Most Popular Richard P. Rogers Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Illustrates the writer's wandering spirit, from a childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, and the central themes of her work: geography, landscape, and the quest for consciousness and identity through travel.
Pictures from a Revolution Trailer (1991)
05 October 1991
In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandanista revolution.
Living At Risk Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Originally broadcast on PBS, the film features the Barrios, a middle-class family both activated and fractured by the conflict.
A Midwife's Tale Trailer (1998)
19 January 1998
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard's massive but cryptic diary.
The Windmill Movie Trailer (2009)
17 June 2009
Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until his widow, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas, commissioned his former student Alexander Olch to make a film out of the pieces.
Looking at Forest of Bliss Trailer (2000)
13 May 2000
Director Robert Gardner and legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage share an in-depth viewing of Gardner's ethnographic masterwork, Forest of Bliss.
Elephants: Fragments in an Argument Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
A self-portrait of the filmmaker at twenty-nine, this provocative collage of photographs, street scenes, and interviews with family and friends seeks to prove that "one’s consciousness is the result of one’s relationship to power and not, as many believe, vice-versa.
Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
This film shows the Polish master animator Jan Lenica working on his film Landscape, and explores the relationship of the artist between the real world and his fantasy visions.
Reality's Invisible Trailer (1972)
19 April 1972
Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner’s 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others).
Quarry Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
This portrait of an abandoned quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, captures the striking natural beauty of the site as it explores the social rites of the young people who gather along its rugged shores to create leisure in what was once a place of toil.
Voices & Visions: Wallace Stevens Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
The hero of Wallace Stevens’s poetry is the human imagination. Like Emily Dickinson’s, Stevens’s sedate and uneventful outer life concealed a lush and adventurous inner one.
Voices & Visions: William Carlos Williams Trailer (1986)
01 October 1986
This remarkable New Jersey poet-physician established an American kind of poem distinct from European forms.
226-1690 Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Rogers created this "minimalist soap opera" out of messages left on his telephone answering machine over the course of an entire year.
