The Terry Jones Collection

2 Disc Box Set

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.

Contents:

“Fascinating” - Daily Mail “Highly Enjoyable” - Radio Times “Jones makes history jolly” - The Sunday Telegraph

Great Artists Two
With Tim Marlow:

A collection of the entire 12 program series

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.

Each episode takes a fresh look at the artists, their work and the world in which they lived. We learn why John Constable, often considered to be a painter of chocolate box scenes of the English countryside, was in fact, a radical artist of his time. We see how Goya’s masterful painting style and haunting visions combined to produce some of the most powerful images in the history of Western Art.

We discover how the American painter Mary Cassatt, the only female artist in the series, challenged the male dominated world in which she lived, and against the odds, became the only American accepted into the group known as the Impressionists. And why Caravaggio, who lived a life marred by violence and even murder, produced some of the most remarkable art ever made.

Bill Plympton’s
Dog Days:

A Collection of Short Films 2004-2008

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.

Included in this collection:

Bill’s Dirty Shorts MC# 555

Day is Done -
A Film by Mike Kelley:

Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #2 - #32

Day Is Done, a major new video work by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, is a feature-length musical. 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. Each reconstruction is a live-action scene that has been extrapolated from photographs found in high school yearbooks. Their subjects are the kinds of institutionalized entertainments practiced within the American education system or the work place. These include such familiar diversions from the day-to-day routine as dress-up days, memorial speeches, religious spectacles, fashion shows, singles mixers, and musical follies. The actors have been cast based on their resemblance to the figures in the found photographs, and the sets eerily recreate the original locales: harshly spot-lit stages, bland institutional hallways, meeting rooms, and gymnasiums. While each chapter of Day Is Done is derived entirely from an image of a quite standardized folk ritual, Kelley disrupts the traditional structures of such events to construct a dizzying daisy chain of performances that results in an institutional landscape populated by dancing Goths, singing vampires, hick story-tellers, horse dancers, and the Virgin Mary.

Originally presented as a 50 channel video/sculpture installation at the Gagosian Gallery New York, in December of 2005, this version of Day is Done has been re-edited into a single channel format for private viewing.