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OVER 200 TITLES - Documentaries about Painters, Sculptors and Photographers from around the globe. From Community Art to large-scale installations, from the studio to the gallery, we are shown why and how Artists create their work. art History > Museum Collections > modern & CONTEMPORARY > installations / New media > Sculpture > Applied arts > Photography> Visual communication > Art Theory & Concept > Psychology of art > Community & Public Art > SECONDARY EDUCATION (K-12) > World Art >
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Treasures of Ancient Egypt
The High Art of the Low Countries
Sex and Sensibility The Allure of Art Nouveau
BAC-TreEgypt | 3 x 50’ DVD & Streaming
BAC-High | 150’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Sensibility | 3 x 50’ DVD & Streaming
Stepping aside from the well-worn usual clichés of this era, in this informative documentary art critic Alastair Sooke discovers how Egypt’s unique melting pot of geography and culture created some of the most remarkable treasures the world has ever seen. 3 Episodes: Episode 1: The Birth of Art Episode 2: The Golden Age Episode 3: A New Dawn
Incorporates three powerful films which look at how the artists of Belgium and Holland were in a constant search for identity in an area that was always politically contested. Renaissance Flanders, Dutch Golden Age, Van Gogh, Mondrian, Magritte and more...
A stunning exploration of an exceptional era in art, design and architecture. Filmed in London, Glasgow, Paris, Brussels and Vienna, discusses artists such as Beardsley, Horta, Guimard and Lalique and more...
Judgement Day: Images of Heaven & Hell
The Nude in Art with Tim Marlow
installations / New media> Sculpture > Applied arts > Photography > Visual communication > Art Theory & Concept > Psychology of art > Community & Public Art > SECONDARY EDUCATION (K-12) >
Art of America BAC-ArtAmerica | 150’ | DVD & Streaming Early Puritans, majestic 19th century landscapes, and a persistent paradox in American history - an ideology rooted in God and nature, but a reality seeped in blood and the destruction of the natural world. the rise of mechanisation, modernism and abstract expressionism: arguably the first unique and definitive ‘American’ art. the age of capitalism and beyond, including the pop art of the 1960s, a return to pantheism, and yet another paradox in contemporary American culture: ‘filthy’ money versus ‘pure’ art.
Art of Germany BAC-ArtGermany | 150’ | DVD & Streaming
World Art >
The great themes of Germanic art - an obsession with landscape, folk lore and national identity - by following a geographical as well as chronological journey through Germany, focusing on the cultural centres of each particular era. From the beginnings through the Baroque, Romanticism, Expressionism and Dada movements to the modern day. Discusses: Durer, Holbein, Caspar David Friedrich, Otto Dix, Joseph Beuys. Features: Gerhard Richter.
Art of Spain BAC-ArtSpain | 150’ | DVD & Streaming Treasures of Ancient Rome BAC-TreRome | 3 x 50’ DVD & Streaming The art of the Romans and what it really is – both the best insight to the Roman world and an important grounding for western art. 3 Episodes: Warts ‘N’ All Pomp and Perversion The Empire Strikes Back
SEV-Judge | 75’ |DVD & Streaming
SEV-Nude| 92’ | DVD & Streaming
The relationship between art and the afterlife, from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead to Stanley Spencer’s vision of heaven as a small English town. Also discusses: Buddhist & Islamic Art, Michealangelo, Mark Wallinger, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman and more...
This comprehensive and illuminating series charts the portrayal of the naked body throughout history from Classical times through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the Modern Era. Topics covered: Ancient & Classical / Renaissance / The Enlightenment / Modern Art
Explores some of Europe’s most important artists from Renaissance to Modernist - including Goya, Picasso, Dali, El Greco and Velasquez. Reveals rich insights into the culture and people who live and work with the greatest Spanish art and architecture every day. From Moorish art and the Islamic legacy on Spain and Europe to Modernism, Seville to Barcelona.
Art of Russia BAC-ArtRussia | 150’ | DVD & Streaming Begins with a celebration of the great age of the icon, when Russia was at its most intense and inward looking. Explores Peter the Great’s artistic revolution, the glory days of the Russian high baroque; and assesses the influence of “the Wanderers” - an extraordinary group of artists comparable to the Impressionists. Art of Russia concludes with a look at the tumultuous period of 20th century Russia, from the Revolution of 1917 to the present day.
recommended documentaries David Hockney Secret Knowledge
Da Vinci: The Lost Treasure
Apples, Pears & Paint How to Make a Still Life Painting
BAC-Hockney | 70’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Davinci| 60’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Apples | 50’ | DVD & Streaming
David Hockney, one of the world’s most celebrated living artists, demonstrates his incredible discovery that cameras were instrumental artists’ tools 400 years before the birth of photography.
A life, a legend - and a missing masterpiece?
Masterpieces brought to life
Leonardo da Vinci is considered by many to be one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet his reputation rests on only a handful of pictures - including the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci - The Lost Treasure tells the story of a new Leonardo which had been lost for centuries.
This richly detailed film journeys through the epic history of still life painting, featuring a range of delights from the earliest existing mural paintings discovered at Pompeii to the cubist masterpieces of Picasso.
In David Hockney - Secret Knowledge, Omnibus joins Hockney as he visits art galleries around the world, demonstrating his theory by showing how artists traced projected images to produce a realistic ‘photographic’ image. By the 20th Century, Hockney believes that photography had eclipsed the painted depiction of reality.
In Da Vinci - The Lost Treasure Fiona Bruce attempts to uncover the story of this enigmatic genius. She begins her journey in Leonardo’s birthplace, the small town of Vinci in Tuscany, and follows in his footsteps to Florence, where he was apprenticed to the master painter Verrocchio. In Paris, Fiona is given a private view of the Mona Lisa and learns the secret of how Leonardo achieved the extraordinary effect of the picture on generations of art lovers: by meticulously applying layer upon layer of paint thinly mixed with oil to produce a smoky, mysterious finish. And in New York, she is given an exclusive preview of a sensational discovery: a new Leonardo, thought to have disappeared centuries ago.
Awash with rich imagery of fruit and flowers as well as humble domestic objects, this lively take on the story of still life encompasses the work of some of the genre’s greatest artists, from Caravaggio to Cezanne. Still Life is also brought up to date by contemporary artists. Israeli born Ori Gersht’s super slow motion films presents the medium in a way it has never been seen before. With contributions from historians and art experts, this colourful programme opens up the huge social histories that lie behind the paintings and the fascinating lives of the people who made them.
art history
impressionism Manet Portraying Life
art history The Impressionists SEV-Imp | 8 x 24’ | DVD & Streaming The Impressionists have become the international superstars of Western painting. The works of Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and the great successors of Impressionism like Gauguin and Van Gogh appear everywhere and are well loved by the public and academics alike.
SEV-Manet| 91’ | DVD & Streaming
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh
In addition to their popularity and accessibility, for their time impressionist paintings were radical works of art, which instigated a revolution in the art world. The Impressionists broke away from traditional, academic art in their technique - by using touches of colour to capture movement and light and in their subject matter, depicting ordinary people at work and leisure in Paris and on the banks of the Seine.
PCO-Vincent | 95’ | DVD & Streaming
In this series we are reacquainted with the artists - their motivations and loves, triumphs and disappointments and with their work. Art critic, Tim Marlow takes us on a journey through late nineteenth-century France and he invites us to immerse ourselves in the greatest impressionist works of art.
A detailed, excellently constructed biography of Manet and a delightful picture of 19th century Parisian society. An exquisitely crafted and insightful film, with a behind-thescenes look at the preparation and curating of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Break with Tradition: Impressionism
GA-CHSBreak| 20’ | DVD & Streaming Part of The Center For Humanities Seminars In Modern Art Series. Introduces students to the origins of modern art. Explains one of the most revolutionary aspects of Impressionist painting-its use of color-as seen in the works of Monet, Pissarro and Renoir.
Van Gogh From The Power of Art Series
BAC-SimPower6 | 50’ DVD & Streaming “Vincent’s passionate belief was that people wouldn’t just see his pictures, but would feel the rush of life in them; that by the force of his brush and dazzling colour they’d experience those fields, faces and flowers in ways that nothing more polite or literal could ever convey.”
Through his own words, the film explores the Europe Vincent explored, the sites of his inspiration and the colours and seasons he experienced, from Groot-Zundert, Nuenen, the Borinage, the Hague, Paris, Arles and St. Remy to Auvers, where he died.
Collection features 8 episodes: 1. Edouard Manet 2. Claude Monet 3. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 4. Edgar Degas 5. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 6. Paul Cezanne 7. Paul Gauguin 8. Vincent Van Gogh
iconic artists collection Caravaggio
Rothko
The Power of Art Series, looking at iconic artists and the environments in which they were working. Depthful portraits, richly illustrated with masterpieces, expert commentary.
BAC-SimPower1 | 50’ DVD & Streaming
BAC-SimPower8 | 50’ DVD & Streaming’
“In Caravaggio’s time it was believed that artists were given their talent by God to bring beauty to the world and to put mortal creatures in touch with their higher selves or souls. Caravaggio never did anything the way it was supposed to be done.”
“A space that might be where we came from or where we will end up. They’re not meant to keep us out, but to embrace us; from an artist whose highest compliment was to call you a human being.”
Bernini
David
art history
iconic artists collection
art history
Great Artists Collection 26 Master Painters through History
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh
Edward Hopper
Munch 150
Diego Rivera: Revolutionary with a Paintbox
Rodin
Maurits Escher: Painter of Fantasies
Art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over 50 galleries, museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe and the United States this series is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists featured.
PCO-Vincent | 95’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Hopper| 35’ | DVD & Streaming
SEV-Munch| 88’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Diego | 60’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Rodin | 70’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Mau | 27’ | DVD & Streaming
Through his own words, the film explores the Europe Vincent explored, the sites of his inspiration and the colours and seasons he experienced, from Groot-Zundert, Nuenen, the Borinage, the Hague, Paris, Arles and St. Remy to Auvers, where he died.
A portrait of the life and work of the American realist painter, best known for his oils and watercolours. This story of the great Modernist artist paints a picture of an austere and unidealized American, of latenight bars, lonely hotel rooms, and moody, isolated figures...
Many know Munch as the man who painted The Scream, but his complete works are remarkable and secure his place as one of the greatest artists to have ever lived. With 220 paintings on show and an in-depth biography.
A fascinating picture of the man and his work. Includes interviews with Carlos Fuentes, Dolores Olmedo and archive footage of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican artist is best known for reviving centuries-old techniques, but he also embraces new ones such as polystyrene paint.
A unique insight into the sculptor’s personality and working methods, told through Rodin’s own notebooks and letters, archive film of him in his studio and at Meudon (with a woman believed to be his mistress), and specially shot footage of his work in Paris.
Profiles the late, world-renowned graphic artist whose work is a curious blend of fact and fantasy, with mirror images and interlocking figures flowing from symmetrical shapes. The film won Honors Award - American Film Festival.
