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Season 33, Episode 10 Airs July 20 @ 10PM, HoustonPBS LIFE, LIBERTY, & THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (Tiffany Shlain, California, 2003, 13:30) Using language and imagery embedded in our national consciousness, this experimental animated documentary makes a case for freedom of choice. TEST (Marta Aledo and Natalia Mateo, Spain, 2007, 12:00, Spanish with English subtitles) A simple moment of discovery records profound changes in the lives of ... Read More...

S33 - Episode 9

Season 33, Episode 9 Airs July 13 @ 10PM, HoustonPBS AS THEY PASS (Brigitta Bodenauer, Austria, 2006, 6:40, no dialog) Evocative images of a demolished hotel in Vienna stir emotional memories of the past. PUBLIC SPACES (Martijn Veldhoen, The Netherlands, 2006, 10:00) Through long-take, live action images shot on a train platform, we experience the cyclical qualities of time and space. 200,000 PHANTOMS (Jean Gabriel Periot, France, 2007, 10:40, ... Read More...

S33 - Episode 8

Season 33, Episode 7 Airs July 6 @ 10PM, HoustonPBS TETESCHA US (Stephanie Wuschitz, Austria, 2006, 9:18, no dialog) In a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the filmmaker animates images by Palestinian girls who draw their visions of a different reality. ARTHUR BALFOUR AND ME (Charlotte Cornic, Scotland, 2007, 11:05) What links a British politician born in 1848, with Fatima, a young Palestinian woman seeking asylum in ... Read More...

S33 - Episode 7

Season 33, Episode 7 Airs June 29th @ 10:00pm Channel 8, HoustonPBS FILMS: ABSOLUTELY AFRO (Dorothee van den Berghe, The Netherlands, 2006, 10:00, Dutch with English subtitles) A young girl decides to go to school with a totally new hairstyle in this charming story of belonging and identity. A SIMPLE PIECE OF CLOTH (Roisin Loughrey, Ireland, 2006, 7:26) Two women from two different cultures are documented in this ... Read More...

S33 - Episode 6

Season 33, Episode 6 Airs June 22th @ 10:00pm Channel 8, HoustonPBS FILMS: THE NAUTICAL EDUCATION (L’Education Nautique) Christian Laurence, Canada, 2007, 2:34 French with English subtitles Shot with both digital video and an early 20th century film camera, this visually sumptuous guide prepares a wishful boy for a Cousteau-esque life in the deep. MEDITATIONS ON A NAME Bonnie Elliott, Australia, 2007, 8:47 Wattle has always hated her ... Read More...

S33 - Episode 5

Season 33, Episode 5 Airs June 15th @ 10:00pm Channel 8, HoustonPBS FILMS: THE GLASSES (LAS GAFAS) (Alberto Garcia Martin, Spain, 2008, 12:00, Spanish with English subititles) Waiting for Godot meets Wim Wenders in this desert quest for meaning and a famous pair of glasses. BEING AND NOTHINGNESS (Bady Minck, Austria/Luxembourg, 2007, 9:45, no dialog) Musicians appear and disappear in the same way as the notes and sounds ... Read More...