Cellar Vigil
Synopsis
A suite of rarely seen, unreleased films by the poet, activist, and scholar Amiri Baraka.
- Director
- Amiri Baraka
- Original language
- English
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William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.
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Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
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Flow

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When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
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During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.
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Amber Heard and Nicole Kidman discuss their characters Mera and Atlanna.
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