IN CONVERSATION:
KENTRIDGE & DUMAS

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.

Great Artists One with Tim Marlow MC#1272

Great Artists Two with Tim Marlow MC#972

JOAN MIRÓ

THE LADDER OF ESCAPE
A National Gallery of Art film

Joan Miró was passionately committed to his native Catalonia and its struggle for independence from Spain. But he also longed to escape into artistic freedom. This tension drove his art in strange and beautiful ways. Miró was by turns influenced by Dada, surrealism, and abstract expressionism. His changes in styles and subjects also reflected the horrific events of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorship of Franco. This documentary includes original footage shot in Barcelona and Catalonia, interviews with scholars, images of Miró’s paintings and sculpture, and archival footage and photos.

J.M.W. Turner - A National Gallery Production MC#729

DIRTY OLD TOWN

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.

“Oddly touching”
      - Jim Jarmusch

“The streets of New York at their most sublime”
      - W Magazine

“It grabs hold of something sad and sweet” -
      - The Village Voice

“Drips with sweaty ambiance and guerilla-style energy."
      - Variety

Ghost Bird MC#1192

ON THE POLITICAL EQUATOR

Sergio Fajardo in conversation with Oscar Romo and
Teddy Cruz

This publication raises critical socio-political questions and offers insight into how cultural practitioners and organizations can engage publics in larger dialogue. It responds to the widening gap between wealth and poverty, the polarizing politics of fear and paranoia, and the radically conservative social agenda that has fundamentally impacted urban planning policy and legislation in the United States. These developments have led to increased privatization, the erosion of public culture, and the polarization of the individual and the collective. Against this backdrop, Latin America has begun to chart a very different course, an alternative future.

Latin American governments, from Brazil to Colombia, have produced a paradigm shift in matters of urban development, seeking—like no other place in the world—to reconnect public policy, social justice, and civic imagination. Slought convened three leading thinkers concerned with these issues— mathematician, former mayor of MedellÍn, now governor of Antioquia Sergio Fajardo; ecologist and director of the Tijuana river estuary Oscar Romo; and architect and urban thinker Teddy Cruz— at Don Felix Café along the San Ysidro/Tijuana border on June 3, 2011. What methodologies and insights can we as cultural practitioners and concerned citizens learn from these urban experimenters in participatory politics?

Another Tomorrow MC#952

Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance MC#823