An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics.
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“OH, MR. FAULKNER, DO YOU WRITE?” is a film culled from a play-for-one-actor based on the life of the Nobel Prize winning writer, William Faulkner. The film includes a series of humorous and insightful stories about his days in Hollywood, his opinions of the North and the South, the Civil War, slavery, other writers, women, and his own family.
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This compilation of experimental short films and videos by Enid Baxter Blader unfolds like the pages of a lost diary, with fleeting glimpses into an anonymous someone's memories and desires. A filmmaker, painter, and bluegrass musician, Enid Baxter Blader finds inspiration in ruminations on rural life, stormy weather of the emotional and environmental variety, majestic landscapes, and small town civility. DVD includes an essay by novelist and journalist, Ben Ehrenreich
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Known today primarily for his role in the development of the electromagnetic telegraph and Morse code, Samuel F. B. Morse began his career as a painter. This film examines Morse's monumental Gallery of the Louvre painting and its restoration.
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Mike Kelley and Michael Smith's feature-length video A Voyage of Growth and Discovery follows the existential journey of Baby IKKI over several days at a festival of "radical self-expression"? famous for its presentations of large-scale displays of fire, held in the remote Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Baby IKKI, pre-lingual and of ambiguous age, is a character that artist Michael Smith has been performing for over thirty years.
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director Esther Robinson's personal inquiry into the truth behind her Uncle Danny Williams' mysterious 1966 disappearance. Virtually unknown today, Danny was Andy Warhol's lover, and a promising young filmmaker.
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An artist whose medium is language. For more than 30 years, Jenny Holzer's name has stood for a conceptual art that questions our perceptions and the way we are influenced by media and politics. Holzer has made LED signs - typically identified with advertising - her trademark. Through her art, she shows us again and again how thoroughly seduced and manipulated we are by the visual and textual stimuli that surround us every day.
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Against his father's wishes, Pedro - a naive kid from Mexico City - joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of policework in a lonely rural environment populated by poor farmers, rich drug dealers, beautiful women, and his father's ghost.
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When Alex Katz paints one of his large, signature paintings, it is an act of the utmost concentration, a performance in which he draws on years of experience as well as on preliminary sketches, painted studies, finished drawings, and a large charcoal cartoon, transferring the bare bones of the image to his canvas. Then he is set to paint, and he usually finishes his paintings in one day. In this case, he painted the six-by-fourteen foot January III in five hours.
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Chronicling the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos, and captured in some of Russia's most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art by way of the brutality of its origins- the penitentiary and the criminal environment. This feature tells the story of a fading art form and how that practice's death reflects transition in broader Russian society.
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This documentary invites novices and experienced collectors alike to explore the art of printmaking from the perspective of influential curators, collectors, dealers, printmakers, and artists. Shot in Hi-Def video at museum print rooms, print fairs, galleries, and print workshops in America and Europe, exploring the collaborative nature of printmaking, the democratic character of multiples, and the deep-rooted traditions of the art form.
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The five-hour set samples an array of film types and styles, and presents works by 27 artists - from Bruce Baillie to Andy Warhol - who worked outside the mainstream and redefined American cinema in the decades following World War II. "The American avant-garde presents a stunning alternate history of cinema - an entirely different set of possibilities, another world of images and sounds - but the films have always been difficult to see," said NFPF Board member Martin Scorsese.
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Monty Python star Terry Jones presents this award-winning documentary series, featuring ancient inventions, the surprising history of sex and love and the hidden histories of Egypt and Rome.
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The late video pioneer Andy Mann left an extensive collection of his video art to Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas, with the desire to have the work distributed and screened for educational and artistic purposes. The Andy Mann Video Library is comprised of over 800 videotapes, which date from the late 1960s through 2001.
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This collection of award-winning animated films was created by independent filmmaker Karen Aqua (1954-2011). Populated with figures “spawned from a mating between Matisse cutouts and carvings on Incan tombs,” these films explore transformation (both internal and external), journeys, myth, and the human spirit.
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This exhibition, by the Neue Galerie Graz, provides a key outline of an important segment of its extensive video collection and insights into the mechanisms of image perception today against the backdrop of film. The curatorial approach of the Galerie explores regional, national and international contemporary art production by means of exhibitions and symposia. Many artists who are amongst the stars of the present international art scene, had their first exhibitions at the Galerie.
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This extraordinary DVD offers the restored and digitally re-mastered Media Burn (a spectacular performance video and one of the most celebrated pieces from the Ant Farm), together with artists' commentary, interactive menus, hidden bonus films, and previously unreleased works by the celebrated Ant Farm collective. Other classics include the famous Cadillac Ranch 1974/1994, Ant Farm's Dirty Dishes, Inflatables Illustrated, and a host of never-before-seen adventures.
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A forgotten 1960's classic, Adua and her Friends is one of the masterpieces of modern Italian art cinema, with an impressive cast that includes Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni.
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Visiting examples of Herzog and de Meuron's ground-breaking style, this film reflects their capacity to astonish and explore the way in which they transform what might otherwise be ordinary shapes, materials and surfaces through new treatments and techniques.
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 The inventive and amusing paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 – 1593) dazzled the courts of Europe. His imaginative combinations of fruits, vegetables, and flowers create allegorical portraits of emperors and witty caricatures of their courtiers, which won him the highest artistic honors bestowed by the Holy Roman Empire.
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Meet the inspiring cultural visionaries who revolutionized advertising during the industry's golden age in the 1960s by creating slogans to live by and ads we all remember.
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In the 21st century, American artists are taking self-expression into uncharted territory. Using various media and techniques, drawing on pop culture, politics, ethnic heritage, classical models, and personal life experiences, today's artists engage the world in surprising new ways. This look at the direction of contemporary American art profiles 21 emerging and established artists, to see them at work and to hear what they hope to accomplish.
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Season 1 features 21 artists and is divided into four general themes - Place, Spirituality, Identity, and Consumption - spanning four hours on one DVD disc.

Season 3 features 18 artists and is divided into four general themes - Memory, Power, Structures, and Play - spanning four hours on one DVD disc.
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Contemporary artists work in globally influenced, culturally diverse and technologically dynamic milieus. In the US artists reflect a varied and changing landscape of identity, values and beliefs. The artists featured in this series demonstrate the breadth of artistic practice across the country and reveal a wealth of multicultural talent. Each episode is organized around a theme to help audiences compare and contrast the artists profiled.
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Fourteen internationally recognized artists, from painters and sculptors to photographers and artists exploring the possibilities of new media, were filmed in their own environments and in their own words. The result is an exceptional opportunity for audiences to experience first-hand the complex artistic processes behind some of today's most intriguing and thought-provoking art.
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Art in the Twenty-First Century spotlights contemporary artists at work, and speaking in their own words, revealing why, where, and how they work. Spanning the globe from Nigeria to New York City, from Beijing to Brazil, the series demonstrates the power of art to alter perception, challenge convention, and change how we see the world around us.
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Meet the most dynamic artists of our time - direct, accessible, and unfiltered - in the award-winning documentary series ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Unparalleled in its access to today's artists, this unique series invites viewers into artists' studios, homes and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, creative processes, and sources of inspiration.
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Traveling around the country and taking viewers on a revealing trip into the studios and lives of a group of singular artists, the film addresses artists' relations with the press, feelings about showing one's work, distilling concepts into an essence, and what it means to succeed in the art world. Music by Beck, Tom Waits, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Ted Greene, Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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Box set of all three Art City volumes includes: "Manhattan" "Simplicity" "Ruling Passion"
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A DVD anthology of The Art Guys' performance and video works spanning their 25 years of collaboration from 1983-2008. Included in this 2-DVD box set are selections from the their live stage performances, conceptual events in public, video works, and the ZenFilm documentary of “Nothing To It: The Art Guys in Concert." This is the first such compilation of The Art Guys' video and performance works.
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The anger and outrage captured by graphic artists and printmakers have defined revolutions through the centuries, depicting the human condition in all its glories and struggles so powerfully that perceptions, attitudes and politics have been dramatically influenced.
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A frontier-themed art game show shot in front of a live studio audience, this wacky DVD includes all seven zany episodes culminating in the Ultimate Artist Challenge, in which one contestant remains standing after defeating the herd of talented challengers. Producers Roland Smart and Jeff Warmouth explore highbrow vs. lowbrow interpretations of contemporary culture in this unique game show, which exploits the best (and the worst!) of the game show genre through the lens of the arts.
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Using contemporary techniques such as sampling, remixing and digital manipulation alongside traditional film, video and music production methods, modern audiovisualizers are able to push creative boundaries ever further. Music and image play an equal, complementary and synergistic role in this arena with modern software allowing a much closer and more specific integration than was ever possible previously.
