The Kartemquin Films Collection
Chicago-based Kartemquin Films has been a center for independent documentary filmmaking since the 1960s. This collection includes classic films from Kartemquin made in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s among other award-winning films.
The Kartemquin Films Collection includes the following titles:
![Anonymous Artists of America - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-artist.jpg)
The psychedelic rock collective Anonymous Artists of America holds a performance at the University of Chicago.
![HSA Hospital Strike '75 - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-hsa75.jpg)
A document of the eighteen-day strike by interns and residents at Chicago's only public hospital.
![Home For Life - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-hfl.jpg)
The experiences of two elderly people in their first month at a home for the aged.
![Hum 255 - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-hum255.jpg)
Two women, expelled a year earlier during a student strike at the University of Chicago, confront students about their convictions and how far they are willing to go to defend their values.
![Inquiring Nuns - Part I - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-inqnun.jpg)
Two young nuns explore Chicago, from a supermarket to the Art Institute and in front of churches on Sunday, confronting people with the crucial question, "Are you happy?"
![Inquiring Nuns - Part II - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-nun2.jpg)
Two young nuns explore Chicago, from a supermarket to the Art Institute and in front of churches on Sunday, confronting people with the crucial question, "Are you happy?"
![Marco - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-marco.jpg)
Disbelief, shock, hostility and superstition confronted the wife of one of the filmmakers when she decided to give birth without pain medication using the Lamaze method of childbirth.
![Milking the Rhino - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/bull/bf-milk_4x3.jpg)
The promise of community-based conservation in Africa.
![Now We Live on Clifton - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-cliftn.jpg)
Children talk about their fear of being forced out of their neighborhood by the gentrification.
![Parents - image](http://misc.docuseek2.com/images/titles/kart/kq-parent.jpg)
A parish youth group in a lower middle-class Chicago neighborhood discusses parental authority, what growing up means, and the difficulties of communicating with their parents.
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