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William Smock

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Tongue TwistersTongue Twisters · 2011
Tongue Twisters
10.02011
MovieDocumentary
« How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ? » A tongue twister is a sentence with much alliterations and is complicated to pronounce. A tongue twister must be spoken quickly and repeated a few times. Langage breaks down between and meaning. This film is a linguistic game between sound and meaning and a portrait of the linguistic reality of Berkeley. Many American people recite tongue twisters in diffrent languages and/or in English as second language : German, Englsih, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Mandarin, Korean, Croatian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Japonese, Farsi, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese.
Citizen Hong KongCitizen Hong Kong · 1999
Citizen Hong Kong
7.01999
MovieDocumentary
Five young Hong Kongers, equipped with digital camcorders, help filmmaker Ruby Yang create a portrait of a city in transition.
Who Owns the Past?Who Owns the Past? · 2000
Who Owns the Past?
7.02000
MovieDocumentaryHistory
This documentary, narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt and directed by Jed Riffe, tells the story of how the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, reignited the conflict between anthropologists and Native peoples over the control of human remains found on ancestral Indigenous lands.
Isamu Noguchi: Stones and PaperIsamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper · 1997
Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
9.01997
MovieDocumentaryTV Movie
Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surroundings. His gardens and fountains were transformations meant to bring out the beauty their locations had always possessed.

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