Turner
Rothko
Picasso
BAC-SimPower5 | 50’ DVD & Streaming
BAC-SimPower8 | 50’ DVD & Streaming’
BAC-SimPower7 | 50’ DVD & Streaming’
“Turner has drowned you in this moment, pulled you into this terrifying chasm in the ocean, drenched you in this bloody light exactly the hue you sense in your blood filled optic nerves when you close your eyes in blinding sunlight.”
“A space that might be where we came from or where we will end up. They’re not meant to keep us out, but to embrace us; from an artist whose highest compliment was to call you a human being.”
“Instead of a laboured literal commentary on German warplanes, Basque civilians and incendiary bombs, Picasso connects with our worst nightmares. He’s saying here’s where the world’s horror comes from; the dark pit of our psyche.”
Vermeer and Music
The Power of Art Series, looking at iconic artists and the environments in which they were working. Depthful portraits, richly illustrated with masterpieces, expert commentary.
Great Artists Collection 1 SEV-Great1 | DVD & Streaming
14 Episodes: Giotto / Leonardo / Dürer Michelangelo / Raphael / Titian Bruegel / El Greco / Rubens Velàzquez / Rembrandt / Vermeer Turner / Van Gogh BAC-SimPower2 | 50’ DVD & Streaming
BAC-SimPower4 | 50’ DVD & Streaming
Great Artists Collection 2
Filmed in London’s National Gallery, New York’s Met and other galleries in the USA and the Netherlands, this stunning film delves into a breath-taking collection of Vermeer’s finest pieces and delivers a detailed biography of the artist, his life and times.
“This is Jean-Paul Marat, the most paranoid of the Revolution’s fanatics, exhaling his very last breath. He’s been assassinated in his bath. But for David, Marat isn’t a monster, he’s a saint. This is martyrdom, David’s manifesto of revolutionary virtue.”
12 Episodes: Piero della Francesca / Holbein Caravaggio / Stubbs / Goya David / Constable / Delacroix Whistler / Rodin / Cassatt / Schiele
SEV-Great2 | DVD & Streaming
SEV-Vermeer | 86’ |DVD & Streaming Filmed in London’s National Gallery, New York’s Met and other galleries in the USA and the Netherlands, this stunning film delves into a breathtaking collection of Vermeer’s finest pieces and delivers a detailed biography of the artist, his life and times.
museum collections PROFILES & INTERVIEWS Artists and curators who sculpt and influence the pinnacle of art & design in galleries, architecture, interiors and furnishings around the world.
Antiquities and Indigenous Art
EX-Indig | 55’ | DVD & Streaming DULON GALLERY TAMBARAN GALLERY PHOENIX ANCIENT ART Prof. Nicholas Stampolidis MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC ART
Antique Galleries
Antiquities, Oriental and Asian Art
The Courtauld
EX-DesAntiq| 130’|DVD & Streaming
SEV-Tim| 72’ | DVD & Streaming
RUPERT WACE ANTIQUITIES Bernard De Grunne AFRICAN ART BOWMAN GALLERY MORETTI GALLERY Philip Rylands PEGGY GUGGENHEIM A LA VIEILLE RUSSIE JEWELLERS ROYAL ATHENA GALLERY GALLERY VAN DER VEN GALLERY MIEKE ZILVERBERG GALLERY GISELE CROES PIVA & C GALLERY JEAN-LUC BARONI GALLERY PERRIN GALLERY GALLERY ENDLICH DUTCH SILVER LAUE GALLERY CESARE LAMPRONTI GALLERY
A unique insight into the Courtauld Institute and Gallery, one of the finest small museums in the world. Its collection stretches from the early Renaissance into the 20th century. Daddi, Boticelli, Lucas Cranach, Rubens, Goya, Gainsborough, Gauguin, Seurat and much more...
Paul Mellon at the Yale University Center for British Art
Curators and Collectors of Fine Art
CAT-Mel | 27’ | DVD & Streaming’
EX-Antgal| 54’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-Cur | 40’ | DVD & Streaming
STEINITZ ANTIQUES ORSI ANTIQUES LUPU ANTIQUES AVELINE ANTIQUES
Gerard Vaughan NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA Jeremy Howard COLNAGHI GALLERY AXEL VERVOORDT
The greatest collection of its kind outside of Britain, the film illustrates Mellon’s passion for British culture and represents the efforts of one man collecting the work of centuries. Artists represented in the collection include: Rowlandson, Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Constable, Francis Wheatley, Stubbs, Turner...
Museum collections
contemporary
Museum collections
Museum Secrets SEV-Imp | 8 x 24’ | DVD & Streaming An innovative and interesting BBC arts series that delves into the hidden secrets of the world’s most famous museums. Revealing the incredible stories behind treasures. In each episode, Museum Secrets travels to one extraordinary museum, revealing the stories of irreplaceable treasures, probing familiar legends and using cutting edge research and technology to investigate the unknown. VOLUME 1: The Vatican The Louvre The Royal Ontario Museum The Cairo Museum The Natural History Museum in London The Metropolitan Museum of Art VOLUME 2: The American Museum of Natural History The Imperial War Museum in London The Nat.Mus. of Anthropology in Mexico City The Pergamon and Neues Museums The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna The Topkapi Palace Museum VOLUME 3: The State Historical Museum in Moscow The Israel Museum in Jerusalem The Palacio Real The Uffizi Gallery The Smithsonian Institute The National Maritime Museum in London The Chateau of Versailles The Bardo Museum in Tunisia SPECIALS: State Hermitage Museum National Archeological Museum of Athens Available individually, as volumes or as a set of 22 films. Contact us for more.
Russian Non-Conformist Art
Contemporary and Fine Art Galleries 2011
Modern Art Oxford
SIM-Russian | 56’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-DesContemp | 84’ DVD & Streaming
SEV-Modern| 39’ | DVD & Streaming
The Russian Concept: Reflections on Russian Non-Conformist Art is a documentary about the history of one of the largest collections of art-works of the Soviet period – a collection of American Professor Norton Dodge that numbers today more than 20 thousand pieces. Many of artworks appearing in the film are now the well-known classics of the art of the twentieth century. Features: Vitaly Komar, Oleg Vasiliev, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid Sokov, Victor Skersis and more...
1. Wolfgang Bauer BELLE ETAGE GALLERY 2. Anne Moreau BOUTIQUE TALENTS ATELIERS D’ART DE FRANCE 3. Artur Ramon ARTUR RAMON ART 4. Michael Goedhuis GOEDHUIS GALLERY 5. Gilbert Lloyd MARLBOROUGH FINE ARTS 6. RICHARD L. FEIGEN & CO. 7. Gerfried Stocker ARS ELECTRONICA 8. Robert Landau LANDAU FINE ARTS
Art critic, Tim Marlow spends four months at Modern Art Oxford, one of the UK’s leading contemporary art galleries, during the staging of two major exhibitions. Features: Kerry James Marshall, whose work deals with the African-American experience, and Daniel Buren, one of France’s most respected contemporary artists.
artists / movements Heavy Metal Landscapes Thousand Different Angles: The Art of Inge King Annabel Nowlan
modern & contemporary
Caro at Chatsworth Sir Anthony Caro’s Avant-Garde Sculptures
The Year of Anish Kapoor
Gilbert & George
artists / movements
modern & contemporary
Portraiture: Not Just a Face
Fernando Botero and Sophia Vali
How Pop Art Changed the World
The Russian Concept Reflections on Russian Non-Conformist Art
FF-Thousand | DVD & Streaming
SEV-Caro| 23’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Anish| 50’ | DVD & Streaming
SEV-Tim4 | 72’ | DVD & Streaming
ML-Portrait | 33’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-Fernando | 30’ | DVD only
PUM-Pop| 35’ | DVD only
SIM-Russian | 56’ | DVD & Streaming
In this half-hour-documentary, shot in full HD, the engaging, down to earth Annabel Nowlan relates the story of her journey from running an out-back farm to becoming one of Australia’s most celebrated artists.
This insightful portrait of sculptor, Inge King reveals the creative processes involved in making her large public sculptures. Featuring fascinating early footage and recent interviews this film chronicles her life’s work and vision. “Sculpture is drawing from a thousand different angles” - she says.
Best known as the artist who knocked sculpture off the pedestal and onto the floor, Caro’s art is more often seen inside a gallery but here, for the first time, he mounts a major exhibition in the open air. The architectural play between the classical house and Caro’s avantgarde sculptures is deftly shown in this film.
Follows the artist as he confers with assistants in his studio and prepares for a massive exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Art. Incorporating archival materials that shed light on Kapoor’s youth, education, and early pigment sculptures, the film offers magnificent views of his works, including Cloud Gate, C-Curve, Dismemberment of Jeanne d’Arc & Hive.
The self-proclaimed living sculptures Gilbert & George walk around their “Major Exhibition” at Tate Modern. They discuss humanity, sex, death, race and religion, how they go about creating their art, their iconic dress sense and their tricky relationships with the art establishment and the media. Includes a 15 minute film on
What is a portrait? This compelling three DVDs explore portraiture from the philosophical, conceptual and artistic perspective through the art of the 2012 Archibald contestants. Featuring: Stencil artist Luke Cornish, Hyper-realistic painter Juan Ford and 2012 Archibald Prize winner, Tim Storrier...
An insight to the works and life of the sculptor couple. His signature style, depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. She works both on a monumental and a small scale in metal and stone.
Explore the ideas, materials, colours and technologies adopted by Pop Art. Filmed in the UK and New York, leading designers talk about how the work of pop artists like Lichtenstein, Warhol and Sir Peter Blake, continue to influence design.
“London Pictures” at White Cube.
The documentary explores the conceptual trend in nonconformist art of 1960-1980s in the USSR. In addition to stories about their own works participants of the documentary tell about the relationship between the artist and power, politics, emigration and pragmatic psychology seized the contemporary art world.
Art Nation: Selected Visual Artists Profiles
An Interview with David Perry
Art City Series Contemporary American Art
What Lies Beneath Art of America Series - 3
Edward Hopper The American Realist
Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80
120 Wooster Street Frederick Brown
Jack Levine: Feast of Pure Reason
Lasting Impressions Robert Blackburn
AB-ArtNation| 59’ |DVD & Streaming Available in Australia only Ron Mueck / Shaun Gladwell Tracey Emin / Street Art Laith McGregor / Rupert Bunny
KD-Perry | 57’ |DVD & Streaming
12F-ArtCityAll | 174’ | DVD only
BAC-ArtAmerica3 |50’|DVD & Streaming
BAC-Hopper | 18’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Paul | 57’ |DVD & Streaming
CG-Wooster | 58’ |DVD & Streaming
CG-Jack| 60’ |DVD & Streaming
CG-Last| 27’ |DVD & Streaming
A thought inspiring independent doco/ interview with Australian multi-media artist and avant-garde, David Perry. His paintings, drawings, prints, posters, photographs, films and videotapes with commentary by the artist.
