Manfred Kirchheimer is a documentary film maker and professor of film at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He previously taught at NYIT. He was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, and his family moved to New York City in 1936 to escape Nazi Germany.
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01 October 1981
Stations of the Elevated exposes viewers to an underground art scene- that is, one found exclusively on the sides of subways and train cars.
27 November 1968
A poetic blend of documentary and experimental filmmaking, depicting the changes brought on by urban planning as seen in New York City and the large mechanical claw that demolishes the architecture seen in the film.
01 January 1966
Documentary examining the work of sculptor Richard Lippold, particular his sculpture of the sun at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
27 August 1986
Filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer gained the trust of holocaust survivors living in New York's Washington Heights who agreed to talk to his cameras.
06 October 2018
Between 1958 and 1960 Walter Hess and Manny Kirchheimer shot black and white 16mm film from Wall Street to midtown New York to the Delaware River.
02 February 2017
A humorous and illuminating series of coffee klatches with 20 friends that proves the old adage, “Where you have two Jews, you have three opinions.
01 January 2021
A coda to the suite Kirchheimer began with 2018’s Dream of a City, One More Time poignantly intercuts our last glimpses of the cycle’s black-and-white, late-fifties New York with color outtakes from 1981’s Stations of the Elevated, depicting a different yet equally distant moment in the life of the city.
13 February 2008
Documentary that follows four graffiti artists who trace the history of graffiti
15 July 2015
Rummaging through city trash for hours and miles, New York’s gleaners gather and recycle soda cans for a nickel apiece.
29 September 2019
Meticulously restored and constructed 16mm black-and-white footage shot in New York between 1958 and 1960.
16 March 2006
Documentary about New York skyscrapers.
20 June 2019
The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York.
02 January 1966
Produced and directed by Hurwitz for National Educational Television (precursor of PBS), Hurwitz uses biographer and Columbia professor, John Unterecker, to help him look for the poet, Hart Crane, in his work and in the memories of many of his contemporaries.
01 January 1970
How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood.
01 January 2016
Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the Arts aimed at deepening and enriching, for art students, the way in which we see.
02 March 2012
The anger and outrage captured by graphic artists have defined revolutions through the centuries. Printmakers have depicted the human condition in all its glories and struggles so powerfully that perceptions, attitudes and politics have been dramatically influenced.
30 January 1967
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War.
01 January 1975
Passage across a suspension bridge, moving from the country to the city, a half minute trip expanded.
01 January 1955
"Eisenstein journeyed to Mexico in late 1930 to begin shooting a film. With backing provided by Upton and Mary Craig Sinclair, the great Soviet auteur planned to make an epoch-spanning pageant of Mexico’s political history and cultural iconography, moving from the pre-Columbian era through colonization and, finally, revolution .
20 January 1965
A documentary of SS United States on New York port.
20 November 1964
In 1964, National Educational Television decided to make a program as a memorial to President Kennedy.
