Nagasaki, The Last Station (2025) Unexpected opportunities arise. This past year opened the door for showings of the film Nagasaki Journey (produced in 1995) for this year’s 80th commemoration of the atomic bombings —in New Mexico as a test and dropped on the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The new showings emerged from a living […]
A glimmer of hope. A touch of possibilities. Add a dash of a perspective dating back thirteen-thousand years, season with torrential rains, and the result is Tulare–Return of the Phantom Lake, produced 2025, running time seven-and-a-half minutes. One of the difficulties when completing a film is knowing when to start and when to stop—and when […]
It’s finally up. My YouTube channel, Documentary by Christopher, is alive and well. It’s happening. On my YouTube channel you will find many of the films featured on our website along with new films from myself and perhaps along the way, a few films from guest filmmakers. I encourage all your comments and thoughts […]
In 1992 I was in my neighborhood Post Office in San Francisco. As I stood in line, I saw a poster that announced a series of US stamps that would mark the 50th commemoration of World War II. The stamps would be issued ten each year between 1992 and 1995 that depicted wartime events from […]
A separate award-winning web-site, Remembering Nagasaki, designed by Alison Sant, established and maintained by San Francisco’s Exploratorium Museum, is devoted to the international photographic exhibition, book and film entitled, Nagasaki Journey. As the Nagasaki Journey exhibit took shape between 1992 and 1995, Rupert Jenkins contacted the San Francisco Exploratorium, founded by Robert Oppenheimer’s brother, […]
Between Dreams and History tells the story of the artist Shimon Attie as he creates his first work of public art in America. Prior to that installation, Attie, who studied art at San Francisco State College, created works of art in Europe dedicated to the idea of how to make memory visible in the present. […]
This is an invitation for you the viewer to begin a cinematic journey with me. We will explore the films I have directed and co-directed. We will consider how films are made, what lessons I have learned, and what tips I can offer. We will visit the work of other filmmakers and artists—and we will […]
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