Peter Gessner

Peter Gessner is associated with: Over-Under Sideways-Down

Movies Made By Peter Gessner (7)

Over-Under Sideways-Down (1977)

A dramatic feature from Cine Manifest, Over-Under, Sideways-Down explores the politics of everyday life in America. The film centers on a working-class couple, Roy and Jan Stennis (played by Robert Viharo and Sharon Goldman), who live, with their two child ...

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Finally Got the News (1970)

FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto ...

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Last Summer Won't Happen (1968)

A critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-war movement in New York City, shot in 1968, one year after the Summer of Love. The film traces the development group of activists on the Lower East Side. We see their growth from isolated, alienated indiv ...

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For Life, Against the War (1967)

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in style and sensibility but united by their opposition to the Vietnam War. Part of the protest festival Week of ...

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Time of the Locust (1966)

A film about the war in Vietnam, compiled from American news-film sources, Vietnamese cameramen and suppressed Japanese television footage. Music by Morton Feldman. Voices of Lyndon Johnson, General Khy, army field commanders are juxtaposed to the reality ...

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FALN (1965)

This 1965 documentary portrait of a civil war is today a remarkable time capsule of Venezuelan political and social history, and valuable background to the ongoing social conflicts in that country. FALN chronicles key events of the era, from the 1958 overt ...

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Nothing But a Man (1964)

Railroad laborer Duff Anderson struggles to maintain his dignity and marriage to a preacher's daughter in the racially segregated South. ...

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Movies Starring Peter Gessner (1)

Cine Manifest (2006)

With David Schickele's dreamy, retro soundscape, CINE MANIFEST captures a resilient group of artists reminiscing about a time when people weren't afraid to fight for their ideals, while also creating a stirring tribute to American independent filmmaking. ...

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