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! Women Art Revolution
A film by Lynn Hershman Leeson
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Catalog No: MC-1314
2011, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Political / Social
UPC: 795975113939 EAN:


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?"

US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $99.95
Catalog No: MC-1281
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 811204011217
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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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A Film is a Burning Place
Works by Enid Baxter Blader
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-956
2009, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198095695
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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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A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre

US List: $US 14.95
US Educational: $99.00
Europe List: £11.99 / 14.95€
Catalog No: MC-1274
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 753885972398
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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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A Voyage of Growth and Discovery
A film by Mike Kelley and Michael Smith
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £22.99 / 31.00€
Catalog No: MC-1205
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198120595


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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A Walk Into The Sea
Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-800
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 767685214770


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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About Jenny Holzer
A film by Claudia Müller
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £17.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1253
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198125392
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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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Alex Cox's Highway Patrolman (El Patrullero)

US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $149.00
Catalog No: MC-1178
1991, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Drama, Political / Social
UPC: 880198117892
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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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Alex Katz: Five Hours

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $150.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-859
1996, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198085993


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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Alix Lambert's The Mark of Cain
On Russian Criminal Tattoos
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-775
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198077592
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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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All About Prints
500 Years of Prints and Printmaking
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-1076
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198107695
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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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American Avant Garde Film
(1947-1986) (Vol 2) Treasures IV from American Film Archives
US List: $US 44.99
US Educational: $44.99
Europe List: £29.99 / 44.99€
Catalog No: MC-983
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Collection / Set
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 978-0-9747099-5-6 UPC: 014381473728


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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Ancient World According to Terry Jones, The
Ancient Inventions, The Hidden History of Egypt, The Surprising History of Sex & Love, The Hidden History of Rome.
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $200.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-970
1998, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198097095
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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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Andy Mann
Street Tapes & Cable Access
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-1185
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Experimental
UPC: 880198118592
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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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Animated Films by Karen Aqua (1954-2011)

US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $99.00
Europe List: £15.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1277
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation, Experimental
UPC: 880198127792
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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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Another Tomorrow
Young Video Art from the Collection of the Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-952
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 978-0-9815409-7-9 UPC: 884501082129
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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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Ant Farm Video
by the Ant Farm Video Collective
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-286
2004, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Video Art / Film Art
UPC: 736899022125


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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Antonio Pietrangeli's Adua and Her Friends (Adua e le compagne)

US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $30.00
Catalog No: MC-1299
1960, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Drama
UPC: 816018010111 EAN:


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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Architects Herzog and DeMeuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-792
2001, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Architecture
UPC: 880198079299
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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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Arcimboldo, 1526-1593
Nature and Fantasy
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-1171
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198117199
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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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Art & Copy
Inside Advertising's Creative Revolution
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Catalog No: MC-1170
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Design / Fashion
ISBN: 9781608832255 UPC: 841887012287


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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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season I
2-pack
US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $29.98
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.98€
Catalog No: MC-701
2001, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 841887003070


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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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season I & II
2-pack
US List: $US 49.98
US Educational: $49.98
Europe List: £33.99 / 49.98€
Catalog No: MC-702
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 079369549X UPC: 841887000505


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 2 features 16 artists and is divided into four general themes - Stories, Loss & Desire, Time, and Humor - spanning four hours on one DVD disc.
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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season III
2-pack
US List: $US 34.98
US Educational: $34.98
Europe List: £23.99 / 34.98€
Catalog No: MC-703
2005, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 0793690609 UPC: 841887005616


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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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season IV

US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-758
2007, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 0793693837 UPC: 841887008846


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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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season V

US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-1079
2009, DVD, , Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 9781608831128 UPC: 841887011150


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 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season VI

US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Catalog No: MC-1316
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
ISBN: 9781608836604 UPC: 841887016636 EAN:


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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Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Collection (Seasons 1-6)
6 DVD Set
US List: $US 74.99
Europe List: £52.99 / 74.99€
Catalog No: MC-1346
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 841887017268 EAN:


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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Art City #2: Simplicity

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-462
2004, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 821029000051
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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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Art City Box Set: 3-part film series
Includes: "Manhattan," "Simplicity," and "Ruling Passion"
US List: $US 69.95
US Educational: $289.00
Europe List: £46.99 / 69.95€
Catalog No: MC-464
2004, DVD, NTSC, Collection / Set
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 821029000082
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Box set of all three Art City volumes includes: "Manhattan" "Simplicity" "Ruling Passion"
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Art Guys, The
Home On The Range
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 40.00€
Catalog No: MC-989
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198098993
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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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Art Is...The Permanent Revolution
Outrage in Great Art
US List: $US 27.95
Catalog No: MC-1331
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 720229915205 EAN:


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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Art Show Down
The Only Game Show Worth Shooting
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-731
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Comedy / Satire
UPC: 837101304962
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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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Audiovisualize: mixed by AddictiveTV

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $99.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-700
2007, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198070098
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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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Avoid Eye Contact Volume I
The Best of NYC Animation
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-538
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 820360106095


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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Avoid Eye Contact Volume II
Best of NYC Independent Animation
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-519
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 837101049610


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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Babes in the Woods

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-969
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Comedy / Satire
UPC: 899184002036
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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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Baroque Motion, Volume One
Blu-ray Disc
US List: $US 34.95
US Educational: $34.95
Europe List: £23.99 / 34.95€
Catalog No: MC-912
2008, Blu-ray, , Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198091291
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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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Beautiful Losers
a film by Aaron Rose
US List: $US 14.99
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-1088
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 896602002197


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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Between the Folds
The Science of Art. The Art of Science.
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £18.99 / 25.95€
Catalog No: MC-1264
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
ISBN: 9781608831265 UPC: 841887011297


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: William Turnbull
Narrated by Jude Law
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Catalog No: MC-1315
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198131591 EAN:
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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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Bill Cunningham New York
A film by Richard Press
US List: $US 29.99
Europe List: £21.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-1269
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Design / Fashion
UPC: 795975113731 EAN:


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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Bill Plympton's Dog Days
A Collection of Short Films 2004-2008
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $49.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-941
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Animation
ISBN: 0-9652075-8-7 UPC: 611358200495
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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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Bill's Dirty Shorts
A collection of Bill Plympton’s newest naughty cartoon shorts.
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $49.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-555
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Animation
UPC: 611358043092
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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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BILLY SULLIVAN: Photographs

US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-527
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0-9668010-3-2 UPC: 9780966801033 EAN:
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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
A Film About Birds and People
US List: $US 19.95
Europe List: £15.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1352
2013, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Science / Nature
UPC: 741360538122 EAN:


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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Black White + Gray
A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff & Robert Mapplethorpe
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-796
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 767685211953


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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Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America
Book and Companion DVD which Includes the Short Film: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater: Die Aktionen, 1962-2003
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-871
2005, Book+DVD, PAL, Short
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 796873048910
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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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Boneshop of the Heart
Outsider Art from the American South
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $99.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1262
1991, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198126290
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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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Borealis - Dimensional Fluid Light and Sound for Visual Meditation and Atmosphere
by Lynne Augstein
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-588
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 643157377092


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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Brakhage
A film by Jim Shedden
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $195.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-285
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 795975105439


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: An Inconvenient History

US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $120.00
Catalog No: MC-1287
2000, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198128799
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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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Call Me Madame (Appelez-Moi Madame)
A Film by Francoise Romand
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $60.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-1133
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, LGBT
UPC: 880198113399
microcinema exclusive


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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Call of Cthulhu, The
The Celebrated Story by H.P. Lovecraft
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-664
2005, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Horror / Bizarre, Sci-fi / Fantasy
UPC: 837101095662


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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Cartune Xprez 2008

US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-959
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 678277002494


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 2010

US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £14.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-1230
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation, Short Collection
UPC: 751937397991
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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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Case of the Grinning Cat, The

US List: $US 29.98
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.98€
Catalog No: MC-882
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 854565001039


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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Catching Out: A Film About Trainhopping and Living Free
By Sarah George
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-784
2002, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198078490
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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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Cats of Mirikitani, The
An intimate exploration of the healing power of art
US List: $US 29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-797
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 1-4229-7114-7 UPC: 767685208557


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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Chuck Close
a film by Marion Cajori
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £20.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-1151
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 767685224564


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

US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $60.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-1134
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Adult, Drama
UPC: 880198113498
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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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Cinemad: Almanac 2009
Curated by Mike Plante
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $75.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-953
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198095398
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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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Collected Films of Takahiko Iimura No. 1, The

US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $75.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-847
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198084798
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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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Collector, The: Allan Stone's Life in Art
Directed by Olympia Stone
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $99.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-735
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198073594
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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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Color + Modulation
by Rob Tyler
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $99.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-568
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 678277001398 EAN:
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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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Colored Frames
A Visual Art Documentary
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1298
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Political / Social
UPC: 880198129895
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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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Compassion in Emptiness
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama teachings at Radio City Music Hall
US List: $US 49.99
US Educational: $49.99
Catalog No: MC-1263
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 896602002371


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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Conceiving Ada
A film by Lynn Hershman Leeson
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $99.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-1093
1997, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Drama, Sci-fi / Fantasy
UPC: 880198109392
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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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Cool School, The
How LA Learned to Love Modern Art
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-820
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 767685214763


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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Dali Dimension, The
Decoding The Mind Of A Genius
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-868
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 823857138425


