Ausgewählte Filme
RACE FOR THE SUPERBOMB (1997-99)
Buch, Regie und Produktion
Eine Geschichte aus der Frühzeit des Kalten Krieges: Im nuklearen Wettlauf zwischen den USA und der UdSSR stürzen sich beide Staaten in die Entwicklung der Wasserstoffbombe und lernen dabei das Fürchten.
“The brilliant RACE FOR THE SUPERBOMB let’s many of the people tell their own story, inlcuding a thundering, 90-year old Edward Teller. It captures the passions – fear, anger and sheer scientific curiosity – that seemed to propel the world on a race to destruction.”
San Antonio Express
“RACE FOR THE SUPERBOMB astonishes most when it deals with the obvious. The recently declassified footage of American nuclear testing is mesmerizing, for instance. There is a terrble, otherworldly quality to watching this very real hellfire sweep away what man and God have wrought, and those seeing these images are unlikely to forget them anytime soon.”
Daily Variety
EYES ON THE PRIZE – PART 12: A NATION OF LAW? (1988-90)
Buch und Regie
BLACKSIDES TV-Serie zur Geschichte der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung. Vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Peabody Award, dem DuPont-Columbia Award for Broadcast Journalism und dem Eric Barnouw Award.
“All eyes should be on EYES ON THE PRIZE because it is a fabulous work of art. And of history, sociology and humanity.”
New York Post
“We have been watching “EYES ON THE PRIZE for these past six weeks and have never been disappointed by this landmark series about the civil rights movement. Tonight brings a truly gripping show, an hour-long episode that chronicles the police response to the Black Panther Party in Chicago in the late 1960s and the Attica prison uprising in 1971. (…) The law and order crowd running the country, it turned out, had very little regard for either law or order.”
The Detroit Free Press
BREAKTHROUGH: THE PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE (1995)
Buch, Regie und Produktion
Der Film verfolgt den Werdegang und die Arbeit von vier Physikern: Eine PBS Serie über die Schwierigkeit, als Angehöriger einer ethnischen Minderheit in der Wissenschaft Fuss zu fassen. Ausgezeichnet mit dem CINE Golden Eagle Award und dem Silver Star am Worldfest Houston.
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND (1993)
Schnitt
Eine Reportage über illegale Atommüllhalden in der Bucht von Massachusetts und vor der Küste von San Francisco.
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Emmy Award for Regional Reporting und dem Ohio State Award. Eine Produktion von WGBH-BOSTON.
EMERGENCY UNIT (1988)
Produktion
Eine cinéma vérité Studie über Patienten und Pflegepersonal einer medizinischen Notfallstation. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Emmy Award for Regional Public Affairs Programming.
DRIVE-IN BLUES (1987)
Kamera
Ein nostalgischer Blick zurück in die Blütezeit der Drive-In Movies. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Red Ribbon Award des American Film Festivals.
LITTLE PEOPLE (1984)
Produktion, Regie und Kamera
Der Film beschreibt das Leben zwergwüchsiger Menschen – von den Munchkins in „WIZARD OF OZ“ zu „Dwarf Pride“ der Gegenwart.
Nominiert für den Emmy Award und ausgezeichnet mit dem CINE Golden Eagle Award.
COTTON CANDY AND ELEPHANT STUFF (1979)
Kamera und Regie
Der Film beschreibt den Alltag eines kleinen Zirkusbetriebs im amerikanischen Mittelwesten. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Merit Award und dem Blue Ribbon Award des American Film Festivals.
STYX (1976)
Kamera und Regie
Eine albtraumartige Reise durch die subterrane Welt der Philadelphia U-Bahn.
Ausgezeichnet u.a. mit dem Jurypreis der Rencontres Internationales Henry Langlois in Tours; ausgewählt für die Filmkollektion des Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Selected Films
RACE FOR THE SUPERBOMB (1997-99)
Producer/Writer/Director
A history of the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop the Hydrogen bomb during the early days of the Cold War.
Produced for WGBH-BOSTON and THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
“The brilliant RACE FOR THE SUPERBOMB let’s many of the people tell their own story, including a thundering, 90-year old Edward Teller. It captures the passions – fear, anger and sheer scientific curiosity – that seemed to propel the world on a race to destruction.”
San Antonio Express
“RACE FOR THE SUPERBOMB astonishes most when it deals with the obvious. The recently declassified footage of American nuclear testing is mesmerizing, for instance. There is a terrible, otherworldly quality to watching this very real hellfire sweep away what man and God have wrought, and those seeing these images are unlikely to forget them anytime soon.”
Daily Variety
BREAKTHROUGH: THE PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE (1995)
Producer/Writer/Director
A film portrait of the lives and careers of four physicists: Episode I of the PBS special about people of color in American science.
Winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award and the Silver Star at the Worldfest Houston.
EYES ON THE PRIZE – PART 12: A NATION OF LAW? (1989-90)
Writer/Director/Editor
PBS and BLACKSIDE’s acclaimed television history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Recipient of the Peabody Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award for Broadcast Journalism and the Eric Barnouw Award.
“All eyes should be on EYES ON THE PRIZE because it is a fabulous work of art. And of history, sociology and humanity.”
New York Post
“We have been watching “EYES ON THE PRIZE for these past six weeks and have never been disappointed by this landmark series about the civil rights movement. Tonight brings a truly gripping show, an hour-long episode that chronicles the police response to the Black Panther Party in Chicago in the late 1960s and the Attica prison uprising in 1971. (…) The law and order crowd running the country, it turned out, had very little regard for either law or order.“
The Detroit Free Press
EMERGENCY UNIT (1988)
Co-Producer
Cinéma vérité portrait of patients and staff in a medical emergency ward. Winner of Emmy Award for Regional Public Affairs Programming. Produced by WGBH-BOSTON.
RIP IN HEAVEN (1987)
Producer/Director
A music film about the price of success featuring singer/songwriter Aimee Mann and her first band TIL TUESDAY.
DRIVE-IN BLUES (1987)
Cinematographer
A film about the past and present of drive-in movie theaters. Selected for the Sundance Film Festival.
LITTLE PEOPLE (1984)
Director/Cinematographer
A documentary film about dwarfism. Emmy Award nominee. Selected for the New York Film Festival. Recipient of the CINE Golden Eagle.
“LITTLE PEOPLE is about dwarfs, and it is one of the better documentaries you will see this season. It is intelligent and tough-minded, and because it is, it becomes moving as well.”
The New York Times
COTTON CANDY AND ELEPHANT STUFF (1979)
Director/Cinematographer
A documentary about a small-time, family-owned traveling tent circus in the Midwest. Winner of the Academy Award for best student documentary film.
STYX (1976)
Director/Cinematographer
Impressionistic journey through the subterranean world of the Philadelphia subway system.
Jury Prize at the “Rencontres Internationales Henry Langlois” à Tours, France. Selected for the film collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.