Movies: Alive From Off Center
- 1989
Mountain View (1989)
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A dance drama work that, through movement and very little spoken text, details the interaction of several people residing at or visiting a motel or motor inn named Mountain View. The work spans a period of about 24 hours, following the individuals t...
- 1991
Praise House (1991)
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“Draw or Die” is the divine imperative received by the painter, Hannah, who is being nurtured by her Grandmother, but controlled by her pragmatic mother. When her Granny spirit shouts this command to Hannah, she closes a celebration of personal visio...
- 1991
Theory of Achievement (1991)
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This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It affectionately examines the lives of a group of "young, middle-class, white, college-educated, unskilled, broke, drunk" Brooklynites who would love to make somethi...
- 1989
House of Trés (1989)
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A quickfire portrait of the New York City ballroom scene in the ‘80s....
- 1989
Book of Days (1989)
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This film is a rich and haunting reinvention of medieval life that never loses its contemporary perspective. When the plague afflicts a village, this world seems to go up in an apocalypse of hatred and disease that presages our own century....