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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Dali in New York
Directed by Jack Bond
US List: $US 34.95
US Educational: $34.95
Europe List: £23.99 / 34.95€
Catalog No: MC-764
1966, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 635961106722


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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Dance for Camera
Produced by Kelly Hargraves and Lynette Kessler
US List: $US 29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-334
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Dance, Art / Artist
UPC: 720229910538


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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Dance for Camera Vol. 2
Dance Films From Around the World
US List: $US 24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-760
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Dance
UPC: 720229913034


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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David Hockney - A Bigger Picture

US List: $US 24.95
Catalog No: MC-1158
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 720229914338


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 Bandoneon! (a combine)
E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $25.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-1080
2009, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198108098
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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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Day is Done - a film by Mike Kelley
Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #2 - #32
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 40.00€
Catalog No: MC-926
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198092694
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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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Decisive Moment, The
Photographs and Words by Henri Cartier-Bresson
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1149
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Photography
UPC: 689076869164
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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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Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance
Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley in Conversation
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-823
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Political / Social
ISBN: 978-0-9815409-2-4 UPC: 796873057523
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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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Design 2

US List: $US 39.95
US Educational: $39.95
Europe List: £26.99 / 39.95€
Catalog No: MC-858
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 736899120429


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

US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Catalog No: MC-1232
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Adult
UPC: 829461000011


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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Devil Come to Hell and Stay Where You Belong
A Film By Massimilian and Nina Breeder
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-1096
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198109699
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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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Different Cinema - Volume Two

US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-619
2006, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198061997
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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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Director's Label Series Box Set, The

US List: $US 59.98
Europe List: £39.99 / 59.98€
Catalog No: MC-326
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Collection / Set
Genre: Music
UPC: 660200307127


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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Directors Label Series Box Set Vol. 2 LIMITED EDITION, The
(volumes 4-7) All 4 New Directors Label DVDs
US List: $US 79.98
US Educational: $79.98
Europe List: £53.99 / 79.98€
Catalog No: MC-447
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Collection / Set
Genre: Music
UPC: 660200312329


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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Dirty Old Town

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1319
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Comedy / Satire, Drama, Music, Political / Social, Modern Culture
UPC: 850604004009 EAN:
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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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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
A Maya Deren Film
US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.98€
Catalog No: MC-521
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Art / Artist, Experimental
ISBN: 1-56176-501-5 UPC: 880198052193
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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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Eames: The Architect and the Painter
A film by Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey
US List: $US 29.95
Europe List: £21.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1293
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Architecture
UPC: 720229914925 EAN:


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

US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $100.00
Europe List: £15.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-1259
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Documentary, Children / Family
ISBN: 9780977875634 UPC: 880959003174
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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
A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-683
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 978-0-89468-351-0 UPC: 880198068392
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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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Edward James: Builder of Dreams
Fabricante de Suenos
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-855
1995, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198085597
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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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El Cerrito

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1342
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Design / Fashion, Architecture, Modern Culture
UPC: 880198134295
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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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Electric Purgatory
The Fate of the Black Rocker
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-1102
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Music
UPC: 634479995156
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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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Empire of the Eye: The Magic of Illusion

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-954
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198095497
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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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Encyclopedia Asthmatica Vol 1
Videos from Asthmatic Kitty Records
US List: $US 15.98
US Educational: $15.98
Europe List: £10.99 / 15.98€
Catalog No: MC-789
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music
UPC: 656605604022


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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Exit Through the Gift Shop
A Film by Banksy
US List: $US 29.99
Catalog No: MC-1234
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Modern Culture, Hip Hop / Urban
UPC: 896602002326


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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Experiments in Terror 3

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-893
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Horror / Bizarre
UPC: 880198089397


The third hallucinogenic orgy of the uncanny, the dreadful, and the macabre.
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EyeWash 3
A Refreshing Burst of Live Mix Video and A/V
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-940
2008, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 884501069359
microcinema exclusive


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: The Short Films of Chel White

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-553
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Experimental
UPC: 880198055392


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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Fighting Gravity
Animated Films by Joanna Priestley
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-386
2005, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 880198038692


"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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Films of Charles & Ray Eames, Volume 1, The
Powers of Ten Plus 901: After 45 Years of Working
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-291
2000, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 14381-9210-2


Includes films "Powers of Ten" and "901: After 45 Years of Working" by Charles and Ray Eames
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Films of Charles & Ray Eames, Volume 2, The
Featuring Toccata for Toy Trains
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-292
2000, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Design / Fashion
UPC: 14381-9211-2


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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Films of Charles & Ray Eames, Volume 3, The
The World of Franklin and Jefferson
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-293
2000, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 14381-9212-2


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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Films of Charles & Ray Eames, Volume 4, The
Featuring "Tops" and "IBM at the Fair"
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-294
2000, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 14381-9213-2


Includes Films: "Design Q&A," "IBM Mathematics Peep Shows," "SX-70," "Copernicus," "Fiberglass Chairs," and "Goods" by Charles Eames
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Films of Charles & Ray Eames, Volume 5, The
Volume 5
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-295
2000, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 14381-9214-2


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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Films of Charles & Ray Eames, Volume 6, The

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-585
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 014381071429


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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Films of Charles and Ray Eames Box Set

US List: $US 89.95
Europe List: £53.99 / 79.99€
Catalog No: MC-586
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Collection / Set
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 014381044027


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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Finding Eutaw and North

US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $25.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-370
2005, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion, Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198000392
microcinema exclusive


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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Fly
Moving Images by O.
US List: $US 22.00
US Educational: $22.00
Europe List: £14.99 / 22.00€
Catalog No: MC-275
2004, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Children / Family
UPC: 5060063720043 EAN:
microcinema exclusive


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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Fragile Machine
By Aoineko
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-384
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Animation
UPC: 677242028828
microcinema exclusive


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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From the Ground Up by Su Friedrich
The Definitive Scoop on the Coffee Trade
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $99.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-783
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Political / Social
UPC: 880198078391
microcinema exclusive


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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Future By Design
A film by Academy Award nominated filmmaker William Gazecki
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $99.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-813
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1-4276-0841-5 UPC: 9781427608413 EAN:
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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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Futurist Life Redux
A Performa Commission
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1275
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental, Short Collection
UPC: 880198127594
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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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Gauguin: Maker of Myth
A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £14.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1244
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198124494
microcinema exclusive


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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Gay Games 2011
a documentary by Francoise Romand
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $45.00
Catalog No: MC-1278
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Documentary, LGBT
UPC: 880198127891 EAN:
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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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George Bellows
Narrated by Ethan Hawke
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £15.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1310
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Political / Social, Modern Culture
ISBN: 9780894683794 UPC: 880198131096 EAN:
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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

US List: $US 29.95
Catalog No: MC-1345
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 738329086824 EAN:


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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Ghost Bird
A Film by Scott Crocker
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $200.00
Europe List: £14.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-1192
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Science / Nature
UPC: 880198119292
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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's Story
Solving the mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's first known portrait.
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-949
1999, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198094995
microcinema exclusive


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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Girl From Monday Original Soundtrack
Music From the Hal Hartley Film
US List: $US 10.95
US Educational: $10.95
Europe List: £7.99 / 10.95€
Catalog No: MC-487
2005, CD, , Music
Genre: Music
UPC: 187719000023



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Golub/Spero: Late Works Are the Catastrophes

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-580
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 1565805305 UPC: 094922542403



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Grace Hartigan: Shattering Boundaries
Created and produced by Alice Shure and Janice Stanton
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-944
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198094490
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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 One - with Tim Marlow
2-Disc set featuring 14 episodes
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $275.00
Catalog No: MC-1272
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198127297
microcinema exclusive


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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Great Artists Two with Tim Marlow
A collection of the entire 12 program series
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $275.00
Europe List: £23.99 / 35.00€
Catalog No: MC-972
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198097293
microcinema exclusive


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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Great Expectations
A Journey Through the History of Visionary Architecture
US List: $US 24.98
Catalog No: MC-1208
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Architecture
UPC: 854565001251


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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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
A Film by Ben Shapiro
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Catalog No: MC-1378
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Photography
UPC: 795975115131 EAN:


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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Guest of Cindy Sherman

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $250.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1142
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Exclusive, Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198114297
microcinema exclusive


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 by Bill Plympton

US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-942
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 611358180698
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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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Hair High

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1187
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Comedy / Satire, Animation
ISBN: 0-9652075-9-5 UPC: 611358424792
microcinema exclusive


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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Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire
special digitally remastered edition
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $99.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1086
1991, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0794201814 UPC: 880198108692
microcinema exclusive


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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Hard Head: Videos by Mounir Fatmi

US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-840
2008, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198084095
microcinema exclusive


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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Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl
Directed by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $120.00
Catalog No: MC-1250
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198125095
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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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Helvetica

US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-759
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 082354004224


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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Henri Cartier Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
directed by Heinz Butler
US List: $US 26.99
US Educational: $26.99
Europe List: £17.99 / 26.99€
Catalog No: MC-507
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Photography
UPC: 660200312923


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: Collector's Edition

US List: $US 49.95
US Educational: $49.95
Europe List: £32.99 / 49.95€
Catalog No: MC-1136
2009, Book+DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Collection / Set
Genre: Photography
UPC: 767685212257