Featuring: Louise Bourgeois, Richard Tuttle, Agnes Martin, John Baldessari Elizabeth Peyton, Amy Adler, Ashley Bickerton, Gary Simmons, St. Clair Cemin, Emma Amos, Jerry Saltz, Dave Hickey and a lot more...
Explores the topic of post-modern and contemporary american art. Among other, the film discusses Jasper Johnson, Andy Warhol, Billy Name, James Rosenquist, Ed Rusha, Philip Guston, Jeff Koons, Matthew Day Jackson.
A portrait of the life and work of the American painter. This story of the great Modernist artist paints a picture of an austere and unidealized American, of late-night bars, lonely hotel rooms, and moody, isolated figures...
An award-winning documentary portrait of the controversial American painter best known for his drawings of the male nude and paintings in the ancient medium of egg yolk tempera. Scenes of Cadmus at work + commentary by the artist.
This video profiles Frederick Brown, one of America’s most prolific expressionist painters, With comments by fellow artists, features his famous studio.Footage of 30 year period of Brown at work.
An award-winning documentary portrait of one of America’s foremost Social Realist painters, active since the 1930s, whose work skewers corrupt politicians and police, rages over social injustices, and satirizes the petty foibles of humankind.
Profiles the lithograph artist, one of the few black printmakers to emerge from WPA-sponsored arts projects, including the Harlem Art Center, during the Thirties. eatures interviews with Blackburn, fellow artists, art critics and curators...
Sydney Biennale / Alfred Stieglitz Annie Leibovitz / Otto Boron and a lot more...
American Art
ML-Heavy | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
Nude: The Naked Body in Art
What is art and what is pornography?
ML-Nude | 45’ | DVD & Streaming Australian artist Brett Whitely in the 20th Century, became known for his sensuous, distorted nudes. Briton, Lucien Freud’s nudes were more anatomically correct but portrayed in a warts and all realism. American Jeff Koons painted himself having sex with his wife and muse, an Italian porn icon. But it was all art, wasn’t it? Australian Bill Henson caused an outrage by exhibiting photos of nude pubescent teenagers, prompting the question ‘What is art and what is pornography? Based on a a dynamic and engaging historical overview, the film raises real 21st century questions of nudity in art and offers conceptual solutions with artist interviews.
new & inspiring...
Waterproof
The Art of Graham Dean
modern & contemporary
installations / new media 2020?
The Tape Project
GD-Water | 180’ | DVD & Streaming The films are artworks themselves interpreting the emotional, sensual process of painting in a cinematic language. Using a technique he calls ‘’reverse archaeology’’, Graham Dean re-invents the traditional uses of watercolour resulting in a unique technique. Contrasting layers of paint are applied separately on thick, handmade paper from Southern India. Each sheet has undergone a process of tearing and overlapping to create a final composition; this corresponds to the multiple layers of the epidermis, which protects the human body. The process is organic and cyclical, the paintings appear fragmented and destroyed using sections (front and back) that lead to a renaissance in the form of a new composition. The application of paint glazes (multiple, transparent layers) creates intensity and depth. The juxtaposition of complimentary colours creates strong, theatrical works.Graham’s painting is an investigation between the inside and the outside, the surface and what lies beneath. Arms, faces, torsos, legs become interchangeable – anonymous but recognisable, The body becomes a canvas, torn and stretched, a vehicle for the imagination of the artist. The works are open to interpretation, free, as are the movements of watercolour, colours and sensual shapes. Disc 1: Waterproof, Interview with Graham Dean Disc 2: Falling between Floorboards Disc 3: Behind the Curve - Paintings
The Intimacy of Touch Screen Kiss of Art Series - Vol 7
Mixed Realities and Inanimate Life Is This Art? Series - Vol 14
Blurring the Boundaries Crag Walsh Projections
Visionaries21 Series - Vol 4
SCA-2020 | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-Tape | 20’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-Kiss7 | 23’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-Is14 | 42’ | DVD & Streaming
CWA-Craig | 40’ | DVD & Streaming
The importance of environmental sustainability within artistic practice. Co-ordinator and artist Ash Keating is joined by a team of collaborating artists who are reconfiguring salvaged materials to create their own installations, interventions, structures and object-based works.
A documentation of Tape Melbourne - Federation Square, 2011. The structure had to be constructed with the help of special platforms as it projects from the external walls of the Fed Square’s SBS building at the height of 6 meters above ground.
Artist interviews. Jean DuBois and Chloé Lefebvre’s work involves interactive installations that explore the relation between the spectator and the screen. Lawrence Malstaff utilizes five fans and a walk-though PVC cylinder to create a localized cyclone.
Artist interviews. MINIM++, talk about their interactive installation art. Alex Davies’ current practice is based around the development of evolving audio-visual installations in which individuals and dynamic environmental factors shift the conditions of a controlled space.
Walsh utilises projection in response to existing environments and landscapes. He is primarily interested in hybrid and site-specific projects and the exploration of alternative contexts for contemporary art.
Animation Ambiences
Hallucination and Landscape Kiss of Art Series - Vol 2
The Aesthetic of Sensory Overload
Visionaries21 Series - Vol 3
Holographic Perspective Martina Mrongovius
Visionaries21 Series - Vol 2
PF-Animation | 63’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-Kiss | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
UL-Ulf | 77’ | DVD & Streaming
MAM-Holog | 20’ |DVD & Streaming
New contexts and forms for animation, including; ambient animation, animated light sculpture, virtual sculpture, custom made audiovisual instruments and modified domestic devices, outdoor exhibitions and gallery installations and live semi-improvised modular film performances.
Bill Fontana and his sound sculptures. David Hines (UK), Joyce Hinterding (AU) “EarthStar” examines the elementary, mystical qualities of the sun. Installation visitors are treated to an encounter - seeing, hearing and smelling the heavenly body that dominates our solar system.
A unique compilation of the works conceived and created by Ulf Langheinrich between 2002 – 2010. His projects utilise photography, sound and video, light, and technology, to create sensory environments that seek to question the conventions of multimedia.
The artist describes how holograms influence her creative practice. Unlike conventional still-life holography, Martina’s holographic compositions experiment with optically stenciling together multiple recordings to create spatially animated scenes.
Ulf Langheinrich
Digital art & new media catalog 2015 >
sculpture
sculpture
Rodin
Australian Artists
BAC-Rodin | 70’| DVD & streaming A unique insight into the sculptor’s personality and working methods, told through Rodin’s own notebooks and letters, archive film of him in his studio and at Meudon (with a woman believed to be his mistress), and specially shot footage of his work in Paris.
Carsten Höller
Contemporary Australian Art Gallery Watch Series
Inge King: Thousand Different Angles
Caro at Chatsworth Sir Anthony Caro’s Avant-Garde Sculptures
Henry Moore discusses his life and work
SEV-Tim3 | 39’ | DVD & streaming
CTV-Sculp | 39’ | DVD & Streaming
FF-Thousand | DVD & Streaming
SEV-Caro| 23’ | DVD & Streaming
CAT-Hen| 56’ | DVD & streaming
An exclusive look behind the scenes of Carsten Höller’s Test Site installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The Site is set of five stainless steel slides intended to propel members of the public down from the highest floors of the Tate Modern to the very bottom.
A multi-award winning series featuring artists in the gallery exhibition settings. The interviews are invaluable snapshots of artists at a particular stage of their artistic development. Features: Jean Pierre Rives, Rebecca Cool, Ross Miller, Greg James... And the making of the Bon Scott statue.
“Sculpture is drawing from a thousand different angles.” Vibrant, articulate and passionate Inge King is one of Australia’s foremost sculptors. Her work has always been on a grand scale. Her public sculptures invite exploration - to walk through, slide down, sit on or just canoodle around.
Known as the artist who knocked sculpture off the pedestal and onto the floor, Caro’s art is more often seen inside a gallery but here, for the first time, he mounts a major exhibition in the open air.
From a Ball of Clay Margot McMahon Sculptor at Work
Sculpture by the Sea
This insightful portrait of sculptor, King reveals the creative processes involved in making her large public sculptures. Featuring fascinating early footage and recent interviews this film chronicles her life’s work and vision.
Gilbert & George
Profile of the life and work of sculptor Henry Moore, 77 at the time of filming. The artist speaks at length about the forces that drove him throughout his life. Major scenes include a visit to his sheep farm in England and to his studio with the many materials used in his sculpture. This series also includes footage shot in Toronto at the opening of the Henry Moore Center.
Sculptures in the Park
He speaks of his career, other artists, his childhood as a miner’s son, his first one-man show half a century ago, his aesthetic and the differences between painting and sculpture.
Welded steel became her medium in 1959, influenced by her engagement with Abstract Expressionism in New York and she began creating nonrepresentational sculpture inspired by the Australian bush. CG-From | 27’ | DVD & Streaming
REB-Scu | 39’ | DVD & Streaming
An informative video details the step-by-step procedures involved in modeling a clay sculpture, showing how professional sculptor and art instructor Margot McMahon creates a portrait of her model over several sessions.
Conceived by David Handley in 1997, as a temporary exhibition showing a marriage of sculptural works and Australia’s coastal landscape, the exhibition has evolved from a humble one-day event organized to become a bi-coastal series of annual exhibitions.
In 1971 King finally got her first big break, with a large-scale, site-specific, public sculpture in Canberra. Reaction was polarised and the critics were vocal - abstract sculpture was completely alien and puzzled them. Despite the outcry the tide was turning - modernist sculpture was finding acceptance and some recognition.
“A painting can give you illusion of distance, but sculpture, as you walk around it, completes in you an idea.” SEV-Tim4 | 72’ | DVD & Streaming The self-proclaimed living sculptures walk around their “Major Exhibition” at Tate Modern. They discuss how they go about creating their art. Includes a
15 minute film on “London Pictures” at White Cube.
He shows and describes his drawings made in the underground bomb shelters in London when England was being attacked by the Germans in World War Two.
artist profiles, interviews, documentaries The Year of Anish Kapoor
sculpture
Fernando Botero and Sophia Vali
Samurai in Space Shinkichi Tajiri
BAC-Anish| 50’ | DVD & Streaming
RA-Kurt | 73’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-Fernando | 30’ | DVD only
PCO-Samurai | 44’ | DVD & Streaming
An insight into one of Britain’s most accomplished and popular sculptors.
Though the Bauhaus wasn’t directly involved in all art forms, it definitely exerted interesting impulses nevertheless. A particular point in case is Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s 1922 Reflektorische Farblichtspiele [Reflecting Colour-Light-Play]. Originally conceived as a play for one of the famous Bauhaus Lantern Festivals, it premiered at the Kandinsky home and kind of revolutionised the spatial aspect of 20th century sculpture. At the same time it equals the German abstract films of the early 1920s and is a predecessor of performance art, light shows and expanded cinema.
