Filmmaker, Author, Educator
Martin Lucas
Martin is an artist and educator focused on documentary film. He has a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art. His film (with James Gaffney and Jon Miller), Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet (New York Film Festival, 1980) detailed the engineered bankruptcy of NYC. Camino Triste: The Sad Road of the Guatemalan Refugees (PBS, 1982) investigated genocide in the Mayan communities of Guatemala under General Efraín Rios-Montt. (Permanent collection, Museum of the American Indian).
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Two Children are Menaced by a Nightingale (1924)
Surrealism occupies a curious place in the history of art or at least in the popular perception of it. Surrealist exhibitions are not usually crowd pleasers the way that shows of Impressionist works or Renaissance art are. [A list of…
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OLYMPIC FLAMES – The Mexico City Olympiad and the Massacre of Tlatelolco One of the great things about sports is, that much like art, it is perceived as an autonomous social realm, a space for a test of human ability…
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Slovenia On My Mind To anyone born during the Cold War, the crossing seemed like a secret door between worlds. The train stops at the border. The passengers must step off. The sleepy station features low yellow stucco buildings with…
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