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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Herb & Dorothy
You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art.
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1084
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 1-4229-7270-4 UPC: 767685210147


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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Here Is Always Somewhere Else
Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader, The
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-930
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 881190006993


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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HomestarRunner - Everything Else Volume 1

US List: $US 12.00
US Educational: $12.00
Europe List: £8.99 / 12.00€
Catalog No: MC-500
2005, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 880485422098
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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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HomestarRunner - Everything Else Volume 3

US List: $US 12.00
US Educational: $12.00
Europe List: £8.99 / 12.00€
Catalog No: MC-773
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 880485425099
microcinema exclusive


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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HomestarRunner - Strong Bad Sings
And Other Type Hits (CD)
US List: $US 12.00
US Educational: $12.00
Europe List: £8.99 / 12.00€
Catalog No: MC-421
2003, CD, NTSC, Region 0, Music
Genre: Music
UPC: 880485410026


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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HomestarRunner - Strong Bad's Emails, Disc 5
Emails 131 through 160
US List: $US 12.00
US Educational: $12.00
Europe List: £8.99 / 12.00€
Catalog No: MC-722
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation, Youth / Teen
UPC: 880485424092
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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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Hopper's Silence

US List: $US 19.95
Catalog No: MC-1337
1981, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Short
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 736899137625 EAN:


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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Hors Pistes Volume 3
A Different Image Movement
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-1098
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Drama
UPC: 880198109897
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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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Hot Town Cool City

US List: $US 14.99
US Educational: $14.99
Europe List: £9.99 / 14.99€
Catalog No: MC-779
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary

microcinema exclusive


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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How To Draw A Bunny
A Film By John Walter and Andrew Moore
US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $29.98
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.98€
Catalog No: MC-284
2000, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist, Modern Culture
UPC: 031398163862


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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Hub Culture Retrospectives: Antarctica

US List: $US 24.00
US Educational: $24.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.00€
Catalog No: MC-472
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ, Modern Culture
UPC: 8 37101 09404 7 EAN:
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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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Hybride
Six films by Johanna Vaude
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-684
2007, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198068491
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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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Images of Franco Fontana, The

US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-675
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0,
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 859392001023
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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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Impressionists with Tim Marlow, The
The Collection, The entire series of 8 programs
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $200.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-971
1998, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198097194
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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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In Conversation: Kentridge & Dumas

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1307
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Modern Culture
UPC: 880198130792 EAN:
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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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In Search of Beethoven
Directed by Phil Grabsky
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $200.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 40.00€
Catalog No: MC-1082
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music
UPC: 880198108296
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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 Beethoven & In Search Of Mozart Special Collector's Edition
Double Feature Box Set
US List: $US 64.95
US Educational: $275.00
Catalog No: MC-1240
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music
UPC: 880198124098
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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
A Phil Grabsky Film
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $200.00
Catalog No: MC-1311
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music
UPC: 880198131195 EAN:
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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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In Search of Mozart
Directed by Phil Grabsky
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $200.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 40.00€
Catalog No: MC-1025
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Music
UPC: 880198102591
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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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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
A film by Martina Kudlacek
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $195.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-283
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 795975105538 EAN:


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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Inhaling the Spore
A Journey through the Museum of Jurassic Technology
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $29.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-559
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198055996


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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Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs
A Documentary Portrait of the Catonsville Nine
US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $195.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-564
2001, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 854565001015
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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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J.M.W. Turner - A National Gallery Production
Narrated by Jeremy Irons
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-729
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 978-0-9744847-3-0 UPC: 880198072993
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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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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-822
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 767685214756


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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Je Hais Tout Le Monde, Mec...
Grout/Mazeas
US List: $US 46.00
Europe List: £30.99 / 46.00€
Catalog No: MC-352
2003, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist
EAN:
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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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Jean Nouvel
A Film by Beat Kuert
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-793
2001, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Architecture
UPC: 880198079398
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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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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £20.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1152
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 767685225073


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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Jeff Koons Show, The
An Alison Chernick Film
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $200.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-1156
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198115690
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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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Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape
A National Gallery of Art Film narrated by Ed Harris
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £15.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1308
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Political / Social, Modern Culture
UPC: 880198130891 EAN:
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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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Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter
a film by Marion Cajori
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Catalog No: MC-1150
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 767685224519


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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John Cage: How to Get Started CD
A previously unreleased recording of John Cage's 1989 performance at Skywalker Ranch in Nicasio, California
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £14.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-1210
2010, CD, , Music
Genre: Music, Art / Artist, Experimental
UPC: 884501396790
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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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Kiki Smith Squatting the Palace
An Installation by Kiki Smith in Venice
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $150.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-863
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198086396


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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Lagerfeld Confidential
An Up Close and Personal Look At Karl Lagerfeld
US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $29.98
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.98€
Catalog No: MC-876
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Design / Fashion
ISBN: 1-4172-0164-9 UPC: 741952314899


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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Las Pozas
Steps and Falls
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-597
2006, Interactive, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198059796
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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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Last Bolshevik
by Chris Marker
US List: $US 34.98
Europe List: £23.99 / 34.98€
Catalog No: MC-883
1993, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 854565001053


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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Le Grand Cirque Calder 1927
Directed by Jean Painleve with Genevieve Hamon
US List: $US 49.95
US Educational: $49.95
Europe List: £39.99 / 55.99€
Catalog No: MC-1241
2008, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Short
Genre: Art / Artist, Experimental, Video Art / Film Art


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
Art and War
US List: $US 14.99
US Educational: $14.99
Catalog No: MC-1265
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Short

ISBN: 9781608834617 UPC: 841887014649


“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 Visuals 1
Singles 01-05
US List: $US 34.99
US Educational: $34.99
Europe List: £23.99 / 34.99€
Catalog No: MC-269
2003, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 6 43157 29029 2 EAN:
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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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Lightrhythm Visuals 2
Singles 06-10
US List: $US 34.99
US Educational: $34.99
Europe List: £23.99 / 34.99€
Catalog No: MC-270
2004, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 643157280194
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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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Lightrhythm Visuals: Aple ep

US List: $US 17.99
US Educational: $17.99
Europe List: £12.99 / 17.99€
Catalog No: MC-1109
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 643157333203
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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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Lightrhythm Visuals: Av8ion EP
Ben Sheppee vs Fred Moth
US List: $US 17.99
US Educational: $17.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 17.99€
Catalog No: MC-1139
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 643157383895
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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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Lightrhythm Visuals: Koob's
By Shantell Martin
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-932
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 643157333210
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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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Lightrhythm Visuals: Notations 01

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-738
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198073891
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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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Lightrhythm Visuals: Notations 02

US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-931
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 643157383888
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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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Lightrhythm Visuals: Ryuke Archive - The Tokyo Remix Sessions

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-812
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198081292
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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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Liquid Tales: The Animated Films of Patrick Smith

US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-652
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Animation
UPC: 094922629593
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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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Loos Ornamental

US List: $US 39.95
US Educational: $39.95
Catalog No: MC-1155
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Architecture
UPC: 736899131821


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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Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup
A New Film by Dylan Avery
US List: $US 17.99
US Educational: $17.99
Europe List: £12.99 / 17.99€
Catalog No: MC-979
2009, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Political / Social
UPC: 880198097996
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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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Loose Change: 2nd Edition
Directed by Dylan Avery
US List: $US 14.99
US Educational: $14.99
Europe List: £9.99 / 14.99€
Catalog No: MC-988
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198098894
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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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Lost Broadcasts
Videos by Eileen Maxson
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-704
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198070494
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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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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
Legendary Artist Louise Bourgeois Exposes the Dark Mystery of her Art
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-982
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 795975111737


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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Lynne Sachs: 10 Short Films and Videos, Vol. 3

US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-724
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198072498
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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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Lynne Sachs: A Collection of Films Exploring Women, Culture, Science & Myth

US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-356
2005, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 616892622420
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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
A National Theatre and Seventh Art Production
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $199.00
Catalog No: MC-1285
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198128591
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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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Malachi Farrell at Work
The Making of La Gégène
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-939
2008, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198093998
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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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Manet - Portraying Life
A Phil Grabsky Film
Catalog No: MC-1379
1940, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All),

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Manufactured Landscapes

US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-777
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Photography
UPC: 795975109536 EAN:


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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Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Catalog No: MC-1335
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Women
UPC: 741360538061 EAN:


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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Max Ernst Hanging
directed by John and Francois De Menil
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £14.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-1201
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198120199
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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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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Authorized DVD edition
US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $149.99
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.98€
Catalog No: MC-377
2002, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Experimental
ISBN: 1-56176-033-1 UPC: 880198037794
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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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Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Robert Rauschenberg Collaborations: Suite for Five, Summerspace, Interscape - 3 Disc Set
US List: $US 60.00
US Educational: $60.00
Europe List: £40.99 / 60.00€
Catalog No: MC-1200
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Collection / Set
Genre: Documentary, Dance, Art / Artist, Video Art / Film Art
UPC: 880198120090
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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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Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Park Avenue Armory Event
3-DVD Set
US List: $US 60.00
US Educational: $60.00
Europe List: £41.99 / 60.00€
Catalog No: MC-1327
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Dance, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198132796 EAN:
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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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Michelangelo Antonioni's The Vanquished (I Vinti)

US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $30.00
Catalog No: MC-1301
1953, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Drama
UPC: 816018010074 EAN:


