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Black, White + Gray
MC-796, 2008
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Black White + Gray examines the life and lives of influential curator and collector, Sam Wagstaff, a veritable force in the art world for nearly three decades. The film reveals the symbiotic relationship Wagstaff shared with photographer Robert... more >
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Cool School, The
MC-820, 2008
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THE COOL SCHOOL is an object lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process. The film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery, which groomed the LA art scene from a loose band of idealistic beatniks into a coterie of... more >
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From the Ground Up by Su Friedrich
MC-783, 2008
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With few words and no polemics, From the Ground Up shows how an ordinary cup of coffee occupies center stage in the world economy. Traveling with the filmmaker from Guatemala to South Carolina to New York City and seeing each phase of coffee... more >
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
MC-822, 2008
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Perhaps America’s most important artist from the last fifty years, Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer and the ‘William Blake of film’. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and... more >
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Louise Bourgeois
MC-816, 2008
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World renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois lifts the veil on her life and work in this revealing portrait of a modern artist. Focusing on themes of sexuality, femininity, and isolation, her work has been associated with all the major artistic... more >
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Painters Painting
MC-832, 2008
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Never Before on DVD. The definitive documentary on the New York School Painters. Newly Remastered and Restored. Featuring footage of all the major figures of the New York Art Scene between 1940-1970 showing many of the artists before they became... more >
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Thing of Wonder, A
MC-806, 2008
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Magician, inventor and poet Jerry Andrus (1918-2007) has an insatiable appetite for uncovering the mysteries of life on the boundary between reason and illusion. Seen here wandering through his Albany, Oregon, “Castle of Chaos,” he demonstrates his... more >
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Variations VII by John Cage
MC-749, 2008
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In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held in October at the 69th Regiment... more >
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What About Style? Alex Katz: A Painter's Painter
MC-817, 2008
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For over 50 years, painter Alex Katz has bucked trends in modern art to pioneer and refine his own style of flat, elegant, and realistic figure painting. What About Style? offers an uncluttered view of this American maverick. Filmmaker and art... more >
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Alix Lambert's The Mark of Cain
MC-775, 2007
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Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners – The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the... more >
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