This compelling and poetic documentary takes place inside the University of California as plans unfold to shut down its historic San Francisco campus. A unique view of privatization, filmmaker Eliza Hemenway worked at the campus for over six years. Wondering why a public university was closing a campus in favor of private development, she picked up her camera and began to film. Uncommon Knowledge is a revealing look into higher education and a hauntingly beautiful portrait of a campus and the community it served.

Polis Is This explores acclaimed poet Charles Olson's amazing world, where the ordinary landscapes of our daily lives become extraordinary portals to timeless truths about the place we live. From Postman to the Postmodern, Charles Olson remains today an original American master. The enigmatic and hulking six-foot-eight Harvard historian drifts back to the hard-luck New England fishing port of his boyhood summers. There he forges transcendent vision that links his besieged town, caught between tradition and modernity, to all places—in all times. Viewers join actor John Malkovich in a one-hour race for meaning that stretches from antiquity to yesterday, from the local to the universal and from that which is most familiar to that which can only be imagined.