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In September 2003, eleven animators met in a large Chelsea loft. Eleven went in, a tour of the best Independent Animation from New York City emerged. The films on this volume span the last few decades of NYC animation. Young animators join seasoned masters in a program that will surely become an important part of any animation enthusiasts library.
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The second DVD in this series continues to explore the thriving contemporary independent scene going on in New York City. The films on this volume span the last five years, young animators join seasoned masters in a program that is surely to become an important part of any animation enthusiast's library. All films are international award winners, each with a distinct look, united only by genre and the gritty soul of NYC.
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Follow three gorgeous young ladies as they go to camp, finding plenty of mischief along the way. These girls aren't ashamed of their beautiful bodies and show them off at every opportunity. Watch the girls as they tantalize a poor gas station owner, bathe in a waterfall and even seduce the camp director. Narrated in the style of an educational film, and set among some beautiful scenery, this is a truly hilarious 'camp' film from the pinnacle of the Drive-In era.
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In the beginning of the 17th century, European culture generated a new artistic style, known as the Baroque. Now, for the first time ever you will be able to see the motifs of the old world come to life in slow motion. Experience how a brawl suddenly starts in the Goldsmiths' Guild and how the fish and lobster come to life in a still life painting.
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In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of like-minded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip-hop, and graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the “establishment” art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, created a movement that transformed pop culture.
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This Peabody-winning film chronicles the stories of 10 fine artists and intrepid scientists who abandoned careers to forge unconventional lives as modern day paperfolders. The film paints an arresting portrait of the remarkable artistic and scientific creativity that fuels this ever-changing art form, fusing science and sculpture, form and function, ancient and new.
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Beyond Time, narrated by Jude Law, is the documentary journey into the life and work of the artist William Turnbull widely recognized as one of the pioneers of modernism in Britain. Beyond Time chronicles Turnbull's intimate involvement in the critical developments of modern art and explores his experiences in Paris, London and New York where he befriended and worked alongside artists like Alberto Giacometti, Richard Hamilton, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
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Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. The range of people he snaps - uptown fixtures like Wintour, Brooke Astor, Tom Wolfe and Annette de la Renta (who appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between - reveals a delirious and delicious romp through New York.
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From 2004-2008, Mr. Plympton had an unparalleled string of hit films. Featured here are the best of this golden age, including the celebrated dog trilogy and a number of rare and seldom seen films.
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A collection of Bill Plympton's newest naughty shorts. This DVD contains 80 minutes of material from the years 1997 to 2002.
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Over 30 years, Sullivan has accumulated thousands of images that he views as a visual diary of his life, characterizing the people and things around him. From this archive he creates paintings, pastels and ink drawings, primarily portraits and still lifes. Part of a downtown scene from 1968 to the present, Sullivan cites the influence of Andy Warhol on his approach to art, aesthetically and socially. contains a DVD and CD-ROM
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Birders: The Central Park Effect reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan's celebrated patch of green, and the equally colorful New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration.
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Sam Wagstaff's story is one of personal transformation - from conservative, starchy, Yale-educated preppy to downtown habitué, hipster and experimenter. Both Wagstaff and photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe, enabled each other to discover different parts of themselves - both men encouraged the other to mine new territory in the arts and in their personal lives as well. Wagstaff's death from AIDS, in 1987, and later Mapplethorpe's, in 1989, marked the end of an era.
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A critical examination of pioneering work by Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch, with photo and video documentation of his ritualistic performances since 1962.
**Please note, the DVD is in the PAL format. Therefore, it will only play on machines that support this format.
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This highly acclaimed and thought-provoking documentary provides a rare and illuminating exploration of the creative process through incisive portraits of five seminal figures from a significant chapter in contemporary American folk art. Variously described as outsider, self-taught or visionary, the artists profiled in the film, all from the American South, produce remarkable works of art that are worlds away from the traditions of pottery, basketry and quilting.
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A one-hour music and light immersion featuring Lynn Augstein's transparent light waves accompanied by deep, cellular sound, from ambient music artists Steve Roach, David Parsons, Ranga, Om, A Produce, and Dwight Loop. An experiential light projection art, all images are made from halogen light sources, drawing on a long tradition in the use of light and color as a creative medium.
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From 1952 until his death in 2003, Stan Brakhage created almost 400 films. Working completely outside of the mainstream, he consistently redefined cinematic art with such celebrated pieces as Window Water Baby Moving (his first wife giving birth) and Mothlight (leaves and butterflies taped to celluloid), as well as a host of films hand-painted in shockingly brilliant color including Dante's Quartet and Black Ice.
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Brazil displays to the world its most brilliant features - heady carnivals, samba, football and a bewildering ethnic diversity. But behind this glittering facade, lies a much more disturbing story - the history of the biggest slave population ever.
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In a small village in France, a 55 year-old Communist activist, married and father of a teenage son, becomes a transsexual with the help of his/her wife. Françoise Romand's second movie, shot in 1986, following her famous documentary, Mix-Up. In French with English Subtitles.
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HP Lovecraft's most famous story. The film follows the story's three-part narrative construction, and it moves from the 1920s to 1908 to the 1870s and back, as the story does. The story embodies HPL's nihilistic world view, his cosmic perspective, and his sense that mankind is doomed by its own insignificance.
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A collection of contemporary animated videos by Bruce Bickford, Shana Moulton, Blu, Hooliganship, Jim Trainor, E Rock, Josh Mannis, Lief Hall, Adrian Freeman, Ola Vasiljeva, Eric Dyer, Taras Hrabowsky, Timo Katz, Peter Burr, and Christopher Doulgeris. From around the world, this compilation showcases a generation of artists' mind melting cartoons bound by a strong Do-It- Yourself sensibility.
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CARTUNE XPREZ's 3rd DVD compilation comes crawling out of a dark cavern into this new decade. It collects 15 new animations: 8 shorts and 7 loops.
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In his most recent film, Chris Marker reflects on art, culture and politics at the start of the new millennium by embarking on a cinematic journey through Paris to track down the mysterious appearances of grinning yellow cat paintings all over the city. Includes 7 bonus short films.
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Features several contemporary hobos who dissent against mainstream American consumer culture by traveling for free on freight trains. The film follows a seasoned eco-activist named Lee, a young nomad named Jessica, and a tramp couple known as Switch and Baby Girl as they navigate between the constraints of society and the freedom of the road.
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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 a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past.
This moving documentary earned awards at more than 20 international festivals
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This compelling examination of the working process of the acclaimed American painter Chuck Close solidifies his place in Contemporary Art as the re-inventor of the portrait.
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Ciné-Romand is a mise-en-abyme of previous films of Francoise Romand. Spectators are invited to discover them at a happening that mixes fiction and reality as domestic theater.
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To celebrate 10 years of covering unusual films and filmmakers, Cinemad magazine presents a compilation of short films that defy simple categorization. An accompanying 60 page booklet includes interviews with each filmmaker.
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Takahiko Iimura is considered one of the most influential and important experimental filmmakers of our time. In an era of the explosion of Underground Film in the States, Iimura, almost alone in Tokyo, began making experimental film just reading the news from abroad without actually seeing them.
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The 46-year career of Allan Stone, the famed New York City gallery owner and art collector, is explored in this DVD. Producer and director Olympia Stone reveals her father's compulsive collecting genius while telling the parallel story of his lifelong journey through the art world from the 1950s to 2006.
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A collection of eight ambient 16mm films that have been painstakingly hand painted frame-by-frame and digitally manipulated on a desktop computer. Working with acrylic & metallic paints as well as with a pallet of permanent ink pens and spray paint canisters this film project took 7 years to complete.
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A look back at the last fifty years in African American art, Colored Frames is an unflinching exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present, it is a naked and truthful look at often ignored artists and their progeny.
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Each year, His Holiness the Dalai Lama travels the world offering teachings and public talks to individuals from many different faiths and backgrounds. In 2010, His Holiness traveled to New York City to teach A Commentary on Bodhicitta by Nagarjuna and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Shantideva.
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In this award-winning film which was the first to use “virtual sets,” Academy-Award ® winner Tilda Swinton embodies Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, and the mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers were invented.
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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 competitive, often brilliant artists. Narrated by Jeff Bridges
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Multiple Award winning film delves into the psyche of the most important Surrealist artist who ever lived, Salvador Dali. Through a series of rare film clips and interviews with the artist, the DVD explores the many inspirations that resulted in Dali's unforgettable masterpieces.
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Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make this highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing “manifestations” with a plaster cast, a thousand ants, and one million dollars in cash.
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Selected from festivals in Europe and North America, and winners of over 17 international awards, these six dance films present an array of humor, drama, beauty and rhythm not usually seen on film or stage.
