Movies: Robert Fenz

A documentary look at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States....

Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood. She wonders whether normal everyday life is possibl...

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Borders (and all the politics attending the drawing of borders) exist to keep some people in (citizenship) and others out. This film is an attempt to capture the presence of people otherwise denied the political right to be at home in some place that...

The film came about when Robert Fenz was working on the last film by Chantal Akerman: From the Other Side, an experimental documentary about the border between the United States and Mexico. In her film, Akerman provides a picture of life on both side...

Documentation of a book project by artist Arturo Herrera....

The night of Marseille seen in a different way...

Filmmaker Robert Fenz returned to the locations of three classic films made by the pioneering American ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner. Dead Birds (1964) was filmed in West Papua, Rivers of Sand (1974) in Ethiopia and Forest of Bliss (1986) in ...

from: "Jazz on the Screen" by David Meeker...

The film is the result of a close bond between music and cinema testifying the many relationships between the two. It is visualized through American iconographic imagery and graphics combined with the great evocative power of ad libbing by the trumpe...

An evocative portrait of New York jazz artist Marion Brown....

Captures the discipline of a boxer preparing for a figh...

Shots of streets and subways in New York, Mexico, and San Cristobal de las Casas are intertwined with images of revolutionary figures of the past....

Filmed in Rochina, Latin America’s largest shantytown....

Structured as an improvisational homage to Cuba's endurance and captures the serene rhythm of Havana's contemporary street life...