Willow Mixed Media
Producing films of social importance since 1979.
Explore our collection of films ranging from environmental and local history documentaries to political and experimental videos. Willow Mixed Media, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization dedicated to supporting art and film projects.
Hudson Valley & Catskill Mountains
Our Upstate NY collection of films produced and directed by Tobe Carey.
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Giving Birth
From the Archive · Health & Medicine
Pioneering video documentary of a home birth. Shot in the Yucatan, Mexico, where a child is delivered Mayan style, in a hammock, by a Mayan midwife. Recorded in 1972 with a Sony Portapak during a trip to Mexico with the Woodstock Community Free School. The trip is detailed in the Doubleday book "On the Bus — Truckin' Through Mexico with the Community Free School" by the True Light Beavers.
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Local History
Sweet Violets
The surprising story of the Violet Capital of the World: Rhinebeck, New York.
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Local History
First Artist in America
John Vanderlyn "...is pronounced to be the first painter that now is or ever has been in America." — Aaron Burr, 1802
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A collection of films from the 1960s on.
Screening Room
Previews & Trailers
A first look at some of the films in the collection.
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