This documentary gives an insight to the works and life of the sculptor couple Fernando Botero and Sophia Vari Botero.
“You need obsession to continue, to not give up…Thanks to the war I became an artist. I’m an artist out of necessity. My imagery is the crystallization of my experiences.”
Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a figurative artist and sculptor from Medellín, Colombia. His signature style, also known as “Boterismo”, depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece.
Materials were scarce and Tajiri became known for his innovative ‘junk sculptures’, earning the admiration of the artists Constant, Karel Appel and Corneille, who resided in Paris. In 1949 they invited him to take part in the large CoBrA exhibition in Amsterdam, which caused a stir within the art world. The CoBrA movement was the European answer to American abstract-expressionism.
“Charming.” “Mercurial.” “Mystifying.” “Overpowering.” The list of adjectives used to describe Anish Kapoor’s installations and public sculptures seems endless. And yet, as varied as the responses to his work are, Kapoor has precise goals in mind for each piece, and his creative outlook, while certainly wide-ranging, is enriched by specific influences and traditions. This program follows the Indianborn artist as he confers with assistants in his studio and prepares for a massive exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Art. Incorporating archival materials that shed light on Kapoor’s youth, education, and early pigment sculptures, the film offers magnificent views of several works, including Cloud Gate, C-Curve, Dismemberment of Jeanne d’Arc, and Hive—the latter in its gallery setting as well as in the Dutch shipyard where it came to life.
British Artists
Kurt Schwerdtfeger: Reflecting Colour-Light-Play
The DVD includes a lengthy Talking Backgrounds documentary featuring Kurt’s son Stefan – who was instrumental in setting up the 1966 re-staging and a Professor for Architecture and an artist in his own right – and Michael Stoeber, renown German arts critic. Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (1968), 18’ Making Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (1968), 5’ Talking Backgrounds (2009), 50’
Sophia Vari Botero is primarily a sculptor and works both on a monumental and a small scale in metal and stone, she is also well known for her painting on canvas and most recently a collection of beautiful jewellery.
Tajiri sought his own path. He was soon admired for his incredible diversity as a sculptor, experimental filmmaker and photographer. He became a professor at the Hochschüle für Bildende Künst in Berlin and developed an offset-press, called the X-press, where he revived some nearly forgotten photographic methods to American abstract-expressionism.
object design
Applied arts Tea & Coffee Towers by Museo Alessi
object / textile design Design Interviews
Design Classics
Applied arts Glass, Ceramics & Crystal Masters of Art, Decor & Design 2011 Series
Masters of Jewellery 2011 Masters of Art, Decor & Design 2011 Series
Eco Luxury Fashion & Conscience
EX-DesGlass | 68’ | DVD & Streaming
EX-Jewe11 | 240’ | DVD & Streaming
CK-Etex | 54’ | DVD only
Profiles of the artists who are worldfamous designers in the field of glass, crystal and ceramics design from Europe.
The jewellers behind the most exquisite, multi-million-dollar collections of flawless stones, meticulous cuts and virtuoso craft.
Aronson Gallery (Amsterdam): Displays some of the earliest and rarest objects produced by the Delft factories in the 17th and 18th century.
Fawaz Gruosi, De Grisogono[Geneva] Sean Gilbertson, Faberge [London] Sevan Bialecki [Istanbul] Kochert [Vienna] Jewellery Theatre [Moscow] Maierhofer [Vienna] Van der Bauwede [Geneva] Deborah Elvira [Spain] Hemmerle [Munich] A La Vielle Russie [New York] Gavello [Milan] Florian Wagner [Vienna] Van Gelder Indian Jewels [Amsterdam] Scavia [Milan] Padova Jewellers [Italy] Epoque [Brussels] RCM [Valenza] Century [Swiss] Faraone [Milan] Mouawad [Lebanon] Hancocks [London] Moira [London]
Hand crafted, stylish for women using quality natural fibres, botanical dyes, eco yarns and textiles such as sustainable silks, certified organic merino wool, certified organic cotton/hemp, environmentally friendly linen, recycled remnants and recycled denim.
Environmental Textile Design
MUS-Design|138’ |DVD & Streaming
MUS-TCT| DVD & Streaming 20 architects who used to work mainly in urban scale, were asked to design a Tea and Coffee Set as it was a micro-architecture. This project was presented at Venice Biennale in 2002. In this documentary the Architects describe their experience of answering to eight standard questions about the method and process they went through. Designers featured: - ALBERTO ALESSI (introduction) - WILLIAM ALSOP - WIEL ARETS - MVRDV - DENTON CORKER MARSHALL - GARY CHANG - UN STUDIO - GREG LYNN: FORM - THOM MAYNE: MORPHOSIS - ZAHA HADID - TOM KOVAC | DEZSÖ EKLER - TOYO ITO
This exclusive collection of interviews featuring: Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass is the result of Museo Alessi’s eagerness to share the experiences and methods of the most important Italian designers with the general public. Brief conversations, reflections and anecdotes that describe with spontaneity and great eloquence the teachings that have shaped their personal and professional lives.
BAC-Design | 300’ | DVD & Streaming 1980s documentary series looking at revolutionary pieces of Design. Using archive film, commercials and interviews with key figures, the series looks at the contribution to design of some of the most successful products to be marketed this century. Episodes in this series (also available individually): The Volkswagen Beetle (25’) The Aga Cooker (25’) The Barcelona Chair (25’) Levi Jeans (25’) The Coke Bottle (25’) The London Underground Map (25’)
Hedwig Rotter, Mano Design (Vienna): Design projects have included Hirsch European Watches; the design of a set of mugs for Zotter; and an accessories line for Palmers. Lobmeyr Glassworks (Vienna): Contemporary interpretation of glass. Sassoon Gallery: The UK’s leading dealer in contemporary ceramics, glass, silver and jewellery. Augarten Porcelain (Vienna): Delicate and graceful shapea, clean lines and exquisite details. Rita Fancsaly ([Milan) Baccarat Crystal: The iconic Maison Headquarters, Museum & Restaurant in Paris. Marie Retpen, Glass Design (Denmark)
- JEAN NOUVEL - DORIANA, MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS - DOMINIQUE PERRAULT - FUTURE SYSTEMS - JUAN NAVARRO BALDEWEG - KAZUYO SEJIMA, RYUE NISHIZAWA - DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
See our entire range of design films >
Woven Lives: Vidas Enretejidas Weavings and the Weavers of Oaxaca
CK-Woven | 76’ | DVD & Streaming How traditional art and design play an active role in the cultural sustainability of the Zapotec communities in Mexico. Traces the development of the weaving process from the first people in the valley to the present day, uniquely blends the perspectives of art, design, business, ethnic studies and cultural anthropology.
contemporary
photography
photography
Robert Mapplethorpe
The Art of Bill Henson
Long Shot Close Up: Andreas Gursky
De Nooijer: Dutch Master
Digital Dreams and Old World Photography Is This Art? Series - Vol 3
Photography Hijacked
BAC-Robert | 27’ | DVD & Streaming
AB-Bill | 26’ | DVD & Streaming Available in AU and NZ only A creature of the night. There is not a lot of light in his life, he photographs by night and spends most of the day in his darkroom meticulously labouring over his prints, studying them reworking minute sections for the right balance of colour and light.
AH-Gursky | 100’ | DVD & Streaming Available in AU and NZ only Traces the distinctly methodical approach used by Gursky when working with the large man-made spaces, such as commerce and tourism. He reveals his processes in researching his material at length before the final photograph is taken and often altered digitally before printing.
RA-DeNoo | DVD & Streaming
EX-Is3 | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
VA-Photo | 27’ | DVD & Streaming
Consistently probed the visual possibilities of the photographic medium (analogue/ digital) in relation to film, theatre and visual art in general. His reputation is solidly based on works displaying mostly ‘illusionism’ – the interdependency of film and photography.
Justine Cooper’s oldworld photography mixes with breathtaking MRI scan animations. Employing monumental projected images and bludgeoning sound environments, the multimedia installations of Ulf Langheinrich mark a new stage in the aesthetic of sensory overload.
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lense
Bill Cunningham New York
Manufactured Landscapes
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
A journey through the processes, techniques and outcomes of 12 unique photographers from Australia and America. The idea that individuality of process is what underwrites and makes possible all interesting artwork is explored with each new artist in the film representing a new way of looking at the contemporary medium of photography.
An exclusive film profile of the controversial photographer. Robert Mapplethorpe was best known for his photographs of New York’s black homosexuals. Robert Mapplethorpe’s studies of nude black men were a shameless affirmation of gay sexuality. He has been credited with helping to formulate a sense of gay identity in New York but, as one of the most successful photographers of modern times, his work has also been instrumental in restoring the male nude to mainstream art.
MAD-AH-Annie | 83’ | Streaming only She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and powerful, the exceptional and notorious, she has documented the horrors of war, most recently in Sarajevo and Rwanda. From her hectic studio to her idyllic farm, we will experience Annie’s current work and the creation of her latest retrospective book.
MAD-Bill | 90’ | DVD & Streaming Available in AU and NZ only A delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace. Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller - who all appear in the film), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between...
MAD-Manufact | 90’ | DVD & Streaming Available in AU and NZ only Internationally acclaimed for his largescale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’’, Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilisation’s materials and debris. This documentary follows Burtynsky to China as he captures the effects of the country’s massive industrial revolution.
MAD-Visual | 84’ | DVD & Streaming Available in AU and NZ only Narrated by Dustin Hoffman. The life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. A joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman.
FEATURING: Graham Miller, Dean Karr, Shen Wei, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Sarah Small, Toni Wilkinson, Gareth Willis, Brad Rimmer, Amy Stein, Karron Bridges, Angela Boatwright, Bill Sullivan. The photographers explain how and why they make their work. The viewer is taken on a ride from the Hollywood Hills of LA, to the Wheat belt of Western Australia to the streets and lofts of New York and into the Rebel Motorcycle Clubhouses of Australia and beyond.
iconic artists / history / documentaries The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia
Masters of Photography: Diane Arbus
Objective Camera, Subjective Truth: W. Eugene Smith
photography Steichen
Abbott: A View of the 20th Century
iconic artists / history / documentaries The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn The Complete Series
Over 72,000 colour photographs. More than 180,000 metres of film. Hundreds of letters, diaries, and testimonies, describing extraordinary journeys through exotic lands. This vast treasury is held in the archives of the Albert Kahn Museum in Paris - home to the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world. In 1909, the French financier Albert Kahn decided to send photographers around the globe to document life on the planet. These photographers witnessed some of the most momentous events of the age, but they also photographed the intimate details of the everyday lives of ordinary people.
photography
1 The Vision of the World
2 Men of the World
3 Europe on the Brink
4 The Soldiers’ Story
BAC-Wonderful1 | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Wonderful2 | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Wonderful3 | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Wonderful4 | DVD & Streaming
This arts video explores the origins of the project, the photographic processes of the time and introduces viewers to Albert Khan, before telling the stories of journeys to England and Ireland in 1913.
