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American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film Section and the Film Study Center, the Carpenter Center and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. Scott MacDonald uses pragmatism’s focus on empirical experience as a basis for measuring the groundbreaking achievements of such influential filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Miriam Weinstein, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Nina Davenport, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, Michel Negroponte, John Gianvito, Alexander Olch, Amie Siegel, Ilisa Barbash, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half century.

  \"It's just a great way to wrap up the season to wind up in the championship game,\" [Robb Moss] said. \"We've never made it this far before.\" \"We had the early game, and it's kind of hard to get going at 10 o'clock in the morning,\" Moss said. \"They had one kid on fire in the first quarter, so they got the lead. But the guys stayed calm, stayed together, kept plugging away and little by little got ahead.\"

** -- Documentary profile of five former hippies; directed and narrated by Robb Moss; not rated, probable R (nudity, drugs, profanity, vulgarity). \"The Same River Twice\" catches up with them more than 20 years later. Of the group, only the former leader, Jim Tichenor, has remained what you'd consider a counter-culture revolutionary (he's essentially living as a hermit). Meanwhile, Jim's former sweetheart, Danny Silver, is now a mother and aerobics instructor.

IN 1978, documentarian Robb Moss filmed a bunch of his fellow Colorado River guides on a long, leisurely rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. That 16mm footage was eventually cut into a film, \"Riverdogs,\" that showed the young, fit and often naked hippies reveling in freedom and nature. More recently, Moss - now a Harvard film professor - revisited some of his old dogs with a video camera in hand. \"The Same River Twice\" combines how he found them in middle age (and, if you were worried, fully clothed at all times) with shots of their youthful, more carefree selves. The new movie, which takes its name from the old Greek paradox about the impossibility of entering the same flow of water more than once, is sweet, sensitive and insightful. It's also about what you'd expect. Time, work, illness, relationships and their failures, among other inevitabilities of maturity, have worked their magic on the footloose friends. Everything Moss shows us is worth noting; whether it's more worthy of filming than anybody else's experience is another matter.

[Robb Moss]' film draws much of its strength from its structure, which switches back and forth between scenes shot in 1978 and footage of the same subjects taken more than 25 years later. (In some ways, \"Same River\" plays like a compressed \"7 Up,\" the legendary documentary series in which filmmaker Michael Apted follows the lives of a handful of disparate subjects over the course of their lives, catching up to them at regular intervals \"35 Up\" and so on). Consciously or not, Moss' film sets up a visual dichotomy between the youthful life on the river and the complications of life in civilization. His river scenes, all shot outdoors in nature, are visions of a paradise lost. His scenes from the present are filmed mostly indoors -- in houses, cars, doctors' offices. THE SAME RIVER TWICE is directed, produced and filmed by Robb Moss. Edited by Karen Schmeer. Associate producer, Linda Morgenstern. Opening today at Real Art Ways, Hartford. Running time: 78 minutes. The film is unrated, with much nudity and adult themes.

  One of the first thoughts that might enter your mind while watching The Same River Twice is that white-water rafting in the buff looks really cold. The film begins with footage of a close- knit group of river guides who, for a month in 1978, lived an unscheduled and communal life on the river, often as naked as the day they were born. The filmmaker, Robb Moss, was at the time a recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley; his movie from that trip, Riverdogs, became the first in Though Moss kept in touch with his fellow river dogs over the years, they probably didn't expect him to call a few years ago and ask to film them again a bit further down the river. Twenty-some years later, Moss turned his camera on his friends once more, as they live the sum of their choices and ask a new set of questions. Two had become mayors of small towns. Another had become a radio talk show host and author, another an aerobics instructor in Santa Fe. One river dog, except for a brief period when he tried to become a dentist, is still a river guide. Moss too is These individuals were unclothed for Moss' camera in 1978, but it is their willingness to bare themselves emotionally 25 years later that makes The Same River Twice such a compelling and provocative film. It is a different kind of nakedness this time around - more vulnerable and more intimate. Pasatiempo recently interviewed Moss, who spoke by phone from his office at Harvard.

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. -- An American skier who dug himself out of a \"dark, suffocating wall of snow\" Wednesday was unable to revive his friend after an avalanche swept down on the pair in the Alberta Rockies. Robb Moss, 28, of Berkeley, Calif., and Jeremy McIntyre, 25, of Seattle had been skiing in an area not controlled by avalanche crews. \"We weighed the risks, we took the precautions and we went out anyway,\" said Moss, who has worked for an avalanche control centre.

Despite the late and laughable attempts to save CPP by our political leaders, including last week's agreement to double premiums, 91 per cent of senior investment managers in a Fraser Institute survey believe the plan will face a major funding crisis over the next 25 years under the crush of greying baby boomers. CPP's chief actuary says premiums will have to go up to 14.2 per cent by 2030 to accommodate the drain by boomers. Clearly, the premium hike from the current 5.6 per cent to 10 per cent as proposed by Canada's finance ministers won't do the job. The preferred solution by the country's best investing minds is to replace or expand the current CPP with a mandatory private RRSP.

The 1991 personal documentary, which spans a four-year period, chronicles two seemingly separate strands in [Robb Moss]'s life. The first is his travels all over the Third World as a free-lance filmmaker; the second, his and his wife Jean's unsuccessful attempts to have a baby. When his mother Laurie wins a free trip to a Caribbean island and gives the prize to Robb and Jean so they can take a break from their fertility woes, Moss, in his narration, noted: \"Once again, good intentions and pain had paid for my plane ticket.\" It's harder for Moss to find the time to make films nowadays. Eighteen months ago, \"out of the blue,\" his wife Jean, at age 45, gave birth to identical twin girls, Sophie and Isabel.

  \"We played 16 nonconference games this season with the anticipation of getting to nationals and being prepared to compete,\" [Ty Farris] said. \"I know we're ready.\" \"We've been here before and couldn't get past third place,\" Farris said. \"We want to do better this time and I really think we can do it.\" \"It will be a good experience for us,\" [Robb Moss] said. \"It's a nice reward for the seniors, but also helps the returning guys get focused on next season.\" BRAD MILNER, News Herald Writer 747-5065 | bmilner@pcnh.com