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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1969
    A Few Things I Know About Miami

    A Few Things I Know About Miami (1969)

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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