Buffalo Rose Productions - Roberta Cantow

06/30/2024

Stepping away from film promotion to present how my patio is shaping up, wisteria tree and all, along with my most recent painting of friend, Steve's seeping dog.

06/29/2024

06/29/2024

Mr. G is a 50 year old black man who speaks to and for his cat, Africa. In this way, he becomes the ventriloquist par excellence, expressing the cat's whims and desires as he gently pets and plays with her. Mr. Gm a New York City Dweller, is a kind and sensitive man who comes and goes, mostly anonymously. This portrait reveals his charm and how he ha made peace with his life as it is.
"What a beautiful and deeply moving film. It has not left my brain since I saws it," Audience comment following screening of newly restored and preserved 16mm film- complements of the New York Publics Library (with funding from The National Film Preservation Foundation).'

Available at Docuseek.com for academic and educational use and for consumer market : on Ovid TV (Free 7 day free trials.

New York City dwellers can also access ProjectR TV for free viewing:
For those n New York City: ProjectR TV via NY Public Library offerrs FREE VIEWINGS:
You must furst get a digital library card, at this URL:
https://www.nypl.org/library-card/new
To access the platform via the NYPL, it's from this URL:
https://www.nypl.org/.../coll.../articles-databases/projectr
But once on the site, you can search my name, Roberta Cantow, in the search field and that will bring up all my films. (these three titles and others)
You can also go to this URL: https://projectr.tv/.../b6f0f432-9a8d-4976-a63a-f47f26c1452b
But it will only work once you've logged in via the NYPL.
DVD disks available through Chip Taylor Communications in New Hampshire

06/28/2024

BLOODTIME MOONTIME DREAMTIME: Women Bringing Forth Change –is a documentary film trilogy (2008) containing poetic, experimental and conventional documentary elements. The theme of the ancient “blood mysteries” threads throughout the trilogy and provides a lens through which to view this contemporary landscape of women invested in bringing forth change. Collectively, the three parts depict an alternative culture and alternative modes of being which might be considered the empowering preliminary steps to transformative social action. A musical score by Bronwen Jones, hauntingly layers voice and instrument, provides beauty, depth, and integrity to the trilogy as a whole.

The three segments can be watched individually or separately:
Bloodtime: Claiming the Territory (20 min)
Moontime:: Celebrating the Blessing (36 min(
Dreamtine: Creating Art and Ritual (62 min)

Calling All Goddesses, Witches, Storytellers, Practitioners/Women;s Spirituality, Creators and Co-creators

For Educators and Academic Institutions -0 Docuseek..om
For Consumers: Ovid.TV (7 Day Free Trial)

For those n New York City: ProjectR TV via NY Public Library offerrs FREE VIEWINGS:
You must furst get a digital library card, at this URL:
https://www.nypl.org/library-card/new
To access the platform via the NYPL, it's from this URL:
https://www.nypl.org/research/collections/articles-databases/projectr

But once on the site, you can search my name in the search field and that will bring up all my films. (these three titles and others)

You can also go to this URL: https://projectr.tv/contributor/Roberta_Cantow/b6f0f432-9a8d-4976-a63a-f47f26c1452b
But it will only work once you've logged in via the NYPL.

DVD disks available through Chip Taylor Communications in New Hampshire

06/26/2024

Women's History Month has come and gone, but that doesn't mean that women's history has disappeared or become irrelevant.

My 1982 Emmy winning film, Clotheslines,(32 minutes) has not lost its relevance as a historical and educational document or even as a portrait of how woman have toiled in the home, particularly with the task of doing laundry "in the old days," and for some, even today. This short documentary is the story of the pain, isolation, loneliness, toil and drudgery of attending to the family's wash, but it also examines the folklore, wisdom, humor, along with the symbolic and artistic role, inclinations, need and meanings of "getting it right."

In this way, Clotheslines is also a celebration of women in thee face of the demands of "the everyday,"
and the possibility and comfort of renewal.

This film is streaming now for both the consumer and educational markets:

EDUCATIONAL:

The Criterion Channel in their "Tell Me Series,:" a collection of 21 feminist films by a variety of women Filmmakers (https://www.criterionchannel.com/tell-me-women-filmmakers-women-s-stories)

Alexander Street Press {https://alexanderstreet.com/)

Docuseek.com

CONSUMER:

Ovid TV.com (offers one week free trial)

Projector TV (via Nonpublic Library) - requires digital NY Public Library digital library card. to access the platform via the NYPL, it's from this URL:
https://www.nypl.org/research/collections/articles-databases/projectr (needed to log in to the site)(

To get a digital library card, it's this URL:
https://www.nypl.org/library-card/new

once on the site, viewers can search my name, Roberta Cantow ,in the search field and that will bring up all my film titles. .

You can also go to this URL: https://projectr.tv/contributor/Roberta_Cantow/b6f0f432-9a8d-4976-a63a-f47f26c1452b - to find this and other titles of mine.

06/25/2024

Steve Stone is probably unlike anyone you have ever known, and yet, he is the quintessential everyman. If you see him in this film, you will not forget him. One viewer wrote: "Thank you for highlighting this singular and inspiring human being." - A troubled life, a challenging life, an often joyful life, but definitely not a still life,. You don't have to be gay or Jewish to be able to relate an even love Not a Still Life
You can watch here:
FREE ON YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnEtuCCmp94&t=5s
ON - YOUTUBE (FREE) (SEARCH :NOt a Still Life GAY JEWISH DOCUMENTARY PORTRAIT (Free with ads)
on Revry
on Amazon Prime -https://amzn.to/3wK7EmY
on OTT Studio
on Local Now
om Future Today
on You Tube Movies' and TV (Free with ads)
on Cineverse
on Rewarded TV
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06/23/2024

Never too late to fall in love with this instrument.

06/02/2024

IT"S JUNE! -This means Accordion Awareness Month is upon us! Get you "accordion Awareness" on- or share it with friends. YOU CN TAKE THE WHOLE MONTH (AND BEYOND) to share your accordion awareness, curiosity, , love, knowledge, mojo, etc.Use the links bbrloe to ah snd sprea th wor about Accordions Rising , the music documentary - (73 min., 2015) now playing on the platforms list below:

03/25/2024

Cotheslines will be screened in Romaina at an arats festival calledd ACT,
at ACT - "arthouse cinema&theatre. ACT is a festival that aims at creating an alternative space within the Romanian cultural milieu, dedicated to unique and uncompromising artistic work in the field of contemporary cinema."

The festival is part of a bigger cultural event: Romanian Creative Week, a festival dedicated to all creative industries which takes place in Iași, Romania, from 15-26 May 2024.

iF YOU HAVEtNOT SEEN THE FILM, RUN RUN RUN TO GET YOUR TICKET TO rOMANIA. (just kidding). Upi cam still see this short documentary on the Criterion Channel, Ovid.TV and ProjectR.tv

03/11/2024

Clothesslines - short documentary about the symbolic and artiwtic role of laundry in women' lives.
NTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY! - Perfect film to share for Women's History Month! The real story of women's work in the home...under appreciated, unpaid and a contribution to the function of capitalism. The pain, pleasure, wisdom, drudgery and creativity of laundry as an ongoing chore in women;' lives.
Available for your viewing pleasure:
Criterion Channel (free trail availablr\e)
Docuseek.com (iinstitutions, universities, academic applications
Alexander Street Press (academic, universities, etc)
Ovid TV (consumer market)
ProjectR.tv - Free with NYC digital library card (https://www.nypl.org/library-card/new)
Also avaiable for a price

03/10/2024

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