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From a Butoh-inspired portrait of a demented aristocrat (The Duchess), to a sensual bedroom metamorphosis (Horses Never Lie) to an intimate moment interrupted by a burst water pipe (Burst), this latest collection of award-winning dance films from around the world will "bewitch, bedazzle and bewilder!" says Deirdre Towers, Dance on Camera Festival Director.
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Filmed over three years, this documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It captures David Hockney's return from California to paint his native Yorkshire, outside, through the seasons and in all weathers. It tells the story of a homecoming and gives a revealing portrait of what inspires and motivates today's greatest living British-born artist.
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David Tudor's first full concert work as a composer. Tudor played the Bandoneon as the input into a complex sound and visual modification system that moved sound from speaker to speaker and controlled lights and video images, creating a work that animated the entire Armory space. This DVD documents the performance with filmed footage and interviews and is accompanied by an audio recording of the full performance.
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A feature-length musical by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley. It enunciates a career-long interest in American subcultures and folk events through the re-staging of 31 carnivalesque productions intermixed into a meandering semi-narrative.
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Made in 1973 as part of a series organized by Cornell Capa, this audiovisual presentation provides a rare instance of the photographer, speaking fluently in English, offering succinct yet widely ranging observations on the nature of the photographic medium.
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Features a conversation between Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley addressing the politics of resistance in DVD video format, with a brochure featuring their recent philosophical writings about politics, heroism, and poetics.
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Re-think the 20th century through six design concepts that shaped our history. The Bookworm, Concorde, Conica coffeemaker, Leica camera, Eames lounge chair, and Vespa scooter not only reflect the era that produced them but they also anticipated the future. DESIGN 2 explores the development and concept of each of these archetypal products while examining the larger social context.
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Destricted is the first short film collection of its kind, bringing together sex and art in a series created by some of the world�s most visual and provocative artists and directors. Explicit in content they reveal the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves sexually. Formed in 2004, Destricted is a platform for all forms of uncensored artistic expression; manipulating and embracing the expression of sex through art.
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From a small cabin in the mountains of New York, Nina Breeder and Massimilian Breeder begin a journey across the United States. A contemplation of nature and time along a raw journey in the American landscape.
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This second volume assembles eight films and videos by artists presented during the 6th Different Cinema Festival of Paris. This is a rare collection that mixes both video and film based works as an antidote to the worn out arguments over the merits of different formats. The films presented here straddle the territories of experimental film and video art.
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Highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to re-define music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. This Collectors Edition Box Set features the first three installments of the series plus a bonus fourth DVD of unreleased rarities, three 52-page companion books, and an exclusive double sided poster.
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Highlights the work of the filmmakers who have helped to re-define music videos and filmmaking over the last decade. This Collectors Edition Box Set features volumes four through seven - Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer, Mark Romanek, and Stephane Sednaoui - in the Directors Label series.
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The Bowery becomes a nexus of shattered dreams when a merchant has 72 hours to pay his rent. Facing extinction, his ramshackle tent of antiquities lures a troop of misfits, freaks and renegades who form a tableaux full of carnival pageantry, white lies and victimless crime in a fleeting glimpse of Downtown New York.
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Although best known as a pioneer of independent experimental cinema, Maya Deren was also a Voundoun initiate, and hence able to take her camera and recorder where few have gone before or since. The soundtrack conveys the stirring, invocatory power of the ritual drumming and singing.
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The work of Charles and Ray Eames remains an ideal of design at its most virtuous – an alchemical combination of beauty and purpose. The film shines a light on the genuine legacy of Eames design, which elevates the marriage of aesthetic refinement and functionality to a higher plane.
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Eco School House is a documentary film about a community working together to build a sustainable future for its children.
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Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) is one of the best known and most admired of American artists. This film traces Hopper's varied influences, from French impressionism to the gangster films of the 1930s. The documentary uses archival photos and film, specially shot footage of locations painted by Hopper in New York and the New England coast, and interviews with artists Eric Fischl and Red Grooms, scholars, and curators.
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This film will take you on an extraordinary journey into the word of the Surrealists as the life and accomplishments of the surrealist collector, poet, and architect Edward James unfolds. For the last 20 years of his life, aided by 40 full time laborers and craftsmen, he built one of the biggest and yet least known architectural monuments of the 20th century, dedicated to Surrealism and hidden in the jungles of Mexico.
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Throughout the Fifties, Caracas becomes the city where the imaginings of modern architecture seem to be possible. Armando Planchart, a prosperous businessman, and his wife Anala, decide to build their new house. For that purpose, they contact renowned Italian architect Gio Ponti. Initially, he rejects the job, but after a trip to Venezuela, Ponti falls in love with the country forever. The Villa Planchart would become his masterpiece.
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A documentary that examines the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them by combining scintillating performance footage and provocative interview clips.
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A film about how we see, what we see, or what it is we think we see. Al Roker guides us on a journey into the secrets of illusion, utilizing special effects to illustrate the artistic and visionary discoveries of the Renaissance. While Copernicus and Columbus were changing our understanding of the world, the Renaissance masters were dramatically changing the way we see that world. The film uses new technology to look at old masters in new ways.
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A collection of Asthmatic Kitty Records visuals; the odd, the sublime, and the delectable. It also includes stop-animation menus meticulously captured from the artistic imagination of Gala and Zack Bent, set to characteristic music arrangements by jingle-virtuoso Rafter Roberts.
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Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. "Exit Through the Gift Shop" tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results.
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The third hallucinogenic orgy of the uncanny, the dreadful, and the macabre.
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A New York City based event where VJs and live-mix video artists collaborate with musicians and other live performers. Artists interact with the audience, responding and adjusting in real time, creating an active dialogue with visual media. This is the third DVD compilation from the series.
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Fever Dreams and Heavenly Nightmares is the long awaited DVD compilation of independent filmmaker Chel White's visionary work. Spanning 20 years, this collection is an hours worth of award-winning short films, astonishing animation, and more.
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"Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.” -Bill Foster, Director, Northwest Film Center
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Includes films "Powers of Ten" and "901: After 45 Years of Working" by Charles and Ray Eames
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Includes Films: "Toccata for Toy Trains," "House: After Five Years of Living," "Lucia Chase Vignette," "Kaleidoscope Jazz Chair," "The Black Ships," "Atlas," and "Blacktop" by Charles and Ray Eames
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Includes Films: "The World of Franklin and Jefferson," "The Franklin and Jefferson Proposal Film," and "The Opening of an Exhibition" by Charles and Ray Eames
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Includes Films: "Design Q&A," "IBM Mathematics Peep Shows," "SX-70," "Copernicus," "Fiberglass Chairs," and "Goods" by Charles Eames
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Includes Films: "Tops," "IBM at the Fair," "A Computer Glossary" "Eames® Lounge Chair," "The Expanding Airport," "Kepler's Laws," "Bread," "Polyorchis Haplus," and "Tops (from Stars of Jazz)" by Charles and Ray Eames.
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Includes Films: "Day of the Dead," "S-73 (Sofa Compact)," "Alpha," "Exponents: A Study in Generalization," "Solar Do-Nothing Machine," "Babbage," "Aquarium (National Fisheries Center and Aquarium)," and "Parade" by Charles and Ray Eames
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Charles and Ray Eames are among the finest designers of the 20th century. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing. The legacy of this husband and wife team includes more than 75 films that reflect the breadth and depth of their interests.
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The second dvd from the groundbreaking design firm WeWorkForThem. It includes six new videos, featuring the title video track -- a 34 minute ambient architectural interpretation of the mean streets of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Even to this day the artist cannot ignore this loss of life when driving somewhere on a hot summer's day. An animated memorial to those many insects who lose there lives every summer on our roads.
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Merging computer animation and music in what many have called an "electronic operetta", the DVD tells the story of the first girl to be built in a factory instead of born from a womb.
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With few words and no polemics, the film 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 production unfold - the growing, picking, processing, distribution, brewing and selling - one comes to understand that most products we use have passed through the hands, and lives, of countless people in numerous countries.
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A documentary film by Academy Award nominated filmmaker William Gazecki, sharing the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, a modern day da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or "multi-disciplinarian" -- a student of many inter-related fields.
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Inspired by the lost Futurist film Vita Futurista (Futurist Life), Futurist Life Redux features a series of short works by acclaimed artists Trisha Baga, chameckilerner, Martha Colburn, Ben Coonley, George Kuchar, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shana Moulton, Shannon Plumb, Aïda Ruilova, Matthew Silver and Shoval Zohar (The Future), and Michael Smith.
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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) moved away from impressionism to create a new art driven less by observation than imagination. His gifts as an artist were matched by his talent for creating myths about places, cultures, and most of all, himself.
