Movies: Alfred Guzzetti

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which n...

Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner’s 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others). Reality’...

In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandanista revolution. Ten years later, Meiselas returns looking for the people who appear in the photographs: where are they now, what do ...

In THE GIFTS OF TIME, Guzzetti focuses not on his own family members but on his longtime friends, men and women he’s known for half a century or more, inviting them to reflect on this stage of their lives, on the choices they’ve made as they’ve grown...

In this brief film, Alfred Guzzetti dissects a single image taken by his amateur-photographer father seventy-three years ago. The photograph, taken at night, features an empty street in Philadelphia. Street lamps glow, light subtly reflected in the a...

The uncanny qualities of the present moment are evoked as bustling city streets slow to almost stand still and people drift by in a haze....

A portrait of the filmmaker's daughter from the ages of two to five, the film chronicles her growing understanding of herself, her family and her world, and allows a rare insight into a child's intelligence and sense of will. In the space of forty mi...

A year passes and another year begins....

Resembling a glimpse inside the DNA of modern existence, Guzzetti’s breathtaking composition seems to harness all the visible and invisible forces that connect and disconnect humanity. The various natural, political, violent, serene, exhilarating and...

Gray light falls on a forest. Pedestrians weave their way through an urban landscape. Lightning strikes at the desert's horizon. Shot in several American locations, Guzzetti's video captures traces of change and time's passage....

Originally broadcast on PBS, the film features the Barrios, a middle-class family both activated and fractured by the conflict. Instead of fleeing their country, the siblings are guided by a religious and socialist desire to help those most vulnerabl...

Scenes from Childhood observes a group of young children, including the filmmaker's son, as they play, interact with one another, negotiate relationships, fight, cooperate, infuse reality with fantasy, and struggle to understand their world....

Using photographs, interviews, home movies, and footage shot in Philadelphia and abroad, Family Portrait Sittings tells the story of the filmmaker's family, from their origins in Italy to their life in the United States....