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The Arts, Music and Language Collection

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The Arts, Music and Language Collection includes the following titles:

A Boatload of Wild Irishmen - imageA Boatload of Wild Irishmen

The life and work of legendary director Robert Flaherty ('Nanook of the North'), the 'father of documentary.'

Icarus Films | 2011 | 84 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Acting Blind - imageActing Blind

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.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 52 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Advertising Missionaries - imageAdvertising Missionaries

Follows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Icarus Films | 1996 | 52 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Amateur Photographer - imageAmateur Photographer

The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 26 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
Anonymous Artists of America - imageAnonymous Artists of America

The psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America holds a performance at the University of Chicago.

Kartemquin Films | 1970 | 9 minutes
Art and Oligarchs - imageArt and Oligarchs

Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 52 minutes
Between Madness and Art - imageBetween Madness and Art

The story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) and his collection of art by schizophrenic patients.

Icarus Films | 2007 | 75 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
Chantal Akerman, From Here - imageChantal Akerman, From Here

A conversation with Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman about her films and her directorial philosophy.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 62 minutes | 8-12, college, adult
Chavez Ravine - imageChavez Ravine

Don Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 24 minutes | Grades 4 to 12, College, Adult
Coming to Light - imageComing to Light

An in-depth portrait of Edward S. Curtis, the preeminent photographer of North American Indians.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 84 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

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