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Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author and historian Amanda Vickery hosts this engrossing look into an often-overlooked subject: the life and work of female artists. The series offers a comprehensive examination of women artists, beginning with the Renaissance and ending with the early twentieth century.
2) Seeing red
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
'Seeing Red' is the latest work from veteran avant-garde filmmaker Su Friedrich. In this, one of her most deeply personal films to date, Friedrich takes a look back at her evolution both as a woman and as an artist, tackling her own insecurities via several on-camera diary entries. While 'Seeing Red' is a film about the existential crises of the individual, it is also a film about what unites all humanity and what unites humanity with all the matter...
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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Painter Wendy Sharpe is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and travelling scholarships including the Sulman Prize (1996), the Archibald Portrait Prize (1996), and the Portia Geach Memorial Prize (1995 & 2003). In 1998, Wendy was commissioned by the city of Sydney to paint a series of eight murals, on the life of swimmer Annette Kellerman, for the Cook and Philip Park Aquatic Centre in Sydney. And in 1999, she was commissioned by the Australian...
Publisher
[Distributed by] Gaiam/ Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Uninspired and newly single painter Sara is down on her luck and wants nothing more than to get away from her problems. When she decides to take a trip to visit her mom, she becomes involved in a mission to save a local church which is in danger of being closed down. Determined to help preserve the historic building, Sara embarks on a mission that not only gives her a new outlook on life, but enables her mother to rekindle a long lost love from her...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Five women. Five artists. One city. In this "lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination" (The New York Times), filmmaker Chiara Clemente shines a light on five women artists whose inspiration is fueled by living in the "cauldron of creativity"--New York City. 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...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A unique film following an international cast of three generations of women artists from Cairo, France, Germany, Iran, the United States and the United Kingdom who are forging their careers in the London art scene. The film takes you on an intimate but fast-paced journey, moving the lens between art and life to reveal the dynamic and multi-faceted story of this enigmatic calling. Ultimately, MIRRORS TO WINDOWS shows that it is in the negotiation between...
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille 's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics. Suffering from bouts of paranoia, she focuses on her...
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