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  • JULY ’64: A.N.S.W.E.R. Film Series

    The night of Friday, July 24, 1964 started off normally enough in Rochester, New York, but by the next morning no one would look at race relations in the North the same again. July ‘64 takes a penetrating look at the underlying causes of the urban insurrections that swept through Black communities like wildfires that summer and in years since.
    To many whites it must have seemed odd that it started in Rochester. To them Rochester was the ideal small city; it had low unemployment and thousands of high paying jobs in “clean companies” like Kodak, Bausch and Lomb, and the future Xerox. Blacks emigrated from the South looking for these jobs only to be bitterly disappointed to find that the only positions open to them were as janitors and service personnel not skilled technicians. They were confined to ghettos of rundown rat-ridden, housing. Police brutality was a constant aggravation. Rochester’s Black neighborhood was a keg of dynamite waiting for a match.

    The film interviews several participants—after 40 years none felt regret at giving vent to their frustration about the situation in
    Rochester. 2006, 54 min.

  • JULY ’64

    July 64

       The night of Friday, July 24, 1964 started off normally enough in Rochester, New York, but by the next morning no one would look at race relations in the North the same again. July ‘64 takes a penetrating look at the underlying causes of the urban insurrections that swept through Black communities like wildfires that summer and in years since.
       To many whites it must have seemed odd that it started in Rochester. To them Rochester was the ideal small city; it had low unemployment and thousands of high paying jobs in “clean companies” like Kodak, Bausch and Lomb, and the future Xerox. Blacks emigrated from the South looking for these jobs only to be bitterly disappointed to find that the only positions open to them were as janitors and service personnel not skilled technicians. They were confined to ghettos of rundown rat-ridden, housing. Police brutality was a constant aggravation. Rochester’s Black neighborhood was a keg of dynamite waiting for a match.

    The film interviews several participants—after 40 years none felt regret at giving vent to their frustration about the situation in
    Rochester. 2006, 54 min.

  • THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

    passion of Joan

    Trash Fish Entertainment and Artists Television Access are proud to present THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC with a beautiful new score for solo guitar, performed live by LESTER “TOMBSTONE” RAWW of THE PINE BOX BOYS and THE ZAG MEN. 

    Presumed lost for fifty years – until a second-generation print was discovered in a storeroom in a Norwegian mental institution – Carl Th. Dreyer’s THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC is perhaps the most disturbing, and undoubtedly the greatest, religious film ever made.  A profound influence on generations of filmmakers, both great (Ken Russell) and small (Lars von Trier), Dreyer’s silent classic focuses with unrelenting intensity on the suffering visage of the French martyr, unforgettably embodied by Renee Falconetti (in a performance that Pauline Kael called the “greatest of all time”), as she faces a monstrous tribunal of hypocritical clergy. 

    Forfurther information please visit  www.trashfish.com.