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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Michelangelo: Self Portrait
A Film by Academy Award Winner Robert Snyder
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1107
1989, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 804879154594
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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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Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight

US List: $US 29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1131
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 767685211908


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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Mindcandy Volume 1: PC Demos

US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-227
2002, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 7-59698-0002-97 EAN:
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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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Mindcandy Volume 3: PC Demos 2003-2010
DVD + Blu-Ray package
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $25.00
Catalog No: MC-1338
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music, Ambient / Visuals / VJ, Animation, Video Art / Film Art
UPC: 759698000594 EAN:
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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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Model for Matisse, A
The Story of Henri Matisse, Sister Jacques-Marie and the Venice Chapel
US List: $US 24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-584
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 720229912280


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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Mona Lisa Revealed: Secrets of the Painting
Featuring Pascal Cotte, Inventor of the Multispectral Camera
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-854
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198085498
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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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Monster Road - Collector's Edition
A film by Brett Ingram
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-856
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Animation
UPC: 718122891009


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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Moog
The name that brought electronic music to the masses.
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-371
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Music
UPC: 082354002220


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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Myopic Visions
A collection of short films by award winning director Chris Mancini
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-595
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Short Collection
UPC: 880198059598
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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
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $99.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1348
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music, Hip Hop / Urban
UPC: 880198134899
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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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Nam June Paik
Lessons from the Video Master
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-761
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 094922701138


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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Negativland: Our Favorite Things

US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $100.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-751
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Short Collection
ISBN: 097652399X UPC: 185713000902
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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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Nero's Golden House
Written & Directed by Phil Grabsky
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $120.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-927
2001, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Architecture
UPC: 880198092793
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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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Next: A Primer on Urban Painting

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-833
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 767685216293


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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Night of Lust
Directed by Jose Benazeraf
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-768
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Comedy / Satire, Adult
UPC: 737885360294
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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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Nightwatching: 2-Disc Special Edition
A Peter Greenaway Film
US List: $US 34.98
US Educational: $34.98
Europe List: £22.99 / 34.98€
Catalog No: MC-1085
2007, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1417232447 UPC: 741952671091


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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North Star: Mark di Suvero
Original Music by Phillip Glass
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $99.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-1276
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198127693 EAN:
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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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Nos Stars Et Petit Dieu (Our Stars & The Little God)
By Maurice Lemaître
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-618
2006, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198061898
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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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Notes for Those Beginning the Discipline of Architecture
Alternate Ending 1: The Glimmering Noise by Michael Meredith
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-528
2006, DVD, NTSC, Short
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0977624102 UPC: 880198052995
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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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Nothing So Strange

US List: $US 14.99
US Educational: $14.99
Europe List: £9.99 / 14.99€
Catalog No: MC-200
2002, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Comedy / Satire, Modern Culture
UPC: 827912002379
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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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Nude in Art with Tim Marlow, The

US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $200.00
Europe List: £21.00 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-1239
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198123992
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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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Objectified
A film by Gary Hustwit
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1007
2009, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 082354004927


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 - A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-834
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 767685214787


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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Odds of Recovery, The
by Su Friedrich
US List: $US 29.00
US Educational: $195.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.00€
Catalog No: MC-645
2002, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: LGBT
UPC: 880198064592
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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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On the Political Equator
Sergio Fajardo in conversation with Oscar Romo and Teddy Cruz
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £21.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-1318
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Political / Social, Architecture
ISBN: 978-1-936994-02-1 UPC: 880198131898 EAN:
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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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onedotzero_select dvd 3
the future of the moving image
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $60.00
Europe List: £23.99 / 35.00€
Catalog No: MC-307
2004, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 5060065280033 EAN:
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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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The future of the moving image
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $60.00
Europe List: £23.99 / 35.00€
Catalog No: MC-441
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 5060065280057 EAN:
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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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Adventures In Moving Image
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $60.00
Europe List: £23.99 / 35.00€
Catalog No: MC-727
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Short Collection
UPC: 505083007740
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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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Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg
E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $25.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-596
2007, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Short
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 978-0-9668010-7-1 UPC: 880198059697
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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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Our City Dreams
Featuring Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero
US List: $US 24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-995
2009, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 720229913812


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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Out There

US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-679
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 859392001047
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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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Pablo Picasso

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-987
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 978-0-7697-8847-0 UPC: 032031450493


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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Painters Painting

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-832
1972, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 767685211953


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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Paul Mellon: In His Own Words
(2-Disc Set)
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-950
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198095091


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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Perpetual Peace

US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £21.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-1255
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
ISBN: 9780981540993 UPC: 884501466707
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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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Peter Beard
Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond
US List: $US 26.99
US Educational: $26.99
Europe List: £17.99 / 26.99€
Catalog No: MC-743
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Photography
UPC: 660200315528


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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Peter Weibel, Rewriter
Early (conceptual) photographs, (expanded) films, (body) videos and (contextual) works, 1964-1975
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-1002
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 978-0-9815409-8-6 UPC: 884501163187 EAN:
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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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Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers

US List: $US 34.99
US Educational: $34.99
Europe List: £23.99 / 34.99€
Catalog No: MC-661
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Animation
UPC: 795975108638


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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Phill Niblock: The Movement of People Working

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-766
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198076694
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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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Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The
A Film by the Quay Brothers
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-673
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 795975 108836 EAN:


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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Picasso and Braque Go To The Movies
Produced by Martin Scorsese and Robert Greenhut and directed by Arne Glimcher
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Catalog No: MC-1251
2010, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
ISBN: 1-4229-9394-9 UPC: 767685230336


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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Picasso: The Man and His Work, Part 1
(1881-1937)
US List: $US 19.98
US Educational: $19.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 19.98€
Catalog No: MC-669
2001, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 033909200196


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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Picasso: The Man and His Work, Part 2
(1938-1973)
US List: $US 19.98
US Educational: $19.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 19.98€
Catalog No: MC-670
2002, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 033909200295


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 by Peter Mettler

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $150.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-695
1994, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Documentary
ISBN: 9780978292911 UPC: 094922719294
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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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Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Anger (La Rabbia)

US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $30.00
Catalog No: MC-1300
1963, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Drama
UPC: 816018010135 EAN:


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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Point of Least Resistance and Right Way, The
Two Films by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
US List: $US 24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-903
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 854565001077


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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Pompeii and the Roman Villa

US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-869
2008, DVD, NTSC, Short
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198086990
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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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Possible Films - Hal Hartley
Short Works by Hal Hartley 1994–2004
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-373
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 097606240-2 UPC: 187719000016
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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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Possible Films Volume 2
New Short Films by Hal Hartley
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1087
2010, DVD, NTSC, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0-9760624-3-7 UPC: 880198108791
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A compilation of short films Hal Hartley created while living in Berlin from 2004 till 2009.
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Preludes: Selected Works of Peter Mettler
Scissere, Eastern Avenue, and Balifilm
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $150.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-696
1997, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental, Video Art / Film Art
ISBN: 9780978292928 UPC: 094922719300
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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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Project 798: New Art In New China
A film by Lucius C. Kuert
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1145
2010, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198114594
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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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Quark Star
by Simon Tarr
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $49.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-474
2005, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Sci-fi / Fantasy
UPC: 880198047496
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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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Rape of Europa, The

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-909
2006, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 718122355419 EAN:


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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RE:FRAME - Scanning Time / Documenting Change
Experimental Film and Video Art from India
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-1097
2009, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198109798
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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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Red Balloon, The
Directed by Albert Lamorisse
US List: $US 15.95
Europe List: £9.99 / 14.95€
Catalog No: MC-808
1956, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Children / Family
UPC: 715515028820


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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Regular or Super

US List: $US 24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-904
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Architecture
UPC: 8-54565-00100-8 EAN:


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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Relative Orbits
Animated Films by Joanna Priestley
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $39.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-387
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 880198038791


“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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RELINE2
A collection of 18 progressive audiovisual works by international artists
US List: $US 18.99
US Educational: $18.99
Europe List: £12.99 / 18.99€
Catalog No: MC-547
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Video Art / Film Art
UPC: 880198054791
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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: A Kind of Architect

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1138
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Architecture
UPC: 767685218501


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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RESISTANCE[S] Vol. II
Experimental films from the Middle East and North Africa
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-782
2007, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198078292
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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] Vol. III
Body poetry, politics of space and time
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $70.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-1207
2010, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198120793
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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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Reverón
A documentary by Juan Andrés Bello
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1343
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Architecture
UPC: 880198134394
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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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Ripple in the Eye
The Moving Images of Eric Koziol
US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-676
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0,
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 859392001030
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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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Rivers and Tides
Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $250.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-280
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 0-7670-6609-X UPC: 7-67685-96433-0 EAN:


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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Rivers and Tides: Special Collector's Edition
2-Disc Set
US List: $US 39.95
US Educational: $250.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 39.95€
Catalog No: MC-590
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 0-7670-9183-3 UPC: 7-67685-98323-2 EAN:


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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Robert Darroll Digital Animations 1990-2001

US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $100.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-509
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
ISBN: 0-9704178-5-3 UPC: 780970417855


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: Performances from the 1960s
An ARTPIX release
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $20.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 20.00€
Catalog No: MC-526
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 0-9668010-4-0 UPC: 9780966801040 EAN:
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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: Each Person is a Nation Unto Themselves
A Film by Brett Ingram
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £17.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1190
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Political / Social
UPC: 718122891207
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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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Rock Fresh

