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  • Author Michael Yates

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. In Michaels Yates’s Cheap Motels and a Hot Place: An Economist's Travelogue (monthly review press, 2006) an economist hits the […]

  • Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

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    A Map With Gaps (2006), directed by Alice Nelson, uses a combination of archive audio recordings, still photographs, drama reconstruction, and animation. This surreal and comic tale is an account […]

  • Eye Music Portraits, 11/15 – 12/15/07

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Photographers Andrzej Pilarczyk and Don McKever have specialized in photographing musicians across a broad spectrum of musical styles for several decades. By combining the visual principles of portraiture with a […]

  • “Meeting Resistance” with Filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Meeting Resistance (2007) is set in the streets, alleyways and ubiquitous teashops of the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad.  It enters the physical and psychological heart of the "insurgency" against the […]

  • Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

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    Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi, 2005, Cameroon). "Men are going to get the message now."  The lawyers and judges in one small courthouse in Kumba, Cameroon are […]

  • The Thirteenth Assembly

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    The Thirteenth Assembly is a touring collective made up of four musicians (Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Taylor Ho Bynum and Tomas Fujiwara) organized into four different and musically distinct small […]

  • Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

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    Flock of Dodos (Randy Olson, 2006). Who are the dodos in the current debate over evolution versus intelligent design?  With a Super Size Me - style good spirit, marine biologist […]

  • “The Business of Being Born” Screening

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience […]

  • “What Would Jesus Buy?” Screening

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end […]

  • Trio Tarana

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Trio Tarana is led by percussionist/composer Ravish Momin, who currently resides in New York City but was born in India and has lived in the Middle-East and England.  Therefore, the […]

  • Brian De Palma’s “Redacted”

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    The exclusive Capital Region release of Brian De Palma’s fictional documentary, Redacted (2007). De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, The Untouchables, Mission Impossible) won the Silver Lion for Best Director […]

  • “King Corn” Screening with Panel

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Director Aaron Woolf’s entertaining feature-length documentary about the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation raises troubling questions about how we eat and how we farm. Complimentary organic popcorn and […]

  • Be The Media! Workshop with Elizabeth Press: Citizen Journal Primer

    The Sanctuary 3361 6th Ave, Troy, United States

    Digital media tools are more accessible to amateur journalists and community organizers than ever before. In this workshop, participants will examine a variety of examples of citizen journalism, and learn […]