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Nakusa (2021)
Spellbinding!
Jennifer Kramer and Linda Palmer have created a surreal landscape to tell this heartbreaking story. Their film is spellbinding and hauntingly beautiful. Kramer is mesmerizing as the wounded NAKUSA of the title. A finely conceived and directed experimental short that will stay with you.
Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit (2007)
Moving and thoughtful documentary about a great artist.
Jayne McKay has crafted a moving and thoughtful documentary about Maynard Dixon, one of the great 20th Century artists of the American Southwest. Dixon's work - be it his bold, impressionistic paintings, his commercial illustrations, his drawings and murals - is invariably beautiful and deeply personal, yet also timeless. The films details his life and creative process, but also sets him in various periods of broader interest, such as Bohemian San Francisco of the 1900s, the devastating earthquake of 1906, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, as he wandered and painted across the West. Many other individuals factor in Dixon's tale, including his several wives and time with famed still photographer Dorothea Lange. McKay's film is beautifully narrated by Diane Keaton and it features a haunting score by John McEuen, which make the period and Dixon's work come alive for the viewer. A rich and satisfying portrait of a great artist.