US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-886
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 022891139690


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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Rothko's Rooms
The Life and Works of an American Artist
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-908
2000, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 9780769787558 UPC: 032031440593


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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Rudy Burckhardt Films: 1936-1999
3 Disc Set
US List: $US 49.95
US Educational: $499.00
Europe List: £35.99 / 49.95€
Catalog No: MC-1305
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Experimental, Silent, Short Collection
UPC: 880198130594 EAN:
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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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San Base: Supernatural
Dynamic Painting by San Base
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $80.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1105
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
ISBN: 4466701633 UPC: 844667016338


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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Searchers 2.0
A Film by Alex Cox
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1177
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Comedy / Satire, Drama
UPC: 880198117793
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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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Seducing Time: Selected Prize Winning Videotapes by Lynn Hershman Leeson 1984-2008
2-Disc Collection
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1091
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198109194
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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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Separation
A film by Jack Bond
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-1081
1967, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Drama
UPC: 880198108197
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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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Serge Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes
A National Gallery Film - Narrated by Tilda Swinton
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £15.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1356
2013, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Dance
UPC: 880198135698
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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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Seven Animations (1999-2008)
by Dennis Miller
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $25.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-457
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Animation
UPC: 837101052610
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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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Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic
Directed by Babette Mangolte
US List: $US 39.99
US Educational: $39.99
Europe List: £26.99 / 39.99€
Catalog No: MC-1112
2005, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198111296
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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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Shut Up and Play the Hits
The Very Loud Ending of LCD Soundsystem 3 DVD Set
US List: $US 34.99
Catalog No: MC-1339
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music, Modern Culture
UPC: 896602002456 EAN:


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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Simon King's African Skies

US List: $US 18.99
US Educational: $18.99
Europe List: £12.99 / 18.99€
Catalog No: MC-600
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198060099
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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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Simone Forti
An Evening of Dance Constructions
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $25.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-986
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Dance
UPC: 880198098696
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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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Simple Men and Trust Me

US List: $US 49.99
Europe List: £33.99 / 49.99€
Catalog No: MC-736
2006, DVD, PAL, Region 2, Feature
Genre: Drama
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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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Sinner
Forgiveness lives on the edge
US List: $US 19.98
US Educational: $19.98
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.98€
Catalog No: MC-985
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Drama
UPC: 094922208644


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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Sixth Side of the Pentagon,The and The Embassy
by Chris Marker
US List: $US 24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-885
1967, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 854565001046


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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Slant Volume 1
Asian American Short Films
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-728
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Short Collection
UPC: 880198072894
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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 directed by Gideon Koppel
Music by Aphex Twin
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $199.00
Catalog No: MC-1256
2011, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198125699
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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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Sonic Outlaws
by Craig Baldwin
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-360
1995, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
ISBN: 1565804392 UPC: 185713000070


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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Speaking in Code
A film by Amy Grill
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1153
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Music
UPC: 844667021899
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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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Split Sides - Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Original music by Radiohead and Sigur Rós
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 40.00€
Catalog No: MC-980
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Dance
ISBN: 978-0-9668010-9-5 UPC: 880198098092
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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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Stash 13
Issue 13
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $35.00
Europe List: £23.99 / 35.00€
Catalog No: MC-715
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
ISBN: 1712-5936 (DVD), UPC: 880198071590


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 14
Issue 14
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $35.00
Europe List: £23.99 / 35.00€
Catalog No: MC-716
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
ISBN: 1712-5936 (DVD), UPC: 880198071699



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Stash 31
Issue 31
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $35.00
Europe List: £23.99 / 35.00€
Catalog No: MC-718
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Design / Fashion
ISBN: 1712-5936 (DVD), UPC: 880198071897


Stash 31 provides 2+ hours of outstanding animation, vfx, motion design, behind the scenes extras and music downloads.
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Stash Sixpack 3
Issues 13-18
US List: $US 129.00
US Educational: $129.00
Europe List: £86.99 / 129.00€
Catalog No: MC-712
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Collection / Set
Genre: Design / Fashion
ISBN: 1712-5936 UPC: 880198071293


This limited edition SIXPACK includes the complete disks from issues 13-18 of Stash DVD magazine.
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Stash Sixpack 5
Issues 25-30
US List: $US 129.00
US Educational: $129.00
Europe List: £86.99 / 129.00€
Catalog No: MC-714
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Collection / Set
Genre: Design / Fashion
ISBN: 1712-5936 UPC: 880198071491


This limited edition SIXPACK includes the complete disks from issues 15-30 of Stash DVD magazine.
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Straight to Hell Returns
By Alex Cox
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1176
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Comedy / Satire, Horror / Bizarre
UPC: 880198117694
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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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Style Wars - Limited Edition with Style Wars: Revisited

US List: $US 14.95
US Educational: $14.95
Europe List: £9.99 / 14.95€
Catalog No: MC-591
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 022891139591


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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Surrealist Motion, Volume One
Blu-ray Disc
US List: $US 34.95
US Educational: $34.95
Europe List: £23.99 / 34.95€
Catalog No: MC-913
2008, Blu-ray, , Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198091390
microcinema exclusive
Blu-ray Disc


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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Tales of Urban Fascination
Selected Films by Mark Street Volume 2
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £14.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1159
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Collection / Set
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
UPC: 880198115997
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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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Teknolust by Lynn Hershman Leeson

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-1092
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Drama, Sci-fi / Fantasy
UPC: 880198109293
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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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Ten Animated Films
by Signe Baumane
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-516
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Animation
UPC: 880198051691


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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The Barnes Collection
Dr. Albert C. Barnes and his priceless art collection
US List: $US 24.99
Catalog No: MC-1347
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 841887017329 EAN:


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 Boy Mir
Ten years in Afghanistan
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $125.00
Catalog No: MC-1297
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198129796 EAN:
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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 Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $120.00
Catalog No: MC-1288
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Modern Culture
UPC: 880198128898
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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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The Camera I
Thème Je
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $60.00
Catalog No: MC-1279
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198127990
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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
A Film by Olympia Stone
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $150.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1353
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Modern Culture
UPC: 880198135391 EAN:
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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 Color of your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist
A Film by Michael Hegglin
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £17.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1236
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Video Art / Film Art
UPC: 880198123695
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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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The Days of the Commune
A Street Production of the Play by Bert Brecht (1949)
US List: $US 35.00
US Educational: $35.00
Europe List: £25.99 / 35.00€
Catalog No: MC-1355
2013, Blu-ray, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Art / Artist, Political / Social, Video Art / Film Art
ISBN: 978-1-936994-03-8 UPC: 884501882934 EAN:
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Blu-ray Disc


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

US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $200.00
Catalog No: MC-1354
2013, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Collection / Set
Genre: Documentary, Political / Social
UPC: 880198135490 EAN:
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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 Judson Church Horse Dance
A Film by Mike Kelley
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £21.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-1231
2010, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Dance, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198123190
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The Last Happy Day
with 4 Short Films by Lynne Sachs
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $40.00
Catalog No: MC-1237
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
UPC: 8 80198 12379 4
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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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The Lost Temple of Java

US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $120.00
Catalog No: MC-1289
1999, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198128997
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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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The Queen of the People
La Reina del Pueblo
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $149.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1341
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Political / Social, Modern Culture
UPC: 880198134196
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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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The Rothko Chapel

US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $99.00
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-1280
2011, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198128096 EAN:
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Dedicated in 1971, the Rothko Chapel was built by John and Dominique de Menil as a quiet spiritual sanctuary for people of all beliefs and faiths, and as a center for championing social justice and human rights. The building, originally designed by Philip Johnson, holds a suite of 14 paintings by American Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko. This documentary, completed in 1972 by filmmakers Jerry Michaels and Francois de Menil, takes us inside the chapel.
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The Shadow Out of Time
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (Music CD)
US List: $US 19.49
US Educational: $19.49
Europe List: £12.99 / 19.49€
Catalog No: MC-994
2008, CD, , Music
Genre: Horror / Bizarre
UPC: 895741001023
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Brings legendary horror author H.P. Lovecraft's tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio in the 1930s. This production by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society dramatizes Lovecraft's story with a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for The Call of Cthulhu). Journey across the globe and through strange aeons with Lovecraft's last major story.
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (Music CD)
US List: $US 19.49
US Educational: $19.49
Europe List: £12.99 / 19.49€
Catalog No: MC-993
2008, CD, , Music
Genre: Horror / Bizarre
UPC: 895741001108
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Brings Lovecraft's tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio in the 1930s. Dark Adventure Radio Theatre dramatizes Lovecraft's celebrated story with a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Troy Sterling Nies (composer for The Call of Cthulhu). Discover what fate has in store for you as you delve into this cherished tale of ichthyic horrors.
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The Stein Family: The Making of Modern Art
La Famille Stein
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $29.99
Catalog No: MC-1284
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198128492


This is the first film to relate the history of incomparable Stein family. It highlights the Steins' contribution to modern art, covering Leo's perspective on the sources of modernity, Gertrude's friendship with Picasso, Sarah's links to Matisse, and the projects Gertrude launched in the 1920s and 30s with artists such as Picasso, Laurencisn, Gris, Masson and Picabia.
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
5-Disc Deluxe Box Set
US List: $US 69.95
US Educational: $69.95
Catalog No: MC-1350
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Modern Culture
UPC: 741360538108 EAN:


