Lionel Rogosin
Lionel Rogosin was an independent American filmmaker. Rogosin worked in political cinema, non-fiction partisan filmmaking and docufiction, influenced by Italian neorealism and Robert Flaherty.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
(1969)
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s. (more)
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s. (more)
How Do You Like Them Bananas (1966)
A clergyman seeks a donation from a banker in this short slapstick comedy. (more)
A clergyman seeks a donation from a banker in this short slapstick comedy. (more)
Black Roots
(1970)
Black Roots is the fourth feature-length film produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film gathers a number of African American folk and blues musicians in a room, where they share stories and songs about the black experience in ... (more)
Black Roots is the fourth feature-length film produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film gathers a number of African American folk and blues musicians in a room, where they share stories and songs about the black experience in ... (more)
Good Times, Wonderful Times
(1966)
Lionel Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane ... (more)
Lionel Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane ... (more)
On the Bowery
(1957)
A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City's skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have the story of Ray. (more)
A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City's skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have the story of Ray. (more)
Come Back, Africa
(1959)
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959. (more)
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959. (more)
Out (1957)
Film on the refugee situation in Austria as a result of Hungarian Revolution of 1956. (more)
Film on the refugee situation in Austria as a result of Hungarian Revolution of 1956. (more)
An American in Sophiatown
(2007)
Interwoven with clips from the original film "Come Back Africa", the late Lionel Rogosin tells the story of how he penetrated Sophiatown, Johannesburg during the iron rule of the apartheid regime. In what develops like a political thriller, An American in ... (more)
Interwoven with clips from the original film "Come Back Africa", the late Lionel Rogosin tells the story of how he penetrated Sophiatown, Johannesburg during the iron rule of the apartheid regime. In what develops like a political thriller, An American in ... (more)
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1994)
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid. (more)
A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid. (more)
Arab Israeli Dialogue (1974)
The tenth and final film directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. It is a filmed debate between the Palestinian poet Rashed Hussein and Amos Kenan, shot in the basement of Rogosin's Bleecker Street Cinema by Louis Brigante. (more)
The tenth and final film directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. It is a filmed debate between the Palestinian poet Rashed Hussein and Amos Kenan, shot in the basement of Rogosin's Bleecker Street Cinema by Louis Brigante. (more)
Cinématon XIII (1981)
Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. (more)
Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. (more)
Woodcutters of the Deep South
(1973)
The sixth and final feature-length film produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film looks at workers who organize to resist exploitation by pulpwood corporations. (more)
The sixth and final feature-length film produced and directed by American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. The film looks at workers who organize to resist exploitation by pulpwood corporations. (more)
Oysters Are in Season (1966)
Oysters are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations. Utter foolishness abounds in short skits that range from an employment interview with an applicant whose previous ... (more)
Oysters are in Season feautures the improvised humor of Swede Sorenson, Dean Preece and Molly Parkin as they play out sharply satiric situations. Utter foolishness abounds in short skits that range from an employment interview with an applicant whose previous ... (more)
Black Fantasy (1972)
The documentary looks at interracial marriage between black men and white women and the problems and issues associated with it. Featured are black civil-rights worker James Collier and his wife, a white woman. (more)
The documentary looks at interracial marriage between black men and white women and the problems and issues associated with it. Featured are black civil-rights worker James Collier and his wife, a white woman. (more)