Richard P. Rogers Movies

  • 1987
    Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

    Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

    Elizabeth Bishop: One Art

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    Illustrates the writer's wandering spirit, from a childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, and the central themes of her work: geography,...

    Elizabeth Bishop: One Art
  • 1991
    Pictures from a Revolution

    Pictures from a Revolution

    Pictures from a Revolution

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    In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandanista revolution. Ten years...

    Pictures from a Revolution
  • 2000
    Looking at Forest of Bliss

    Looking at Forest of Bliss

    Looking at Forest of Bliss

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    Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss. The...

    Looking at Forest of Bliss
  • 2009
    The Windmill Movie

    The Windmill Movie

    The Windmill Movie

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    Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until...

    The Windmill Movie
  • 1985
    Living At Risk

    Living At Risk

    Living At Risk

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    Originally broadcast on PBS, the film features the Barrios, a middle-class family both activated and fractured by the conflict. Instead of fleeing...

    Living At Risk
  • 2013
    Dead Birds Re-Encountered

    Dead Birds Re-Encountered

    Dead Birds Re-Encountered

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    Robert Gardner returns to the Dani villages where he made his seminal 1964 ethnographic documentary Dead Birds.

    Dead Birds Re-Encountered
  • 1972
    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

    Reality's Invisible

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    Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton...

    Reality's Invisible
  • 1998
    A Midwife's Tale

    A Midwife's Tale

    A Midwife's Tale

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    To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha...

    A Midwife's Tale
  • 1984
    226-1690

    226-1690

    226-1690

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    Rogers created this "minimalist soap opera" out of messages left on his telephone answering machine over the course of an entire year. Together with...

    226-1690
  • 1975
    Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica

    Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica

    Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica

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    This film shows the Polish master animator Jan Lenica working on his film Landscape, and explores the relationship of the artist between the real...

    Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica
  • 1970
    Elephants: Fragments in an Argument

    Elephants: Fragments in an Argument

    Elephants: Fragments in an Argument

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    A self-portrait of the filmmaker at twenty-nine, this provocative collage of photographs, street scenes, and interviews with family and friends seeks...

    Elephants: Fragments in an Argument
  • 1986
    Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams

    Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams

    Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams

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    This remarkable New Jersey poet-physician established an American kind of poem distinct from European forms. His work demonstrates an innovative use...

    Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams
  • 1970
    Quarry

    Quarry

    Quarry

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    This portrait of an abandoned quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, captures the striking natural beauty of the site as it explores the social rites of...

    Quarry