Movies: The National Endowment For The Arts

  • 1987
    Working Girls

    Working Girls (1987)

    Working Girls

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    A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort....

    Working Girls
  • 1977
    11 x 14

    11 x 14 (1977)

    11 x 14

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    65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple's Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man's journeys, the story of a man who may be having an affair....

    11 x 14
  • 1982
    Vortex

    Vortex (1982)

    Vortex

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    A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation...

    Vortex
  • 1986
    A Few Things I Know About Miami

    A Few Things I Know About Miami (1986)

    A Few Things I Know About Miami

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    This film consists of five segments which interweave archival footage with interviews to highlight aspects of Miami's history. The segments are: On Flagler Street--about the old movie palaces; Down on Second Avenue--the Black entertainment mecca of t...

    A Few Things I Know About Miami
  • 1976
    Seconds to Play

    Seconds to Play (1976)

    Seconds to Play

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    A documentary detailing the live ABC broadcasting of a 1975 college football game from the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum, between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the UCLA Bruins, taking us behind the scenes into the fast-paced demands and technical impe...

    Seconds to Play
  • 1976
    A Mother's Tale

    A Mother's Tale (1976)

    A Mother's Tale

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    A parable about a family of cows which poses the problem of resistance to truth, the risks of individuality versus the pressure to conform, and the tensions between generations. Based on the short story of the same title by James Agee. Originally o...

    A Mother's Tale
  • 1981
    Fannie's Film

    Fannie's Film (1981)

    Fannie's Film

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    A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals, and feelings. A challenge to mainstream media's ongoing stereotypes of women of color who earn their...

    Fannie's Film
  • 1970
    This Island

    This Island (1970)

    This Island

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    How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood....

    This Island
  • 1996
    Law of Averages

    Law of Averages (1996)

    Law of Averages

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    In a lush garden two lovers meet and begin a relationship that is complicated by a lack of exact compatibility, daily compromise and occasional sensuousness. The temptation in this garden is an interactive theatre called The Big Ghost which stars a w...

    Law of Averages
  • 1987
    Preludes in Magical Time

    Preludes in Magical Time (1987)

    Preludes in Magical Time

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    Directed by Sara Petty....

    Preludes in Magical Time
  • 1994
    Little Lieutenant

    Little Lieutenant (1994)

    Little Lieutenant

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    Little Lieutenant is a look back at the late Weimar era with its struggles and celebrations leading up to world war, a period piece. Scored to John Zorn's arrangement of the Kurt Weill song, "Little Lieutenant of the Loving God", and drawing its imag...

    Little Lieutenant
  • 1989
    Neo-Geo: An American Purchase

    Neo-Geo: An American Purchase (1989)

    Neo-Geo: An American Purchase

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    Produced during a year-long residency in New York, Neo Geo is a vivid portrayal of the contemporary American cultural landscape....

    Neo-Geo: An American Purchase
  • 1976
    Art in Taos

    Art in Taos (1976)

    Art in Taos

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    A documentary by husband and wife filmmakers, Mario Balibrera and Dana Evans, of the art colonies of Taos, New Mexico in the early part of the 20th century....

    Art in Taos