Gateway, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1933 by Paul Strand

The Anthology Film Archives will be screening four films featuring Paul Strand as co-director, co-creator or cinematographer in a series entitled Leo Hurwitz and the New York School of Documentary Film running March 10th through March 19th.

Anthology is presenting the screenings as a retrospective of the influential New York School of Documentary Film, focusing on films made between the years of 1931 and 1942 that helped to define the genre of narrative documentary as we know it today.

While the series centers on filmmaker Leo Hurwitz, four of the films were made collaboratively with photographer Paul Strand including the celebrated Native Land for which Strand was cinematographer, a film that exposed “union busting and the tactics of massive corporate labor spying” and featured commentary by Paul Robeson.

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Leo Hurwitz and the New York School of Documentary Film
Anthology Film Archives
March 10 – March 19, 2010

Screening times for films featuring Paul Strand:

Wednesday, March 10, 8:45pm
The Wave (Redes) (1936, 60 minutes, 35mm)

Thursday, March 11, 8:00pm
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936, 28 minutes, 35mm)

Thursday, March 11, 9:15pm & Tuesday, March 16, 7:15pm
Heart of Spain (1937, 30 minutes, 16mm)

Friday, March 12, 6:45pm & Tuesday, March 16, 9:15pm
Native Land (1942, 88 minutes, 16mm)

View Aperture’s Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs