Sierra Pettengill Trailers
Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker.
Most Popular Sierra Pettengill Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space Trailer (2020)
10 June 2020
An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who formed it, the film is narrated by voiceover culled from 30 hours of archival cassette tape interviews over a 45 year period.
Street Team Massacre Trailer (2007)
11 October 2007
Two rival juice companies, Eco-Elixir and Jock Juice, accidentally unleash an experimental formula of energy drink on an unsuspecting group of concert- goers.
The Reagan Show Trailer (2017)
22 April 2017
Comprised entirely of archival footage taken during those pre-reality-television years, The Reagan Show looks at how Ronald Reagan redefined the look and feel of what it means to be the POTUS.
20th Century Women Trailer (2016)
28 December 2016
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion.
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Trailer (2018)
29 June 2018
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life's most important issues.
There's Something in the Water Trailer (2019)
06 September 2019
Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his home province, in this urgent documentary on Indigenous and African Nova Scotian women fighting to protect their communities, their land, and their futures.
Cutie and the Boxer Trailer (2013)
16 August 2013
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko.
Gimme Danger Trailer (2016)
05 August 2016
No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete with succinct angst-ridden lyrics, and a snarling, preening leopard of a frontman who somehow embodies Nijinsky, Bruce Lee, Harpo Marx, and Arthur Rimbaud all rolled into one.
Triangle Fire Trailer (2011)
01 March 2011
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killing one hundred and forty-eight young women and forever changed the relationship between labor and industry in the United States.
The Rifleman Trailer (2020)
08 October 2020
An all-archival excavation of the links between gun culture, the National Rifle Association, and the U.
These Are Mine Empire Trailer (2014)
26 September 2014
The poetics of repetition, as embodied by a South Brooklyn motel room. An experimental film by Sierra Pettengill, with poetry by Michael C.
Graven Image Trailer (2017)
01 December 2017
Using over 100 years of archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill explores the history of the largest Confederate monument, Georgia’s Stone Mountain.
Ruby Nell Sales Trailer (2022)
06 April 2022
“How do you make sense on an emotional, intellectual, and pragmatic level of the visual residue one leaves behind?” This is a pivotal question for Adam Pendleton’s recent abstract paintings on view here, which involve a process of accumulation in which the surface of the canvas teems with sweeping gestures, language, drips, splatters, and moments of erasure in a reflection of how we evolve in life.
Town Hall Trailer (2013)
31 May 2013
An inside look into two years in the lives of Katy and John, Tea Party activists from Central Pennsylvania, as they fight to preserve the America they fear is slipping away.
Walt Whitman Trailer (2008)
14 April 2008
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.
Riotsville, USA Trailer (2022)
16 September 2022
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.
Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale Trailer (2010)
28 July 2010
BAD BLOOD chronicles how a "miracle" treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10,000 Americans.
The Reagan Shorts Trailer (2015)
23 January 2015
This film uses the Reagan administration's internal documentation to capture the surreal spectacle of American might at its apex.
Bridges, Trains and Ships Trailer (2017)
06 October 2017
Made in 1977 for German public television, a rare look at Harun Farocki’s films for children. Harun Farocki's twin daughters, Lara and Anna were also shown in this documentary.
