The Challenge of Ideas
Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc, pointing out the need for vigilance and action to protect democracy in
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Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc, pointing out the need for vigilance and action to protect democracy in
This film documents the thought patterns of a meditation session but as if the camera is placed in the brain. Anything that comes into consciousness from mundane moments to flights of fancy, from psychotic meanderings to
"The firing squad of Penina", a book written in the 1970s, was destroyed during the last Argentine military dictatorship. Aldo Oliva, its author, never saw it printed. More than 25 years passed until someone found a co
Tessa Violet presents an exclusive live performance, Bad Ideas: The Experience. Filmed live in Los Angeles, Tessa creates a different visual world for every song on Bad Ideas, plus additional tracks. It’s Tessa like you’
When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.
Mexican feature film
Informational industrial promo film on Hankscraft motorization for in-store displays, 1964.
What do we do once Hollywood has ended? Film is an expressive art form that has much more going for it than that. These glimpses of ideas and images show a different way of thinking to standard Hollywood.
A school and an island. A school on an island. What is it like to teach and study on a floating school? The being and identity of the teacher, the students, and the islanders, intersected by the school, the nature of Ent
In 1973, a group of grassroots activists launched an adult literacy project in the Villa Obrera neighborhood, on the outskirts of Centenario, Neuquén province, drawing on Cuban experiences and those developed by Paulo Fr
In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on th
The film Long Hair, Short Ideas attempts to create a conversation between the pressures of excavating a political moment and the elasticity of the documentary form. Starting from the desire to look at the women’s movemen
Funny, touching and ambitious in scope, Bad Ideas continues to deal with many of the themes addressed in Duke and Battersby’s earlier works: addiction, spirituality, identity, relationship dynamics and the ongoing quest
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world through act or invention—directed by the world's most celebrated documentary
A short film and video installation by Elisa Giardina Papa.
Gaver is an actor rather than a reciter and pulls the "text" out of a gold-leaf skull, folds it into an airplane and then tosses it over and over. Scenes of newspaper production and World War II propaganda footage are in
A thief with a big gun tries to rob an odd named hypermarket, but the cashier wants to have his say ... Sometimes Plato's logic can shoot stronger than a gun.