Films by Year (2022 films)
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2021: RISE
AN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT (Jens Meurer, 2020, 99 minutes)
AYA (Simon Coulibaly Gillard, 2021, 90 minutes)
BEANS (Tracey Deer, 2020, 92 minutes)
BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS (Jeffrey Wolf, 2019, 75 minutes)
BOREALIS (Kevin McMahon, 2020, 93 minutes)
BREAD: AN EVERYDAY MIRACLE (Harald Friedl, 2020, 94 minutes)
DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD (Brooke Pepion Swaney, 2021, 67 minutes)
DESCENT (Nays Baghai, 2020, 65 minutes)
FIRST WE EAT (Suzanne Crocker, 2020, 101 minutes)
LAST DAYS AT SEA (Venice Atienza, 2021, 70 minutes)
MALNI-TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (Sky Hopinka, 2020, 80 minutes)
MAU (Benjamin Bergmann, Jono Bergmann, 2021, 77 minutes)
THE MUSHROOM SPEAKS (Marion Neumann, 2021, 90 minutes)
RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER (Dawn Porter, 2021, 90 minutes)
SNCC (Danny Lyon, 2021, 70 minutes)
SOCKEYE SALMON -- RED FISH (Dmitriy Shpilenok, Vladislav Grishin, 2020, 52 minutes)
STORM LAKE (Jerry Risius, Beth Levison, 2020, 86 minutes)
TAMING THE GARDEN (Salome Jashi, 2020, 92 minutes)
THE ANCIENT WOODS (Mindaugas Survila, 2017, 86 minutes)
THE KNOCK (Deborah Brevoort, Aleksandra Vrebalov, 2021, 50 minutes)
THE STORY WON'T DIE (David Henry Gerson, 2021, 83 minutes)
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck, 2020, 84 minutes)
THE WAKEFUL SLEEPER (Boris van der Avoort, Marie Kervyn, 2020, 76 minutes)
WAR AND THE WEATHER (Enid Baxter Ryce, 2021, 40 minutes)
WEED & WINE (Rebecca Richman Cohen, 2020, 89 minutes)
Selections from the Thomas Edison Film Festival
Shorts + Cake (shorts program)
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2020: A ROAD LESS TRAVELED
ANOTHER LIFE (Jan Prazak, 2019, 72 minutes)
BINTI (Frederike Migom, 2019, 90 minutes)
COLLODION: THE PROCESS OF PRESERVATION (Eric Overton, 2019, 78 minutes)
CROSSING COLUMBUS (Cathy Lee Crane, 2020, 75 minutes)
DARK WATERS (Todd Haynes, 2019, 126 minutes)
DEAR PHILADELPHIA (Renee Osubu, 2020, 30 minutes)
DEER 139 (Morgan Heim and Jayme Dittmar, 2019, 55 minutes)
DIANA KENNEDY: NOTHING FANCY (Elizabeth Carroll, 2019, 75 Minutes)
DRIVING WHILE BLACK: RACE, SPACE AND MOBILITY IN AMERICA (Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns, 2020, 120 minutes)
FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC (Werner Herzog, 2019, 89 minutes)
HAIDA MODERN (Charles Wilkinson, 2019, 85 minutes)
HEALING FROM HATE: BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF A NATION (Peter Hutchison, 2019, 85 minutes)
HENRY GLASSIE: FIELD WORK (Pat Collins, 2019, 105 minutes)
I AM A TOWN (Mischa Richter, 2019, 83 minutes)
IMAGINING THE INDIAN (Aviva Kempner, Ben West, 2021) work in progress
IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS (Maya Newell, 2019, 84 minutes)
LANDFALL (Cecilia Aldarondo, 2020, 90 minutes)
MIDNIGHT OIL (Bilal Motley, 2020, 30 minutes)
MOSSVILLE: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL (Alex Glustrom, 2019, 76 minutes)
NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN (Werner Herzog, 2019, 89 minutes)
NOVA LITUANIA (Karolis Kaupinis, 2019, 96 minutes)
Selected Shorts from the THOMAS EDISON BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL
SHORTS + CAKE program with CHASING GHOSTS (Eric Bendick, 2019, 16 minutes), BROKEN ORCHESTRA (Charlie Tyrell, 2019, 12 minutes), BETYE SAAR: TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS (Christine Turner, 2020, 9 minutes), HUNTSVILLE STATION (Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone, 2020, 14 minutes), and A LIVING RIVER (Jon Bowermaster, 2019, 23 minutes)
THE BALLAD OF SHIRLEY COLLINS (Rob Curry and Tim Plester, 2017, 94 minutes)
THE SEER AND THE UNSEEN (Sara Dosa, 2019, 84 minutes)
THEN COMES THE EVENING (Maja Novaković, 2019, 28 minutes).
