SPLIT SCREEN: Season Ten

SPLIT SCREEN: Season Ten

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SPLIT SCREEN: Season Ten
  • John Pierson introduces SPLIT SCREEN Season Ten

    Episode 1

  • Split Screen: S10-E1 Jesus Is in the Mailbox/Atom Egoyan

    Episode 2

    “Manitoba Tonight” with the brilliant filmmaker Atom Egoyan; “Jesus Video Project”: In 1998, Dr. Bob Cosby sent out 1.8 million copies of a video called “Jesus” to every resident in Alabama; Amy Elliott drives deep into the delta to explore authentic moving images of the Deep South’s historical p...

  • Split Screen: S10-E2 Field of Feuds

    Episode 3

    Meet the feuding fields where FIELD OF DREAMS was shot; Janet Pierson profiles the Moth, the lively monthly gathering for storytelling; “Ocularis”: Randi Barros and Kerry Reardon take us to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the residents understand that independence is also important in showing work...

  • Split Screen: S10-E3 The Fiji Stooges

    Episode 4

    Donal Lardner Ward and John Pierson visit the Meridian Theatre in Fiji, the most remote movie theater in the world, with a few movies in tow; in 1923, a set from a desert-bound Cecil B. DeMille shoot was intentionally buried and presumed lost forever—until now. Original airdate 09/04/2000

  • Split Screen: S10-E4 Animating WAKING LIFE

    Episode 5

    Hanging out with Richard Linklater and Tommy Pallotta while making the uniquely animated feature WAKING LIFE; The Alloy Orchestra at the Maui Film Festival; “Multiplex 1—The Projectionist”: Welcome to the Museum Place Cinemas, where movies are $1 at all times. Original airdate 09/11/2000

  • Split Screen: S10-E5 Woodworking with Bill

    Episode 6

    “Multiplex II—The Manager”: welcome back to the Museum Place Cinemas; woodworking with William H. Macy in New York City; “Bikers R People 2”: Amy Elliott turns the camera on biker-chick documentarian Barbara Bustillos-Cogswell; behind the curtain of a documentary about a migrant worker’s weddin...

  • Split Screen: S10-E6 Focus Group From Hell

    Episode 7

    “Video on Vinyl: Then and Now”: P. H. O’Brien and Doug Stone go from NYC to London in search of the legacy of the mysterious inventor John Logie Baird; “Focus Group From Hell”: movie market research as conducted by the hilarious team of Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming. Original airdate 9/25/2000

  • Split Screen: S10-E7 Projections: Buck Henry

    Episode 8

    In a two-year span early in his storied career, Buck Henry cocreated GET SMART and wrote THE GRADUATE, instantly showing the range of his genius. In the final PROJECTIONS, Buck’s observations on the independent model (TO DIE FOR) and cultural appropriation are prescient. Fashionistas should avert...