Why Don’t You Love Me?
Dir: Matthias Muller/Christophe Girardet | Germany | 1999 | 5 mins
The definitive study of Hitchcock’s distinctive portrayal of mothers.
Migration of the Blubberoids
Dir: George Kuchar | US | 1989 | 12 mins
It is the first white turkey day for fifty years: snow abounds yet life goes on.
The Pharaoh’s Belt
Dir: Lewis Klahr | US | 1993 | 9 mins
“Klahr’s characters negotiate a labor of extrication from the morass of Betty Crocker chocolate icing, formica kitchens and parental phantoms toward a mastery of the imagination and the attaining of true love.”
Tom Gunning
The Waltons
Dir: Anne McGuire | US | 1996 | 7 mins
A homespun deconstruction of an entire era of TV mannerisms, this re-examination of John-boy’s near death experience at the sawmill is deft and cunning.
Back East
Dir: Cordelia Swann | UK | 2000 | 14 mins
A chronicle of a progressively darkened New York childhood.
Alpsee
Dir: Mathias Muller | Germany | 1995 | 15 mins
Muller’s unforgettable moving portrait of growing up in the 1960s.