VEINS OF THE WORLD (Byambasuren Davaa, 2019, 96 minutes)
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2019: ADAPTATIONS
ABOVE US, ONLY SKY (Arthur Kleinjan, 2019, Netherlands, 28 minutes)
ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH (Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky, 2018, Canada, 87 minutes)
ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT (James Longley, 2019, USA/Afghanistan, 117 minutes)
CAPERNAUM (Nadine Labaki, 2018, Lebanon, 126 minutes)
FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson, 2009, USA, 87 minutes)
HAIL SATAN? (Penny Lane, 2019, USA, 95 minutes)
HONEYLAND (Tamara Kotevska and Lyubomir Stefanov, 2019, Macedonia, 87 minutes)
ILLUSIONS (Julie Dash, 1982, USA, 34 minutes)
JAY MYSELF (Stephen Wilkes, 2018, USA, 79 minutes)
KAREN’S SWISS CHARD AND WHITE BEANS (Aube Giroux, 2019, USA, 5 minutes)
KIFARU (David Hambridge, 2019, USA/Sudan, 79 minutes)
LA DERNIÈRE TOURNÉE (Christophe Leraie, 2019, France, 22 minutes)
LIFE OVERTAKES ME (John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson, 2019, USA, 39 minutes)
LOST WORLD (Kalyanee Mam, 2018, Cambodia, 16 minutes)
MOMENT TO MOMENT (Mike Attie, 2018, USA, 14 minutes)
ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES (Jessica Oreck, 2019, USA, 92 minutes)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA (Stephen Nomura Schible, 2018, Japan, 100 minutes)
Selections from the Black Maria Film Festival: HENRIETTA BULKOWSKI (Rachel Johnson, 2018, USA, 15 minutes), ULISES (Jorge Malpica, 2018, Mexico, 8 minutes), THE LAST GUIDE (Cristian Gomes, 2018, Canada, 16 minutes), THE ELEPHANT’S SONG (Lynn Tomlinson, 2018, USA, 8 minutes), and WOODY’S ORDER (Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger, 2016, USA, 16 minutes).
SHOPLIFTERS (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018, Japan, 121 minutes)
THE ATOMIC SOLDIERS (Morgan Knibbe, 2018, USA, 22 minutes)
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM (John Chester, 2019, USA, 91 minutes)
THE HOTTEST AUGUST (Brett Story, 2019, USA, 94 minutes)
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (Joe Talbot, 2019, USA, 121 minutes)
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur silent film classic)
THE SPY BEHIND HOME PLATE (Aviva Kempner, 2019, USA, 101 minutes)
THE UNCHANGING SEA (Bill Morrison, 2018, USA, 30 minutes)
THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD (Peter Jackson, 2019, UK, 109 minutes)
TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2019, USA, 120 minutes)
UNDER THE PALACE WALL (David MacDougall, 2014, India, 55 minutes)
UTICA: A TOWN THAT LOVES REFUGEES (Kara Gildea, Rainer Gardner-Olesen, Eric Kukenberger, Sam Lytel, Ellie Pink, Lola Thompson, Peter Weil, 2019, USA, 4 minutes)
WALKING ON WATER (Andrey Paounov, 2018, Italy, 104 minutes)
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE? (Roberto Minervini, 2018, Italy, 123 minutes)
WHILE YOU LIVE, SHINE (Paul Duane, 2018, Ireland, 80 minutes)
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2018: PASSAGES
12TH AND CLAIRMOUNT (Brian Kaufman, Kathy Kieliszewski, and Bill McGraw, 2017, USA, 82 minutes)
ALL THIS CAN HAPPEN (Siobhan Davies/David Hinton, 2012, United Kingdom, 50 minutes)
AN AMERICAN TAIL (Don Bluth, 1986, USA, 80 minutes)
BAGAGES (Paul Tom and Mélissa Lefebvre, 2018, Canada, 52 minutes)
DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN? (Travis Wilkerson, 2017, USA, 90 minutes)
