Shock Cinema: Volume Two

Crossing Dates 3 separate stories take place over two days. The characters' paths intersect, and they affect each-other unintentionally.

Leonard Bernstein Mass Enjoy Ravinia Festival’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s theater piece starring Tony Award-winning baritone Paulo Szot and featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra artistic director Marin Alsop conducts.

Cold War Submarine Adven... The disastrous first combat patrol of the K-19, the Soviet Union's first atomic-powered nuclear missile submarine.

Journey to the Screen: T... An overview of the making of the film Pearl Harbor (2001) and a look back at the real life events

Baato Every winter Mikma and her family travel by foot from their village deep in the Himalaya of Nepal to sell local medicinal plants in urban markets. This year, construction of a new highway to China has begun in their roadless valley, and things are never going to be the same.

The Secret Life of John ... The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.

Jacques Derrida, le cour... A look back at the life of Jacques Derrida, on the 10th anniversary of the philosopher's death.

Feel the Fear In “Feel the Fear” (1990, 24 minutes) images and ideas about television viewing, self-help therapy, alcohol use, acting, mimicry and social responsibility are linked by metaphoric and formal similarities to imitate connections of cause and effect. But the suggestion of causal logic doesn’t hold up and becomes increasingly skewed. The film’s structure is a metaphor for the contradictions of the culture in which it was made.

Set This Town on Fire After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.

Peace O' Mind In “Peace O’ Mind” (1983, 8.5 minutes) the characters try to stay safe at home, but become isolated and entrapped there. Images of a domestic space are connected with images of poverty “in the backyard” of this space to suggest knowing of and hiding from this deprivation has entrapped the characters, physically and mentally, in their private, isolated, and disturbed spaces.