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Explore documentary storytelling about people, events and ideas.

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Eat Your Catfish (2021)

documentary film

The film is shot from a single, fixed camera positioned at the foot of Kathryn Arjomand’s bed, showing the confined space where she spends most of her time. Years of ALS have left her paralyzed and reliant on mechanical ventilation, with round-the-clock assistance from family members and paid caregivers. Within this restricted frame, the film observes the daily rhythms and frictions of the household: nurses starting and quitting, arguments over money and care, and moments of gallows humour between Kathryn, her husband Saïd, and their son Noah.

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Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes (2002)

documentary film

This documentary explores Herb Alpert's abstract paintings and his more figurative bronze sculptures, focusing on the first major retrospective of his work given at the Tennessee State Museum. It shows how music has infused his paintings and sculptures through color, concept, and form. The entire musical score to this visual film is composed and played by Herb Alpert, and his personality is probed through his artwork.

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The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen (2016)

Biography, documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

The film looks into the life of Angela Bowen (1936–2018), who was a black lesbian feminist activist, a classical ballerina and renowned dance teacher, and ultimately a professor in the California State University system. Her activism was equally strong in all aspects of her life – she was as impassioned in her advocacy for the arts as she was for LGBTQI rights, which she championed as strongly as she did black women's rights. The Passionate Pursuits follows Bowen's life from her childhood as a black girl in inner-city Boston during the Jim Crow era across the decades, until she became a legendary figure in her pursuits as a teacher,…

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Art and Remembrance: The Legacy of Felix Nussbaum (1993)

documentary film

Nussbaum is similar to many prominent artists throughout the ages, in that he gained fame for his pieces only after his death. However, his story is different from most in that the cause of his death was the subject of his work. A victim of the Auschwitz gas chambers, Nussbaum left behind paintings that give unique insight into the plight of European Jews who lived and died under the Nazi regime.

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The Teller and the Truth (2015)

documentary film

The film explores the story of bank teller Francis Wetherbee, who disappeared in 1974 during a bank robbery in Smithville, Texas. A few days after her disappearance Smithville Police recovered her car from the bottom of a river but found no other clues as to her whereabouts. Some 40 years after Francis Wetherbee vanished, her disappearance is reexamined as major individuals from her life come forward with new theories and evidence.

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