Alfred Guzzetti Movies

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton...

In 1981, Susan Meiselas published "Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979," 70 photographs she took documenting the Sandanista revolution. Ten years...

In THE GIFTS OF TIME, Guzzetti focuses not on his own family members but on his longtime friends, men and women he’s known for half a century...

The uncanny qualities of the present moment are evoked as bustling city streets slow to almost stand still and people drift by in a haze.

Originally broadcast on PBS, the film features the Barrios, a middle-class family both activated and fractured by the conflict. Instead of fleeing...

Resembling a glimpse inside the DNA of modern existence, Guzzetti’s breathtaking composition seems to harness all the visible and invisible...

In this brief film, Alfred Guzzetti dissects a single image taken by his amateur-photographer father seventy-three years ago. The photograph, taken...

A portrait of the filmmaker's daughter from the ages of two to five, the film chronicles her growing understanding of herself, her family and her...

A year passes and another year begins.

Gray light falls on a forest. Pedestrians weave their way through an urban landscape. Lightning strikes at the desert's horizon. Shot in several...

Scenes from Childhood observes a group of young children, including the filmmaker's son, as they play, interact with one another, negotiate...

Using photographs, interviews, home movies, and footage shot in Philadelphia and abroad, Family Portrait Sittings tells the story of the filmmaker's...