POV - Season 4

POV - Season 4

Season 4

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Datesjuin 18, 1991 - sept. 3, 1991
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Episodes

Absolutely Positive
Season 4Episode 160 min

Absolutely Positive

Filmmaker Peter Adair asks 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, from all walks of life — to share their stories about living with the HIV virus.

juin 18, 1991
Marc and Ann
Season 4Episode 260 min

Marc and Ann

Marc Savoy knows only one way to talk about Cajun music -- with the same passion and conviction as the music itself. Legendary filmmaker Les Blank delves directly into the heart of Cajun country to portray a couple devoted to the preservation of Louisiana French culture in both their personal and public lives. The joy of Cajun music, its signature yelps and wails, filter through many of the kitchens, porches, and dance halls of the Savoys' Eunice, LA, community.
juin 25, 1991
Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song
Season 4Episode 360 min

Plena Is Work, Plena Is Song

Plena is in Puerto Rico what the blues are in the U.S.: a musical expression abounding with romance, daily news, and personal sagas. As the Puerto Rican community grows on the mainland, the infectious rhythms of Puerto Rico's most original contribution to Caribbean urban music are celebrated with gusto.
juin 25, 1991
Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing
Season 4Episode 460 min

Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing

Every year 2,500 sets of twins gather in Twinsburg, Ohio for Twins Days. Most are dressed alike, many live together, and all seem to have rhyming names. Standing out amidst the lighthearted contests and games are filmmaker Sue Marcoux and her sister Michele, separated by 3,000 miles and a lifetime of anti-twin behavior.
juin 25, 1991
Honorable Nations
Season 4Episode 560 min

Honorable Nations

Marlon Rigg' "Tongues Untied" rises above the 'deeply personal' - far above it - in exploring what it means to be black and gay. Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns ( and sometimes all at once), it jumps from interview to confession, music video to documentary to poem. Craig Seligman, San Francisco Examiner A daring, visionary work that speaks with the eloquence of barbed wire. Steve Dollar, Atlanta Journal Constitution
juil. 2, 1991
Sea of Oil
Season 4Episode 660 min

Sea of Oil

A series of accidents at a West Virginia chemical plant producing the same deadly toxins that caused the disaster in Bhopal, India, has alarmed area residents. But the area's fragile economy depends on the jobs provided by the plant, dividing the community.
juil. 9, 1991
Turn Here Sweet Corn
Season 4Episode 760 min

Turn Here Sweet Corn

The Exxon Valdez disaster left far more than a soiled coastline in its wake. Grief, suspicion, anger and greed oozed through the small, formerly pristine town of Valdez. The human toll of an environmental nightmare is evoked in a haunting film which Exxon and the City of Valdez attempted, unsuccessfully, to suppress.
juil. 9, 1991
Chemical Valley
Season 4Episode 890 min

Chemical Valley

A search for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers. The camera moves through a Minnesota corn field and finds a photograph of a suburban tract clothes-pinned to a cornstalk. Layered with visual and emotional paradoxes, the film juxtaposes innovative video techniques with slices of a simpler, threatened life, in an emotional and personal reflection on the colonization of cornfields by shopping malls.
juil. 9, 1991
Tongues Untied
Season 4Episode 990 min

Tongues Untied

Angry, funny, erotic and poetic by turns (and sometimes all at once), this exploration of what it means to be black and gay jumps from interview to confession, music video to documentary to poem.
juil. 16, 1991
Berkeley in the Sixties
Season 4Episode 1060 min

Berkeley in the Sixties

From the Free Speech Movement to the anti-war protests to the last stand over People's Park, Berkeley, California became synonymous with a generation's quest for social, political, and cultural transformation.
juil. 23, 1991
A Little Vicious
Season 4Episode 1130 min

A Little Vicious

A Little Vicious is a 1991 short documentary film directed by Immy Humes. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
juil. 30, 1991
Where the Heart Roams
Season 4Episode 1290 min

Where the Heart Roams

juil. 30, 1991
The Big Bang
Season 4Episode 1360 min

The Big Bang

août 6, 1991
Maria's Story
Season 4Episode 1460 min

Maria's Story

août 13, 1991
Homes Apart: The Two Koreas
Season 4Episode 1560 min

Homes Apart: The Two Koreas

août 20, 1991
Short Notice: A Series of Short Films
Season 4Episode 1660 min

Short Notice: A Series of Short Films

Abortion has been at the center of one of the most dramatic and wrenching debates of our times, but the social forces and the changing lives behind the rhetoric are rarely explored. This film draws complex portraits of individuals on both sides of the controversy in a small town in Pennsylvania, where very different life experiences have shaped conflicting values and beliefs.
sept. 3, 1991
Casting The First Stone
Season 4Episode 1760 min

Casting The First Stone

sept. 3, 1991

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