The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an unprecedented cinematic event, an epic journey through the history of world cinema that is a treat for movie lovers around the globe. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this bold 15-part love letter to the movies begins with the invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century and concludes with the multi-billion dollar globalized digital industry of the 21st.
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The Whisperer in Darkness
An H.P. Lovecraft adaptation 2-Disc Set
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £18.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1312
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Horror / Bizarre, Sci-fi / Fantasy
UPC: 895741001122
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Celebrated author H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of alien horror bursts onto the screen in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s. Professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the remote hills of Vermont. His inquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends. Filmed in the style of the classic 1930s films such as Frankenstein and King Kong, The Whisperer in Darkness is a thrilling adventure of supernatural horror.
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The Whisperer in Darkness: Blu-Ray Edition
An H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £21.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-1313
2011, Blu-ray, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Horror / Bizarre, Sci-fi / Fantasy
UPC: 895741001139
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Celebrated author H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of alien horror bursts onto the screen in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s. Professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the remote hills of Vermont. His inquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends. Filmed in the style of the classic 1930s films such as Frankenstein and King Kong, The Whisperer in Darkness is a thrilling adventure of supernatural horror.
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The Woodmans
A film by C. Scott Willis
US List: $US 24.95
Catalog No: MC-1295
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Photography
UPC: 738329074128 EAN:


Francesca Woodman's haunting B&W images now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. Francesca came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on fire. But in 1981, as a despondent 22-year-old, she committed suicide.
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Theater of Transparency/ 2000-2010
A ten-year video project by Osvaldo Romberg
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Catalog No: MC-1270
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
ISBN: 9781936994007 UPC: 884501491563


Theater of Transparency features three videos produced by Argentine artist Osvaldo Romberg during the last few years. These works explore the history of transparency and its relation to painting and electronic media.
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Thing of Wonder, A
The Mind and Matter of Jerry Andrus
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-806
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 678277002197
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Magician, inventor and poet Jerry Andrus (1918-2007) has an insatiable appetite for uncovering the mysteries of life on the boundary between reason and illusion. This documentary pays tribute to this man who is devoted equally to the science and magic of wonder.
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Three Fragments of a Lost Tale
With the Short Documentary Happy Medium
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $19.95
Europe List: £15.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1340
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Animation
UPC: 884501669023 EAN:
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This first stop-motion animated short film by award winning American sculptor John Frame involves thirty-five highly articulated characters that inhabit a world unidentifiable by place or time. LA Times art critic David Pagel writes of Three Fragments of a Lost Tale, "Frame's figures throw open the doors of a world unlike any that has ever existed, yet strangely familiar."
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Ties That Bind, The
by Su Friedrich
US List: $US 29.00
US Educational: $195.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.00€
Catalog No: MC-641
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: LGBT
UPC: 880198064196
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A powerful meditation on political responsibility and personal loss as seen through the story of the filmmaker's mother, who grew up in Nazi Germany. Using rare archival footage, extensive interviews and critical commentary, Friedrich constructs a fearless dialogue between past and present, between mother and daughter.
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Tim Marlow at The Courtauld

US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $200.00
Catalog No: MC-1286
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All),
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198128690 EAN:
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Tim Marlow presents a unique insight into the Courtauld Institute and Gallery. Its collection stretches from the early Renaissance into the 20th century and is particularly famous for its array of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
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Tim Marlow Meets: Series One
Michael Palin, Mike Leigh, Tony Bennett, Paul Smith and Renee Fleming
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $120.00
Catalog No: MC-1290
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198129093
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Tim Marlow meets some of the world's most admired creative individuals to reveal how visual art inspires and motivates them in their life and work. In this series he meets Michael Palin, Mike Leigh, Tony Bennett, Paul Smith and Renée Fleming.
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Tim Marlow on Carsten Höller

US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $120.00
Catalog No: MC-1291
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
UPC: 880198129192
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German artist Carsten Höller undertakes the seventh commission in The Unilever Series. Tim follows the latest installation at Tate Modern's famous Turbine Hall in this exclusive look at the artist at work.
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Tim Marlow with Gilbert & George
"Major Exhibition" at Tate Modern & "London Pictures" at White Cube
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $200.00
Europe List: £21.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-1334
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist, Modern Culture
UPC: 880198133496
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Gilbert & George join Tim Marlow in a walk around their "Major Exhibition" at Tate Modern and "London Pictures" at White Cube. The self-proclaimed living sculptures discuss humanity, sex, death, race and religion; their love of the city and their dislike of the countryside. They explain how they go about creating their art, their iconic dress sense and their tricky relationships with the art establishment and the media. This film is a fascinating insight into their world and an important docume
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To Care
Video by Scott Pagano, Music by Rolf & Fonky
US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-573
2005, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198057396


A series of 8 of moving visual compositions created by video artist Scott Pagano to accompany the music of the Italian electronic music duo Rolf & Fonky (Mirco Uguccioni & Maurizio Ottavi).
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To Die For
The Images of Peter Kennard & Cat Picton Phillipps
US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-790
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 859392001054
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Over 8 hours of stunning imagery on one DVD. Turn your TV into an unlimited work of art with breathtaking still and moving images from world-renowned artists and photographers. Ambient in concept - there's no story-telling, no narrative, just a constant stream of compelling beauty.
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Todd P Goes to Austin

US List: $US 15.99
US Educational: $15.99
Europe List: £10.99 / 15.99€
Catalog No: MC-1186
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music
UPC: 880198118691
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Using never-before-seen footage, including material shot by the bands themselves, TODD P GOES TO AUSTIN exposes what life is like surviving and touring at the underground level. Interviews with Todd about the necessity of independent music and creativity connect the bands as they tour down to Austin, TX to appear in the DIY music scene's answer to the SXSW Music Festival.
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Tokyo Streets
by fashionshow.ch
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-662
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 880198066299
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Following the success of their first DVD – Swiss Fashion Design, the creative designers of fashionshow.ch would like to introduce to the world the lifestyle of the residents of Tokyo. The images gathered over a month's stay in Tokyo.
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Too Many Nights
The Images of Bob Carlos Clarke
US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-677
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0,
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 859392001009
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Bob Carlos Clarke is Britain's leading photographer specializing in female sensuality. He is renowned for his striking silver prints which are highly prized by collectors worldwide. With style, sensitivity and a sense humor uncommon in the genre, Carlos Clarke balances his highly-charged images on the razor-edge of fine art, and nobody does it better.
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Tooth and Nail: Film and Video 1970-74 by Dennis Oppenheim

US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-778
2007, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Video Art / Film Art
ISBN: 0-9714848-9-9 UPC: 880198077899
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Dennis Oppenheim (born 1938) has received international attention for a conceptual oeuvre spanning performance, video, sculpture, installation, and land art. In the early 1970s, Dennis Oppenheim was in the vanguard of artists using film and video to investigate themes relating to body and performance. This portfolio features a selection of his works known as the Aspen Tapes, produced between 1970 and 1974, in which Oppenheim uses his own body as a site of experimentation on the personal.
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Top of His Head, The
by Peter Mettler
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $150.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-697
1989, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780978292904 UPC: 094922719287
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The story of Gus Victor, a satellite dish salesman whose ordered world is turned upsidedown by a radical and alluring performance artist. A cryptic note left by Lucy leads Gus on a quest which draws him out of the tyranny of the material world, to open his perceptions in the most unexpected and awesome ways. By the time Gus discovers that the object of his search is his own self, that self has altered, concluding the film in a mysterious, yet stunning fashion.
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Toward the Margin of Life
From Primitive Man to Population Crisis - Photographs and words by Cornell Capa
US List: $US 14.95
US Educational: $14.95
Europe List: £10.99 / 14.95€
Catalog No: MC-911
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Photography
UPC: 880198091192
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Made in 1973 as part of a series which he organized, the audiovisual presentation provides a candid glimpse into Cornell Capa's world of concerned photography.
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Towncraft
Notes From a Local Scene
US List: $US 29.98
US Educational: $29.98
Europe List: £21.99 / 29.98€
Catalog No: MC-1257
2007, Box Set, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music
UPC: 881131000837


Towncraft - through film, words and music - is an anatomy of a scene: an intimate portrait of a small American town and how it is affected by its music scene. Towncraft examines how participating and producing in a local music scene can change your life.
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Trimpin - The Sound of Invention
Featuring the Kronos Quartet
US List: $US 29.95
Europe List: £21.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1267
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music
UPC: 880198126795
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TRISHA BROWN: Early Works 1966-1979
2-DVD Set
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 40.00€
Catalog No: MC-525
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Dance
ISBN: 9780966801064 UPC: 857285001013
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The first DVD of this two DVD set presents film and video footage by filmmakers, including Babette Mangolte, Carlotta Schoolman and Jonathan Demme, of eighteen of Brown's major performances from 1966 to 1979. A companion DVD is a conversation between Trisha Brown and art historian, Klaus Kertess.
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Typeface - Modern Design and Traditional Technique Examined

US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Catalog No: MC-1266
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Design / Fashion
ISBN: 9781608834716 UPC: 841887014748 EAN:


