Mar 06 7 films by Albert Maysles everyone should watch By Victoria Fleischer, Molly Finnegan, Joshua Barajas Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles died Thursday night after a 60-year long career that deeply affected the conversations around nonfiction filmmaking, conversations about truth, accuracy, bias and exploitation. Here are clips from seven films that define his unflinching style. Continue reading
Mar 06 Watch 4:31 Hear the Holocaust Survivors Band make joyful music By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 06 Albert Maysles, award-winning filmmaker and documentary pioneer, dies at 88 By Victoria Fleischer Albert Maysles, the award-winning documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer a new set of documentary conventions, died Thursday night at his home in Manhattan. Maysles, who made films with his brother David, is best known for his for his cinema verite… Continue reading
Mar 05 An artist’s field guide to nature’s overlooked wonders By Joshua Barajas The ecosystem of a rotting log can be just as detailed and alive as that of a volcano, at least according to the delicate hand-drawn illustrations of the natural world by Julia Rothman in her new book “Nature Anatomy: The… Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch 6:57 Filmmakers who exposed military sexual assaults turn camera to colleges By PBS News Hour A new film called "The Hunting Ground" offers a disturbing look at sexual assault at colleges around the country. Producer Amy Ziering and director Kirby Dick previously examined the widespread crisis of sexual assault in the U.S. military in their… Continue watching
Mar 03 Artist builds a wind-powered soup-serving soil-testing kitchen in Philadelphia By Joel Wanek, KQED For one week in 2011, North Philadelphia residents could see a windmill atop the roof of a formerly abandoned building. Test tubes of soil floated in the downstairs window of what was advertised as "Soil Kitchen," a place where you… Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch 5:47 Artist Amy Franceshini wants to confuse you … and that’s a good thing By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch Pint-size percussionists learn music with Led Zeppelin hits By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, a Kentucky-based nonprofit that provides free music education to 7 to 14-year-olds children shared a video of the Louisville Leopard Percussionists performing a medley of Led Zeppelin tunes. Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch 5:33 Unsolved crimes that obsess police inspire writer Richard Price By PBS News Hour Richard Price’s new book, “The Whites,” centers around the criminals who get away and the police who get obsessed with catching them. Price, who has written eight novels and for the TV show “The Wire,” talks with Jeffrey Brown about… Continue watching
Mar 02 Richard Price breaks down his writing process By Anna Sillers Richard Price’s most recent book “The Whites,” centers around the criminals who get away with awful crimes and become obsessions for the police first assigned to their case. Writing under his pseudonym Harry Brandt, Price names these criminals after the great… Continue reading