"[C]hronicles one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Based entirely on interviews with the participants and their friends, the film follows a group of exiles -- transplants from Southwest reservations -- as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance"--Container An account of the problems encountered by Native Americans living in urban areas and caught between two conflicting...

On the Bowery chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, who lived in lower Manhattan on Bowery Street. The film jump-started the post-war American independent film movement, earning an Oscar nomination. Good times, Wonderful times was Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. Includes collected archive footage of war atrocities interspersed with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chat. Out is a documentary...

Losing Ground: Tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand "ecstasy" just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy. Celebrating a recent museum sale, Victor decides to rent a country house where he can return to more realism after years working as an abstract expressionist....

One of the most important documents of the AIDS epidemic was filmed in 1986 in the very early years of the crisis. The AIDS (Artists Involved with Death and Survival) Show deals with the impact of the epidemic on the community most affected by the disease -- gay men. This unique work, one of the first films to deal with the subject of AIDS, was based on San Francisco's long-running Theatre Rhinoceros stage production of the same name. It speaks to...