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The Gay Games are open to everyone, with no entrance requirements of age, level or occupation. These games, without the customary rules, anticipate the future of an athletic world committed firmly to values of comradeship and respect for differences. Men and women from all over, 10,000 participants, gather for the Gay "Olympic" Games in Köln, Germany. With humor and tenderness Françoise Romand films them as they reveal their desires and their doubts.
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Narrated by Ethan Hawke and produced by the National Gallery of Art in conjunction with the exhibition, George Bellows. George Bellows (1882 – 1925) depicted America on the move. In a twenty-year career cut short by his untimely death at age forty-two, Bellows painted the rapidly growing New York City, the rugged beauty of New York's rivers and the grandeur of coastal Maine.
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Gerhard Richter Painting is a thrilling document of legendary German artist Richter's creative process, juxtaposed with intimate conversations (with his critics, his collaborators, and his American gallerist Marian Goodman) and rare archive material.
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Set in a murky swamp overrun with birders, scientists, and reporters, Ghost Bird explores the limits of certainty, the seductive power of hope, and how one phantom woodpecker changed a sleepy Southern town forever.
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Ginevra de Benci, the first portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, is both haunting and hypnotic. This magnificent and mysterious painting conceals a multitude of secrets. Utilizing the potential of x-ray analysis, infrared reflectography and the power of computer technology, this program delves beneath the surface of the painting to unveil fascinating stories about both Ginevra and Leonardo.
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The story of a courageous woman who, along with her friends Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, was a key figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art. Critics, art historians, curators and others share their thoughts on the significance of this dynamic painter and personality and the now legendary art scene of that time.
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Great Artists with Tim Marlow is a major 14 part television series in which art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some the greatest artists in history. Great Artists with Tim Marlow is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists featured.
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This twelve part series explores the lives and works of some of art history's most influential artists including: Piero della Francesca, Holbein, Caravaggio, Constable and Whistler. Shot in ten countries and in over forty churches and galleries, Tim Marlow takes us on a unique tour of the life and times of the artists and examines what makes them great.
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An astonishing journey through innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture projects-including concrete illusions of grandeur and Lego-like modular apartments to an Instant City Airship and round, grass-covered subterranean dwellings-from the beginning of the 20th century to today.
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An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life - moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. 
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Filmed over 15 years and including interviews with a veritable who's who of the art and entertainment world (including Ingrid Sischy, John Waters, Robert Longo, Carol Kane, David Furnish, Danny DeVito, and Molly Ringwald), the film paints a vivid picture of the New York art scene that is also a witty, illuminating look at celebrity, male anxiety, and art.
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'Guns on the Clackamas' is a hilarious look at the making of a Hollywood western where all the actors died...and they still had to finish the film! Inspired by the tragic death of Jean Harlow while filming Saratoga, 'Guns on the Clackamas' features cameos by Gus Van Sant and Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini.
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An outrageous Gothic myth from the 1950's, “Hair High” is the legend of Cherri and Spud, a teenage couple who are murdered on prom night and left for dead at the bottom of Echo Lake. Exactly one year later, their skeletal remains come back to life and they return to the prom for revenge and their justly-deserved crowns.
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A bold and playful little tale about a handsome young college professor smitten with a beautiful young female student. It is a swift dissection of male infatuation that is as fierce as it is compassionate.
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Includes a selection of eight videos produced and created between 1999 and 2008 by Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi. Political, provocative, spiritual and poetic, these complex works bring to light the artist's ambiguities, doubts, fears and desires relating to our world's current events.
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On April 26th, 1986, reactor four at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explodes, sending an enormous radioactive cloud over northern Ukraine and neighboring Belarus. The danger is not immediately communicated and the local population go about their business as usual. May Day celebrations begin, children play, and the residents of Pripyat, the town built to house the workers at Chernobyl, marvel at the spectacular fire raging at the reactor.
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A feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
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Director Heinz Bütler's intimate portrait is a mature, evocative biography of the man considered to be the greatest photographer of the last century and the grandfather of photojournalism.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson may be considered the father of modern photojournalism, but he was not solely a photographer. The first disc in this set compiles five major works directed by filmmaker Henri Cartier-Bresson, while the second disc compiles a series of documentaries about him, which allows us to (re)discover his powerful and rare photographic work.
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Provides a unique chronicle of the world of contemporary art from two unlikely collectors, whose shared passion and discipline defies stereotypes and redefines what it means to be a patron of the arts.
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Cult Epics and AgitPop Media proudly present this critically acclaimed documentary about enigmatic Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975), whose daring conceptual performances culminated in his mysterious disappearance at sea.
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All the cartoons from the Shorts Menu (excluding Cheat Commandos) * All the Teen Girl Squad Cartoons including #10! * All the Marzipan's Answering Machines * Puppet stuff and music videos! * Creator commentaries, unreleased shorts, and behind-the-scenes Peasant's Quest action!
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Contains many cartoons from the site (besides Strong Bad Emails) including three new Teen Girl Squad episodes, 2 Marzipan's Answering Machine shorts, more holiday cartoons and a fully animated version of the book that started it all “The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest.”
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The Strong Bad Sings CD* features extended versions of your favorite Strong Bad hits such as “TROGDOR,” “The System is Down” and “The Cheat is Not Dead” plus many, many more. Also includes songs by Limozeen, Taranchula, Marzipan and other characters. Total of 20 tracks in all. PLUS, pop it into your computer for an exclusive video of the Coach Z song "These Peoples Try to Fade Me"
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From the creators of Homestar Runner comes the next installment in the series of Strong Bad Emails DVDs. “strongbad_email.exe” Disc 5 is packed full of over 2 hours of non-stop laughs as Strong Bad checks emails 131 through 160.
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One of the most recognizable works of American art, Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks at the Diner encapsulates the alienation and loneliness of the modern urban milieu. His haunting, enigmatic paintings are defined by a hard-edged realism and the presence of isolated figures alone in their thoughts. Director Brian O'Doherty offers a rare documentary portrait of this aloof artist that is astute and revealing.
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Three films selected during the 2008 festival: 'The Music of Regret' (Laurie Simmons), 'Les hommes sans gravité' (Eléonore Weber) and 'In the Wake of a Deadad' (Andrew Kötting).
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A new film project by Maureen McNamara. The story concept is one of an underground, insider's view of what makes Houston a cool city. Looking beyond the freeways, strip malls, stadiums, mega oil corporations, and NASA, this film will read between those lines to find the gems that make Houston one of the coolest cities in the US - to live in or to visit.
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Explores the fascinating, often hilarious, and always enigmatic world of artist and underground icon Ray Johnson. A "Pop Art mystery movie", the film is framed by Johnson's mysterious suicide on Friday, January 13th, 1995, the puzzling circumstances of which left both his intimate admirers and the general public wondering if this was a final "performance".
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A journey without documentary edits or intrusive narration, just majestic timelapse views, stunning soundscapes, and wildlife existing at the pace of nature.
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Assembles a selection of six films by Johanna Vaude : Wild Eye, Our Icarus, Samurai, Totality Remix, Love and Death, and Exploration. Each film contains its own language, its own theme, and submerges us in unique worlds where the hybridation of different types of media and techniques used presents us with unexpected poetic imagery.
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Franco Fontana will change the way you look at our world. The breathtaking composition, super-real colors and effortless beauty of his images have kept him at the forefront of photography for 30 years. In his first Ambient DVD Fontana's perspective captures the magnificent splendor of our cities and landscapes in a way we've never seen. Simply stunning.
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In this series, we are reacquainted with the artists - their motivations and loves, triumphs and disappointments and with their work. Marlow takes us on a journey through late nineteenth-century France and he invites us to immerse ourselves in the greatest impressionist works of art.
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William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas are two of the most celebrated names in international contemporary art. In In Conversation: Kentridge & Dumas, the two South African artists speak frankly about their work, their studio practice, their inspirations, and the challenges of success. The film shows the two engaged in intense discussion about drawing, painting and filmmaking, and includes footage of the artists in their studios and of their works.
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A comprehensive documentary about the life and works of the great composer. Over 65 performances by the world's finest musicians were recorded and 100 interviews conducted in the making of this beautifully crafted film. It delves beneath the mythical image of the tortured, cantankerous genius to search for the real Ludwig van Beethoven.
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IN SEARCH OF MOZART and IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN have become global cinematic sensations directed by celebrated documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky.
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In Search of Haydn is a visual extravaganza as well as being a revealing look at this amazing man's life. This new film explores a fresh picture of the life and work of Joseph Haydn. Working its way through the life story, chronologically, the film is resplendent in interviews and live performances. Leading performers play and then explain just what makes this music so unique.
