Featured Films
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Brunswick Stew; Georgia Named Her, Georgia Claims Her2005 | 56mins
Brunswick Stew; Georgia Named Her, Georgia Claims Her2005 | 56minsThe Governor, two Georgia State Senators, a “man-on-the-street” in Atlanta, and folklorist John Burrison speak in one voice, pronouncing Brunswick stew as a most beloved folk… -
Land Where the Blues Began1979 | 58minsLand Where the Blues Began1979 | 58minsIn the late 1970s Alan Lomax traveled to Mississippi with filmmaker John Bishop and folklorist Worth Long and made this film about the African American music he found there. -
Pearl Fisher1985 | 28minsPearl Fisher1985 | 28minsThe freshwater pearl industry once flourished along Indiana's inland waterways. The Wabash, flowing south from Lafayette to join the Ohio at Mt. Vernon, bustled with the shallow… -
Black Delta Religion1973 | 14minsBlack Delta Religion1973 | 14minsThis film was made from b/w Super 8mm footage that William Ferris gathered in rural Mississippi in 1968. The film includes footage from rural church services and a full immersion… -
Pericles in America1988 | 1h 8minsPericles in America1988 | 1h 8minsThis musical portrait of immigrant clarinetist Pericles Halkias and the Epirot-Greek community explores the aspirations and ambivalences of Greek-Americans.