In 1908, Kahn and his photographercum-chauffeur Alfred Dutertre embarked on the most ambitious of the early journeys of the project: a circumnavigation of the globe, visiting the US, Japan and China.
In 1910, Auguste Léon visited Scandinavia and went on to document life in Italy and the Balkans - a place that within months would witness the event that sparked the First World War.
Between 1914 and 1918, Kahn dispatched several photographers to the battlefields of Verdun, capturing the destruction and crude medical procedures of the time.
RI-TrueMean | 60’ | DVD only
CAT-Phot | 29’ | DVD & Streaming
CAT-Obj | 29’ | DVD & Streaming
RV-Steichen | 30’ | Streaming only
RV-Abbott | 56’ | DVD & Streaming
In the Appalachian mountains, a community exists as though suspended from the rest of the world. Shelby Lee Adams calls them mountain people. He’s been photographing them for 30 years. Serious controversy surrounds his work...
The work of the photographer is explained by her daughter, friends, critics, and in her own words as recorded in her journals. Illustrated with many of her photographs.
W. Eugene Smith was already a renowned photojournalist, respected worldwide for his “Life” magazine essays, when he embarked on a personal journey to speak the truth as he saw it and shoot stories that would effect change. “Minamata” was one of those stories. With editor James Hughes and writer William Pierce.
Profile of the great photographer Edward Steichen, made toward the end of his life. Reviews his life and many of his best known pictures. It was made at his home, and includes scenes showing him at work there with his huge view camera. Also includes his reminiscences about his work and aesthetic.
One of the greatest american photographers of the 20th Century. Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her Century. The tour teaches history, perseverance, courage, and singleminded dedication to one’s chosen field.
Magic of the Image
Rudy Burckhardt
David Hockney Secret Knowledge
Other Peoples’ Pictures
5 The Civilians’ Story
6 Europe: After the Fire
7 Middle East: The Birth of Nations
8 Far East: Expeditions to Empires
9 The End of a World
CNR-Magic | 26’ | DVD only
CAT-Rud | 29’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Hockney | 70’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Other | 53’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Wonderful5 | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Wonderful6 | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Wonderful7 | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Wonderful8 | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Wonderful9 | DVD & Streaming
A history of the processes used in photography, from its beginnings to the present day, with a detailed description of the process dicovered by Nicephore Niepce and the way images are formed within a modern emulsion. Joseph Niepce, Louis Daguerre, Fox Talbot, and the Lumieres.
Burckhardt explains his aesthetic and demonstrates his techniques. He was one of the earliest “time lapse” photographers, a technique by which processes that may take weeks or months to achieve in real time are compressed to a few minutes of film time.
By the 20th Century, Hockney believes that photography had eclipsed the painted depiction of reality. He visits art galleries around the world, demonstrating his theory that cameras were instrumental artists’ tools 400 years before the birth of photography.
Collectors who share an unlikely obsession - snapshots that have been abandoned or lost by their original owners and are now for sale. While some collectors look at the snapshots as found art, others search for images that reflect events and themes in their own lives.
This film records the hardship and heroism of the 39 million ordinary French men and women in the towns and villages on the front lines during the conflict.
When the Armistice was signed in 1918, Kahn’s cameras captured scenes of jubilation in Paris, and went on to document the return to normality.
With the war over and the once-mighty Ottoman Empire disintegrated, Kahn’s cameras were present as new nations were born and witnessed the ensuing violence.
Between 1914 and 1928, some of Kahn’s most talented photographers were sent to the Far East: Cambodia, Vietnam, Japan and India.
The series concludes with the poignant story of Kahn’s demise: once one of the richest men in Europe, he died penniless.
Available as a set of 9 DVDs or individually per episode. Running time: 50’ each.
instructional & training / fashion
photography
Live in Boston A workshop by Frank Doorhof
For the Beginner: Model Photography by Frank Doorhof
Fashion/Glamour Photo An Inside Look Series by Frank Doorhof
Light Series by Frank Doorhof
Live in the UK 2013: One Light can be more than Enough
FD-Live | 130’ | DVD & Streaming
FD-Guide | 60’ | DVD & Streaming
FD-Insideset |120’ | DVD & Streaming
FD-Lightset | 180’ | DVD & Streaming
FD-Livein | 90’ | DVD & Streaming
Working with the lightmeter, use of colorcheckers, finding the right angle, lenschoice, coaching the model, one light setups, working with small flash, working with big flash, how to transform a location. Studio session with small flash to locations like the rooftop of an officebuilding, tricks and techniques that can transform standard images.
Coaching models, studio setups, working on locations, working with ringflash, Fresnel spots, different accessories, softboxes, beautydishes, a light projector, learning to work with accentlights, adding lights to your model, using graycards, models with glasses, dynamic posing, jump photography.
Part 1 teaches you how to setup light from very simple one light setups to very complicated setups. Part 2 A lot of topics ranging from on location work and of course studio work. Also includes a video on: Calibrating the lightmeter and tips and tricks with the large Elinchrom Octa.
The role of light in professional modelphotography by J. A. F. Doorhof fashion/celebrity photographer. Light 1: The control and measurement of light with instructional material. Light 2: The control and measurement of light on location. Light 3: The control and measurement of light while working with groups, movement, on special locations and at the backstage.
This video is loaded with tips on model photography and was shot on two stunning locations, the glasshouse in Edinburgh and Studley castle in the UK. Join the group of students in the workshop and see the video in full 1080HD filmed from different angles so you can really see what’s going on.
Teach Me Photo Photography Series 1&2
Macro & Real Time Photography
Carrie Mae Weems: Framing
GE-Photo | 55’ | DVD only
AFT-Macro | 15’ | DVD & Streaming
BS-Mae | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
Pro photographer Greg Edwards of 30 years experience shows you how. He explains in an easy non-technical style using plain, simple English to give you a solid foundation and understanding. Step-by-Step, this progressive learning material covers Photography skills and Photo editing skills.
A presentation of the spectacular effects that are now possible in wildlife filming. Peter Parks, director of Research and Development at Oxford Scientific Films, describes the most recent technological advances in this area.
Photographer Carrie Mae Weems shows children that there is more to consider than the subject matter when looking at photographs. Framing, as an element of composition, can change the focal point and meaning of a photo.
Complete Fashion Photography Collection Set of 8 DVDs
FD-Fashion| 490’ | DVD & Streaming Includes all above listed fashion photography titles from Frank Doorhof for a discounted price as a whole collection. Buy all 8 titles and save!
See Doorhof working with just one strobe and ambient light, you will see that in most cases you really don’t need more. Also on the modifiers he kept it really simple this time no big soft boxes (of course) but nice smaller modifiers that really give the image some POP. Topics covered include: 1. Metering for ambient and flash (Including the tricky spot metering), 2. Finding the right location, 3. Working with angles, composition, finding lines and repeating patterns, 4. Story telling, 5. Styling, coaching the model, 6. How clothing can have a huge impact, 7. Vintage lenses on modern DSLRs, 8. Using the background, dragging the shutter (using the shutter speed to control the ambient) and much more….
Visual communication
graphic design illustration comic art
graphic design / typography
Man as Symbol Maker: Creating New Meanings
Typeface
The Universe of Keith Haring
graphic design Sex and Sensibility The Allure of Art Nouveau: BRITAIN
Design Classics : The London Underground Map
graphic art / media The Computer Generation: Stan Vanderbeek
John Whitney’s Computer-Driven Technique
visual communication Lasting Impressions Robert Blackburn Litography & Printmaking
Maurits Escher: Painter of Fantasies CG-Mau | 27’ | DVD & Streaming Profiles the late, world-renowned graphic artist whose work is a curious blend of fact and fantasy, with mirror images and interlocking figures flowing from symmetrical shapes. The film won Honors Award - American Film Festival.
GA-Symb | 31’ | DVD & Streaming
KAR-Type | 61’ | DVD & Streaming
Human communication in all its aspects: as an expression of culture in art. Analysis of how humans use symbols to express basic ideas about themselves and the world. The impact of symbols and images used in art to describe people’s most profound thoughts and feelings.
In a time when people can carry computers in their pockets and watch TV while walking down the street, Typeface dares to explore the twilight of an analog craft that is freshly inspiring artists in a digital age. The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museum’s days are numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial marketplace where big-box retailers are king?
Communication is Power: Mass Media & Mass Persuasion
GA-Com | 60’ | DVD & Streaming Understanding the techniques of advertising can give insight into many forms of mass persuasion. For the methods used to sell us products are also used to sell us candidates, ideas, even life styles.
... Machines hum, presses print, artists buzz about. One weekend each month, the quiet of Two Rivers is interrupted as carloads of artisans drive in from across the Midwest. The place comes alive as printmaking workshops led by, and filled with, some of the nation’s top design talent descend on the sleepy enclave....
MAD-Har | 82’ | DVD & Streaming Available in Australia Only His images are everywhere: on walls, posters, T-shirts, watches - in our memories and imaginations; modern icons. “Art is for everyone!” - this is how Keith Haring put it when he summed up the meaning of his stylized silhouettes with which he decorated streets all over the world.
BAC-SenBritain | 50’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-DesLondon|25’|DVD & Streaming
CAT-Comp | 27’ | DVD & Streaming
CAT-Whitney | 27’ | DVD & Streaming
Britain’s art nouveau heritage is excavated as cultural correspondent Stephen Smith unearths the bright, controversial but brief career of Aubrey Beardsley.
The London Underground map, with Harry Beck’s 1933 design still hanging on the walls of the London Underground and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The map has become a symbol of London all over the world.
Stan VanDerBeek is seen here at work with friend and computer expert Wade Shaw at the sophisticated “new” (1972) computer at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies.
John Whitney, Sr. one of the early pioneers in films made by computer-driven cameras explains and demonstrates his work. Shot on location at Whitney’s home in California, includes excerpts from his films “Matrix 3”, “Catalog”, “Permutations” and “Lapis.”
Shodo: Japanese Calligraphy in Daily Life
The Beauty of Books
CAT-Shod | 29’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Beauty | 120’ | DVD & Streaming
Unlike in the linearity of western writing, an ideogram can combine different meanings and references to present a reader with one new concept in one picture. Includes demonstrations by celebrated calligraphers.
The first bibles, medieval masterpieces like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, children’s stories such as Alice in Wonderland, the beauty of the humble paperback.This series combines human stories, expert interviews and historic archive.
His main thesis is the inevitable interaction of computers with artistic creativity. “What can an artist do with a machine?”, he asks, “amplify the artist’s thought. And at last the artist is in the electronic matrix, no longer confined to his studio.” This documentary was produced at a time when room-sized university computers were weekly revealing breakthroughs -- all of which are taken for granted today by even the simplest desktops. VanDerBeek felt this revolution was coming; on this program he conveys his passion for creating a generation that would be ready. The program includes excerpt from several of VanDerBeek’s films.
