The Arts, Music and Language Collection
The Arts, Music and Language Collection collection includes the following titles:
The life and work of legendary director Robert Flaherty ('Nanook of the North'), the 'father of documentary.'
Takes audiences behind the scenes as a company of non-professional actors rehearse a play about life without sight. The performers have no problem imagining themselves in these roles: they are blind themselves.
Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.
The psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America holds a performance at the University of Chicago.
Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.
The story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) and his collection of art by schizophrenic patients.
A conversation with Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman about her films and her directorial philosophy.
Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
An in-depth portrait of Edward S. Curtis, the preeminent photographer of North American Indians.
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