a connection to her subjects that
creates a touching human portrait. French with English subtitles.
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Gordon Quinn and Jerry Blumenthal,
producers and directors
An exceptional film about art, politics and the media,
produced and directed by Jerry Blumenthal and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin
Films Ltd. (producers of Hoop Dreams). This 56-minute documentary follows
the creation of a monumental canvas by artist Leon Golub.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 759.13 Golub
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| Inside StreetWise
Bill Glader, producer and
director
The prototype for a series of documentaries on organizations
that take innovative approaches to solving society's most pressing problems.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 362.5 Inside
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| In the Shadow of
a Memory: A Legacy of Lidice
Jacky Comforty, Jerri Zbiral,
Alan Teller, producers
A one-hour documentary film that tells the story of
Jerri Zbiral, the daughter of a survivor of Nazi destruction of the
Catholic village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 940.5405 In
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| The Jack Bull
Dick Cusack, screenwriter
A two-hour Western written by Evanston resident, Dick
Cusack, starring his son, John Cusack.
Evanston Public Library Call
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| Jane:
An Abortion Service
Nell Lundy and Kate Kirtz,
producers & directors
"Jane: An Abortion Service is an hour-long documentary
about a Chicago-based women's health collective that, without formal
medical training, performed more than 12,000 safe illegal abortions
between 1969 and 1973. Feminists and award-winning filmmakers, Kate
Kirtz and Nell Lundy combine rare interviews, archival footage, and
personal documents to tell the fascinating story of ordinary people
who risked everything to provide women with a choice."
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 363.46 Jane
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Letters Not About Love
Jackie Ochs
A 58-minute experimental documentary by Jackie Ochs.
Two contemporary poets, one from America and the other from Russia
begin a dialogue based on a list of ordinary words provided by the
filmmaker. Using striking new and archival footage, the film demonstrates
both a revealing portrait of two cultures and a compelling expression
of the art of mutual understanding
Evanston Public Library Call number: Letters not about Love Video
808.86 Letters
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| Living with Pride:
Ruth Ellis @ 100
Yvonne Welbon, producer and
director
Born July 23,1899, Ruth Ellis is the oldest "out" African
American lesbian. A rare opportunity to experience 100 years of our
history as lived by one inspiring woman. By example, Ruth Ellis shows
what is possible if one not only lives long and ages well but also lives
with pride. A 60-minute documentary.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video B Ellis R.
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| My Germany: Unqualified
Remarks of a Distant Observer
Ines Sommer, producer and
director
The film reflects on German history, interviews, and
personal stories about experiences during the Holocaust to portray how
a younger generation of Germans has learned (or not learned) about the
Holocaust from their parents and in school.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 943.0879 My
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| One Day Longer
Amie William, producer and
director
This 50-minute video documentary celebrates the solidarity
and courage of Las Vegas casino workers. On strike for six years, four
months and ten days, they maintained a 24-hour picket line. As a result,
they have become a national example of the success that can be achieved
when unions come together and persevere.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 331.892 One
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| The Orphan Saint
Christina Timmins and Dymphna
Timmins, producers and directors
A newly released 65-minute comedy by Chicago filmmakers.
This comical, mock documentary visits the quirky citizens of Asulon
as they prepare to induct the town's first living saint. A story of
a small town's peculiar mix of faith, hope and family ties.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 791.43617 Orphan
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Rabbit in the Moon
Emiko
Omori
An 85-minute award-winning documentary
by Emiko Omori. A powerful and emotionally compelling memoir about the
events, meaning and lingering effects of the World War II incarceration
of the West Coast Japanese American community.
Evanston Public Library Call number: Rabbit in the Moon Video 940.5317
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| The Rally
Cal Ward Jr. Producer and
Director
This 20-minute silent film. This satire of early Mack
Sennett comedies follows a young priest as he falls victim to bigotry
and political corruption. Winner of Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award.
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| Regret to Inform
Barbara Sonneborn, producer
and director
A 72-minute documentary where the filmmaker makes a
pilgrimage to the Vietnam countryside where her husband died. She explores
the meaning of war and loss on a human level, and weaves Interviews
with Vietnamese and American war widows into a vivid testament to the
legacy of war. Sundance Film Festival Award Winner for Best Director
and Best Cinematography.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 959.7043 Regret
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| The Return of Navajo
Boy
Jeff Spitz, Producer and
Director
An official Sundance Film Festival selection, this
57-minute documentary chronicles an extraordinary chain of events, beginning
with the appearance of a 1950's film reel, which leads to the return
of a long lost brother named John Wayne to his Navajo family. Produced
and directed by Jeff Spitz, the story continues on the web.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 970.3 Navajo Return
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Stranger with a Camera
Elizabeth Barret
Award winning 62-minute documentary by Elizabeth
Barret. This video explores the responsibilities and ethics of those
who take images of other people and put them to their own use. Based
on a tragedy in which Appalachian landowner Hobar Ison killed documentary
filmmaker Hugh O'Connor; the stranger with a camera, no journalist,
filmmaker or anyone who watches documentary film can afford to ignore
the issues this video raises
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| Style Wars
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant,
producers and directors
This legendary and spirited story is about the roots
of "hip-hop" and the New York city subway graffiti artists who turned
the entire city into a gigantic moving museum. A 59-minute documentary.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 306 Style
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| Through
Madness
This insightful documentary de-mystifies psychotic
illnesses such as schizophrenia and manic depression, and humanizes
those who suffer from them. The film highlights three mentally ill individuals,
skillfully telling their engrossing tales of despair, treatment and
hope. The video highlights one of the three, former Green Bay Packers
star, Lionel Aldridge, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia
and later became homeless for a time.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 616.89 Through
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| Voices of Cabrini;
Remaking of Chicago's Public Housing
Ronit Bezalel, producer and
director
30-minute documentary about the changing face of Cabrini
Green
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 363.58 Voices
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War Photographer
Christian Frei, Producer and Durector
A 96-minute Academy Award nominated documentary by
Christian Frei. The filmmaker follows Nachtwey through war torn regions,
attaching special video micro-cameras to Nachtwey's photo-camera, thus
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Windhorse
Based on true events, this 97-minute dramatic film
tells the urgent, contemporary story of an aspiring Tibetan pop singer
who wins favor with the Chinese government of occupied Tibet. She
faces a crisis of conscience when her cousin, a Buddhist nun, is imprisoned
and tortured fro her religious beliefs. Produced by Paul Wagner in
English, Chinese and Tibetan with English subtitles.
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His Head
Billy Golfus and David E.
Simpson
When Billy Golfus was brain damaged as the result of
a motor scooter accident, he became one of the 43 million Americans
with disabilities. In this irreverent, first person film, Mr. Golfus
goes on the road to meet people with disabilities around the country,
witnessing first hand the strength and anger that is forging a new civil
rights movement for disabled Americans. Mr. Golfus, an award-winning
journalist, says his video "ain't exactly your inspirational cripple
story." Instead, it is an entertaining program about disability, civil
rights, and the search for intelligent life after brain damage.
Evanston Public Library Call
Number: Video 362.4 When
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| Words from the Heart
A 15 minute companion documentary to Carved from the
Heart , people from Alaska to the islands of the South Pacific share
their experiences with grief, loss and addictions.
Evanston Public Library Call
number: Video 152.4 Words
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