Errol Morris may be always be known as the man who inspired director Warner Herzog to eat his own shoe, but the storied career of the Academy Award winning documentarian has done its own part to establish him as an artist who can surely walk on his own two feet.

Born in New York in 1948, M

Absurd, Angry, Beautiful , Catastrophe, Clever, Collage, Conceptual, Contemplative, Dark, Death, Deconstructive, Dense, Distorted, Dramatic, Dreamy, Eclectic, Enigmatic, Excessive, Expansive, Experimental, Functional, Grand, Gritty, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Improvised, Intense, Ironic, Layered, Manic, Melancholy, Moody, Neurotic, Perceptual, Perverse, Pioneering, Political, Power, Primal, Profane, Psychological, Quirky, Rebel, Rough, Serial, Severe, Smart, Sophisticated, Tense, Tragic, Urban, Violent, Witty

Oscar Micheaux (1884 - 1951) was one of 11 children of former slaves, and grew up in Metropolis, Ilinois. Considered the "Dean of Early Black American Cinema", the Producers Guild of America states that Micheaux is "The most prolific black - if not most prolific independent - filmmaker in American ci

Black filmmaking, Pioneering

"Gunner Palace", directed by Michael Tucker and his partner, Petra Epperlein, chronicles the exploits of a army unit based in one of Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palaces. Fanastic take on an American tragedy.

Angry, Monumental, Pioneering, Political, Sophisticated

“For me, cinema is sorcery, a creative way to interact with the world in order to rearrange perception and expand consciousness, both the viewers and my own” --Nina Called “Brilliant, one of the most provocative artists in film today” by The Los Angeles Times, Nina Menkes synthesizes inn

Dreamy, Experimental, Feminist, Hallucinatory, Hypnotic, Intense, Pioneering, Spiritual, Surreal