Featured Films
From Mambo to Hip Hop2006 | 53mins
From Mambo to Hip Hop2006 | 53minsFrom Mambo to Hip-Hop dances through the history of a borough that nurtured two musical movements: the mambo that evolved into salsa, and the hip-hop that arose from the most…
César‘s Bark Canoe1971 | 57minsCésar‘s Bark Canoe1971 | 57minsUsing only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum, César Newashish, a 67 year old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve demonstrates how to build a canoe the "old" way.
Morgan Sexton1991 | 28minsMorgan Sexton1991 | 28minsEastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage…
Gandy Dancers 19731973 | 14minsGandy Dancers 19731973 | 14minsThis remarkable film features field recordings of work chants of Gandy Dancers including aligning songs and chants to knock out slack in the rail.
Hamburger and Dolma2000 | 49minsHamburger and Dolma2000 | 49minsOver preparations of a sumptuous Armenian meal of stuffed vegetables (dolma), five Armenian-American women discuss their feelings of alienation from their ethnic community and…