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About Jenny Holzer
An artist whose medium is language. For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer’s name has stood for a conceptual art that questions our perceptions and the way we are influenced by media and politics. Holzer has made LED signs (typically identified with advertising) her trademark. These blinking, flickering...Start your free trial to watch
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Accelerated Under-Development
What is a filmmaker? It is this vague, perhaps vain question that Travis Wilkerson hoped to answer clearly when he went to Cuba to question Santiago Alvarez, a legend of militant cinema. Although he had seen none of his films, Wilkerson did an interview with the master that quickly became something of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Accordion Tribe
Five highly original musicians from different countries form the Accordion Tribe. Together they aim to reinforce the original power of the long disdained instrument. Stefan Schwietert‘s film follows the energetic soundscapes and their performers on a journey through Europe. An extraordinarily intensive documentary on the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Advocate for Fagdom
At turns a transgressive artist, the spiritual son of Kenneth Anger and John Waters or leader of the Queercore movement, one thing is certain: Bruce LaBruce makes small budget movies full of hardcore sex and political messages in which he happily crushes any gay attitude clichés, mocks dramatic set ups and...Start your free trial to watch
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Photographer
This is the behind-the-scenes look at the character and the style of one of the most important photojournalists of the 20th century, the premier LIFE magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt. This film reveals a rare view of "Eisey" as he returns to Germany to photograph his homeland for his book,...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Guy Films a "Phonoscène"
Alice Guy-Blanché frames the making of a “phonoscène” (a forerunner to sound film) as a kind of Russian nesting doll, with a well-lit scene taking place within the darkened activity of its mechanical reproduction. The camera stays in the shadows, slowly panning as the crew readies itself to film a courtly...Start your free trial to watch
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American
Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on. Like many who have a strong sense of their place in history and die too soon, Hicks left a large unseen legacy: his collection of video recordings and hundreds of photographs that became...Start your free trial to watch
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American Carny
Step right up and come on the inside, beyond the banners and into the morbid curiosity that is the American Sideshow. Join Carnival Maestro Todd Robbins and award-winning filmmaker Nick Basile on a journey into a world of circus freaks, fire eaters, human blockheads, contortionists, professional lunatics and much, much more.Start your free trial to watch
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An American Journey
Robert Frank’s "The Americans" (1958) transformed the landscape of contemporary photography. An exile from Europe, Frank criss-crossed the United States with his camera, searching for the uncomfortable truths of his adopted home. The resulting book was the defining work of photographic art in the 20th...Start your free trial to watch
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Anamorphosis
Stephen and Timothy Quay's interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the concept of ANAMORPHOSIS. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles,...Start your free trial to watch
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Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Annabelle Whitford, known as Peerless Annabelle, had her debut at the Columbia Exposition in Chicago. Although hardly a stage star on the order of Carmencita, films of her performances proved popular and the negatives wore out quickly (meaning that she appeared frequently before Thomas Edison's cameras...Start your free trial to watch
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Art of Faith
ART OF FAITH is a visually sumptuous documentary triptych revealing outstanding examples of the art and architecture of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The film brings to life many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings through stunning photography and interviews with the people who know and love them....Start your free trial to watch
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The Artists
Director Susanne Ullerich had often asked herself, “How will I earn money [as an artist]?” Because she couldn’t easily answer this and many other questions, she decided to interview other like-minded people. The interviews all take place in a studio, where the goal was to place the interviewees in a sort of job interview...Start your free trial to watch
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Athens, GA: Inside Out
Led by the success of the B-52's and R.E.M., Athens, Georgia was the most happening music scene in the country by the mid 80's. Following several different bands from different genres, this film paints Athens as a magical artistic environment where bands are not in competition, but co-exist in harmony and...Start your free trial to watch
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Atomic Filmmakers
This extraordinary documentary chronicles Hollywood's Top Secret Film Studio that for over twenty years photographed hundreds of nuclear weapons tests and other classified projects. Their work is among the most spectacular ever captured on film. From the Nevada desert to remote Pacific atolls to outer...Start your free trial to watch