DRIVING WHILE BLACK (Ric Burns and Gretchen Sorin, 2018, USA)
FACES PLACES (VISAGES VILLAGES) (Agnès Varda and JR, 2017, France, 90 minutes)
FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF (Thomas Piper, 2017, USA, 75 minutes)
GENESIS 2.0 (Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev, 2018, Switzerland, 112 minutes)
GOOD EVENING TO THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE CAMP (Joost Conijn, 2017, Netherlands, 45 minutes)
HIGH TIDE IN DORCHESTER (Sandy Cannon-Brown, Tom Horton, Dave Harp, 2017, USA, 57 minutes)
HUMAN FLOW (Ai Weiwei, 2017, USA, 140 minutes)
I PAY FOR YOUR STORY (Lech Kowalski, 2017, France, 86 minutes)
LEANING INTO THE WIND (Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2017, United Kingdom, 93 minutes)
LOVERS OF THE NIGHT (Anna Frances Ewert, 2017, Ireland, 56 minutes)
MODIFIED (Aube Giroux, 2017, Canada, 87 minutes)
RBG (Julie Cohen and Betsy West, 2018, USA 98 minutes)
Selections from the Black Maria Film Festival: NEW YORK CITY SKETCHBOOK (Willy Hartland, 2017, USA 13 minutes), CONTIGO (WITH YOU) (Daniel Boord and Luis Valdovino, 2016, USA, 7 minutes), THE DRIVER IS RED (Randall Christopher, 2017, USA, 15 minutes), MAMA (Mert Canatan, 2017, Spain, 10 minutes), and LITTLE POTATO (Wes Hurley and Nathan Miller, 2017, USA, 14 minutes)
Shorts + Cake: 2,300 MILES TO WORK (Tim Brown, 2018, USA, 11 minutes), KNIFE SKILLS (Thomas Lennon, 2017, USA, 40 minutes), and UNDER THE HUSK (Katsitsionni Fox, 2017, USA, 26 minutes) and PAINT THE ALPACAS (Aidan Macaluso, 2016, USA, 18 minutes)
SKY AND GROUND (Talya Tibbon and Joshua Bennett, 2017, USA/Macedonia 86 minutes)
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017, Finland, 100 minutes)
THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON (Chris Marker, 1968, USA, 28 minutes)
WILDERNESS (Temujin Doran, 2016, Scotland, 5 minutes)
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2017: HOME
A Sense of Place shorts: MY DEADLY BEAUTIFUL CITY (Victoria Fiore, 2016, 11 minutes), MINKA: FARMHOUSE IN JAPAN (Davina Pardo, 2011, 15 minutes), WINTER’S WATCH (Brian Bolster, 2017, 14 minutes), and PALMERSTON BLVD (Dan Browne, 2017, 15 minutes)
BOSQUE DE NIEBLA/CLOUD FOREST (Mónica Álvarez Franco & Carlos Sosa, 2016, Mexico, 90 minutes)
CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY (Matt Tyrnauer, 2016, USA, 92 minutes)
COLUMBUS (Kogonada, 2017, USA, 100 minutes)
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (Bill Morrison, 2016, USA, 120 minutes)
HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (Taika Waititi, 2016, New Zealand, 101 minutes)
KEDI (Ceyda Torun and Charlie Wuppermann, 2016, Turkey, 80 minutes)
LOOK & SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY (Laura Dunn & Jef Sewell, 2016, USA, 82 minutes)
LOUISE EN HIVER/LOUISE BY THE SHORE (Jean-François Laguionie, 2016, France, 75 minutes)
MANHATTAN (Woody Allen, 1979, USA, 96 minutes)
ONE BIG HOME (Thomas Bena, 2016, USA, 88 minutes)
PLASTIC CHINA (Jiu-liang Wang, 2016, China, subtitled, 96 minutes)
ROSENWALD (Aviva Kempner, 2015, USA, 100 minutes)
Selections from the Black Maria Film Festival: ALTIMIR (Kay Hannahan, 2016, 18 minutes), ROXY (Fabien Colas, 2016, 9 minutes), JA PASSOU (EVERYTHING’S OK) (Sebastião Salgado and Pedro Patrocinio, 2016, 15 minutes), HOW DO YOU RAISE A BLACK CHILD? (Seyi Peter-Thomas, 2016, 4 minutes), JOAN (Nathan Pancione, 2016, 7 minutes) and HOMEGOINGS (Christine Turner, 2016).
