In this personal, experimental work, Rogers created a "minimalist soap opera" out of messages left on his telephone answering machine over the course of an entire year. Together with the accompanying visuals of scenes visible from the windows of the filmmaker’s loft, they provide an amusing account of life caught between the public and the private.

In this portrait made for public television’s acclaimed series on American poetry, Rogers presents the complex figure of poet-physician William Carlos Williams. The film is structured, like the poetry itself, as a modernist collage, with documentary footage, surreal dramatic scenes, interviews, and animation sequences intercut to evoke the poet’s imaginative world, his work as a community doctor, and his relation to the visual arts.