The Rain Will Follow, filmed and directed by Eugene Richards, is both an elegy and a celebration of an elemental and precious way of life. Though confined to a nursing home, the narrator, 90-year-old Melvin Wisdahl, lives an interior existence, filled with images of the deadly war he fought in, the struggles of the early Norwegian settlers in North Dakota, his beautiful, ghost town of a home, the encroachment of big oil, his love of the ever-evolving and threatened land.
In This Brief Life, by Eugene Richards, is a collection of over fifty years of mostly unseen photographs, from his earliest pictures of sharecropper life in the Arkansas Delta throughout his lifetime as a photographer.
“I’m here to listen,” the priest says, clasping the hands of the grieving mother, who’d been blamed for her baby’s death. Few would listen. When the young woman closes her eyes, she sees her eight-year-old son settling the baby into the bathtub, as the water is running. And then the water is everywhere.
Thy Kingdom Come is a unique and deeply personal rendering of life in small-town Oklahoma. An unknown priest, whom townspeople seem to be awaiting, suddenly enters their lives. A dying cancer patient confesses that she’s grown mad at God, a Ku Klux Klansman that he’s hoping for redemption, an expectant father that he’s afraid for the future of his child.
Unscripted, woven from a dozen real life stories, Thy Kingdom Come reveals life to be alternately precious and harsh, wanting and hopeful.
A montage of photographs and interviews from two books—The Knife and Gun Club (1989) and Bring 'em All (2018)—the film speaks of the selflessness and courage of our doctors, nurses, paramedics, health aides, firefighters, medical technicians, and maintenance staff. It's a way of saying thank you, that you're in our hearts.
Eugene Richards went to the beautiful, sorrowful, racially divided Arkansas Delta in 1969, a year after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and stayed for more than four years. In Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down, black-and-white photographs made long years ago, but never published, are interwoven with recent color photographs and a short story that speaks of Richards’s relationship with an impoverished delta family as well as a growing awareness of his own aging and mortality.
The oil excavation technology known as fracking has had an inestimable impact on the once sparsely populated state of North Dakota: on its soil, water, economy, demographics, housing, crime rate, and medical needs. For some people, the new oil landscape means progress and independence, while others decry what’s happening there as an environmental and lifestyle disaster.
The Blue Room is a study in color of the abandoned, forgotten, but eerily beautiful houses of rural America.
Few human beings are subject to as much cruelty and neglect as the world's mentally disabled. A Procession of Them documents the lives of those hidden away in public asylums.
Growing increasingly fearful that his frail, wasting-away daughter is going to die, a Guatamalan farmer convinces surgeons that he is the best person to donate one of his kidneys to her.
A strong-willed 92-year-old Nebraska farmer struggles to live his life, as the day he dreads—the day he will be carried up to the nursing home—draws closer and closer.
An expressionistic look at the life of Army veteran Tomas Young, who was shot in the spine and paralyzed on his fourth day in Iraq.
With text by Janine Altongy, Stepping Through the Ashes is a rememberance, a reflection of the events of 9/11 and an elegy to those whose lives were lost.
A deeply personal work, Exploding Into Life chronicles the courage, the struggle to survive, and the impending mortality of 34-year-old breast cancer patient Dorothea Lynch.