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Directed by Noah Teichner | 85 mins | 2022
Teichner’s tragicomic essay film describes the unlikely voyage of the ship dubbed the “Soviet Ark” which, five years after being used by the United States government to deport 249 radicals and anarchists, would become part of Buster Keaton’s 1924 comedy "The Navigators".
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Paradise
Directed by Michael Almereyda | 82 mins | 2009
Part sketchbook, part diary, part collage, part panorama, the material that makes up Paradise was culled from footage shot over the course of a decade of travel in two dozen cities and nine different countries. “Exquisite. Both high art and rousing e... -
The Prairie Trilogy
Directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson | 90 mins | 1978
John Hanson and Rob Nilsson, co-directors of Cannes Camera d’Or winner Northern Lights and fellow members of San Francisco’s Cine Manifest film collective, collaborated on this remarkable series of documentaries underwritten by the North Da...