“Typeface” focuses on a rural Midwestern museum (Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum) in Two Rivers, Wisconsin where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.
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Un Chien Andalou
A Film by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-721
1929, DVD, NTSC, Feature
Genre: Experimental
ISBN: 1-84068-200-0 UPC: 824820192994
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Made in 1929, Un Chien Andalou (The Andalusian Dog) is regarded as the first film produced purely from within the Surrealist Movement, and a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between Salvador Dali and acclaimed director Luis Buñuel, this tale of unfulfilled desire opens innocently with the words "Once upon a time."
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Universe of Keith Haring, The
A film by Christina Clausen
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-835
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 1-4229-7115-5 UPC: 767685208564


The creator of some of the most popular, enduring images of late 20th-century art, Keith Haring was also an iconic figure of the downtown New York scene in the '80s. Christina Clausen's documentary offers an affectionate, deeply personal glimpse into Haring's life, from his early years growing up in a small, conservative Pennsylvania town to his heyday as a world-renowned artist.
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Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941
7 DVDs, 19 hours
US List: $US 99.99
US Educational: $99.99
Europe List: £66.99 / 99.99€
Catalog No: MC-448
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Collection / Set
Genre: Art / Artist, Experimental
UPC: 014381059229


The DVD series represents 100 avant-garde, professional, and amateur filmmakers working before World War II and is considerably refined from the touring film program. It is curated by Bruce Posner and produced by film historian David Shepard, known for his high-quality DVD restorations such as The Lost World, the Landmarks of Early Cinema series, and many other cinema masterworks: The General (Buster Keaton), The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith), and The Chaplin Essanay and Mutual comedies.
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Urbanized
A documentary film by Gary Hustwit
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Catalog No: MC-1306
2012, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Architecture
UPC: 767685265024 EAN:


A feature-length documentary about the design of cities, URBANIZED looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
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Variations VII by John Cage
E.A.T. - 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $25.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-749
2008, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Short
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 978-0-9668010-8-8 UPC: 880198074997
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The next to last in John Cage's series of indeterminate works that he had begun in 1958, which made increasing use of electronic equipment and systems. This DVD documents the only complete performance of Variations VII and also presents a stereo audio recording of the full 85 minutes of the performance.
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vE-jA: Art + Technology of Live Audio-Video
by Xarene Eskandar 192 page book with 68-minute DVD
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 40.00€
Catalog No: MC-647
2006, Book+DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Ambient / Visuals / VJ
ISBN: 0-9765060-5-X UPC: 780976 506058 EAN:
microcinema exclusive


'vE-"jA is a global snapshot of a genre of tech-art performance: VJing and live audio-video. The book covers 40 international artists with 400+ colour images and 50+ movies and clips on an accompanying DVD and web downloads.
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Vermeer: Master of Light
A National Gallery of Art Film
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-951
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198095190
microcinema exclusive


A visual quest in search of “what makes a Vermeer a Vermeer.” It is a journey of discovery, guiding the viewer through an exploration of Vermeer's paintings and examining the “secrets” of his technique. Each frame of the film emulates the subtlety of Vermeer, with particular emphasis placed on lighting and composition.
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Vincent - the Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh
A Passionate Tribute to the Life of an Artistic Genius
US List: $US 26.95
US Educational: $26.95
Europe List: £17.99 / 26.95€
Catalog No: MC-433
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 0-7670-8339-3 UPC: 767685974339


Called “the most profound exploration of an artist's soul ever to be put on film” (Village Voice), and one of the Top 10 documentaries the year it was released, this brilliant portrait of Vincent Van Gogh is a shattering journey through the life of a tortured genius who, spurned in his own time, became the single most influential artist of modern history.
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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1137
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Architecture
UPC: 767685218495


Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.
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Vito Acconci in Conversation at Acconci Studio, New York

US List: $US 30.00
US Educational: $30.00
Europe List: £20.99 / 30.00€
Catalog No: MC-825
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: New Media
ISBN: 978-0-9815409-3-1 UPC: 796873061377
microcinema exclusive


Features a conversation between the artist and architect, Vito Acconci, and undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania. During the 2007-2008 academic year, students in the Halpern-Rogath Seminar in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania explored Vito Acconci's engagement with the experience of power, understood through the activation of specific bounded zones.
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Warriors of the Discotheque
A documentary about the legendary Starck Club
US List: $US 19.95
US Educational: $14.98
Europe List: £15.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-1329
2011, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Documentary, Music, LGBT, Architecture
UPC: 886470324484 EAN:
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A documentary about the legendary and notorious Starck Club in Dallas, TX. The Starck Club was world-renowned designer Philippe Starck's first major design in North America. In addition, it was ground zero for the popularization of the dance drug MDMA, aka ecstasy.
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Warts & All: Films of Danny Plotnick, The
Comedic Missives from the American Underground
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-737
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Comedy / Satire
UPC: 880198073792
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Danny Plotnick roared into the underground film world in the 1980s. Fueled by his love of punk and alternative culture and infected with d.i.y. spirit, he started making films that captured a similarly snarly attitude. Here is a compilation of five of his films. The special features on this dvd are an important document for students of film, providing a rare glimpse into the world of sound super 8 filmmaking.
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Waste Land
A film by Lucy Walker
US List: $US 29.95
Catalog No: MC-1252
2010, DVD, , Feature
Genre: Documentary, Political / Social
ISBN: 1422915131 UPC: 767685239308


WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump. His collaboration with the garbage pickers as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the pickers as they begin to re-imagine their lives.
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Way Things Go, The
A Film by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
US List: $US 19.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-335
1997, DVD, NTSC, Short
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 854565001206


Inside a warehouse, artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss build an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items - tea kettles, tires, old shoes, balloons, wooden ramps, etc. Then, with fire, water, gravity, and chemistry, they create a spectacular chain reaction, a self destructing performance of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely-crafted chaos worthy of Rube Goldberg or Alfred Hitchcock.
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What About Style? Alex Katz
Written and directed by Heinz Peter Schwerfel
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-817
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 736899118020


For over 50 years, painter Alex Katz has bucked trends in modern art to pioneer and refine his own style of flat, elegant, and realistic figure painting. What About Style? offers an uncluttered view of this American maverick. Filmmaker and art critic Heinz Peter Schwerfel captures the elusive Katz working in his Maine studio and his Soho flat, laboring over a 32-foot painting called The Black Brook. Interviews, archival footage, images of his subjects, and a virtual tour of 20 Katz paintings.
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What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Directed by Steven Cantor
US List: $US 29.99
US Educational: $195.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.99€
Catalog No: MC-772
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Photography
UPC: 7959751098333 EAN:


As one of the world's preeminent photographers, Sally Mann creates artwork that challenges viewers' values and moral attitudes. Spanning five years, What Remains contains unbridled access to the many stages of Mann's work.
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Which Way is East - Notebooks from Vietnam
film by Lynne Sachs in collaboration with Dana Sachs
US List: $US 19.95
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.95€
Catalog No: MC-465
1994, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Documentary, Political / Social
UPC: 880198046598
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Lynne and Dana Sachs' travel diary of their trip to Vietnam is a collection of tourism, city life, culture clash, and historic inquiry that's put together with the warmth of a quilt. This documentary starts as a road trip and flowers into a political discourse.
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Who Gets to Call it Art?
The New York art scene of the 60's and the man who made it POP!
US List: $US 26.99
US Educational: $26.99
Europe List: £17.99 / 26.99€
Catalog No: MC-542
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 660200313524


Featuring never-before-seen footage of legendary artists, exclusive interviews and an elite variety of the ‘Who's Who' New York entertainment scene. The film explores one of the most creatively fertile periods of American Art, profiling Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, David Hockney, and James Rosenquist … pioneers of the New York Pop Art scene, who shocked the world with their amazing talent and ability to capture inner beauty while redefining the meaning of art.
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Wild Wheels
by Harrod Blank
US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $75.00
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-567
1992, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
ISBN: 0-933621-10-8 UPC: 881359000015


Filmmaker Harrod Blank's comic and revealing exploration of Art Cars, personally customized automobiles which reflect the individualistic spirit of their drivers. Traveling across the country in his own wildly decorated VW bug, Blank discovers a memorable cast of real-life characters who are obsessed with transforming their cars into mobile works of art.
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William Eggleston In The Real World
directed by Michael Almereyda
US List: $US 26.99
US Educational: $26.99
Europe List: £17.99 / 26.99€
Catalog No: MC-505
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Photography
UPC: 660200312824


Filmmaker Michael Almereyda poses a fundamental question to the renowned photographer, William Eggleston, "What does it mean to see the world so differently that "common" images are converted into unforgettable photos?"
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William Eggleston: Photographer

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-910
2008, DVD, NTSC, Short
Genre: Art / Artist, Photography
UPC: 880198091093
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The film documents how Eggleston came to develop his technique of art photography. It shows the first black-and-white photographs made at the beginning of Eggleston's career. Here the influence of Henri Cartier Bresson's decisive moment is still evident. Yet Eggleston went his own artistic way early on. Elements of his later work in color can already be discerned in the composition of the black-and-white photographs.
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William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Catalog No: MC-1233
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
ISBN: 9781608833191 UPC: 841887013222


William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible provides a rare, in-depth look at the life and work of the internationally acclaimed South African artist, William Kentridge. Working in a variety of media–including sculpture, drawing, animation, tapestry, film, theater, and opera–Kentridge tackles a broad range of subjects, from cataclysmic historical events to poignant personal moments.
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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

