Personal and Political: The Film of Natalia AlmadaThe recipient of a 2012 MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award and two time Sundance winner, Mexican American director Natalia Almada is one of the most celebrated documentary filmmakers of the last two decades. In this 5 disc set, Almada creates intense, genre bending films that blur boundaries and the line between personal and the social. Drawing heavily on her Mexican background, Almada brings together disparate elements archival audio recordings,

and transformative Brooklyn-based collective The Knights led by brothers Colin and Eric Jacobsen

Franz Schubert established the musical genre of the Moments Musicaux: small

GREGG EDELMAN

Mozart's famous operas were at the top of the popularity scale

Bach's "Jesu bleibet meine Freude" can be found here as well as a rarity by Martin Gustav Nottebohm

Evocations is the result of composer Felipe Téllez's intense work with the Canadian Studio Symphony

Engel/ Temple of Disharmony 1

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

and being spotted by Ike Turner

expressed in their creators' very distinctive tonal languages

Eat the Worm - Jonathan Wilson - Wilson

Johnny Paycheck