2013 Films

Incinerators burn garbage in India. Hundreds of hydroelectric dams pump in Panama. Biogas is extracted from palm oil in Honduras...

Shown with WITHIN THE RIVERS AMONG THE TREES (NO MEIO DO RIO, ENTRE AS ARVORES). 

Venice is inextricably linked to her salty, fresh and brackish waters, an inexhaustible resource that now threatens the city’s very survival... 

A political drama following a California Congresswoman as she struggles for re-election that highlights the strategies, highs and pitfalls of running for and holding on to elected office...

Endangered Rivers

Shown as part of the Rivers Program

The Southeastern United States is a region that used to be known for plentiful rainfall and abundantly flowing rivers...

Shown with POTOMAC: THE RIVER RUNS THROUGH US. 

Based on the Chinese legend of Ye Xian that predates Perrault’s Cinderella by about 800 years, the film focuses on little Mei Mei who is a gifted potter...

Suggested ages 10 and up. 

Castelli in performance

All of modern poetry is here . . . the quais, the boats, the dirty room, the great inspiring themes of the literature of the day.  – Henri Langlois...

Winners from the Siemens CityStories for Sustainability Film Project 

This project features ten next generation filmmakers selected from around the world to make films about sustainability in their city...

Shown with In Search of Solutions. 

Shown as part of the Rivers Program 

In May 1941 the Bonneville Power Administration hired the folksinger Woody Guthrie for one month as an “Information Consultant” to work on a film meant to publicize and promote the Columbia Basin Project and hydroelectric power... 

Exploring the Gullah culture of the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, where African folkways were maintained well into the 20th century... 

Among the world’s most influential designers, Italian-born Lella and Massimo Vignelli have created signage and maps for New York’s subway, the interior of Saint Peter’s Church at Citicorp Center, and more... 

With the completion of two large-scale projects in New York City – the renovation of the High Line and revitalization and expansion of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts – the award-winning interdisciplinary design firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro has galvanized the public's attention... 

“In order to have a piece of land, you must suffer,” laments an old man in this poetic cinema verité film of a cattle-ranching community in northeastern Mexico on the verge of extinction...

Presented in collaboration with the exhibition, “Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock Ossorio, and Dubuffet” 

The fierce struggle by art critic René Deroudille to persuade the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France...