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Publisher
Les Blank Films
Language
English
Description
Lightnin' Hopkins sings about playing cards with Les Blank and Skip Gerson - a card game he won which turned critical to the making of the film "The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins." After filming 13 songs, Lightnin' had told Les and Skip that he was done filming. As a last resort Les asked Lightnin' to play cards and he lost {dollar}200. But then Lightnin' agreed to film more. 3 1/2 min Color.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Art is one of the oldest activities on Earth, even predating science or math. But too often we forget it is a basic part of a balanced, healthy life. And women and art rarely get serious attention in our culture. Older women in art are virtually ignored. TRIPTYCH is about three women in their seventies who've devoted their entire adult lives to making art. They show us what they do and how they do it. Lana Wilson is a mother and grandmother who has...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Formats
Description
This touching documentary chronicles the long and colorful life of Lily Yeh, an artist who has committed herself to creating community-based art projects in some of the world's most troubled areas.. Beginning with the creation of an unprecedented sculpture garden in the projects of North Philly that became known as "The Village of Arts and Humanities," THE BAREFOOT ARTIST also shows Yeh working in various far-flung locations, such as Kenya and Rwanda,...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
WITKIN AND WITKIN explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter and life long educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art and personal relationship. A film about perception and growing older, two artists who shared a childhood but whose lives took very different directions.
6) Fiddlin’
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sister filmmakers, Julie Simone and Vicki Vlasic return to their Appalachian roots to film at the world's oldest Fiddler's Convention. With multiple generations jamming together, Fiddlin' is a love-letter to American roots and the uplifting power of music. Audience Favorite at the **Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival**. *"[A]n undeniably heartfelt if overlong affair, especially for the uninitiated." - Michael Rechtshaffen, **Los Angeles Times***...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
IT'S BAD FOR YA, Carlin's Emmy-nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the decrepit state of the American culture. Carlin once again comes up with an hour of brand new material that not only makes you laugh, but makes...
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Starting his career with Nichols and May, training most of the original cast of SNL and forming Second City, and being the inspiration for the ever popular Upright Citizens Brigade theater (UCB), there isn't a comic working today who wasn't fostered or mentored in some way by Del Close.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After assembling mock assault rifles out of everyday found objects, sculptor David Hess decides to turn them into an experimental public art installation to explore America’s obsession with guns. The fruits of that mission comprise the story of Gun Show, a fascinating and deeply moving documentary that steers clear of advocating a position and instead invites meaningful dialogue about the cultural power of guns. Beginning in Hess’s sculpture studio,...
11) Party Dream
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The story of Gil Mantera's Party Dream - the craziest live band you've never seen. Footage from their insane live show provides a vicarious thrill, fueled by electronic rock, ridiculous fashion and no small amount of booze.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Zaha Hadid discusses her current work while taking the camera through her retrospective exhibition "Zaha Hadid has arrived" at Vienna's MAK, a museum for design and contemporary art. The centerpiece is a sculptural work entitled "Ice Storm" especially created for the exhibition. "Zaha Hadid has arrived" is a brilliant review of her progress through the last decade and includes: her museums of contemporary art in Rome and Cincinnati, the BMW plant...
13) Tom of Finland
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, influencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness. But who was the man behind the leather? Dome Karukoski's stirring biopic follows his life from the trenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California,...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
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. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS beautifully bares the artist’s process—and it’s as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves. Nominated for a Documentary...
15) Stoney Knows How
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
A paraplegic dwarf, a carnival sword-swallower as a child and a tattoo artist since 1928, the late Leonard St. Clair, nicknamed Stoney, is an ebullient little man with the gift of the gab (spoken in the accents of Appalachia) and a fund of bizarre stories about tattooing and other unrelated matters.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who had established his own position at age 30 among the many ‘isms’ of the time, just before the advent of the Nazi takeover. Soon his art was labeled “decadent” by the Hitler regime. His paintings were removed from museum collections, he could no longer show new work in galleries, or even purchase art supplies. Soon after the end of WWII, Nay returned...
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Widely considered Britain’s most popular artist, David Hockney is a global sensation with exhibitions in London, New York, Paris and beyond, attracting millions of visitors worldwide. Now entering his 9th decade, Hockney shows absolutely no evidence of slowing down or losing his trademark boldness. Featuring intimate and in-depth interviews with Hockney, this revealing film focuses on two blockbuster exhibitions held in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
This retrospective exhibition gives brilliant insight into the artist’s work of the last 4 decades. Credit for this highly sensitive selection of Morris’ work goes to Rosalind Krauss, who curated the exhibition. We invited artist and curator to come back to the Guggenheim Museum for a second look at the exhibition. The filmed walk-through gives a vivid sense of the artist’s progress and documents the views of the artist and Rosalind Krauss,...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
In his London studio, British painter Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester, a friend and close observer of his art since the late 1940s. Central to their conversation are Bacon’s controversial, horrifying subjects, and surprising style. His representations of the human figure in portraits and triptychs link him, in his view, to the distorted realism of Van Gogh and Picasso, who also portrayed the intensity of life that...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Every November, nearly half a million 4th graders read “Island of the Blue Dolphins”. For many, this is their first real reading experience, their first 'chapter book.' Educators selected Scott O'Dell's novel because it's a very exciting story of survival and empowerment, sort of a female Robinson Crusoe. Overall, almost 10 million copies have been sold. The book tells the story of a 12 year-old Native American girl who was left alone for 18 years...
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