Documentaries
Soviet Bus Stops
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig has been on a mission to raise awareness of Soviet bus stops. He feels that they're an under-appreciated form of architectural art, "built as quiet acts of creativity against overwhelming state control." But he warns that they're disappearing fast due to demolition.He collected together over 150 of his photographs in the 2015 book Soviet Bus Stops. More recently, a documentary film, again titled Soviet Bus Stops, follows his years-long effort to photograph the bus stops.
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Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 14, 2024 -
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Category: Architecture, Mass Transit, Books, Documentaries, Bus
You Are What You Eat
This entire documentary about hippies, titled YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, is not embeddable, but is available on YouTube. After viewing these two clips, you'll know if you can take the entire 70-minute production.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 07, 2023 -
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Category: Music, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
The Wonderful World of Tupperware
Say it ain't so, Ma! How have the mighty fallen....
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 15, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Advertising, Documentaries, 1960s
The Hog Farm
Their Wikipedia page.
Source of article below: Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, New York) 10 Dec 1968, Tue Page 10
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 25, 2022 -
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Category: Drugs, Communes, Utopias, and Other Alternative Societies, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
To Be Alive
Moments of surreal or bizarre imagery in a nice little film about enjoying life.
One weird addendum: you are seeing only one-third of the film. The film was meant to run on three screens simultaneously, with different imagery on each screen, although sometimes, I think, they synchronized.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 15, 2020 -
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Category: Movies, Documentaries, Philosophy, Surrealism, 1960s
Becoming Leslie
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 11, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Regionalism, Documentaries, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
Cinerama’s SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD
The IMAX of my youth. Is anyone today awed or thrilled by any of the world's "seven wonders?" Or has an interconnected, over-exposed media environment rendered this type of film a dead genre?The film's scant Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 09, 2019 -
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Category: Culture and Civilization, Foreign Customs, Documentaries, 1950s, Natural Wonders
The Last Resort
A nice slideshow about this era here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 19, 2018 -
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Category: Regionalism, Documentaries, 1980s, Twentieth Century
Stanisław Szukalski
Stanisław Szukalski was a painter and sculptor who also developed the pseudoscientific historical theory of Zermatism, positing that all human culture was derived from a post-deluge Easter Island and that mankind was locked in an eternal struggle with the Sons of the Yeti. He illustrated this theory in his works.
Article source.
Artist's homepage.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 13, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Outsider Art, War, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Europe, Twentieth Century
WattStax
This documentary has it all: great music, great interviews, great cinematography, ongoing thematic relevance to today. But we feature it on WU mainly for the clothing, both of performers and of the audience. Viewers might also empathize with the director's fascination with hotpants.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 10, 2018 -
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Category: Drugs, Ethnic Groupings, Fashion, Music, Pop Art, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
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