Cathy Lee Crane

Pasolini's Last Words

Cathy Lee Crane

Pier Paolo Pasolini

This elegiac essay explores the year leading up to Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder in 1975. Through staging scenes from his last, unfinished novel, to exploring his polemical essays, and his first and last film, this experimental biography documents the final words of one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century.

The Manhattan Front

Cathy Lee Crane

Lee Delong, Sandra Glinka

In 1915, a German saboteur comes to Manhattan. Co-opting progressive labor politics, he provokes a neutral America into World War I.

The Girl from Marseilles

Cathy Lee Crane

A film adaptation of Andre Breton's surrealist novel "Nadja". This fictional memoir gives voice to the woman who, speaking from the sanitarium as World War II approaches, recounts her love affair with Breton through a matrix of archival and staged images of Paris. World Premiere: Viennale '00. Forum des Images (Paris) Permanent Collection

Crossing Columbus

Cathy Lee Crane

History haunts the border town of Columbus, N.M. when Mexican riders on horseback cross the line to commemorate Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid. As border dwellers and their divergent accounts of the Villa raid are introduced, the existential borderline that shapes their lives comes into focus.