Kiet Engels is the kind of teacher one wishes every schoolchild could have. She is strict but never harsh, loving but never soft. Her patience is endless. Many of her pupils are refugees who have just arrived in Holland. Everything is new and confusing. Slowly the children gain skills and confidence. The film focuses on four refugee children of different nationalities. The camera follows their struggles to learn a new language, their fights, friendships,...

Set to an original symphonic score performed by Basel Sinfonietta, this film uses scratchy, blotchy, decaying film stock to explore the theme of mortality--both film's and man's.

Art world sensation Ai Weiwei credits him with launching his international career. Renowned pianist Lang Lang describes him as a mentor to Chinese artists. Curator Victoria Lu believes that his taste and influence as a collector has been felt around the world. Uli Sigg is not a man who does things by halves. When he took up rowing, he went to the world championships. When he negotiated a joint venture, he wanted to create a model for future partnerships....

Discusses the massacre of the Armenian people in what is now Turkey, when one and a half million people were killed or driven from their homeland. Interviews a new generation of Armenians scattered throughbout the world, united in their dream of returning to the holy land of Mt. Ararat.

A collection of sixteen works by Bill Morrison, an American filmmaker and multimedia artist whose work is characterized by his sensitive approach to found, often decaying, film footage and his close collaboration with contemporary composers.

The 'forgotten space' of Allan Sekula and Noel Burch's essay film is the sea, the oceans through which 90% of the world's cargo now passes. At the heart of this space is the container box, which, since its invention in the 1950s, has become one of the most important mechanisms for the global spread of capitalism.

Amira is a vivacious seventeen-year-old who has brown-up believing she was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her incarcerated father. Proud to be the daughter of a man she considers a political prisoner and a hero to her Palestinian neighborhood, Amira adores her father with a fierce zeal. Her sense of identity is shattered when another attempt to conceive a child with her father₂s smuggled sperm reveals he is infertile. As her family and community...

Twelve-year-old Adama lives in a remote West African village. Beyond the cliffs lies the World of Wind, where the Nassaras reign. One night his older brother, Samba, disappears. Defying the village elders, Adama decides to set off in search of him. With the steadfast determination of a child coming of age, he embarks on a quest that takes him over the seas, to the North, to the frontline of the First World War.

The collection includes a report (PAL report no. 2002) on Massport Hangar 24 prepared by Public Archaeology Laboratory (PAL), July 2010. There are two copies of the report, one bound and one unbound. There are two sets of photographs, one set contains thirteen historical images of the facility, 1948-1975; the other contains thirty-six images taken in July 2008 by Matthew M. Kierstead for PAL.