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Paints On Ceiling (Jeremiah Zagar)
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Paradise Regained (Steve James)
He was the painter who brought paradise to the infamous Chicago housing projects, miles of urban housing rife with violence, gangs and crime until they were finally torn down. With Reed's wall-filling murals, residents transformed their living rooms into oases from the ghetto storms outside. Through description and animation, Reed depicts a world that is thankfully gone yet brought alive again by ex-residents who will seek his views of paradise.
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Repelling the Viewer (Abigail Norris & Jerry Rothwell)
Johannes Phokela, as he explains, has always been fascinated by iconic images and how they have “infiltrated our lives.” So this very unusual painter takes those images from classic paintings of the European masters and twists and turns them into satires of contemporary life. It might be turning a muscular white man black as he drapes himself over a nude woman, or hanging a cigarette from the mouth of a female, or adding a clown nose here and there. Filmmaker Jerry Rothwell’s camera captures Phokela at work, putting words to the brush strokes that transform allegories from centuries past into notions that could be considered subversive, as an unsettling cello underlines notions that could be considered subversive. At least, Phokela hopes so.
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The Work's the Thing (Abigail Norris & Jerry Rothwell)
A short film about the art and working methods of Paul Housley. Born in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, in 1964, Paul studied at the Royal College of Art. He has an interest in observing the everyday and a penchant for humble mass-produced objects. Like a number of other young UK artists, Paul is returning to figurative painting, at a time when video, photography, installation and new media have attracted increased attention as art forms. Since the popularity of the young British artists, the rise of 'Brit Art' and the controversy of the Turner Prize, painting has taken a back seat. Damien Hirst was famously quoted as saying that painting was dead. Housley, however works with traditional materials, proving that painting is alive and has an energy and power of its own in today’s art world. His paintings play with our notions of taste, finding novelty in cliché and lyricism in mundane, blank objects like sports bags and light bulbs.
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The R.O.M.E.O.S (Katy Chevigny)
The ROMEOS is a short documentary film about long relationships - good conversation amongst old friends. And we're talking old friends. The ROMEOs is an informal club of 5 old time New Yorkers, men aged 72-87, who have met every week for the past 20 years at the Metro Diner in New York City. It is a long lunch to talk about anything and everything; telling old jokes, making fun of each other, complaining about politics. Naturally they have nicknames: Mr. Indignant (his capacity for outrage knows no bounds), Mr. Google (this guy knows everything, you won't believe it), and The Token Goy. They are retired lawyers, writers and left-wing troublemakers and they are utterly hilarious without even trying.
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Heavy Load in New York (Jerry Rothwell)
Michael, Simon and Jim are three adults with learning disabilities who, with their support workers Mick and Paul, make up unlikely punk band Heavy Load. A revealing portrait of the band's journey and the effect that filmmaking has on both them and the director.
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Sideshow Picasso (Marilyn Agrelo)
Brooklyn painter Marie Roberts comes from a family long entrenched in Coney Island's Sideshow. Her family home once housed the famous freaks and oddities of the 1920s and 1930s where her uncle was the "talker" luring audiences in to see them. Marie paints beautiful banners for the current Sideshow.
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Belarus: On the Farm (Yury Khashchavatski)
The Soviet Union collapsed a long time ago and the promise to build the infrastructure to deliver electricity to every house has been broken in the former Soviet Republic of Belarus. In Belarus, there are still villages where people live without electricity. The government has promised to deliver basic needs in the past, but the citizens are not very hopeful under the current presidential regime. Galina Ripinskaya still uses lamps and irons that date back to 80 years ago. She also uses the local pond as her refrigerator. She puts the products in the basket and lowers it into the water. The top is covered in grass. Her meat can be stored for 3-4 days and sausage for one. The water is always cold in Belarus. The family has asked for help from the President of Belarus, but recently they replied that rural electricity is not planned at this time. Ripinskaya Galina lives proudly and contently but would someday like to watch this documentary about her on the internet at her house on a computer.
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Death's Chaplain (Steve James)
For 15 years, Carroll Pickett ministered to 95 inmates in the final moments of their lives on Death Row in a Texas penitentiary. He watched as Billy Wayne White helped with his own execution.
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Swing State (Cameron Hickey)
Tuesday mornings are reserved exclusively for women golfers at the Llanerch Country Club in the Main Line section of suburban Philadelphia - a key region in this swing state for the 2008 election. Mary Pat McClatchey and her friends golf every Tuesday morning at 8am before having lunch at the clubhouse, an event which you can "hear all across the club" says fellow Llanerch club member Thomas Feeney. We'll follow Pat and her golf foresome through eighteen holes of golf and their ladies' lunch afterward. We'll ask them how "historic" they feel this election is, how they and their respective families feel about the candidates this year, and what this means for their children's future. As a critical swing area in a critical swing state, the Main Line is part of the broad center in American politics, and these women are at the heart of this pivotal battleground.
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Love In The Streets (Jerry Rothwell)
Our collective imagination of homelessness is shaped by the idea of someone who is single and lonely. Roy and Morag explode that myth and take in companionship, humor and love, alongside the dirt, noise and damp of London’s pavements –a warm look at the chill of a (love) life lived on the outside.
 

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