SONG OF THE SEA (Tomm Moore, 2014, Ireland, 93 minutes)
SPETTACOLO (Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen, 2017, Italy, 90 minutes)
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS (Otto Bell, 2016, UK/Mongolia/USA, 87 minutes)
URBAN TIDES (Simone Eleveld, 2016, Netherlands, 40 minutes)
WINDSHIELD: A VANISHED VISION (Elissa Brown, 2016, USA, 47 minutes)
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2016: AGAINST THE ODDS
ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (Suzanne Crocker, 2014, 87 minutes)
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE) (Ciro Guerra, 2015, 125 minutes)
GRASS: A NATION’S BATTLE FOR LIFE (1925, USA, 71 minutes)
HEART OF A DOG (Laurie Anderson, 2015, 75 minutes)
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD (Jerry Rothwell, 2015, 112 minutes)
INDIVISIBLE (Hilary Linder, 2016, 78 minutes)
MISS SHARON JONES! (Barbara Kopple, 2015, 93 minutes)
RAMS (Grímur Hákonarson, 2015, Iceland; 93 minutes)
RANGO (Gore Verbinski, 2011, 107 minutes)
REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM (Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott, 2015, 73 minutes)
SAVING MES AYNAK (Brent Huffman, 2014, 60 minutes)
Selections from the Black Maria Film Festival: FLOWER OF A THOUSAND COLOURS (Karen Vazquez Guadarrama, Belgium, 23 minutes, documentary), MATILDA & JOE (Nick Gibney, USA, 7 minutes, animation), ON BEAT (Reid Davenport and Cheng Zhang, USA, 7 minutes, documentary), FILMS BY SYRIAN GIRLS (Laura Doggett, USA, 22 minutes, documentary), THE GIFT (Tarique Qayumi, USA, 10 minutes, narrative).
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST (Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger, 2015, 81 minutes)
THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL (Holly Morris and Anne Bogart, 2015, 72 minutes)
THE BIRTH OF SAKĖ (Eric Shirai, 2015, 94 minutes)
THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN (Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano, 1998, 52 minutes)
THE MESSENGER (Su Rynard, 2015, 89 minutes)
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2015: SACRED PLACES
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Benh Zeitlin, 2012, 93 minutes)
DOEVILLE (Kathryn Pasternak, 2015, 92 minutes)
DAMNATION (Ben Knight and Travis Rummel, USA, 2014, 87 minutes)
FIGHT FOR ARENG VALLEY (Kalyanee Mam, Cambodia, 2014, 8 minutes)
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED: DESIGNING AMERICA (Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, 2014, 55 minutes)
IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE (Christopher McLeod and Jessica Abbe, 2001, 73 minutes)
INDIAN POINT (Ivy Meeropol and Julie Goldman, USA, 2015, 93 minutes)
PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN (Rosie Stapel, Netherlands, 2015, 98 minutes)
PROJECT: ICE (William Kleinert, USA, 2014, 118 minutes)
RARA AVIS: JOHN JAMES AUDUBON AND THE BIRDS OF AMERICA (Al Reinert and Cina Alexander, 2015, 91 minutes)
THE HEALING GARDENS OF NEW YORK (Alexandra Isles, 2007, 54 minutes)
THE LAST ICE MERCHANT (Sandy Patch, 2012, 15 minutes)
THE SALT OF THE EARTH (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Brazil-France, 2014, 110 minutes)
THE SECRET GARDEN (Agnieszka Holland, 1993, 102 minutes)
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2014: IT'S ABOUT THE WATER
A RIVER CHANGES COURSE (Kalyanee Mam, 2013, Cambodia, 83 mins.)
FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES (Mike Slee, 2012, Mexico/USA, 40 mins.)
GRINGO TRAILS (Melvin Estrella and Pegi Vail, 2013, USA, 79 mins.)
HOPPED UPSTATE (Leslie von Pless, 2013, USA, 15 mins.)
LOST RIVERS (Caroline Bâcle, 2013, Canada, 72 mins.)
Selections from the Black Maria Film Festival: TAXONOMY (Karen Aqua, 2012, 4 minutes), LITTLE BLOCK OF CEMENT WITH DISHEVELED HAIR CONTAINING THE SEA (Jorge Lopez Navarette, 2014, 15 minutes), CHOP (Ariana Gerstein, 2014, 6 minutes), BUG PEOPLE (Paul Meyers, 2013, 5 minutes), GARBAGE GIRL IN DAILY CONSUMPTION (Christopher Nostrand, 2014, 7 minutes) THERE’S A DEAD CROW OUTSIDE (Morgan Miller, 2013, 1 minute) THE SEA (IS STILL) AROUND US (Hope Tucker, 2013, 4 minutes), MONTAUK (VINZ FELLER, 2014, 16 minutes), and SALMON DEADLY SINS (Steven Vander Meer, 2014, 7 minutes)
SILENT WORLD (LE MONDE DU SILENCE) (Jacques Cousteau, director; Louis Malle, cinematographer, 1956, France, 86 mins.)
THE GREAT FLOOD (Bill Morrison, filmmaker; Bill Frisell, composer, 2013, USA, 78 mins.)
WATERMARK (Jennifer Baichwal, Nick de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky, 2013, Canada, 92 mins.)
WILD RIVER (Elia Kazan, 1960, USA, 110 mins.)
WINTER NOMADS (Manuel von Sturler, 2012, Switzerland, 90 mins.)
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2013: THE FIRST YEAR
CHASING ICE (Jeff Orlowski, 2012, 75 minutes)
COOPER ON FILM: THE THREE FACES OF HAWKEYE Silent in 1920, technicolor in 1936, resplendent in 1991. Last of The Mohicans
DRILL BABY DRILL (Lech Kowalski, 2013, 84 minutes)
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (John Ford, 1939, 104 minutes)
FIELD OF ENCHANTMENT (LA CLÉ DES CHAMPS) (Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou, 2011, 81 minutes)
HARMONY: A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT OUR WORLD (Stuart Sender and Julie Bergman Sender, 2012, 90 minutes)
MICROCOSMOS (Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou, 1996, 80 minutes)
MORE THAN HONEY (Markus Imhoof, 2012, 95 minutes)
RIVERS AND TIDES (Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2001, 90 minutes)
Selections from the Black Maria Film Festival: RAIN (REGEN) (Joris Ivens and Mannus Frånken, 1929, 12 minutes), LIGHT PLATE (Josh Gibson, 2012, 9 minutes), ONE OF THE LAST (UNO DEGLI ULTIMI) (Paul Zinder, 2007, 11 minutes), AN ARCHITECT’S VISION (Mina T. Son, 2016, 6 minutes), ROOFTOP BEES (Melissa Lohman Wild, 2007, 15 minutes), KUDZU VINE (Josh Gibson, 2009, 20 minutes), NILE PERCH (Josh Gibson, 2012, 17 minutes), BLOOM (Scott Stark, 2012, 11 minutes), and LIONFISH DELUSION (Quique Riveria, 2012, 4 minutes)