Making abstract motion in time, and impinging directly on the viewer’s emotions as music does - these were among Whitney’s early goals. “Music organizes time in a special way, creates tension in us, then satisfies, gratifies. We can do the same for patterns - something is going to happen, make it happen in a way you don’t expect. Film permutations can be parallel to tones in harmonic sequence… dominant chord resolves into tonic chord.” To do this, says Whitney, “we need new tools, and to learn how to control them. They’re unlike musical instruments which we have been practicing on for 300 years. We have to start from scratch.”
CG-Last | 27’ | DVD & Streaming Profiles lithograph artist Robert Blackburn, one of the few black printmakers to emerge from WPAsponsored arts projects, including the Harlem Art Center, during the Thirties. His prints have been exhibited widely and he has also had a long teaching career, but the now 77-year-old Blackburn is best known as the founder and director of the Printmaking Workshop, which recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. The video features interviews with Blackburn, fellow artists, art critics and curators, and many of his present and former students.
illustration & COMIC ART Sex and Sensibility The Allure of Art Nouveau: PARIS
Manga Mad
The Golden Age of Warner Brothers Cartoons
American COMIC ART
BAC-SenParis | 50’| DVD & Streaming
NM-Mang | 59’ | DVD & Streaming
CAT-Gold | 23’ | DVD & Streaming
CAT-Amer | 56’ | DVD & Streaming
How the luscious decorative style first erupted, the film delves into Paris’ Bohemian past. Also revealing the story behind Alphonse Mucha’s sensual posters of actress Sarah Bernhardt.
The tradition of graphic narrative is traced in Japanese art history through to the post WW2 boom of comics. Comiket Market, the biggest comic and cosplay event in the world is featured with an interview with its founder, Mr Yonezawa, who recently passed away. Candid interviews with artists, animators, publishers, historians, retailers and otaku fans punctuate vivid fantasy graphics and cartoon-clad, bustling, metropolis vistas, segued with an exotic, electro sound track.
Hosted by animator-filmmaker John Canemaker, the film introduces some of the artists at the old Warner Brothers animation department, their work, their ideas and methods. Reminiscences and explanations by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and voice artist Mel Blanc, illustrated by many excerpts from their work.
A survey of American Comic Strip Art with comments by well-known artists and scenes of them at work. Commentary by Mort Walker, comic artist (“Beetle Bailey”, “Hi and Lois”) and president of the Museum of Cartoon Art in Rye, New York. “Comics” has come to mean one-panel drawings, strips with daily continuity, whole books, and several other forms, whether “comic” or not. This footage illustrates the whole range, plus film animation as well.
Alexander Alexeieff: The Pin Board (Pinscreen) Technique
Animation & Video Art > Paul Fletcher, George Dunning, Maria Lassnig, PATRICK BOKANOWSKI and a lot more... CAT-Pin | 27’ | DVD & Streaming Painter, filmmaker, illustrator Alexander Alexeieff and his wife and co-worker Claire Parker discuss the use of his “pin-board” technique for illustration and film animation. With excerpts from their films, a demonstration of the pin-board, and film made on location in Paris about the reception of their art.
THE LANGUAGE OF COMICS: symbols that mean confusion, speed, sleep, etc. and accepted conventions like the dialogue balloon and the dream balloon. SCENES AND INTERVEWS WITH: - Johnny Romita (The Amazing Spider Man) - George Lucas (Star Wars) - Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, Wizards, Coonskin, American Pop, Fire and Ice, Cool World, The Lord of the Ring - animated film) - Dean Young and Jim Raymond (Blondie) - Dik Browne (Hagar the Horrible) - Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles) - Will Eisner (The Spirit) - Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon, Dickie Dare) - John Cullen Murphy (Prince Valiant) - Sean Kelly (Son-O’-God Comics) Ideas, opinions, shibboleths (eg: there are only four comic themes: eating, sleeping, raising children, and making money--”things the whole world can relate to.”) Hearst changed comics when he made them a whole section in newspapers. Also included are illustrations from the earliest days of comics like the “The Yellow Kid” to “Doonesbury.”
art Theory & Concept
The Power of Art Series 8 Documentaries BAC-SimPower | 400’ | DVD & Streaming “This is the reason why the painting has such an impact. Instead of a laboured literal commentary on German warplanes, Basque civilians and incendiary bombs, Picasso connects with our worst nightmares. He’s saying here’s where the world’s horror comes from; the dark pit of our psyche.”
A BBC Active arts education series looking at iconic artists and the environments in which they were working. Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. Episodes are available individually as well as a set of 8 DVDs: 1. Caravaggio / 2. Bernini 3. Rembrandt / 4. David 5. Turner / 6. Van Gogh 7. Picasso / 8. Rothko
Documentaries & Interviews Fourteen Stations Arie Galles
art Theory & Concept
The Art of Resistance The Chicano Art Movement
Havana Postmodern: The New Cuban Art
CG-Four | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Art | 27’ | DVD & Streaming
In January of 1993, painter Arie Galles walked out to his backyard studio to begin a series of new drawings he thought would take him one year to complete. Ten years later he has completed ‘Fourteen Stations’, a series of charcoal drawings based on surveillance photographs of German concentration camps.
Eritrean Artists in War and Peace
Documentaries & Interviews
The Russian Concept: Reflections on Russian Non-Conformist Art
Reality of Imagination: An inquiry into Human Creativity
Sun and Moon and the God of Rain
CG-Havana | 54’ | DVD & Streaming
SIM-Russian | 56’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-MSAArt | 24’ | DVD & Streaming
The contemporary Chicano art movement and its development during the height of Chicano political activism in the late Sixties and Seventies, blending archival footage with interviews with the artists and samples of their work, including photographs, murals, graphics, films, paintings, and ephemeral art.
Examines the new Cuban art movement and its social and cultural roots, featuring interviews with artists, who discuss Cuban national identity, censorship and self-expression, and how one makes a living as an artist. Features: Arturo Cuenca, Joseph Kosuth and a lot more...
Explores the conceptual trend in nonconformist art of 1960-1980s in the USSR. In addition to stories about their own works participants of the documentary tell about the relationship between the artist and power, politics, emigration and pragmatic psychology seized the contemporary art world.
How imagination can enable us to color and reshape our world and express our feelings about others. Excerpts from the works of a variety of poets convey ways that imagination can sharpen one’s view of the world.
America Tropical
Revelations: Hispanic Art of Evanescence
Nude: The Naked Body in Art
Art Theory & Concept Is This Art?
What is Art and what is Pornography?
Is This Art? is a fascinating series featuring interviews with leading practitioners and conceptual artists from media, performance, visual art, music and sound.
API-Sun | 41’ | DVD & Streaming
ML-Nude | 45’ | DVD & Streaming
Ex-IsSet17 | 510’ | DVD & Streaming
What functions artistic expressions fulfill in our lives and why are they important? This documentary explores the traditions and practices of Indian Warli Painting with an emphasis on the everchanging role of art in everyday human life and society. Recommended
With a dynamic historical overview, the film raises real 21st century questions of nudity in art and offers conceptual solutions. Contemporary artists, academics speak about the concepts of the naked human body in art. Features: Jeff Koons, Bill Henson, Brett Whitley and more...
Each episode presents a series of interviews with contemporary artists intercut with images and recent footage of their work. An insight to why, how and for whom these artists create their work, and where their passion and artistic inquiries originate from.
The Artist as Social Critic & Visionary GA-MSAArt |24’ | DVD & Streaming How painters have expressed their ideas about relationships, protested vice or injustice, commmented on human folly and achievement. Examples by Botticelli, Goya, Hogarth and Rivera, Blake, Bosch, Dali, DeChirico.
Art With a Message:
Protest, Propaganda, Satire & Social Comment
GA-Art | 35’| DVD & Streaming This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes.
Persistent Women Artists
CG-Women | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Eritrean | 56’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-America | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Revel | 28’ | DVD & Streaming
Lois Mailou Jones, Mine Okubo, and Pablita Velarde. These remarkable artists discuss the political and social obstacles they encountered during their artistic careers, while trying to truthfully express both the pain and beauty of their respective multicultural heritages via their art.
The aesthetic development of 12 artists in Eritrea, whose contemporary art movement was born during the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front’s 30 year war against Ethiopia. A Culture Unit was formed in which 28 combatants were trained as artists, and between major offensives they created drawings, paintings and posters.
The story of a controversial mural painted on a LA building by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros.Depicting a Mexican crucified on a double cross, the mural represented his strong statement against U.S. imperialism and the treatment of Mexicans in the U.S. Includes interviews with a then 74-year-old Siqueiros.
Documents the Fall 1993 construction at Cornell University of site-specific installations by eight acclaimed Hispanic artists, curated by Chon Noriega. Interviews with the artists, scenes of the exhibit, and the controversy and protest it engendered on campus.
The history of one of the largest collections of art-works of the Soviet period – a collection of American Professor Norton Dodge that numbers more than 20.000 pieces. Many of artworks appearing in the film are now the well-known classics of the art of the 20th century. Featured artists: Vitaly Komar, Oleg Vasiliev, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Alexander Kosolapov, Leonid Sokov Victor Skersis and others. Unique video archive allow us to see and hear again Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov, Ilya Kabakov. Art historians the Gerald Janecek, Jane Sharp, Mary Nicholas, Andrey Erofeev, Alla Rosenfeld also participate in film. The stories of artists and critics are illustrated with works from the collection of Norton Dodge.
Tim Marlow: Creatives Inspired
for philosophy of art classes.
Interpreting Visual Information
Human Exhibit
Where are the boundaries between science, technology, politics, popular culture and art? Viewers are challenged with the question while witnessing the freeflow of imagination. Episodes are available individually as well as a set of 17 DVDs:
SEV-Tim | 120’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-1000 | 34’ | DVD & Streaming
MM-Human | 20’ | DVD & Streaming
Some of the world’s most admired creative individuals reveal how visual art inspires and motivates them in their life and work.
Demonstrates how visual images, photographs and illustrations are used to present one person’s view of reality. Special visual codes are explained and viewers are encouraged to discuss them.
A film about a man in a cage in a zoo. Performance artist Mike Mullins spent twenty days in a cage at Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney as the official Homo sapiens exhibit. Mike’s concept was to present the human animal in the context of a zoo to raise a number of issues about the human condition.
- Michael Palin in Tate Britain - Mike Leigh in Cartoon Museum, London - Paul Smith at his studio - Tony Bennett in MET NY - Renee Fleming in Neue Galerie
- The Artists–Scientists or Scientist - Artists - Digital dreams & Oldworld Photography - MEART The Semi Living Artist - Poetry & Visual Poetry - Hypersurface Multimedia - Mixed Realities and Inanimate Life - Cultural Portraits & Animated Transitions
and a lot more...
