[Minister to Power]
Pat Robertson and Rev. Bredesen in Anaheim. Robertson at Pacific Club.
A video exploration of the Declaration of Independence’s most ambiguous “self-evident truth” through portraits of six people whose paths intersect at a maximum security prison in Pittsburgh, PA. Molly Rush is a mother of six and a member of the Plowshares Eight who faces jail for damaging nuclear missiles at a GE plant. Rush doesn’t “pursue happiness,” but finds meaning in acting against the threat of total annihilation. Her husband, Bill, an engineer and family man struggles to understand her apocalyptic fears and worries about their children. Molly visits a fellow activist in jail, Warden George Petsock, who opposes breaking the law for any reason. At home, Petsock dreams of retiring and purchasing a mobile home. His wife Ida May ponders the happiness she sacrificed in thirty years of supporting George’s career. Finally, two “lifers,” Ron Grimm, a Vietnam veteran, and Walter Henderson, an African American who works in the prison garden, contemplate the paradox of pursuing happiness while incarcerated and if that right was really meant for everybody.
A short documentary about the religious celebration of Shiva’s birthday at a Nepalese shrine.
CNN special reported by Carol Marin, covering conflicts within different factions of the evangelical Christian church.
Kartemquin films records b-roll and impromptu interviews with attendees of the Spertus Museum of Judaica’s 1992 exhibition “Bridges and Boundaries.”
The Kartemquin crew visits a classroom where students are working on the mural project associated with Spertus Museum of Judaica’s “Bridges and Boundaries” exhibition. The crew gathers b-roll footage of the mural and the students working, and briefly speaks with a few of the students.
Artist John Rozelle talks with Kartemquin Films about Black-Jewish relations, his childhood dreams of becoming an architect, and his research-heavy artistic process.