The Monumental Work of Marc Chagall
Chuck Olin’s documentary on the making of Marc Chagall’s America Windows created for the Art Institute of Chicago.
Chuck Olin’s documentary on the making of Marc Chagall’s America Windows created for the Art Institute of Chicago.
French artist Marc Chagall creates The Four Seasons Mosaic for the city of Chicago. Director Chuck Olin uses the style of direct cinema along with interviews, to show Chagall’s artistic process, and the evolution of his piece from model to its final unveiling in Chicago.
Documentary made up of narration, archive footage, and current footage and interviews highlighting human rights struggles. The first half focuses on the victorious fight for human rights in Czechoslovakia, concentrating on methods of underground information dissemination, including samizdat literature and The Video Journal created by Czech dissidents. The second half focuses on the ongoing struggle for human rights in Guatemala. This main concentration is on the human rights workers and the Guatemalan government’s attempts to squelch them through beatings, kidnappings, and killings.
Documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during WWII.