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61) Fly in a Bottle
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Taking a look into the minds and lives of the band, Medeski Martin & Wood, the drummer and percussionist Billy Martin directed the first feature film in the band's history. Working through a year-long period of personal 16mm film and HD camcorder footage of MMW on the road and in the studio during the Radiolarians recordings, FLY IN A BOTTLE provides an extremely intimate portrait of Medeski Martin & Wood. It highlights the trio's intricate relationships...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Giselle Stanborough is an inter-media artist whose latest Instagram artwork, ‘Lozein’ is a fictional dating application. The Lozein Instagram feed is made up of digitally altered images featuring Giselle performing the role of an ‘entrepeneur’ to raise questions about how social media is changing our relationships.
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In the 1980s, "Bros" were one of the biggest bands in the world - for 15 minutes. The rise and fall of Bros was meteoric. This film charts twins Matt and Luke Goss's reunion 28 years on, having hardly spoken and not played together since their split. With an incredibly fractured relationship and only 3 weeks to go until sell-out gigs at The O2 London, will they be able to put their history aside and come together as brothers to play the show of their...
65) Our Time Machine
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When artist Maleonn realizes that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates “Papa’s Time Machine,” a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. Through the production of this play, the two men confront their mortality before time runs out and memories are lost forever.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
BOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT follows Basquiat's life pre-fame and how New York City, the times, the people and the movements surrounding him formed the artist he became. Using never-before-seen works, writings and photographs, director Sara Driver, who was part of the New York arts scene herself, worked closely and collaboratively with friends and other artists who emerged from that period: Jim Jarmusch, James Nares,...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A feature documentary as mercurial as its subject, George Maciunas, impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Fascinatingly contradictory interviews with artists, including Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik, and inventive sound and screen design, shape this rich portrait of a visionary artist. Dedicated to cooperative methods and expanded processes, everything could be Fluxus: kits, shops, festivals, islands,...
Pub. Date
1994.
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,...
Pub. Date
2012.
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...
Pub. Date
2012.
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...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
His profile takes us inside the life, struggles, philosophy and humor of a man who credits his success to the deliciousness of peanut butter. Featuring delightful animated interludes and interviews from colleagues, editors and his nine children, this look at Stevenson’s life - who is also a noted writer of children's books and a columnist for The New York Times - is a testament to observing the world from an original perspective.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Lexi is a self-described “queer freak from outer space”. With her mane of mermaid green hair and “cyberfemme” aesthetic, she has created a space on Instragram in which she can celebrate her “freakiness” and encourage others to feel comfortable in their skin and their choices.
75) Marcel Duchamp
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
This documentary explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists. The film breaks down Marcel Duchamp's legacy, applying it to historical events and trends in modern day conceptual art, internet and meme culture. Featuring leading artists and thinkers in today's art world, the documentary reveals how Duchamp's vision forever shifted public consciousness, and our understanding of aesthetics, art,...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A trippy, cinematic sleighride into the strange & sublime universe of alternative & underground Xmas music, featuring The Flaming Lips, Run-DMC, The Free Design, Low, Miles Davis & Bob Dorough, Clarence Carter, John Waters, and many more. Official Selection at the **San Francisco Documentary Film Festival** and **DOC NYC**.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Since 1946, Lucien Mouchet has been making small-scale reproductions of carousels and fairground scenes that existed in the past or are still in operation today. A machinist by trade, Mouchet retired nearly two decades ago, but his obsession with precision and detail has continued. To date, he has created 48 carousels; each is a functioning masterpiece that is constructed to be exactly 1/20 scale of the original. Mouchet works from photographs and...
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Described by Picasso and Matisse as “the father of us all” Paul Cézanne is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. During his life Cézanne painted almost a thousand works, two hundred of which were portraits. Despite this proliferation he remains the least well known of the impressionists and perhaps the most misunderstood. Cézanne - Portraits of a Life is based on a ‘never-to-be-repeated’ exhibition from the National Portrait...
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
After 500 years Bosch’s paintings still shock and fascinate us. Delve into the vivid imagination of this true visionary. Who was Hieronymus Bosch? Why do his strange and fantastical paintings resonate with people now more than ever? How does he bridge the medieval and Renaissance worlds? Where did his unconventional and timeless creations come from? Discover the answers to these questions and more with this remarkable new film from EXHIBITION ON...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
“ALICE” is an intimate portrayal of composer, arranger and teacher Alice Parker whose collaboration with Shaw resulted in nearly 200 choral arrangements of folk songs, spirituals, hymns, and carols. These arrangements are still widely performed today and are popular choices for countless high school, college and community choirs. In this unique documentary, filmmaker Montes-Bradley meets the composer over several days during the winter of her...
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