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Alice Neel
MC-831, 2008
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Alice Neel (1900-1984), one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century, reinvented the genre by expressing the inner landscape of her subjects, who included luminaries such as Andy Warhol, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg as well as her... more >
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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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Cats of Mirikitani, The
MC-797, 2008
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Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on... 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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Plasmaquarium 2 - Ultra Coral Reef
MC-780, 2008
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Turn ANY TV into an Exotic Coral Reef with the new Plasmaquarium 2 - Ultra Coral Reef DVD! We sent our award winning Plasma Window cinematography crew deep off the coast of the Philippines to one of the world's most spectactular Coral Reefs: Panglao... more >
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Prometheus' Garden
MC-857, 2008
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Best known for his collaborations with rock iconoclast Frank Zappa in the 1970s (Dub Room Special, Baby Snakes, The Amazing Mr. Bickford), underground animator Bruce Bickford has influenced generations of artists with his startlingly original... 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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