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Made to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, this is the first feature-length documentary on Mozart's life. Produced with the world's leading orchestras and musicians, told through a 25,000 mile journey along every route Mozart followed, this detective story takes us to the heart of genius.
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Maya Deren made such mesmerizing films as "At Land, Ritual in the Transfigured Time" and "Meshes of the Afternoon," which won a prestigious international experimental filmmaking prize at the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. Starting with excerpts from these films, this film seamlessly interweaves archival footage and observances from acolytes and contemporaries such as Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas with an original score by experimental jazz legend John Zorn.
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Behind a storefront in Los Angeles is one of the most unusual cultural institutions in America - The Museum of Jurassic Technology. It's a modern-day “cabinet of curiosities,” filled with juxtapositions of the genuine, the strange, and the truly unexplainable. An intimate journey through the “MJT”, and featuring its founder and director David Wilson, who can often be found in front of the museum, playing his accordion to attract visitors.
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On May 17, 1968, three priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. The documentary is an intimate look at this unlikely band - dubbed the Catonsville Nine - who broke the law in a poetic act of civil disobedience.
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One of the greatest landscape painters of all time, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) rendered the subtle effects of light and atmosphere in revolutionary ways. This documentary chronicles the rise of Turner, a barber's son who entered the Royal Academy art school at age fourteen to become, over the course of six decades, Britain's most renowned painter.
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In her feature-length film debut, director Mary Jordan combines Smith's rare and unseen films and photographs with rare audio recordings, acting appearances, and other relics squeezed from Smith's vaulted archives. Commentaries from art luminaries, critics and Smith's friends and enemies intercut Smith himself proffering condemnations of capitalism, critics and institutional-art “gatekeepers.”
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Based on a mythical sentence by Mike Tyson . Grout/Mazéas , through a sensitive "mise en matière" of the screen and of the digital matter, lead a reflection about violence, its interpretation by the media.
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This film is about Jean Nouvel, 2008 Pritzker Prize winner, is one of the most innovative and unconventional architects of our time.This film casts a fresh, explicit glance at the scope of this architect and his work as Nouvel explains what architecture means to him with footage from ten of his most recent creations.
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Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend, the international art star and iconoclast, in this definitive documentary. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat's own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.
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Retrospective on the life and art of Jeff Koons with commentary from the contemporary art world such as Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel, etc.
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Narrated by Ed Harris and produced by the National Gallery of Art in conjunction with the exhibition. Joan Miro was torn between a passionate loyalty to his native Catalonia and a desire to escape into a world of pure creativity. The film considers the impact of the horrors of the twentieth century – the Spanish Civil War, the fascism of the Franco regime and World War II – on Miro's career.
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This elegantly edited documentary weaves interviews with the acerbic Mitchell and other leading painters and critics while letting her stunning pictures dominate the film.
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Twenty years after John Cage's first and only performance of how to get started, we are pleased to publish it in conjunction with an interactive installation at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. Drawing upon Cage's realization of How to Get Started as a script in effect, Slought Foundation and the John Cage Trust invite you to participate in its further life.
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This video takes a circular approach to an artist who works in overlapping spirals of creative energy. Kiki Smith goes from drawing to collaging to modeling clay to painting plaster casts and back, again and again.
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For the first time Karl Lagerfeld, the innovative designer who has ruled the House of Chanel for more than two decades, agreed to trust a director to create an artwork based on his life. After three years of crisscrossing the globe filming the outspoken icon, Rodolphe Marconi unveils the inner workings of the influential and enigmatic star.
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An interactive disc that brings the Mexican fantasy garden of Edward James to virtual life. Inspired by the vision of Edward James, and encouraged by curator and art historian Walter Hopps, Robert Ziebell, in collaboration with Anthony Thompson Shumate, have spent the last three years photographing, designing and programming this virtual tour.
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Based on the life and work of the great Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), this DVD is a tribute from one filmmaker to another through an archeological expedition into film history, exploring the relations between art and politics in the former Soviet Union. Medvedkin's silent classic, "Happiness," a surprisingly irreverent comedy about early Soviet efforts at collectivization, appears on a second disc in a restored, uncut version.
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This DVD was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933, jointly organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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“Lethal Landscapes: Canvases of the Combat Artist” is a documentary that explores the little-known world of the combat artist. These soldier specialists are trained to paint, sketch and draw the terrors of battle, as well as the mundane moments in between.
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Lightrhythm singles 01-05 shares the talent of its selected designers and light based artists that are succeeding in the contemporary visuals scene. This DVD unfolds a powerful display of creative techniques in the video medium including remixes between the artists with its multi-angle feature.
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The second album from independent label Lightrhythm, brings you its strongest selections from its most prolific performers. This DVD capitalizes on the multi-angle feature and presents an outstanding display of light and movement, including work by Emmy award-winning visual effects artists and 3D graphics by innovators in the visuals scene.
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aple - arrange.process.loop.edit - a micro-synched audio-visual project made with ableton live controlling vj software triggering typographical animations and embedded sound. Combining an even, fresh soundtrack with museum-caliber images, aple is a must-see for the audiophile, VJ and art collector.
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Signature sounds composed from Fred Moth's "wooden circuits" blend seamlessly acoustic and digital rhythms whilst visually, Sheppee explores some epic imagery with a strong motion graphic aesthetic. A rich tapestry of delicately inter-twined digital expressions stemming from a ten year partnership and greatly diverse practices.
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Shantell Martin's new DVD features a diverse collection of short videos that demonstrate the artist's playful inventiveness with both the concept and tools of drawing, which in Martin's case include more traditional media such as the humble marker alongside a Wacom electronic drawing tablet and packing tape. Canvases utilized range from projector screens to mock computer tennis to the human body to the outdoor landscape in its entirety.
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The first in the series of audiovisual projects conceived by Lightrhythm Visuals, bringing together diverse techniques and approaches of visual artists from around the world. Works range from classical timbre to digital pursuits, each track complete with a multi angle remix allowing the viewer to switch between the original artists idea and the guest artists interpretation.
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From the graphic linework of Masato Tsutsui who creates audio responsive designs through programming to the very personal touch of Shantell Martin who creates sketch works using a digital drawing tablet - this album highlights some of the newest techniques in audiovisual culture.
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A key element of this compilation is its collaborative concept: with each track being visually remixed by top visual producers from around the world. It's truly a cultural melting pot with artists from four continents taking their place on the disc and involving in the original Japanese works.
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Patrick Smith's animations have been a favorite at film festivals world-wide for the last decade. Smith's bizarre, morphing style and symbolic stories of identity and emotion, have influenced a new generation of traditional hand-drawn animators. His acclaimed Independent films have been featured on MTV, Atom Films, Tivo, several Spike and Mikes collections, and hundreds of international film festivals.
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Filmmaker Heinz Emigholz chronicles Looss work in this quirky documentary that features intricately composed still shots of 27 of the architects buildings in the order of their construction.
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Serves as a fundamental call to action which is fueled by hope that those affected by 9/11 will soon receive the answers that they have sought after for nearly a decade.
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A forensic examination of eye witness testimony, on the spot reporting and scientific evidence which disputes what we now accept as truth. It makes no claim to have all the facts, however it highlights inconsistencies in the story, which until now have been left unexamined by the mainstream media.
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Eileen Maxson drowns in white walls and cable television, emerging on occasion to press record. Heavy-hearted and humorous, Maxson's videos record characters struggling with an unrequited love of television.
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A fascinating cinematic journey inside the world of the modern art legend and feminist icon. Onscreen, the nonagenarian Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw - an uncompromising artist whose life and work are imbued with her ongoing obsession with the mysteries of childhood. Her process is on full display in this intimate documentary, which features the artist in her studio and with her installations, shedding light on her intentions and inspirations.
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Equal parts humanist and formalist, poet and historian, telling tales that are both timeless and political, Lynne Sachs creates film worlds in which the textures of daily domestic life are seamlessly connected to the realms of war, political activism, and our response to terrorist attacks.
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This DVD collection presents two of Lynne Sachs' earlier films with several more recent media works -- all of which explore themes of women, culture, science & myth. The creative as well as intellectual inner workings of these projects are revealed for the first time in the context of an elaborately conceived, yet accessible disc.
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Making War Horse is the story of how Michael Morpurgo's children's novel became one of the most popular and acclaimed productions in the National Theatre's history.
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Retraces the steps involved in the making of La Gégène, a mixed media art work by Malachi Farrell and his team for the MAC/VAL museum in Vitry-sur-Seine, France in 2007. Using movement, objects, images and sounds, La Gégène evokes the Algerian War and its related acts of violent torture as well as today's media deluge.
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A striking documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes” - quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams.
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Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits––and at times risking her life in the process––she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time.
