George Sprague lives and works in Buck’s Harbor, Maine. He is widely known for his "cellar" (affectionately called the whine cellar), where people gather to talk, make lobster traps, share stories and pass the long months until spring. It is a spontaneous theater, with a lively cast of…
Spring in Buck’s Harbor is about preparing for the fishing season ahead. Work on lobster traps and on halibut hooks begins in earnest. But it is rarely a solitary activity. Every day people come and go from George’s dooryard – offering advice, seeking help, and enjoying companionship…
During April, George and Mark, his son and sternman, begin setting traps for the season ahead. It’s cold and rough on the ocean, and lobsters are scarce. Halibut fishing, permitted for only several weeks of the year, offers George the chance to draw on his carefully accumulated knowledge of where…
This is part 4 of a 7-part series. Lobsters slowly migrate north, moving into the Machias Bay from warmer, southern waters. George works quickly to finish setting his full quota of traps. During July, August and September, he and Mark put in long days, hauling, baiting and banding their catch. Each…
The peak of the lobster season has arrived. George works closely with his son and grandson to repair their float ravaged by high tides, strong winds and the constant erosion of salt water. Towing and securing it involves collective effort of skill and coordination. Bait is getting short. The traps are…
The summer draws to a close, but the season is not yet over. Work continues — baiting and hauling traps, sorting and shipping lobsters. There are always tasks to be done. But within the daily demands of the fishing season, there are moments of respite and community. George’s Place comprises…
George has been smoking fish for as long as he can remember. The smokehouse has a place of pride in his dooryard, and he lovingly tends the racks to ensure perfection. The end of fishing is in sight. The weather is closing in, creating uncertainty. Traps have to be hauled ashore and the last lobsters…
George is a work of art itself that delivers guffaws that erupt unexpectedly between poignant moments from Maciunas’s childhood traumas to tangling with the mob and the attorney general of the State of New York during his innovations in constructing the loft culture of downtown Manhattan. Jeffrey…
This film was made at the height of the US-Soviet arms race. George Kennan declared that we were perched on a "razor's edge of precariousness", facing irreparable nuclear war. Kennan's proposals brought him to the forefront of the movement to avert a nuclear catastrophe. His credentials…
When he is ten years old, George Maduro travels from his native Curaçao to study in the Netherlands. Alone, without his parents. Right before the start of the Second World War, he—a Jewish young man—enlists in the Dutch Army. Maduro gets his fame from freeing landmark Villa Dorrepaal…
For digital streaming licenses and institutional use, please contact artny@bestweb.net. After more than 50 years in the New York art world, George McNeil’s expressionist paintings came to the forefront, along with Neo-Expressionists, such as Basquiat and Schnabel, who emerged in the early 80’s.…
For many who know him through his works and ideas, admirers of George Nakashima may think his definitive documentary would break down the design elements and trace the techniques that added up to his works. They'd be only correct in small ways, but his influences were hardly trending concepts. They…
