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Dick Rogers:
In Retrospect
Short Films - Program One

Introduction by Robert Gardner and Author William Kennedy
Screening on Film
  • Quarry

    Directed by Richard Rogers.
    US, 1970, 16mm, black & white, 12 min.

This portrait of an abandoned quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, captures the striking natural beauty of the site as it explores the social rites of the young people who gather along its rugged shores to create leisure in what was once a place of toil.

  • Elephants: Fragments of an Argument

    Directed by Richard Rogers.
    US, 1973, 16mm, color and b&w, 27 min.

A self-portrait of the filmmaker at twenty-nine, this provocative collage of family photographs, street scenes, and interviews with family and friends seeks to prove that "one’s consciousness is the result of one’s relationship to power and not, as many believe, vice-versa."

  • William Kennedy's Albany

    Directed by Richard Rogers.
    US, 1992, video, color, 60 min.

Produced and directed by Rogers for PBS, this engaging portrait of writer William Kennedy examines his literary accomplishments against the charged urban environment of the capital city that inspired them.

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