 Craig Baldwin: |
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For filmmaker Craig Baldwin, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Featured in episode: Space.
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| Vanessa Beecroft: |
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Vanessa Beecroft takes figurative work to a whole new level -- real live human beings are the materials in her installations.
Featured in episode: What is the Ideal Woman?.
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| Alan Berliner: |
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What makes Alan Berliner think that his life story is anybody's business? This experimental, documentary filmmaker has devoted his 15-year career to making movies about himself and his family.
Featured in episode: Kiss & Tell.
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| Ross McElwee: |
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In grad school, Ross McElwee filmed a series of "chapters" of his life that turned into two films: the first about his doctor-father and his brother's choice to attend medical school and the other about his high school teacher, Charleen. 27 years later, McElwee is still filming his family and Charleen.
Featured in episode: Family.
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| Microcinema: |
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It's a movement! All across America, impassioned exhibitors are creating intimate venues to showcase non-commercial film and video works.
Featured in episode: Meet the Micrecians.
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| Shirin Neshat: |
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Shirin Neshat's lyrical, visual works transport her audiences to her native country Iran, where women's rights are practically non-existent. Neshat remembers a time -- before the Iranian Revolution in 1979 -- when things weren't this way, yet she refuses to accept that women are weak as a result of their oppression.
Featured in episode: Freedom.
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| Pixel This - The PXL-2000 Camera: |
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In 1987, toy manufacturer Fisher-Price was betting that kids would go wild over the PXL-2000 -- a new, plastic camera for kids -- and that they would become mini-Premingers, Spielbergs and Scorceses. Fisher-Price bet wrong. While kids didn't go for the camera, independent filmmakers did.
Featured in episode: Meet the Micrecians.
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| Pipilotti Rist: |
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She's not a girl who misses much. Rather, Pipilotti Rist's playful, coquettish daring has earned her the reputation as a wild woman of the art world.
Featured in episode: What is the Ideal Woman?.
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| The Sid Saga - Sid Laverents: |
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Before there were Micrecians there were amateurs. Beginning in the 1920s, amateur movie clubs were common in communities all across America. Neighbors would gather round the projector to swap their latest reels. Sid Laverents, a one-time vaudeville performer, has been an active amateur movie-maker for over half a century.
Featured in episode: Meet the Micrecians.
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