The Films of Roberta Cantow: Now Streaming on Docuseek
Essential documentary films for higher education
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The Films of Roberta Cantow |
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"Cantow might be a known quantity: an award-winning filmmaker whose work crosses between anthropological film, autobiography, folk art, documentary, and feminist practice."
Nellie Kellian, Metrograph Journal
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Docuseek is honored to re-release two more films from Roberta Cantow, who's lyrical award-winning films have garnered several Best of Category citations in film festivals around the country, as well as an Award of Excellence and an Award of Merit in the documentary category, from the Global Accolade Competition.
Accordions Rising explores how appreciation for the music of the accordion has been regaining its footing as a vibrant and versatile instrument and is finally taking its rightful place. This film shatters the mistaken notions and tells the real story of how accordions have returned, not only with amusement, but with a beautiful, eloquent, haunting, and downright exciting vengeance. Accordions deliver a surprising range of styles, express the complete and complex range of human emotion, and reflect the diversity in our culture today.
Not A Still Life is a portrait of Steve Stone, an older gay, Jewish man who shares the naked truth of the struggles, joys and sorrows of his unconventional life a life full of captivating tales. With both humor and raw honesty, Steve tells of childhood ridicule in the 50’s, coming out in the early 60’s and living openly gay for fifty years, finding true love, then dealing with tragedy and loss, loneliness and the realization of aging. Recommended by Educational Media Review Online, this film is about a man in search of his identity and a sense of belonging. This one man's story taps into themes that encompass all our lives. His unique reflections stimulate argument and provide us with a most unique understanding of ourselves and the complexity of human identity.
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The Films of Roberta Cantow, from Buffalo Rose Productions, are now streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.
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THE FILMS OF ROBERTA CANTOW |
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A documentary feature film about the resurgence of interest in accordion music over the last 30-40 years. Although many continue to see the accordion as the stodgy instrument of bygone era - and accordion jokes abound - this film sets the record straight. |
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This Emmy® award-winning film is an enduring, vivid account, showing how the creative energies of women have been sapped by mundane tasks, and in turn how such tasks reflect a ritualistic approach to life. |
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An experimental and poetic film that offers a portrait of an African American man that may very well challenge any number of stereotypes and assumptions about masculinity and African American men.
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In this documentary portrait, a charismatic older, gay, Jewish man undergoes an evolution of awareness amid both joys and sorrows, revealing a naked truth. The film provides an entertaining perspective on love and living, along with insights into the complexity of human identity. |
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