The Arts, Music and Language Collection
The Arts, Music and Language Collection collection includes the following titles:
A Boatload of Wild IrishmenThe life and work of legendary director Robert Flaherty ('Nanook of the North'), the 'father of documentary.'
Acting BlindTakes 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.
Advertising MissionariesFollows the mission of one theater company to bring the consumer revolution to the people of the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Amateur PhotographerThe story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.
Anonymous Artists of AmericaThe psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America holds a performance at the University of Chicago.
Art and OligarchsNewly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.
Between Madness and ArtThe story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) and his collection of art by schizophrenic patients.
Chavez RavineDon Normark's haunting photographs bring back to life a Mexican American village razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
Coming to LightAn in-depth portrait of Edward S. Curtis, the preeminent photographer of North American Indians.
Dido and AeneasThe critically-acclaimed Mark Morris dance production of the baroque operatic masterwork.
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