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Culture

Absolutely Safe

Absolutely Safe is the story of everyday women who find themselves and their breasts in the tangled and confusing intersection of beauty and business, revealing that the conversation on implant safety is far more complex than mere health issues.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fierce Light

In these times of crisis, is change possible? Acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out to discover the power that is released when spirituality and activism meet. Sparked by what Gandhi called “soul force,” and Martin Luther King called “love in action,” he discovers that, all over the world, remarkable individuals are taking action from the heart, igniting a new global movement of positive, compassionate
action.
 
 
 
 
 
FLicKeR

FLicKeR is an award-winning documentary about poet, artist, calligrapher and mystic Brion Gysin that portrays the life and legacy of an artist who believed art could revolutionize human consciousness. This film chronicles Gison’s complex ideas, friendships and influence with some of the 20th century’s key counterculture figures, such as William Burroughs, Kurt Cobain and Marianne Faithful.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hair

Award-winning filmmaker Pola Rappaport’s documentary excavates the origins of this culturally transformative theatre work. Interviews with co-creator James Rado, original cast members and producers as well as director Milos Forman are fused with abundant and rare archival footage. The result is a delectable deconstruction of a musical that defined an era, a generation and its politics. The DVD includes an additional hour of bonus material featuring extended interviews with the original creators and cast. Hair: Let the Sun Shine In is the definitive resource for theater and drama students.
 
 
 
Hofmann’s Potion

Featuring interviews with the pioneers of LSD, Hofmann’s Potion is a comprehensive chronicle of LSD’s history, from its discovery by Alfred Hofmann to its prohibition in 1973. Featuring interviews with Albert Hofmann, Ram Dass and other groundbreaking researchers and a wealth of archival footage, this informative program provides a history of a chemical that changed a culture.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Living Goddess

Living Goddess is a journey into the small Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, rooted in religious and political tradition facing the challenges of modernization and political reform. The film juxtaposes the call for political reform on the street against intimate footage of a pre pubescent living goddess, Sajani. Venerated as a living incarnation of the divine, she is also a precocious and charming eleven year old who goes to school, plays hide and seek, and collapses in giggles in front of the camera when not presiding over religious ceremonies full of pomp and circumstance. The film is a powerful portrait of a young girl venerated as a goddess growing up in a country on the verge of civil war.

Nollywood Babylon

Nollywood Babylon chronicles the wild world of “Nollywood,” a term coined in the early ‘90s to describe the world’s fastest-growing national cinema, surpassed only by its Indian counterpart. The film delves first-hand into Nigeria’s explosive homegrown movie industry, where Jesus and voodoo vie for screen time. Peppered with outrageously juicy movie clips and buoyed by a rousing score fusing Afropop and traditional sounds, Nollywood Babylon celebrates the distinctive power of Nigerian cinema as it marvels in the magic of movies.
 
 
Signs Out of Time

Signs Out of Time weaves together interviews, archival footage, photographs, and narration to portray the scope of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas’s life and work. Using animation, artifacts, archival interview footage of Marija, comments from her supporters and critics, this biographical documentary explores her ground-breaking studies, excavations and publications, the depth and breadth of her scholarship, and the controversy around her theories concerning matriarchies and herstory.
 
 
 
 
Who Does She Think She Is? - coming soon
 

Women and Spirituality

Women and Spirituality is Donna Read’s definitive series that explores the power of the sacred feminine in mythological, historical and cultural contexts. This trilogy investigates the relationship between women and spirituality from ancient times to the present and includes interviews with Starhawk, Merlin Stone, Carol Christ and other pioneering members of the goddess movement.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Gender & Sexuality

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

This six-part series takes a personal, experimental approach to female life in the 21st century. The series narratively and visually interweaves aspects of filmmaker Jennifer Fox’s own life over five years and across seventeen countries, as she struggles to understand how diverse women define their lives when there is no map. Employing an ingenious new camera technique called “Passing the Camera,” Fox creates a documentary language that mirrors the special way women communicate. Over intimate conversations around kitchen tables from South Africa to Russia, India and Pakistan, she initiates a groundbreaking dialogue among women, illuminating universal concerns across race, class and nationality.

Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation

Fenton Bailey’s Pornography: The Secret History of Civilisation offers a comprehensive, detailed examination of the origins and transformations of adult media. This six-part series contains commentary from a multitude of sources, including art historians, social critics, authors, collectors, and adult stars themselves. The film tastefully tackles the taboo subject by focusing on pornography’s implications of human nature, the impact of technological advances and social evolution.
 
 
 
 
 
Sacred Love-Making

Best-selling author and sex expert Karinna Kittles-Karsten introduces ancient Taoist love secrets and rituals for achieving deep sexual satisfaction and emotional connectedness in the tastefully presented instructional DVD. Known as “The Love Educator,” Karinna illustrates ancient techniques to achieve greater sexual pleasure, suggests rituals that emphasize intimacy and offers tips on how to cultivate spontaneity and emotional openness with your partner.
 
 
 
 
 
The Workshop

In a wooded glade somewhere near San Francisco, The Workshop challenges the rules of modern society by pushing all boundaries of normal convention - especially the sexual ones! A group of people agree to take part in a 10-day ‘workshop’ led by spiritual leader Paul Lowe in their search for a higher personal truth. On day one they are told to introduce themselves and meet everyone else - completely naked! Searing emotional honesty, full nudity, experiments and sexuality and the exorcising of inner demons are the hallmarks of this groundbreaking and provocative documentary.
 
 
 
 

Knowledge, Science & Philosophy

The Atheism Tapes

In this ground-breaking BBC series, Jonathan Miller interviews biologist and New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGinn, distinguished playwright Arthur Miller, theologian Denys Turner and Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg about their personal intellectual journeys to non-theism. The interviews explore questions from, “Can science answer all questions?” to the influence of anti Semitism in America. The Atheism Tapes is an invaluable teaching resource that presents a wide range of perspectives, from science to literature to theology, on one of today’s most controversial topics. This series will challenge students and provoke discussion.
 
Cosmos

Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huygens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extraterrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. The late Dr. Sagan’s multi Emmy and Peabody Award winning series goes beyond a guided tour through billions of stars and galaxies. Cosmos remains one of the most profound statements in exploration, crossing boundaries between science and religion.
 
 

Mental Health

The Bridge

Capturing the intensity of life in relation to death, director Eric Steel and his crew spent an entire year looking very carefully at the Golden Gate Bridge. Running cameras for almost every daylight minute, he documented nearly two dozen fatal moments as well as others where suicide was avoided and life preserved. The powerful imagery is accompanied by incredibly frank, deeply personal and often heart-wrenching interviews with families, friends, witnesses and several of the attempters themselves creating a brutally honest and commanding look into one of life’s gravest taboos.
 
 
 

Political Issues

Pledge of Allegiance Blues

Pledge of Allegiance Blues documents the journey of Rev. Dr. Michael Newdow, the blues-singing California physician and his battle to protect the separation between church and state, a battle that took him all the way to the United States Supreme Court where he defended the landmark “under God” lawsuit. From the controversy over the Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama State Courthouse to a historical analysis about the intertwining of religion and government in American history, Pledge of Allegiance Blues is a smart and funny examination of the often tense relationship between church and state.
 
 
 
Protagonist

This riveting documentary explores the psychological transformation of the modern character. Inspired by the Greek playwright Euripides, Academy Award winning director Jessica Yu weaves together the stories of four men consumed by personal odysseys. The narrative structure mirrors a Greek drama and the film incorporates quotes from Euripides to contextualize their personal stories. Never before has an interpretation of Euripides’ work revealed how relevant he is for audiences today.
 
 
 
 
Workingman’s Death

After the fall of Communism, the plight of the Proletariat is rarely discussed and today’s manual laborers are no longer celebrated with hymns of praise. The critically acclaimed Workingman’s Death provides a rare glimpse into the harsh treatment faced by manual labor around the world today.