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1) Another Body
Publisher
Utopia
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a college student’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfakes of herself circulating online. Through candid video diaries, synthetic media, and 2D and 3D animation, the film takes you into Taylor's online and offline worlds, humanizing a vast social issue in a compelling personal story.
2) True colors
Author
Publisher
Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the positivity-focused town of Serenity, Minnesota, twelve-year-old Mackenzie Werner, who can visually display her emotions as colorful haze, finds her perfect world challenged when a documentary maker arrives and the town's true emotions are exposed for everyone to see.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter--her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call "journalism." As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist,...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March is probably the single most popular classical composition of all time. But Felix was not the only genius in the family; meet his brilliant sister Fanny, whose unknown Easter Sonata surfaced in 1972. In 'Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn,' director Sheila Hayman reveals the extraordinary life of a composer long neglected by the guardians of classical music and goes on a quest to prove that this lost masterpiece attributed...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lamar dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but when his grandfather is killed in a racist act of violence, Lamar becomes determined to honor his legacy by documenting the fight for justice.
Publisher
dGenerate Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The large-scale 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and the subsequent crackdown on freedoms provide the urgent anchoring point for this remarkable vision from HK filmmaker Chan Tze Woon, a genre-defying plunge into the political morass that has been ever-widening between the former colony and the controlling Chinese state. Taking a panoramic view of these fractures, and covering acts of resistance from 1967 to today, Chan mixes documentary footage...
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Language
Français
Description
Five centuries ago, anatomist Andreas Vesalius opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering, and hope, hospitals are laboratories that connect every body in the world.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Paul B. Preciado's documentary invites a diverse group of trans and nonbinary people to perform interpretations of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando, interrogating its relevance in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide.
10) Uncropped
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alfred Hitchcock. Muhammed Ali. Meryl Streep. LL Cool J. James Hamilton has captured them all. In Uncropped, a legendary Village Voice photojournalist recounts the stories behind iconic images taken over the course of a five-decade career. A visual chronicle of New York City and a window into the heyday of alternative print media. Executive Produced by Wes Anderson.
11) Bad press
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government's corruption in a historic battle that will have ramifications for all of Indian country.
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hindi
Description
Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes reinvents the environmental documentary by portraying, in an incisive yet lyrical fashion, the reciprocal influence of animals and humans. For more than a year, Sen followed New Delhi brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad as they rescued birds of prey from the increasingly destructive effects of urban pollution. While charting the siblings' daily struggles and successes, he also documented their poetic reflections...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Egypt's Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This fossil graveyard, millions of years old, is known as the Valley of the Whales.
Publisher
Greenwich
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life and career of experimental artist Robert Irwin, whose installations have radically expanded the possibilities of what art can be. Irwin began as a painter in LA's "Cool School" scene, before developing a new way of working that made perception itself the subject. Irwin's notable works include The Central Garden at the Getty Center in LA and Untitled (dawn to dusk) in Marfa, Texas.
15) Immediate family
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Documentary follows the lives and work of legendary 1970s session musicians who were featured on some of the most iconic recordings of the era.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is Illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen...
17) Lynch/Oz
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch's filmography from his early short The Alphabet to his recent television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Arguably, no filmmaker has so consistently drawn inspiration consciously or unconsciously from a single work. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by closely examining how it intersects and...
Publisher
Outsider Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Los Angeles, 1974. Tom Jobim, the incarnation of Bossa Nova, and Elis Regina, then Brazil's most popular singer, met to record what would become one of the most iconic albums in the history of Brazilian music. Through rare and unseen images, "Elis and Tom" reveals the conflict and joy of this moment, the creative process, and the extraordinary personalities of these amazing artists.
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Despite the huge risks, two Russian film-makers film the impact of the invasion of Ukraine in their country. Some dissenting Russians are doing their best to make their voices heard.
20) Dr. Tony Fauci
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow Dr. Anthony Fauci as he grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and his 50-year career as the Nation's leading public health advocate. American Masters: Dr. Tony Fauci reveals a rarely seen side of the physician, husband and father as he confronts political backlash, a new administration and questions of the future.
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