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In this revealing documentary, patron, collector, and curator Dominique de Menil hangs the 1973 exhibition “Inside the Sight,” in conversation with Max Ernst, the 20th-century Surrealist artist.
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The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.
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In 1954, Robert Rauschenberg became the Resident Designer to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a position he held for ten years. During that time these friends and collaborators, along with the musician John Cage, created some of the most iconoclastic artworks of the 20th century. This three-DVD set showcases these great artists' work, along with the work of another, filmmaker Charles Atlas. The DVDs are accompanied by an illustrated essay by Bonnie Brooks.
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On December 29, 30 and 31, 2011, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company returned to New York City- its home since it was founded in 1953- to present six valedictory performances at the Park Avenue Armory before disbanding. Performed across three stages spanning the Armory's soaring drill hall, the Park Avenue Armory Event marked the conclusion of the Company's Legacy Tour and the culmination of nearly 60 years of cross-disciplinary innovation.
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Challenging the linear narrative by weaving multiple story lines and exploring a directorial style way ahead of his time, Director Michelangelo Antonioni's unique triptych film, features three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. Arguably Michelangelo Antonioni's rarest film and a masterpiece of Italian Cinema.
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A testament to the pain and frustration, as well as the joy and triumph, entailed in artistic creation and in ordinary life. Narrated in Michelangelo's own words, this powerful documentary offers an intimate glimpse into the artist's inner world whose life and work became an authentic spiritual journey.
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Artfully directed by first time filmmaker Wendy Keys, the film glances into everyday moments of Glaser's personal life and capture his immense warmth, humanity and the boundless depth of his intelligence and creativity.
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The artistic entertainment we now call "demos" has come a long way from its infamous past. This first volume of MindCandy explores the world of creative real-time animated music videos made by talented programmers, artists and musicians from the PC demo scene.
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The third edition of MindCandy brings forty uniquely poetic real-time animated music videos to the big screen in high definition with a Blu-ray/DVD combo of spectacular audio-visual effects. The 210 minute feature brings a whole new level of entertainment through a journey of colorful visual expressions, electronic music, and animated worlds both lifelike and unreal, all at a smooth 60 frames per second.
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Monique Bourgeois was a 21-year-old nursing student and amateur artist living in Nice when, in 1941, she answered an ad placed by Henri Matisse seeking “a young and pretty night nurse.” Available for the first time, this feature paints a lavish portrait of this little known and tender relationship between Matisse and the woman who inspired him to create what he proclaimed the masterpiece of his life's work: The Chapel of the Rosary in the French Mediterranean village of Vence.
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On October 19, 2007 the news circled the globe that photographer/inventor Pascal Cotte succeeded in photographing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" at a resolution of 240 million pixels, 8 times higher than any professional camera to date. His breakthrough images brought to light never before seen elements that have forever altered our knowledge of the world's most famous painting.
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A feature length documentary exploring the wildly fantastic worlds of legendary animator Bruce Bickford. Tracing the origins of Bickford's iconoclastic worldview, the film journeys back to his childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War.
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A documentary about the inventor of the musical synthesizer. Called "One of the most influential innovators in the history of Rock & Roll", Robert Moog is a legendary figure in music and technology and has made prodigious contributions to modern music and culture.
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Hitmen, Clowns, Leprechauns, Living Suits, Killer Doughnuts and Angry Street Cleaners - you get it all in Chris Mancini's complete compilation of award winning short films. Enjoy his unique vision blending science fiction and comedy.
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N.A.S.A.: The Spirit of Apollo is an intimate, behind the scenes look at the making of N.A.S.A.'s (North America South America) landmark debut LP, The Spirit of Apollo. Created by two close friends and musical aficionados from opposite hemispheres, Sam Spiegel and DJ Zegon, the album features jaw dropping collaborations between many of the pair's heroes, legends, and modern musical luminaries. The corresponding film documents the fruition of the project's central theme and focus: ignoring bound
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Multimedia artist Nam June Paik broke the rules of art and television by bridging the gap between the two. Lessons from the Video Master offers three films that help illuminate Paik's art and life.
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Twenty-seven years of the group's "greatest hits" have become all-new moving pictures in this amazing, years-in-the-making package. Created with 18 other filmmakers from all over the USA (and one acapella group from Detroit), Our Favorite Things is a collaborative project that takes Negativland's sound explorations into the world of film and video.
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It was once the grandest, most ostentatious building on earth. Built by the most infamous emperor in history to satiate his many and various lusts, the structure played host to violence, sexual perversion and great beauty. Even the Romans found it too much and built the Colosseum on top of it.
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A documentary exploration of graffiti-based visual art as a world culture. The filmmaker profiles the art form in nine countries including USA, Canada, France, Holland, Germany, England, Spain, Japan and Brazil. A combination of "vérité" moments and interviews with painters, "writers", designers, documentarians and other participants within the subculture, the film conveys the dynamism and creative energy of this significant emerging artistic movement.
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A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz score, and the most beautiful French Babes the world has ever seen. It pricks the conscience, probes the libido and excites the senses!
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At the insistence of his wife, the renowned Dutch artist Rembrandt agrees to paint a group portrait of the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia. But before he can finish his newest masterpiece, he discovers a murder plot involving his subjects.
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Directed by Francois de Menil, written by art historian Barbara Rose, and with original musical score by Philip Glass, this newly redigitized film first released in 1977, is an illuminating portrait of Mark di Suvero. One of the most important sculptors of the Twentieth Century, the artist is renowned for his formal orchestration of steel and found industrial material.
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A chronicle of the fantasies and dreams of women in avant-garde contemporary cinema. The faces and bodies of new women haunt the paths and alleyways of avant-garde cinema, just as, yesterday, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Asta Nielsen, Louise Brooks and Georgette Leblanc passed along the glorious avenues of creative film.
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Architecture is a discipline plagued by its own insecurities, a curious mixture of optimism and pessimism, momentary successes and, more commonly, deep frustrations. In this new 18-page publication, Michael Meredith, Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, tackles the problems facing the discipline head-on, interrogating its internal dynamics and searching for a mode of practice that can survive amid the confusing, conflicting demands of contemporary culture.
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When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was shot dead on December 2, 1999, it was a tragedy that resonated throughout the world. But as time wears on, that tragedy has developed into a mystery for many observers, who see police misconduct and a cover-up where others see an open-and-shut case.
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If there is one genre of art that seems to have played a greater role than any other, it is the nude. For at least 30,000 years, humans have represented the naked form in a variety of ways. From the ideal to the real, the Romantic to the Surrealist, there has been almost no end of works devoted to the unclothed human body. This series presented by writer and broadcaster Tim Marlow will examine those artworks, the societies that produced them and the artists that made them.
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A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. In his second film, director Gary Hustwit ('Helvetica') documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential product designers, and looks at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets.
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OBSCENE is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Grove Press in 1951 and soon embarked on a tumultuous career of publishing and political engagement that continues to inspire today's defenders of free expression.
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After a twenty-year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, filmmaker Su Friedrich turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a happier, healthier life.
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This publication responds to the widening gap between wealth and poverty, the politics of fear and paranoia, and the conservative social agenda that has fundamentally impacted urban planning policy and legislation in the United States. In 2011, Slought convened three leading thinkers concerned with these issues Sergio Fajardo, Oscar Romo, and Teddy Cruz along the San Ysidro/Tijuana border. What methodologies and insights can we learn from these urban experimenters in participatory politics?
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Features twenty creative works from directors at the forefront of the new wave of moving image. Leading graphic talents include Precursor, Richard Fenwick,Intro, Pleix and Psyop with rising stars Ruben Fleischer, Simon Robson and Dan Chambers to create a vibrant and essential mix of creative visions and styles.
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Number 4 in the select series - features inspired works from directors at the forefront of the new wave of moving image. Leading talents include, Joji Koyama [aka Woof Wan Bau] Airside, Intro, Pleix, Daniel Askill, and Nakd, with rising stars Hendrick Dusollier, 12foot6, and Dominic Hailstone.
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Number five in the select series - a unique collection featuring 20 gems from the onedotzero_10 festival. Bursting with visual invention and musical genius, it is a vibrant mix of the best new moving image work in music video, animation, motion graphics and award-winning short film.
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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 at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, in October 1966. The films were produced by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin for E.A.T. and directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam. Titles and titles sound were created by Robert Rauschenberg.
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The artists – Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer and Swoon – are at different stages of life and have widely varying cultural backgrounds; each has a distinctive passion, character, motivation and artistic style. But they all have one thing in common: the city to which they have journeyed and now call home.
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Spectacular NASA footage takes you on a go-slow serenity Ambient trip through the majestic beauty of outer space.
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A worldwide acclaimed documentary that covers everything from Picasso's 'blue period', to the Spanish Civil War that inspired his masterpiece, Guernica.
