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Simple Words
A young adult experiences an anxiety attack, showing how simple words in our day to day lives can drastically shape the way we think.
David McCullough: Painting with Words
Author/historian David McCullough welcomes viewers into his public and private world in this film. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman--who adapted McCullough's 'John Adams' for the 7-part HBO miniseries--this documentary paints an affectionate, first-person portrait of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner as he gives a speech and even visits his..
Ossip & Marina - the forbidden words
The life and the verses of Ossip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva incite us to use forbidden words – words that we cannot speak in public, or even to our loved ones.
Last Words
Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting "Lebenszeichen".
Big Words From A Small Man
our short stories interlaced to create a surreal world of absurdity, in which characters try to find connections in the mundane.
Words
"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word." - Emily Dickinson In a generation built on texts, tweets, memes, and irony, what has become of the weight of our words? In what way does communication serve as a form of self-expression, and self-expression a form of communication? Mattioli Production's upcoming documentary "Words" wil..
Naughty Words
Naughty Words is a 3 min experimental film by Curt McDowell, covering the gamut of cinematic profanity.
Mike's Words
A man with a rare physical disability creates films that focus on the social aspects of being a minority.
Max's Words
In this film, Benjamin and Karl have fascinating collections of stamps and coins, but they refuse to share with their little brother Max. So Max decides to start a collection of his own. Cutting up old newspapers and magazines, Max builds a collection of words. Stamp and coin collections can only get bigger, but with enough words, Max can soon crea..
Words, Planets
This film applies the six principles for composition delineated in ‘Opinions on Painting by the Monk of the Green Pumpkin’, written by the eighteenth-century Chinese painter Shih-T’ao as referenced in Raúl Ruíz’s essay For a Shamanic Cinema (for example, ‘draw attention to a scene emerging from a static background’ or ‘add scattered..
Words
Mindgame's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Brain Fear Gone raises the bar for rollerblading once again. Featuring profiles from Aaron Feinberg, Chris Farmer and Dustin Latimer.
Words
This film is meant to inspire an interest in reading, especially for those who have difficulties. Words act out their meaning: scare is scary, fun is fun, sob cries, etc. It's an adventure story for the film's two main characters: a "stick" man and his dog; a journey into the world of words.
Words
Mindgame's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Brain Fear Gone raises the bar for rollerblading once again. Featuring profiles from Aaron Feinberg, Chris Farmer and Dustin Latimer.
Words
This short film, released by the Writers Guild Foundation in 1987, honors the craft of screenwriting and the writers behind our favorite lines and cinematic moments. Written and directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Chuck Workman, it was screened at film festivals and college campuses around the country to inspire writers and celebrate the im..
Words
A film about words.
Our Words Collide
A feature documentary following the lives of five teenage spoken word poets in Los Angeles.
The Obama Years: The Power of Words
Barack Obama launched into our national consciousness at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and ever since, he's delivered messages of patriotism, unity, and hope through the power of words. But of all the speeches he's given, six in particular may define his legacy as, in historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's words, "one of the best writers and or..
Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs On the Road
A portrait of the American Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) based on never-before-seen footage from his visit to Denmark in October 1983, and from his later years in Lawrence, Kansas. After having spent more than a quarter of a century outside of the United States, in Mexico, Tangier, Paris and London, Burroughs returned to N..
Last Words
When a hiker awakes in the wilderness to find herself separated from her friend, she hears a familiar voice crying for help.
Gloria: In Her Own Words
Despite decades of opposition from the right, and recent personal setbacks, Gloria Steinem remains one of the most outspoken and visible symbols of the women’s movement today. This film blends interviews of Steinem in her Manhattan apartment, archival footage, photographs from throughout her life and clips from press interviews over the years.
