Kristine Samuelson
Kristine Samuelson is the Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies at Stanford University. Kris is also a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford, where she serves as the Director of the Film and Media Studies Program and the Documentary Film and Video MFA Program. She has also been a professor in the Department of Communication, where she served as Chair from 2000-2003. In addition to a Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, she has been awarded a Bing Teaching Award and the Undergraduate Teaching Award in the Department of Communication. She was also chosen as the 1996-97 McNamara Faculty Fellow in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Samuelson recently completed ".Point 25" a multimedia concert and co-production with colleagues at KTH University in Stockholm. She received her B.A.(cum laude) from the University of California at Los Angeles and has an M.A. in Communication from Stanford University.
Director
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Empire of the Moon
EMPIRE OF THE MOON wryly deconstructs the experience of being a tourist. Paris, gorgeously photographed in black-and-white, is the setting for cultural explorations ranging from the mundane to the sublime, as visitors trek from icon to icon, snapping the same photos, climbing...Watch Movie
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Tokyo Waka
TOKYO WAKA is as much a carefully-etched, lyrical portrait of Tokyo and its denizens as it is a full-fledged rendering of the surprisingly rich life of crows. A tofu seller, a homeless woman and a Buddhist priest contemplate mortality, the metabolism of their city and garbage, while around them...Watch Movie
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The Days and the Hours
THE DAYS AND THE HOURS is an intimate view of an unlikely sanctuary in a hard world. At St. Boniface Church in the middle of San Francisco, homeless people are allowed to sleep in the pews in the midst of daily church activity. Filling row after row, over a hundred exhausted...Watch Movie
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time
WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME is the deeply affecting portrait of Stephen Moses, a young art student who was shot dead at a phone booth in a random shooting. The voices of the friends he left behind are heard as we see images of his art work in a posthumous exhibit. They remind us...Watch Movie
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Riding the Tiger
RIDING THE TIGER is a haunting and lyrical evocation of the hubris, despair and devastation of the American war in Vietnam. Archival film, both gorgeous and chilling, and footage of a B-52 graveyard are combined with the voices of GIs, Vietnamese villagers and journalists,...Watch Movie
Producer
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The Days and the Hours
THE DAYS AND THE HOURS is an intimate view of an unlikely sanctuary in a hard world. At St. Boniface Church in the middle of San Francisco, homeless people are allowed to sleep in the pews in the midst of daily church activity. Filling row after row, over a hundred exhausted...Watch Movie
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Riding the Tiger
RIDING THE TIGER is a haunting and lyrical evocation of the hubris, despair and devastation of the American war in Vietnam. Archival film, both gorgeous and chilling, and footage of a B-52 graveyard are combined with the voices of GIs, Vietnamese villagers and journalists,...Watch Movie
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Tokyo Waka
TOKYO WAKA is as much a carefully-etched, lyrical portrait of Tokyo and its denizens as it is a full-fledged rendering of the surprisingly rich life of crows. A tofu seller, a homeless woman and a Buddhist priest contemplate mortality, the metabolism of their city and garbage, while around them...Watch Movie
Editor
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The Days and the Hours
THE DAYS AND THE HOURS is an intimate view of an unlikely sanctuary in a hard world. At St. Boniface Church in the middle of San Francisco, homeless people are allowed to sleep in the pews in the midst of daily church activity. Filling row after row, over a hundred exhausted...Watch Movie
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Riding the Tiger
RIDING THE TIGER is a haunting and lyrical evocation of the hubris, despair and devastation of the American war in Vietnam. Archival film, both gorgeous and chilling, and footage of a B-52 graveyard are combined with the voices of GIs, Vietnamese villagers and journalists,...Watch Movie
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