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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 famous. Cast includes Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli, Helen Frankenthaler, Henry Geldzahler, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, and Robert Motherwell
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A film celebrating the spirit and philosophy of Paul Mellon. The narration is composed of his own words and drawn from interviews, speeches, and a variety of writings.
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For many politicians and policy experts, "peace: is a poorly defined word that has many meanings in different contexts. With this in mind, the Perpetual Peace Project brings various disciplines and communities together to explore 21st century international priorities and prospects for reducing geopolitical conflict.
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The most compelling and comprehensive movie ever produced about the life and work of Peter Beard, covering all aspects of his life, professional career, and personal adventures beginning in the 1960s through the 1990s.
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A video archive published in conjunction with the Slought Foundation exhibition (2009), in collaboration with the artist. Video works by Peter Weibel and Valie Export. With an accompanying booklet featuring contributions by Boris Groys, Günther Holler-Schuster, Aaron Levy, Osvaldo Romberg, and Christa Steinle.
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A thirteen-film retrospective of shorts by famed twin animators the Quay Brothers. Two of the world's most original filmmakers, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have been making their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation for nearly 30 years and have spawned an enormous cult following.
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This DVD collects a number of Niblock's documentary films analysing the dynamics of motion involved in manual labour. The images on the disc are all accompanied by Niblock's own minimalist approach to soundtracking.
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The breathtakingly beautiful, second feature film from the Quay Brothers. On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously "killed" and abducted by the malevolent Dr. Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa to service his strange musical automatons. Little by little Felisberto learns of the doctor's plans to stage a "diabolical opera" - and of Malvina's fate.
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Produced by Martin Scorsese and Robert Greenhut and directed by Arne Glimcher, PICASSO AND BRAQUE GO TO THE MOVIES is a cinematic tour through the effects of the technological revolution, specifically the invention of aviation, the creation of cinema and their interdependent influence on artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
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A comprehensive and fascinating look at the life and art of the legendary Pablo Picasso. Part 1(1881-1937) Starting in 1896, when he was only 15, we trace Picasso's artistic development, exporing his work as a youth, from the Blue period to the Pink period and his first steps into Cubism in 1906.
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A comprehensive and fascinating look at the life and art of the legendary Pablo Picasso. Part 2(1938-1973) Through the war years and life on the French Riviera, Picasso's work moves on to include ceramics, sculpture, pottery and graphics. The period from 1946 to 1973 is made up primarily of home movies, showing his relationships with his children and the women in his life, and emphasizing the enormous amount of work accomplished by Picasso during his last 20 years.
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Picture of Light takes the approach of a poetical essay documenting the search for a natural wonder; the mysterious Aurora Borealis. Like Peter Mettler's earlier films, deals with the tension between nature and technology, science and mythology. It reflects the desire to track down a wonder and to capture it on film, questioning ways in which experience molded by the media increasingly threaten to replace our individual and authentic experiences.
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With contemporary partisan politics at the forefront of American society, Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Anger, within the history of Italian cinema, offers a unique opportunity to witness two radically different viewpoints in the context of post world war II global society.
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Two films which follow artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, dressed in rented rat and bear costumes, through their adventures from an LA freeway to a lake in the Swiss Alps. Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been acclaimed around the world with exhibitions and retrospectives at the Tate Modern, MoMA, and Le Centre Georges Pompidou, to name a few.
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Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series “I, Claudius” - this documentary explores art and culture around the Bay of Naples before Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 ad.
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From the quiet and thoughtful to the loud and ridiculous, this arresting collection of short work by Hal Hartley reveals the tireless experimentation, curiosity, and playfulness that lies behind his many feature films.
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A compilation of short films Hal Hartley created while living in Berlin from 2004 till 2009.
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On this DVD compilation Mettler brings us into the world of the mystical and the unconscious through his exploration of this extraordinary culture.
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One of the most comprehensive and original movies about the Chinese Contemporary Art scene. Shot on location in '798' - Beijing's unique Art District where it all took shape. This film explores Chinese society and culture along with different forms of artistic expression, ranging from oil painting to cutting-edge performance art, through the eyes of the artists themselves.
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An innovative motion picture, presented as the rescued captain's log of Bing's starship. The viewer chooses different sections of the logs to view, and they play back differently every time. Director Simon Tarr also plays Stuart Bing, all of his clones, and the Evil Robot Leader.
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This is the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe's art treasures during the Third Reich and World War II. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But heroic young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back with an extraordinary campaign to rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and stolen treasures.
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A selection of seven films from a contemporary cinema, removed from Bollywood, that testifies to the richness of creativity in India. Oscillating between documentary, video art, experimental film, and animation, this compilation explores the means with which the texture of memory is incorporated within post-colonial Indian society's individual journeys as well as the national psyche; within private circles as well as public spaces.
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Newly restored and available for the first time on DVD, Albert Lamorisse's Exquisite film remains one of the most beloved children's films of all time. With its glorious palette and allegorical purity, this Academy Award-winning film has enchanted movie lovers, young and old, for generations.
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In 1967, at the end of a career spanning more than six decades, which included the design of the Seagram Building in New York, the Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings in Chicago, and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, architect Mies van der Rohe (1886- 1969) designed a simple gas station near Montreal. The story of that gas station serves as the point of departure for REGULAR OR SUPER, which examines Mies' entire body of work (more than 70 buildings).
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“Joanna Priestley's amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.” -Bill Foster, Director, Northwest Film Center
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The artists on this compilation investigate modern mythology, examine environments, play with similes between machine and body, and explode form. Through the use of custom software, unique processing methods, and envelope- pushing applications of traditional production tools, these works push technical limits and the very boundaries of style and imagination.
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Rem Koolhaas is celebrated not only as the architect of outstanding creations including the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, the Seattle Library, the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas, but also as a writer, filmmaker and social commentator.
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A collection of experimental film and video art from the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring nine artists from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, these intimate, poetic, and documentary works are witness to the region's complexity, vitality, and diversity of creative energies.
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RESISTANCE[S] III, is the third volume of this collection of experimental film and video art from the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring nine artists from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, these intimate, poetic and documentary works are witness to the region's complexity, vitality and diversity of creative energies.
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Around 1920, a young artist moves to a solitary spot by the Caribbean sea, in the Venezuelan shores. He seems to be heading against the stream. While his contemporaries pursue an ideal of progress, he produces a unique work that ends up placing him among the most significant figures of modern Latin American art. Our documentary centres on the life of Armando Reveron, exploring the deep meaning of his decisions. A life and an oeuvre equally passionate and puzzling.
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Eric Koziol's innovative art encompasses both experimental single screen works and multi-screen interactive live video performance environments for theater and dance. Ripple in the Eye is an evocative compendium of Texture, Shape and Color sourced from both the natural and unnatural worlds.
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In the timeless tradition of "Winged Migration" and "Koyaanisqatsi," this theatrical phenomenon depicts the magical relationship between art and nature while painting a visually intoxicating portrait of famed artist Andy Goldsworthy. Gorgeously shot and masterfully edited, the film follows the bohemian free spirit Goldsworthy all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his unique creative process.
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This special collectors edition contains the original theatrical film Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides, 7 short films, a Photo Gallery, Snowballs In Summer: A fascinating new film about Andy Goldsworthy's largest and most ambitious work to-date, an exclusive new interview with Director Thomas Riedelsheimer along with a fully illustrated guide featuring stills of Andy Goldsworthy creating his artwork and on-site documentation of the making of this extraordinary film.
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Between 1990 and 2001, Robert Darroll explored inter-cultural mythology through the use of digital technology in works that combined computer graphics, cel animation, and live action video into five multi-layered visual and auditory collages. These works are now being released on DVD for the first time.
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Robert Whitman created some of the earliest and most important performance works of the 1960s. In his performances, the poetic and often surprising interaction of film, lights, sound, live performers, props, and objects that take on a life of their own. This DVD captures for the viewer important and seminal examples of this ephemeral art form.
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Rocaterrania is a feature length documentary journey into the secret world of 76 year old Renaldo Kuhler, a visionary artist who invented an imaginary country to survive his disaffected youth and illustrated the nation's history for six decades.
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An electrifying documentary on the world of the graffiti artist. The first of its kind, the film presents a raw and gritty snapshot of artists who literally have their backs against the wall.
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Filmed on both sides of the Atlantic, this documentary chronicling Rothko's life and charting the development of his work fills the screen with his softly defined, rectangular clouds of colour stacked symmetrically on top of one another: a visual language conceived to evoke elemental emotions with maximum poignancy.
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3 Disc Set with booklet. A collection of short movies from the long career (1936-1999) of Rudy Burckhardt.