Documentaries & Interviews Marwencol
VALIE EXPORT Invisible Adversaries
Ken Paul Rosenthal’s “Crooked Beauty”
Psychology of art Outsider Art in Japan
recommended art & community Tjanpi Nyawa! Look at the Grass!
“With immense concentration, with zen like calm, methodically, obsessively, they create mysterious objects and fantastic drawings. The creation is ritual, reality into fantasy, fantasy into reality, revealing a logic that is perplexing yet strangely familiar.”
SRA-Look | 26’ | DVD & Streaming
BON-Marwencol | 83’ DVD & Streaming After being beaten into a braindamaging coma outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. He populates the town he dubs “Marwencol” with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing the town’s many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helps Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and dealwiththepsychicwoundsof the attack. When Mark and his photographs are discovered, a prestigious New York gallery sets up an art show. Suddenly his homemade therapy is deemed “art”. He needs to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he’s avoided since the attack.
IN-Valie | 34’ | DVD only
RV-Paul| 34’ | DVD only
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction.
“Navigating the space between brilliance and madness”
Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with colour, still photographs with video, earsplitting sounds with disruptive camera angles. Anna uses her body like a map; after a devastating quarrel with her lover, she paints red stitches on herself. Watching their scenes together, we realize how seldom, if ever before, the details of sexual intimacy have been shown in film from the point of view from a woman. Export privileges rupture over unity and never settles for one-dimensional solutions.
A poetic documentary about artist and activist, Jacks McNamara’s transformativejourneyfromchildhood abuse to psych ward inpatient to pioneering mental health advocacy. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area. Crooked Beauty reshapes mental health stigmas through a new healing culture and political model for living with madness as a tool of creativity, inspiration and hope.
In Japan’s art therapy programs, materials are typically made available to the participants without any instruction on what they should make or how they should make it. The results are astonishing and diverse. The work of Japanese outsider artists has now been featured in galleries in London, Lausanne and the Venice Biennale. This is a series of films that demonstrates the circumstances of some of these outsider artists, and how their art is created. Outsider Art has its origins in the French word art brut, which described art made by those outside the art scene particularly that created in 19th Century European Psychiatric Hospitals. In The 1940s, surrealists like Dubuffet and Max Ernst became interested in this art, and Outsider Art came to be more broadly interpreted as outside a didactic tradition and outside the boundaries of official culture. It was often unsettling and indecipherable, yet undeniably arresting. While it did not follow the artistic fashion of its time, Outsider Art nevertheless responds to the times in unexpected ways.
Volume 1: Human Figures MG-Outsider1| 59’ Volume 2: Writing MG-Outsider2| 65’ Volume 3: Urban Dreams MG-Outsider3 | 42’ Volume 4: Imaginary Worlds MG-Outsider4 | 50’ Volume 5: Odd Shapes MG-Outsider5 | 50’ Volume 6: Passion for Toys MG-Outsider6 | 47’ Volume 7: Déformer MG-Outsider7 | 58’ Volume 8: The Realms of the Unreal MG-Outsider8 | 64’ Volume 9: Figures of Solitude MG-Outsider9| 45’ Volume 10: Metamorphosis MG-Outsider10| 44’
In 2010 anthropologist and curator Dr Christiane Keller involved the Tjanpi Desert Weavers from Warakurna in a research project investigating the sensory and material aspects of Aboriginal fibre work. During the research the ladies depicted the story of the goanna man and his two wives in a set of three almost life-size grass figures. Several women worked together on one sculpture and the story was reiterated several times during the making process. Fibre workshops are always occasions for sharing skills and knowledge between generations as well as versed and less skilled artists.
Sun and Moon and the God of Rain
API-Sun | 41’ | DVD & Streaming What functions artistic expressions fulfill in our lives and why are they important? This documentary explores the traditions and practices of Indian Warli Painting with an emphasis on the everchanging role of art in everyday human life and society. Recommended for philosophy of art classes.
Community & public art
Community & public art
education k-12
Blurring the Boundaries: Craig Walsh Projects Visionaries 21 Series - 4
Light Site-Ings:
Great Wall of Books
2020?
Stelarc: The Body is Obsolete Visionaries 21 Series - 5
Creative Communities: Public Spaces
Creative Communities: Environment
Show us a Light: The Artistic History of Carrolup
CWA-Craig| 40’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Light | 13’ | DVD & Streaming
WEL-Wal | 105’ | DVD & Streaming
SCA-2020 | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
KD-Stel | 36’ | DVD & Streaming
Raises questions about the meaning of private and public space and the role of public art.
The film is a documentation of a large-scale, evolving installation that focuses attention on the future importance of environmental sustainability within artistic practice.
Human Exhibit:
For four nights in April 1989, commuters returning to New Jersey via the Holland Tunnel found the experience of this daily passage uniquely altered. As they made their drive home, they became the audience of Leni Schwendinger’s display of projected images and light on a 60ft x 80ft unused billboard near the Manhattan entrance to the tunnel. The project consisted of a series of painted images projected onto a giant billboard at the entrance of the Holland Tunnel in New York City during April 1989.Lighting designer Leni Schwendinger collaborated with computer programmers and city planners to organize the event.
Combining the role of both teacher and community artist Jeanette Jennings extends students learning outside the usual boundaries. She worked closely with community groups and local governments to produce many public works of art over the past 10 years often involving up to 1200 participants. Two of these projects are included in this documentary: A History Pathway along the Yarra River that tells the history of the gold rush period and the creation of a public artspace in a busy shopping centre involving local schools, community and business groups.
These rich resources present, teachers and art educators in the broadest sense, the opportunity to take their students work to another level; from curriculum based examples through to public works that can be installed in school grounds or broader community places. The film documentation and the additional CD-Rom provides teaching curriculum for individual drawing projects, printmaking and painting units, ceramic projects and other collaborative works.
Carrolup was originally one of the first settlements created to hold Aboriginal families forcibly removed from the surrounding towns in the southern part of Western Australia.
Features:
Conceived and Artistically Directed by Dario Vacirca, Meka Audet and Alex ben Mayor. The Great Wall of Books is both a show (performance) and an interactive sculptural installation for public space. As its name suggests the scale of the sculpture, standing 5 metres high and 10 metres wide, is a wall of books or a library in which caretakers (performers) live and work within. The sculpture is an interactive and responsive space in which the public store written and oral stories via visual text, vocal recording and multi-media. These stories are solicited in real time in the street and via workshops with the community. Objects, musings and selected stories are re-interpreted by the caretakers into cross-art outcomes.
JJ-Creative2| 26’ DVD + CD-rom & Streaming
NJ-Show| 28’ | DVD & Streaming
Craig Walsh is primarily interested in hybrid and site-specific projects and the exploration of alternative contexts for contemporary art. He often utilises projection in response to existing environments and landscapes. He has worked across a range of art forms including theatre, architecture, public works, gallery exhibitions, natural environments and festivals.
JJ-Creative1| 26’ DVD & Streaming
IN PERSPECTIVE 2000- 01:28 INPUT, 2001 Logan, Australia URBAN TIDE 2003 CROSS- REFERENCE , Yokohama, Japan BIG IN JAPAN, 2006, Japan CONTESTED SPACE, 2004 Anne Landa Exhibition, Australia CLASSIFICATION PENDING, 2007, Ipswich, Au INCURSION 43:38:36”N/79:25:19.89”W Toronto, Canada 2007 ARTIFACT H10515 2009 THE RESIDENTS 2009 DIGITAL ODDYSSEY 2010 INTENTION 2011– 01:24 HOME- GWANGJU 2012 and a lot more...
The Holland Tunnel Drive-in Billboard Project, NY, 1989
Documents the making of a public art piece, entitled Holland Tunnel Drive-in Billboard, a computer-programmed light projection in lower Manhattan designed to engage and change community perceptions.
Performance/ Installation Interactive / Temporary Architecture
This documentary follows the project to Macau, SAR China where the company undertook a threemonth residency working with contemporary and traditional artists and community.
Beginning with the interception of numerous truckloads of industrial waste, 2020? is a process-based project involving discarded material being diverted from landfill and dumped en-masse in the Arts House space at the Meat Market in Melbourne. Co-ordinator and artist Ash Keating is joined by a team of collaborating artists who will be constantly reconfiguring the salvaged materials to create their own installations, interventions, structures and objectbased works.
Performance by Mike Mullins
MM-Human | 20’ | DVD & Streaming
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here NYC, 1971
This rich resource present, teachers and art educators in the broadest sense, the opportunity to take their students work to another level; from curriculum based examples through to public works that can be installed in school grounds or broader community spaces. TI-Yoko| 18’ | DVD & Streaming
performance art collection >
This film provides three examples of art projects drawing inspiration from various areas of the curriculum such as literature, history and science.
Carrolup was considered a place more suitable to animal husbandry than human habitation. Yet from these surroundings grew an astonishing school of art created by children aged from seven to fourteen years of age. Their work was so successful in capturing the eyes of the art world that it was exhibited in London and New York in the late forties and fifties. SHOW US A LIGHT is the unique story of these child artists and their creative legacy which can be seen in the work of today’s artists. Nyoongah artists Alma Toomath, Milton Jackson, Liza Johns, Simpson Kelly and Tjyllungoo discuss their art and early influences.
education k-12
education k-12
The Center For Humanities Seminars In Modern Art
Learning to See & Understand
Break with Tradition Impressionism
Exploring the Heart and the Mind
Composition
Expressionism/ Abstraction
Techniques
Man, the Measure of all Things
Art With a Message: Protest and Propaganda, Satire & Social Comment
The Artist as Social Critic & Visionary
What is a Painting? Realism
GA-Why | 59’ |DVD & Streaming
GA-Art| 35’ |DVD & Streaming
GA-Lear | 35’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-CHSBreak | 20’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-CHSExp | 20’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-MSAComp | 23’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-MSAExp | 25’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-MSATec | 25’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-MSAArt | 24’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-MSAReal | 25’ | DVD & Streaming
Using great works of art and selected passages from literature, this program helps students understand why the history of art is the history of civilization. Based on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Centennial Exhibition, “Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries”.
How various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.
Explores works by da Vinci, Goya, Lichtenstein, Bierstadt, Picasso, Wyeth, Kelly, Albers and Matisse to show students how great artists have expressed their feelings in their work.KurtVonnegutofferscontemporary comments on visual literacy.
Unit 1: The Break with Tradition introduces students to the origins of modern art. Explains one of the most revolutionary aspects of Impressionist painting - its use of color - as seen in the works of Monet, Pissarro and Renoir.
Unit 3: Discusses the Expressionist and Surrealist artists who sought to reveal deep feelings and subconscious thoughts in their paintings. Includes work by Rousseau, Redon, Ronault, Matisse, Nolde, Kirchner, Kandinski and others.
A Chronological exploration of the elements of composition, focusing on the element of pattern, from Gozzoli to Matisse; structure from Pollaiuolo to Cezzane; and expression from Sassetta to Degas.
