The Windmill Movie

Richard P. “Dick” Rogers was a respected filmmaker and film teacher. Following his death in 2001, his former student Alexander Olch began unearthing boxes of footage Rogers shot for a long-planned autobiography. With support from Dick’s longtime partner, photographer Susan Meiselas, Olch has now created a moving and provocative fictional work using documentary footage.  A kind of critical autobiography that spans Rogers’s childhood to just days before his death, The Windmill Movie is a film about class in America (the title refers to the family summer home in The Hamptons), about film and art, and about changing relations between men and women.

Director: Alexander Olch

Producer: Andrew Fierberg, Susan Meiselas

Year: 2008

Festivals: New York Film Festival

Distributor: The Film Desk (US Theatrical), HBO Documentary Films (US Television)