Chronology of Light

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Godfrey Reggio

Cast

Ed Asner, Lou Dobbs, Ted Koppel

Gory real-life footage of blood and guts on the German Autobahn, drug smugglers getting blown away, a parachutist landing in a crocodile pit, torture and murder in El Salvador, a PCP addict getting stoned, a videotaped rape/murder, a car thief getting ripped apart by two junkyard dogs, and much more.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

John Alan Schwartz

Cast

Michael Carr, Veronica Lakewood

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde

Cast

Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Brett Morgen

Cast

Dylan Baker, Hank Azaria, Nick Nolte

In 1965 actor and hopeful first time director Titus Moede befriended ‘Preacher’ of the outlaw motorcycle club the Coffin Cheaters while looking for a project. He soon realized that this was exactly the subject he had been looking for.

Runtime

35m

Director

Titus Moede

Cast

Keenan Wynn, Gordon Barclay, Denise Lynn