The Inquiring Camera

5/6/03 to 6/26/03

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Past Films

  • THE JOURNEY, EPISODES 14- 19

    • Thursday, June 26 6:00

  • THE JOURNEY, EPISODES 7- 13

    • Tuesday, June 24 6:00

  • THE JOURNEY, EPISODES 1–6

    • Thursday, June 19 6:00

    A timely reprise of this monumental, truly international call for peace by Peter Watkins, "the most neglected and perhaps the most significant major British director of his generation."-Sean Cubit. Continues June 24, 26.

  • MEDITATIONS ON REVOLUTION

    • Tuesday, June 17 7:30

    Robert Fenz in Person. A series of exquisitely filmed shorts that explore the meaning of the word "revolution." From Cuba to New York, Mississippi to a Rio favela, Fenz contemplates politics and art, history and contemporary life.

  • CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIOPATH

    • Tuesday, June 10 7:30

    Joe Gibbons's witty and revelatory epic is an autobiographical look back on a life of transgression. With shorts: Tiffany Shlain's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; two deadpan videos by Neil Goldberg, My Parents Read Dreams I've Had About Them and A System for Writing Thank You Notes; and Final Exit, Gibbons talking frankly with his dog about death.

  • THE AMERICAN EGYPT

    • Tuesday, June 3 7:30

    Jesse Lerner's radical documentary explores the role of the U.S. in the Yucatán, bringing together archival footage and vintage trick films to investigate an early example of globalization. With shorts: Trickle Down Theory of Sorrow, by Mary Filippo, and Ben Russell's Terra Incognita.

  • FROM THE OTHER SIDE

    • Tuesday, May 27 7:30

    Chantal Akerman's new film is a powerful cinematic essay exploring the U.S./Mexican border, focusing on the thousands of Mexicans who seek passage north as undocumented laborers. "Chilling… Akerman, in a few deft interviews, shows the hypocrisy and paranoia involved in U.S. immigration policy."-Film Comment

  • IN ORDER NOT TO BE HERE

    • Tuesday, May 13 7:30

    Deborah Stratman in Person. A haunting portrait of suburban communities, immaculate, brightly lit, yet free of people. With shorts Eye/Machine 11 by Harun Farocki, Bill Brown's Buffalo Common, and Diane Bonder's If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now...

  • REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME

    • Tuesday, May 6 7:30

    The latest masterful cine-essay from Chris Marker expands a portrait of photographer Denise Bellon into a broad-ranging intellectual and emotional history of 20th-century France. "If we all had history teachers as excitingly unorthodox as Marker, for whom no event deserves to be forgotten, the world would be a far better place."-Film Society of Lincoln Center