Expressionism as the distortion of form and color for emotional interpretation, Abstraction as seeking to reduce solid objects to the flat plane surface. Contrast Mondrian’s highly intellectual approach with Kandinsky’s emotionalized abstractions.
A detailed description of the technical aspects of working in various media: fresco, tempera, oil, watercolor, pastel, woodcut, etching and lithography.
How painters have expressed their ideas about relationships, protested vice or injustice. Includes examples of social criticism by Botticelli, Goya, Hogarth and Rivera, Blake, Bosch, Dali, DeChirico.
Introduces the fundamental principles of art appreciation and explains technique, composition and personal expression. Students trace realism from Van Eyck to Hopper.
Picture’s Worth a 1000 Words: Interpreting Visual Information
Reality of Imagination: An Inquiry into Human Creativity
The Reconstruction of Space
Contemporary Trends Art Scene
David Hockney: The Illusion of Depth
Wayne Thiebaud: Line
Nancy Graves: Balance
Robert Gil de Montes: Colour
Carrie Mae Weems: Framing
GA-1000 | 34’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-Rea | 32’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-CHSRec | 20’ | DVD & Streaming
GA-CHSCon | 20’ | DVD & Streaming
BS-Hoc | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
BS-Thi | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
BS-Gra | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
BS-Gil | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
BS-Mae | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
Demonstrates how visual images, photographs and illustrations are used to present one person’s view of reality. Special visual codes are explained and viewers are encouraged to discuss them.
Encourages the creative use of imagination and teaches how reason can organize dreams and fantasies into new forms of communication. Excerpts from the works of a variety of poets convey ways that imagination can sharpen one’s view of the world.
Unit 2: The Reconstruction of Space highlights a major category of modern art-Cubism-and traces the influence of Cezzane’s cubist style on Picasso and Braque.
Unit 4: The American art scene in the 1940s when painters in New York developed Abstract Expressionism. Among the artists represented are Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Adolph Gottlieb and mark Rothko.
How artists create the illusion of depth on a flat surface? Hockney explains his solution as he draws a chair from multiple perspectives. Explores the many ways of creating a sense of depth on a twodimensional surface.
When is a line more than a line? Thiebaud demonstrates how artists use lines in unexpected ways. Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, demonstrates how lines can suggest movement in comic strips.
Sculptor Nancy Graves takes children from an understanding of balance in their own bodies to an understanding of balance in sculpture. Graves creates a work that is a surprising balancing act then students have the chance to do the same in the classroom.
Montes reveals the ways artists use colour to express their ideas and emotions. Students learn how colours appear to change when placed against different backgrounds. Expression through abstract colour painting.
Framing, as an element of composition, can change the focal point and meaning of a photo. Help your students explore the influence of framing and the power of light in creating images.
behind the scenes series
Why Man Creates:
documentaries / artists South East Asia
India
Japan
Living Art in Papua New Guinea
Sun and Moon and the God of Rain
Manga Mad
The Leach Pottery, 1952 & Potters At Work
World: Asia
Outsider Art in Japan
“With immense concentration, with zen like calm, methodically, obsessively, they create mysterious objects and fantastic drawings. The creation is ritual, reality into fantasy, fantasy into reality, revealing a logic that is perplexing yet strangely familiar.”
SCO-Living | Interactive E-book A highly visual experience of Papua New Guinea’s spectacular cultures and artistic wealth. Presents artworks and cultural performances that are astonishing in their dramatic visual effect and virtuosity. ‘Kastom and Contemporary Culture’ and ‘Village • Urban • Global’ are the interlinking themes through which Living Art presents ideas about art, artists, creative processes and aesthetics. Moving across Papua New Guinea’s diversity of environments and cultures we locate innovative artists from rural villages, to downtown Port Moresby, to the international stage.
Comiket Market, the biggest comic and cosplay event in the world is featured with an interview with its founder, Mr Yonezawa, who recently passed away. Candid interviews with artists, animators, publishers, historians, retailers and otaku fans punctuate vivid fantasy graphics and cartoon-clad, bustling, metropolis vistas, segued with an exotic, electro sound track.
The interplay between text and interactive elements adds to the reader’s experience visually and intellectually. All individual interactive elements in Living Art have been carefully researched to extend the beyond the format of a conventional art book. This e-book is an art book for the digital age. A multi-layered electronic book, it will enrich your imagination and visual experience with the living arts of Papua New Guinea. A culmination of thirty years research, writing and curating activities in Papua New Guinea. A book by Susan Cochrane
The visual spectrum of images is greatly increased through virtual galleries. Hyperlinks to exhibition websites, online catalogues and essays extend the interpretation of images. With embedded video clips, you-tube links and image galleries, Living Art brings alive the multiple contemporary realities of art and life in Papua New Guinea.
In Japan’s art therapy programs, materials are typically made available to the participants without any instruction on what they should make or how they should make it. The results are astonishing and diverse. The work of Japanese outsider artists has now been featured in galleries in London, Lausanne and the Venice Biennale. This is a series of films that demonstrates the circumstances of some of these outsider artists, and how their art is created.
NM-Mang | 59’ | DVD & Streaming
Shodo: Japanese Calligraphy in Daily Life API-Sun | 41’ | DVD & Streaming What functions artistic expressions fulfill in our lives and why are they important? This documentary explores the traditions and practices of Indian Warli Painting with an emphasis on the everchanging role of art in everyday human life and society. Recommended for philosophy of art classes.
CAT-Shod | 29’ | DVD & Streaming
MG-Potters | 69’ | DVD & Streaming The Leach Pottery, 1952 This is the only complete film available on the world-renowned artist potter Bernard Leach. This locally-made film, now restored and released for the first time on DVD with the cooperation of the late Janet Darnell Leach, provides an especially intimate look at The Leach Pottery Potters at Work Filmed in the traditional pottery making villages, Onda and Koishibara on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan. The film presents the workshops of Shigeki Sakamoto in Onda and Kumao Ohta in Koshibara. Behind-the-scenes slideshows.
Outsider Art has its origins in the French word art brut, which described art made by those outside the art scene particularly that created in 19th Century European Psychiatric Hospitals. In The 1940s, surrealists like Dubuffet and Max Ernst became interested in this art, and Outsider Art came to be more broadly interpreted as outside a didactic tradition and outside the boundaries of official culture. It was often unsettling and indecipherable, yet undeniably arresting. While it did not follow the artistic fashion of its time, Outsider Art nevertheless responds to the times in unexpected ways.
Volume 1: Human Figures MG-Outsider1| 59’ Volume 2: Writing MG-Outsider2| 65’ Volume 3: Urban Dreams MG-Outsider3 | 42’ Volume 4: Imaginary Worlds MG-Outsider4 | 50’ Volume 5: Odd Shapes MG-Outsider5 | 50’ Volume 6: Passion for Toys MG-Outsider6 | 47’ Volume 7: Déformer MG-Outsider7 | 58’ Volume 8: The Realms of the Unreal MG-Outsider8 | 64’ Volume 9: Figures of Solitude MG-Outsider9| 45’ Volume 10: Metamorphosis MG-Outsider10| 44’
documentaries / artists
World: Africa
documentaries / artists The National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City
world: Latin america
Africa: Between Myth & Reality
Eritrean Artists in War and Peace
Masks, Fetishes & other Obsessions
The Art of Resistance The Chicano Art Movement
Woven Lives: Vidas Enretejidas
Museum Secrets Series - Vol 2
CG-Africa | 28’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Eritrean | 56’ | DVD & Streaming
VL-Masks | 52’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Art | 27’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-MusNational| 45’ | DVD & Streaming
CK-Woven | 76’ | DVD & Streaming
BAC-Diego | 60’ | DVD & Streaming
Showcases the view of African life featured in the paintings, drawings and etchings of Betty LaDuke, one of America’s most accomplished multicultural artists.
The aesthetic development of 12 artists in Eritrea, whose contemporary art movement was born during the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front’s 30 year war against Ethiopia. 28 combatants were trained as artists, and between major offensives they created drawings, paintings and posters.
Explores the hidden myths and stereotypes of African Art and takes us on a journey into unique cultures. Togo and the Cameroon, High priests, healers, and magicians, a voodoo temple and traditional ritualistic feasts.
The contemporary Chicano art movement and its development during the height of Chicano political activism in the late Sixties and Seventies, blending archival footage with interviews with the artists and samples of their work, including photographs, murals, graphics, films, paintings, and ephemeral art.
Revealing the incredible stories behind treasures of The National Museum of Anthropology with it’s fascinating collection of Aztec and Mayan art, giant stone heads of the Olmec civilization. Uncovers the weird, the astonishing and fascinating wonders of Mexican culture and art.
How traditional art and design play an active role in the cultural sustainability of the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca. Traces the development of the weaving process from the first people in the valley to the present day, uniquely blends the perspectives of art, design, business, history, ethnic studies and cultural anthropology.
A fascinating picture of the man and his work. Includes interviews with Carlos Fuentes, Dolores Olmedo and archive footage of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican artist is best known for reviving centuries-old techniques, but he also embraces new ones such as polystyrene paint.
120 Wooster Street Frederick Brown
Lasting Impressions Robert Blackburn
Persistent Women Artists
America Tropical
Revelations: Hispanic Art of Evanescence
Havana Postmodern: The New Cuban Art
CG-Wooster | 58’ |DVD & Streaming
CG-Last| 27’ |DVD & Streaming
CG-Women | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-America | 30’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Revel | 28’ | DVD & Streaming
CG-Havana | 54’ | DVD & Streaming
This video profiles Frederick Brown, one of America’s most prolific expressionist painters. With comments by fellow artists, features his famous studio.Footage of 30 year period of Brown at work.
Profiles the lithograph artist, one of the few black printmakers to emerge from WPA-sponsored arts projects, including the Harlem Art Center, during the Thirties. eatures interviews with Blackburn, fellow artists, art critics and curators...
Lois Mailou Jones, Mine Okubo, and Pablita Velarde. The artists discuss the political and social obstacles they encountered during their artistic careers, while trying to truthfully express both the pain and beauty of their respective multicultural heritages via their art.
The story of a controversial mural painted on a LA building by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros.Depicting a Mexican crucified on a double cross, the mural represented his strong statement against U.S. imperialism and the treatment of Mexicans in the U.S. Includes interviews with a then 74-year-old Siqueiros.
Documents the Fall 1993 construction at Cornell University of site-specific installations by eight acclaimed Hispanic artists, curated by Chon Noriega. Interviews with the artists, scenes of the exhibit, and the controversy and protest it engendered on campus.
Examines the new Cuban art movement and its social and cultural roots, featuring interviews with artists, who discuss Cuban national identity, censorship and self-expression, and how one makes a living as an artist. Features: Arturo Cuenca, Joseph Kosuth and a lot more...
Weavings and the Weavers of Oaxaca
Diego Rivera: Revolutionary with a Paintbox
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