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Canadian artist San Base is a pioneer of a new medium of Art that utilizes the classical elements of painting and music, while harnessing the power of computer technology to bring two drastically different disciplines together.
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As child actors, Mel and Fred were beaten and whipped by an imperious screenwriter, Fritz Frobisher. Now the elderly Fritz is to appear at a tee-shirt signing ceremony in Monument Valley, AZ, where his great films were made. Still living in LA and seeking work as actors, Mel and Fred decide to go to Monument Valley and give Fritz a drubbing. Since neither of them has a working car, they invite Mel's estranged daughter, Delilah, to give them a ride.
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The selected works in this collection focus on broad issues of identity and culture, particularly the technological projections that impact individuals and society.
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Set in 1960's swinging London and starring Jane Arden, the film portrays the inner turmoil of a woman's breakdown both marital and mental. Her past and possible future are revealed through a brilliant, fragmented, and often humorous narrative.
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The impresario Serge Diaghilev was the creator and driving force of the Ballets Russes. He persuaded, cajoled, and charmed the greatest talents of the early twentieth century to join his company. Artists (Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse), composers (Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie), choreographers (Michel Fokine and George Balanchine), and dancers (Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova) all collaborated to realize Diaghilev's dream of a seamless fusion of the arts. The spectacular productions of th
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The seven works on this collection represent Dennis Miller output over a nine-year period, from 1999 to 2008.
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Marina Abramovic reenacts five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score.
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On April 2nd 2011, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM played its final show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. LCD frontman James Murphy, disbanding one of the most celebrated and influential groups of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensured that the band would go out on top with the biggest concert of its career.
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Allows you the opportunity to absorb the magic and space of one of Simon King's favourite places in the world. Time-lapse views of Kenya's most magnificent landscapes. Set to continuously loop accompanied by natural sounds from the African bush, specially composed ambient music written by Ray Shulman or a mix of both. Plus a unique gallery of images of African Wildlife.
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In the spring of 1961 Simone Forti presented a program titled Five Dance Constructions and Some Other Things in a concert series organized by her friend, composer La Monte Young, at the New York loft studio of Yoko Ono. In 2004 the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles invited Forti to re-create these dance constructions at the Geffen Contemporary space, in conjunction with the exhibition A Minimalist Future Art as Object 1958 – 1986.
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This beautifully produced presentation of the two films with the original French release art work is now available on Double DVD
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Hidden away in small town America, in an anemic parish on the brink of bankruptcy, Father Anthony Romano finds himself at a mid-career crisis in the wake of both his personal conflicts and the real world scandals that have left the Catholic Church an anathema to so many.
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The film is a first-person documentary on the October 1967 March on the Pentagon for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam, with Marker filming in the midst of the often violent protest. It is a remarkable time capsule and a reminder of an historic turning point in the opposition to a long and unpopular war.
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A collection of short films culled from seven years of Aurora Picture Show's annual Slant: Bold Asian American Images festival. The Slant festival annually showcases the best in emerging Asian American cinema.
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Sleep Furiously is set in a small farming community in mid Wales. Director Gideon Koppel leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.
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Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music.
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An intimate account of people who are completely lost in music. Director Amy Grill follows a series of characters (including her techno-obsessed husband) over a number of years as some struggle to make it while others thrive in the world of electronic music. A heartbreaking and lighthearted documentary, it's a verite glimpse into the world of techno that takes you around the world, following the people who make electronic music ... their lives.
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Captures the iconic modernist choreographer's most radical use of chance procedures. This two-disc DVD set, by giving viewers the opportunity to alternate soundtracks, presents 4 of the 32 possible variations of the work. Filmmaker Charles Atlas masterfully captures the dance with Merce close at his side.
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29 animation, VFX and motion design projects plus the complete slate of winners and finalists from the 2005 GLOBAL STUDENT ANIMATION AWARDS; sixteen stellar films from the world's most outstanding emergent talent.
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Stash 31 provides 2+ hours of outstanding animation, vfx, motion design, behind the scenes extras and music downloads.
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This limited edition SIXPACK includes the complete disks from issues 13-18 of Stash DVD magazine.
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This limited edition SIXPACK includes the complete disks from issues 15-30 of Stash DVD magazine.
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Four hapless bank robbers bury their loot and attempt to hide out in a deserted desert town. But the town is not deserted. Feasting, song, sexual tension, and inevitable deaths ensue.
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This limited edition of the classic film Style Wars features 30 minutes of "never-before-released" outtakes, new interviews, and "where are they now" footage. Also fetaured in this edition are new commentary tracks, "Destroy All Lines" and the Aesop Rock music video "No Jumper Cables".
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Surrealism emerged as a new artistic style between World War I & II and now, for the first time, you will be able to see it as never seen before. Inspired by the great era of Surrealism, we have made four different works that will enable you to transform your flat LCD- or Plasma-screen into an aesthetic canvas with Surrealist motifs in motion. Marvel at how some churches lift into the sky and at a castle that hovers in the air.
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Urban wanderings inspire these six experimental films ' from a collage of movie trailers found outside a Brooklyn theater, to an evocation of an Uruguayan poet's life as a bookkeeper, to a compendium of vox populi interviews gleaned from city streets. Created over 10 years, this collection reveals the urban experience with verve and insight.
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Academy-Award ® winner Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning Sci-Fi about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, (S.R.A.'s) which she cloned from her own DNA.
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If animation is an expression of one's Soul, then Signe's soul according to the DVD she just released with her 10 animated films (1991- 2005) ranges from an entertaining whore ("Five Fucking Fables") to a monk searching for Meaning of Life ("The Gold of the Tigers").
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Follow Dr. Albert Barnes on his remarkable rise from a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood to the top of the modern art world. This unique tale bounces back and forth through time as the late Dr. Barnes travels the world, collecting works of art by some of history's most famous artists – Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse, Renoir and many others.
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The film tracks the irrepressible and lovable Mir from a naïve 8-year-old to a fully grown adult. Over this decade, it not only is a journey that follows Mir as he journeys into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth but it a film that is unmatched in mirroring and revealing the vitally important story of modern Afghanistan.
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The film is about 8 year old Mir's life in post-Taliban Afghanistan, though much has changed and is changing, there is no guarantee that Mir will survive life in a cave. Yet his engaging story is not one of gloom and doom but that of a normal child who finds entertainment wherever he can. Through his eyes we see the destruction of the town, the ever-present militarization and the welcomed but watched presence of the Americans. Mir has no clue what it is all about but he knows how to have fun.
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A forty year-old Parisian, Francoise Romand loses herself in various loves and cities. This film is a jubilant self-mockery, passing through several continents and mixing languages in a cultural, racial and sexual diversity anchored in our times. Wildly inventive, this crazy, non-linear portrait of a filmmaker explores autofiction, cheerfully flouting convention in a way that will appeal to a young audience.
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"The Cardboard Bernini" examines the life and work of artist James Grashow as he spends five years building a giant cardboard fountain, with the intention of putting it outside to dissolve. Propelled by a crucial event documented in the film, Grashow is driven to experience the process of creation and loss by making an extraordinary artwork that will be destroyed in the end. This film follows Jimmy's journey, as he questions life's fragility and the artistic process.
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The film accompanies the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist around the world, shows her at work in her studio in Zurich as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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In the spring of 2012, Zoe Beloff brought together a group of actors, activists and enthusiasts to perform Brecht's play The Days of the Commune (1949) in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Thinking about Occupy as a radical theater of the people, Beloff conceptualized this project as a "work in progress". Rather than stage the play in a theater, the group performed the work, scene by scene, in public spaces around New York City, starting in Zuccotti Park.
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The Great Commanders is a masterly portrait of six men - Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ulysses S. Grant and Georgi Zhukov - whose military genius changed the course of world history.
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The Last Happy Day is an experimental documentary on Sandor Lenard. Lenard was a writer with a Jewish background who fled the Nazis. During the war, the US Army hired Lenard to reconstruct the bones of dead American soldiers. Sachs' film, which resonates as an anti-war meditation, uses letters, abstracted war imagery, home movies, and interviews.
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Borobudur in Central Java is unique. In the shape of a pyramid, with four square terraces leading to three circular ones, this extraordinary building is covered with 3 miles of carvings. Situated on a lush palm-covered volcanic plain, this is a building that deserves the title of 'eighth wonder of the world'.
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In 1944, Caracas hosts the 7th Amateur Baseball World Series. The organizers decide that the beauty queen of the event has to be elected via a popular vote. The title is disputed by Yolanda Leal, a school teacher from a humble neighbourhood, and Oly Clemente, a young woman from Caracas' high society. The beauty pageant soon turns into a passionate contest. The country was entering a transition to democracy and the newly formed political organizations understood the event as a means to promot
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