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Calypso Tumblers

A documentary about the inspirational and talented Calypso Tumblers of New York City. They jump high into the air, flip head over heels, and have a positive message to deliver to anyone who will listen.



Cookie Girl

A post-9/11 portrait of a young girl who baked and served cookies to the workers coming and going to the World Trade Center site.



Nam June Paik
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Contains short visually-stylized often-humorous insightful interviews with the famed artist's friends, colleagues, collaborators and protégées; including artists Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham, Videofreex, Beryl Korot, Shigeko Kubota, Nina Sobell, Bill Viola, and Ryuichi Sakamoto.



Ancient history (1992) of the California coastline and a group of activists' successful campaign... and then they surf!



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City Hall Park

A high-spirited contemporary civic celebration of the re-opening of NY's City Hall Park, closed for 6 years since 9/11. Starring Julia Pilowski, The Movement Theatre, Wan Chi Ming Lion Team, SilverCloud Dancers, Musical Saw Virtuoso Moses Josiah, Hystorical Tour Guide Scott Riehs, "George Washington," CB1 Chair Julie Menin, Councilmember Alan J. Gerson and others.




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Arctic sports spectacular in Alaska features such sports as blanket toss, knuckle hop and high kicks, in an effort by an indigenous people to keep their culture alive.

(1-minute excerpt from half-hour TV special)         




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Entertaining, classic documentary video about personal achievement and teamwork, featuring the Fantastic Four and other championship rope jumping teams. Winner of 3 Emmy’s and many other awards.

(1½-minute excerpt from half-hour TV special)




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Thailand’s Elephant Festival features elephant soccer, elephant tug-of-war, elephant speed and agility races, elephant training, working elephants and a village where elephants are kept as pets.

(1-minute excerpt from half-hour TV Special)



Real-life comedy focuses on the adventures of a ski-jumping, Olympics super-fan at the 1980 Olympics Winter Games in Lake Placid. A colorful close-up look at this exciting international event that contains all the whooshes and whacks that ABC Sports missed.

(2-minute excerpt from half-hour TV Special)




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Antic opening of a humorous, ironic first-person travel diary about American art aficionados touring Moscow during the last days of the Soviet Union; with  visits to the studios of an underground community of talented, courageous and often wacky “unofficial,” conceptual artists. And it’s a video about making a video. Starring international art curator David Ross, collectors the Rubells, unofficial art critic Josef Bakshtein and artists Rosemary Trokel, Dmitri Prigov, Sergei Anufriev and Collective Action.

(3-minute excerpt from 35-minute video featurette)




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TV’s Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel, National Public Radio’s Susan Stamberg, NYC Police Detective Sean Grennan, and psycho-analyst Joel Kovel are interviewed about curiosity, style, trickery, truth and conversation.        

(1½-minute excerpt from one-hour TV special)




A documentary on one of the world’s longest conveyor belts culminates in a dramatic incident between a worker and her boss.                   

(1½-minute excerpt from half-hour b&w video classic)  

 

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