Media
Sisters of Industry — Sizzle Reel
Feature, Drama/Horror
Fleeing her unhappy marriage, a young farm wife takes a job in a grim 19th-century New England cotton mill where she forms an eerie bond with the aggrieved spirit of a former “factory girl” who urges her to agitate against her employers, action that threatens both her job and her romantic relationship.
Ghosts in the Machines
Short Film
A peek at a vast, landmarked collection of historic textile equipment that once belonged to the American Textile History Museum. Orphaned when ATHM closed, these machines now sit in limbo in Franklinville, N.C., in need of a new, permanent home.
Iris In
Short Film
This five-minute cinematic collage was created as a companion to Iris In, a collection of poetry about movies and movie history. Think of it as "trailer" for the book.
The West Begins at Fifth Avenue
Short Film
The imagined childhood of outlaw Billy the Kid as he fantasizes about the Wild West while growing up in the slums of New York City's Lower East Side.
Our Hawaii
Feature-length Documentary
This film follows a group of surfers who grew up riding the waves of New York City's Rockaway Beach in the 1960s and '70s, when the once-vibrant seaside resort community had devolved into an urban wasteland
The First Seven Years
Short Film
An immigrant shoemaker in 1949 on New York’s Lower East Side tries to fix up his daughter with an American college boy despite the fact that the girl is in love with his assistant, a recent arrival from Europe who survived the Holocaust. Based on the short story by Bernard Malamud. Screened nationally on PBS.
Gold Mountain
Short Film
The story of a Chinese laundryman laboring in turn-of-the-century America whose dream of returning to his wife in China dims in the face of New World obstacles and temptations. Student Academy Award-winner.
