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A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre
MC-1274, 2011
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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. more >
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Alex Katz: Five Hours
MC-859, 1996
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This video captures the essence of Katz, that quality Robert Storr of the Museum of Modern Art defines as the unquantifiable “cool”, in a dazzling and moving display of commitment to the experience of painting. more >
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Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America
MC-871, 2005
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Blood Orgies:Hermann Nitsch in America (Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2008), a critical examination of pioneering work by Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch, with photo and video documentation of his ritualistic performances since 1962. more >
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Brazil: An Inconvenient History
MC-1287, 2000
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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. more >
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Decisive Moment, The
MC-1149, 2007
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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. more >
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Eco School House
MC-1259, 2011
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Eco School House is a documentary film about a community working together to build a sustainable future for its children. more >
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Edward Hopper
MC-683, 2007
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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. more >
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Fragile Machine
MC-384, 2005
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Merging computer animation and music in what many have called an "electronic operetta", the DVD tells the story of the first girl to be built in a factory instead of born from a womb.
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Gauguin: Maker of Myth
MC-1244, 2011
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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) moved away from impressionism to create a new art driven less by observation than imagination. His gifts as an artist were matched by his talent for creating myths about places, cultures, and most of all, himself. more >
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Gay Games 2011
MC-1278, 2011
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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. more >
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