Sphinxes Without Secrets (1991)
Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In “Sphinxes Without Secrets”, performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Maria Beatty
Actors: Adrian Piper, Diamanda Galás, Holly Hughes, Laurie Anderson, Lenora Champagne, Lisa Kron, Rachel Rosenthal, Robbie McCauley, Suzanne Lazy
The Last Bolshevik (1993)
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia’s struggles over the course of the 20th Century.
Well Groomed (2019)
Well Groomed travels the humorous, visually stunning world of Competitive Creative Dog Grooming alongside the colorful women transforming their beloved poodles into living sculptures.
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007)
Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first — and hopefully last — uses of thermonuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic…
Toxic Hot Seat (2013)
Chemical flame retardants are everywhere: on our furniture, our homes, even our bodies. Yet, they don’t seem to stop fires…but they do make us sick. This film reveals how three…
The Girl Next Door (1999)
In 1995, at the urging of her then-husband, an Oklahoma housewife submitted a topless photo of herself to a men’s magazine, thus launching her phenomenal career as porn star Stacy…
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (2015)
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II films.
What Jennifer Did (2024)
When Jennifer Pan calls 911 to report that her parents have been shot, she becomes the primary focus of a captivating criminal case.
Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018)
The remarkable life story of the pre-war Polish artist Stanislav Szukalski, documented by the American friends he made late in life.
79 Springs (1969)
This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a…
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story (2020)
The history of the East Lake Meadows public housing project in Atlanta and the people who lived there from 1970 to its demolition in 2000, with special emphasis on the…
We Are One (2020)
Activists around the world fight injustice and drive social change in this documentary that follows their participation in the music video “SolidaritĂ©.”