US List: $US 29.95
US Educational: $29.95
Europe List: £19.99 / 29.95€
Catalog No: MC-1130
2009, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 767685212387


In William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore the life of their father, the late radical civil rights lawyer. In the 1960s and 70s, Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the famed Chicago 8 activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer.
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William Wegman's Alphabet Soup

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-562
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Children / Family
UPC: 890157001018
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A is for Alphabet, B is for Batty, C is for Crooky! Renowned artist William Wegman brings his dogs (Fay Ray and offspring Batty, Chundo and Crooky) together on DVD to teach children the alphabet.
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William Wegman's Fay's Twelve Days of Christmas

US List: $US 14.99
US Educational: $14.99
Europe List: £9.99 / 14.99€
Catalog No: MC-563
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Short
Genre: Children / Family
UPC: 890157001025
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How many Wegman Weimaraners does it take to count the Twelve Days of Christmas? Willam Wegman brings together his famous family of Weimaraners to get ready for the holidays in a witty and delightful festival of decorating, crafts, cooking, gift wrapping, fruitcake, and more.
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William Wegman's The Hardly Boys in Hardly Gold
Plus 90 minutes of Special Features!
US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $99.00
Europe List: £13.99 / 19.99€
Catalog No: MC-706
2008, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0 (All), Shorts Compilation
Genre: Children / Family
UPC: 880198070692
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Beautifully shot in 35-mm, this compilation is a high-comedy action adventure written and directed by artist William Wegman, starring his well-known Weimaraners, Fay Ray, Battina, Crooky and Chundo.
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William Wegman: Video Works 1970-1999
2-DVD Set
US List: $US 40.00
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £26.99 / 40.00€
Catalog No: MC-524
2006, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Video Art / Film Art
UPC: 857285001006
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A definitive 2-DVD compilation of over 150 videos made by the artist William Wegman and re-mastered by him exclusively for ARTPIX in 2006. From the earliest black and white reel-to-reel tapes to the most recent digital color videos this collection has not been previously assembled and available on disc. It is an exhaustive archive of the innovative and influential, and often hilarious, performances of the artist both with and without his Weimeraner friend, Man Ray.
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Wind in Our Hair
a film by Lynne Sachs
US List: $US 20.00
US Educational: $40.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 21.00€
Catalog No: MC-1238
2010, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Short
Genre: Experimental
UPC: 880198123893
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Inspired by the stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, yet blended with the realities of contemporary Argentina, “Wind in Our Hair” is an experimental narrative about four girls discovering themselves through a fascination with the trains that pass by their house. A story of early-teen anticipation and disappointment, “Wind in Our Hair” is circumscribed by a period of profound Argentine political and social unrest.
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Wonderful World of Kittens!, The

US List: $US 19.99
US Educational: $19.99
Europe List: £13.99 / 17.99€
Catalog No: MC-1191
2008, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Children / Family
UPC: 824818000393
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Almost too cute to handle! You're invited to take a special look into the wonderful world of kittens! You'll see kittens frolicking, jumping, cuddling, eating, drinking, climbing, purring meowing, sleeping.... all while looking absolutely adorable!
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Words for the Dying

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $50.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-845
1990, DVD, NTSC, Region 0 (All), Feature
Genre: Music
UPC: 880198084590
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A revealing cinema verité portrait of the former Velvet Underground musician, John Cale, in creative collaboration with Brian Eno. Director Rob Nilsson follows them to Moscow, London and Wales for the recording of a new album, "Words for the Dying", built around four Dylan Thomas poems.
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Words of Advice - William S. Burroughs on the Road

US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-958
2007, DVD, NTSC & PAL, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Documentary
UPC: 880198095893
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This film documents the 1983 travels of William S. Burroughs' throughout Scandinavia and includes never-before-seen footage of his Copenhagen visit.
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Work of Director Anton Corbijn, The
Directors Label Series - Volume 6
US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-442
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music
UPC: 660200308124


Legendary photographer and director Anton Corbijn is responsible for many of the most indelible and important images of the past two and a half decades. His recently released book U2 & I is a photographic retrospective of his 25 year collaboration with U2. Later this year, Anton will direct his first feature film, Control, based on the life of the late Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis.
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Work of Director Chris Cunningham, The
The Director Label
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-243
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music
UPC: 6-60200-3069-2-2 EAN:


Chris Cunningham's life was spent immersed in creating some of the most hypnotic, dark, humorous and downright rude videos the industry had ever enjoyed. Artists he has worked with include Aphex Twin, Bjork, Madonna, Squarepusher, Autechre, Portishead and others.
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Work of Director Jonathan Glazer, The
Directors Label Series - Volume 5
US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-444
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music
UPC: 660200308223


Jonathan Glazer is a music video and commercial icon whose extraordinary work reveals his gift for intense visual ambition. Included on these discs are music videos by Radiohead, Richard Ashcroft, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Blur. Commercials for Wrangler Ride, Guinness, Volkswagen Protection, Stella Artois, Levis, and Barclays Bull (with Samuel L. Jackson) Interviews and Commentaries Including Nick Cave, Richard Ashcroft, Jamiroquai, Denis Lavant, 3D, Blur and James Lavelle.
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Work of Director Mark Romanek, The
Directors Label Series - Volume 4
US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-443
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music
UPC: 660200307929


Mark Romanek has directed many of the most distinctive and iconic music videos of the past decade. In 1999 he won the MTV Video Vanguard award. Included in this set are music videos for such artists as Jay-Z 99, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, Audioslave, No Doubt, Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Fiona Apple, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, Weezer, Sonic Youth, Michael & Janet Jackson, Madonna, R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz and more
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Work of Director Michel Gondry, The
The Director Label
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-244
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music
UPC: 6 60200 30702 8 EAN:


Michel Gondry is currently one of the most respected directors in the industry. In addition to his internationally acclaimed films he has made numerous music videos with wide-ranging artists such as Bjork, The Rolling Stones, Beck, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Foo Fighters, Lenny Kravitz, Sheryl Crow and Cibo Matto, White Stipes and Daft Punk.
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Work of Director Spike Jonze, The
The Director Label
US List: $US 24.99
US Educational: $24.99
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.99€
Catalog No: MC-242
2003, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music
UPC: 6 60200 30682 3 EAN:


Spike Jonze is most widely known as the director of Being John Malkovich (which garnered three Academy Award nominations) and Adaptation. However, Jonze also remains a pioneer in the world of music videos and for many years has been best known as an award-winning music video, short film and commercial director.
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Work of Director Stephane Sednaoui, The
Directors Label Series - Volume 7
US List: $US 24.98
US Educational: $24.98
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.98€
Catalog No: MC-445
2005, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Music
UPC: 660200308025


Sednaoui's career took off with the phenomenal success of his videos for Red Hot Chili Peppers "Give It Away" and U2's "Mysterious Ways" in the early 1990's and ever since he has been redefining music videos and photography with his stylish and unique work.
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World Is So Beautiful by Takagi Masakatsu

US List: $US 15.98
US Educational: $15.98
Europe List: £10.99 / 15.98€
Catalog No: MC-640
2002, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist, Ambient / Visuals / VJ
UPC: 677517003628


Takagi Masakatsu doesn't create, as much as bring out what's already right there in front of us. Using his travels around the world (Turkey, Guatamala, Cuba, Indonesia, Nepal, Germany, Japan and France) as source footage, Takagi has documented young people and the beauty in everyday life that surrounds us all.
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World of Buckminster Fuller, The
A Film by Academy Award Winner Robert Snyder
US List: $US 24.95
US Educational: $24.95
Europe List: £16.99 / 24.95€
Catalog No: MC-1108
1971, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Architecture
UPC: 804879119890
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Buckminster Fuller spent much of his life traveling the world lecturing and discussing his ideas with thousands of audiences. Now more relevant than ever, this film captures Fuller's ideas and thinking told in his own words.
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World of Gilbert & George, The

US List: $US 39.99
US Educational: $39.99
Europe List: £26.99 / 39.99€
Catalog No: MC-723
2007, DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Feature
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 8 95244 00100 1 EAN:


Written and directed by the artists and released to coincide with their major international traveling retrospective beginning in 2007 at Tate Modern in London, the feature-length film The World of Gilbert & George is an extraordinary journey into the work of this lively and controversial duo.
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Wrekage
DVD and 24 page booklet documenting over 5 years of installation work by the artist group Keep Adding.
US List: $US 25.00
US Educational: $25.00
Europe List: £16.99 / 25.00€
Catalog No: MC-649
2006, Book+DVD, NTSC, Region 0, Shorts Compilation
Genre: Art / Artist
UPC: 880198064998


Over five years in the making, this DVD documents “A History of Wrekage” by the artist group Keep Adding. Co-produced by videographer and artist Scott Pagano, the documentary gives viewers an up-close and behind the scenes view of Keep Adding's site-specific installation works.
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Yves St. Laurent - His Life and Times
Special Collector's Edition includes: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
US List: $US 26.98
Europe List: £17.99 / 26.98€
Catalog No: MC-322
2004, DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Feature
Genre: Design / Fashion
UPC: 843171005265


For the last forty years, Yves St. Laurent has reigned as one of the most influential and brilliantly inspired couturiers of our times. His dramatic designs, emphasizing the body and a seductive elegance, and his conceptual innovations such as the pant suit for women, have completely revolutionized women's fashion.
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