University of California Berkeley
4.1 Miles 2017
A coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea.
Rabies in a Human Patient 1970
Case history of an Iranian patient bitten by a rabid wolf.
Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues 1981
Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli’s Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.
Pomo Shaman 1964
A female Pomo shaman conducting a ritual healing ceremony over a man with body pains.
The Campanile 1997
A short film directed by Paul Debevec made in the spring of 1997 that used image-based modeling and rendering techniques from his Ph.D. thesis to create photorealistic virtual cinematography of the UC Berkeley campus. It presented a landmark new approach to generating realistic computer graphics.
