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April 14, 2010  Filmmakers Workshop

April 14, 2010
Filmmakers Workshop

Rough Cut Screening of The Ghost Army by Rick Beyer.

Downside UP

Downside UP

What happens when an impoverished, working-class town decides that its only hope for survival lies within the world of contemporary art? Can these two disparate worlds possibly benefit each other? And why would they even try?

Poem In Action

Poem In Action

Vincent Ferrini calls himself, “the living poem.” At 80 years of age his enthusiasm and energy for life is infectious. Poem In Action portrays the forces which forged him as a poet: his life as an immigrant’s son and factory worker, the Great Depression, the Communist Party and the poetics of place.

Sweet Old Song

Sweet Old Song

In his final years, string-band musician and national treasure Howard Louie Bluie Armstrong shared a life of creativity and feisty humor with artist Barbara Ward. Together they undertook a bittersweet journey to discover the past and their place in it.