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Visual Arts
see all genres ›Whether created from molded clay, acrylic paint or flickering light on a wall, visual arts and their makers are natural cinematic subjects.
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SUB-GENRES · Ceramics · Motion Pictures · Painting · Photography · Sculpture
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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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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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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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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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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
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Autour de la roue
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative productions of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE is a film of mythic stature. Poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars shot this illuminating behind-the-scenes footage in the midst of the film’s difficult location work. He captures the elaborate technical setups...Start your free trial to watch
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Back to Normandy
BACK TO NORMANDY is a film about the passage of time. In seeking out the cast, Philibert explores how we make connections between past and present, creating our own meaningful and personal narratives. As Phillibert reveals the motivations for the crime of Pierre Rivière, we also learn of the mysterious...Start your free trial to watch
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The Beaches of Agnès
A reflection on art, life and the movies, THE BEACHES OF AGNES is a magnificent film from the great Agnes Varda, director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7, a richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy (THE UMBRELLAS OF...Start your free trial to watch
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Before the Nickelodeon
Noted film historian Charles Musser (author of "The Emergence of Cinema") co-wrote and directed this definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter, Thomas Edison’s mechanic and cameraman, who is now recognized as America’s first important filmmaker and a major contributor to the evolution of film structure. Porter...Start your free trial to watch
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Between 2 Deaths
Cross-dissolves become the stuff of séance in this uncanny contemplation of Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO. Expertly matching the film's San Francisco locations and camera positions, Wago Kreider visits a second layer of absence upon Hitchcock’s already haunting masterpiece.Start your free trial to watch
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Black Hollywood
Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and the black audience in American movies. Remember the early 80s: hip hop had just been born, break dancing filled clubs and streets and Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor were the only two black stars...Start your free trial to watch
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Blank City
BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (Los Angeles Times) when a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970s through the mid-'80s, when the East Village was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these...Start your free trial to watch
