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November 19

The Buffalo Flows
Airs Thursday, November 19 at 9 p.m.

The Buffalo River is born in the Ozark Mountains, springing from the hills and into rock framed valleys carved by weather and ageless time. It is our first national river—a place folks fought to preserve. Save the Buffalo was the cry. Don't let her be drowned by her own waters! "They won that battle, and federal protection. And today there is a future that mirrors the past, because the Buffalo flows."

The Buffalo Flows is a one-hour documentary film written and produced by two-time Emmy award winning filmmaker Larry Foley, Professor of Journalism at the University of Arkansas. The film is narrated by Academy Award winner Ray McKinnon, an actor and film director who calls Little Rock home. Trey Marley of Fayetteville does a masterful job of capturing the river's magnificent beauty over four seasons, while Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker Dale Carpenter, also a professor at the U of A, lends his talent as the film's editor.

For more information, go to http://www.uark.edu/ua/buffriv/


December 17

Steven Holl: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
Airs Thursday, December 17 at 9pm

Steven Holl is generally acknowledged as one of the most artistically-minded architects practicing today. The Bloch Building for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is considered the apex of his 33-year career. Here Holl designed a linear series of subterranean galleries from which luminous, sculptural shards of channel glass, which he calls "lenses," emerge from the earth along the eastern edge of the original, 1933 Beaux-Arts museum. In this enlightening visit, Holl takes us through the galleries where contemporary art is displayed beneath curving vaults admitting daylight, a tour effectively demonstrating the convergence of space, time, and architecture.

To purchase the DVD, visit the Checkboard Film Foundation Web site. [link to - http://www.checkerboardfilms.org/Films/holl.html]

 

Genius Among Us
Airs Thursday, December 17 at 9:30pm

Few are truly gifted with the mind of a music composer, and for the rest of us, the ability to conjure music seemingly from thin air might be baffling. Genius Among Us follows a group of extraordinary Missouri high school students who spent a week at an MU camp dedicated to music composition. When asked where their compositions come from, many of the students can only shrug, "I hear it in my head." The film depicts an unusual dedication from such a young group, writing music at a surprisingly advanced level.