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Edward Kienholz (1927-1994)
2011 ::: offart
Richard Leacock (1921-2011)
2011 ::: movie
A rare interview with Louise Brooks (1906-1985) by documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg
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The Responsive Eye, 1965
2011 ::: movie
MoMA 1965: The Responsive Eye
The show was the first public introduction on Optical (or "Op") art.
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The show was the first public introduction on Optical (or "Op") art.
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Alexander Trocchi (1925-1984
2011 ::: movie
Dennis Van Zak
2011 ::: camp
Dennis Van Zak "Aphrodisiac!: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana," 1971.
Pot Sex
How Does Marijuana Affect YOUR Sex Life?
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Pot Sex
How Does Marijuana Affect YOUR Sex Life?
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Cuban Telephone Company (1950)
2011 ::: offart
Bob Flanagan (1952-1996)
2011 ::: offart
Sheree, Bob, Pizza, & Milk (Spring 1995)
Artist Sheree Rose and husband/creative partner Bob Flanagan at their Silver Lake, Los Angeles home, Spring 1995. An extended version of "Sheree, Bob, & Pizza (Spring 1995)". Dominant Sheree agrees to get milk for submissive Bob (who is handicapped), but demands a small favor in return. Excerpted from Sheree's extensive video recordings of their life together.
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Artist Sheree Rose and husband/creative partner Bob Flanagan at their Silver Lake, Los Angeles home, Spring 1995. An extended version of "Sheree, Bob, & Pizza (Spring 1995)". Dominant Sheree agrees to get milk for submissive Bob (who is handicapped), but demands a small favor in return. Excerpted from Sheree's extensive video recordings of their life together.
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An Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust
2010 ::: movie
A film the British Government deemed too grisly for release after World War II - has received its public debut on British television. Fifteen minutes of the black-and- white film, which was shot by the armed forces after the war, were televised Tuesday night by the Independent Television News.
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Jorge Luis Borges (b.1899)
2010 ::: movie
The Mirror Man
is an excellent documentation about one of the great South American writers of the last century.
Directed by Philippe Molins
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is an excellent documentation about one of the great South American writers of the last century.
Directed by Philippe Molins
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Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
2010 ::: movie
Death Mills (Todesmühlen) (1945)
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.
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Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.
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The Atomic Cafe
2010 ::: movie
1982 documentary on the bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki as well as Cold War propaganda afterwards.
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Sean Christensen
2010 ::: movie
Empty House
With an emphasis on connecting emotionally with the audience on a deep and subconscious level, 'Empty House' is an experimental documentary that focuses on the residue of memories trapped in physical objects and the rooms in which we live.
Shave
A short about the first time I ever saw my father without his mustache.
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"Lives Of The Artists: Follow Me Down"
2010 ::: offart
Documentation about the band UNCLE and the snowboard legends Jeremy Jones and Xavier De La Rue.
The movie certain truth quiet monitoring on a spectacular sportscene.
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The movie certain truth quiet monitoring on a spectacular sportscene.
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Black Cab, by Andy Guest
2010 ::: movie
The black cab moves slowly through the dark streets of the capital city, trawling the pavements, awaiting his next customer. He pulls up at a popular celebrity haunt to pick up a famous passenger and take him on a fateful journey through London....
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Lutz Dammbeck, Das Netz
2010 ::: movie
"The Net" (Das Netz, 2003), an independent film directed by Lutz Dammbeck
EMAF Award 2004
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Can
2010 ::: music
Can on German TV 1971, fooling around, playing football, jamming, talking about politics. Taken from a 1999 Can documentary
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Adam Pertofsky
2010 ::: offart
The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
This is a short film that is archived and presented at The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee. It is a documentary on Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, witness to Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
It was nominated for a academy award in 2009 under the category of documentary short.
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This is a short film that is archived and presented at The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee. It is a documentary on Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles, witness to Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
It was nominated for a academy award in 2009 under the category of documentary short.
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
2010 ::: lyrics
King of the Beats
Documentary about the life of On the Road author Jack Kerouac. Kerouac coined the phrase Beat Generation and has been called the Father of the Hippies.
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Dinner With Henry (1979)
2009 ::: movie
Dinner With Henry (1979)
Director: Richard Young
Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company: A Henry Miller Blog
It's a classic question: Name a famous person, living or dead, you'd like to have dinner with. I imagine that a number of readers of this blog would say 'Henry Miller.' Indeed, he had a reputation for holding court at the dinner table, regaling his fellow eaters with opinions and reminiscences.
Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all. It may not be of much interest to a general audience, but is a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him.
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Daido Moriyama
2009 ::: photography
Swinging London
2009 ::: offart
It's so far out it's straight down
A look at embryonic counter culture capers in swinging London 1967
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David Hockney
2009 ::: photography
talks about how the camera just doesn't cut it, with Robert Hughes, on The New Shock of the New.
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William Eggleston
2009 ::: movie | photography
Stranded in Canton
In 1973, photographer William Eggleston picked up a Sony PortaPak and took to documenting the soul of Memphis and New Orleans.
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William Eggleston
2009 ::: photography
Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008
This candid interview with photographer William Eggleston was conducted by film director Michael Almereyda on the occasion of the opening of Eggleston's retrospective William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968)
2009 ::: offart
Pilgrimage to Miao Feng Shan
Between 1924-1927, Sidney D. Gamble made three trips to Miao Feng Shan (Marvelous Peak Mountain), a popular Daoist pilgrimage site.
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Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
Johnny Depp reading the letters he received from Hunter S. Thompson during his work on the Fear and Loathing Movie.
Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Actor Gary Busey shares his thoughts on Hunter S. Thompson, art, life, death, and just how Johnny Depp played Hunter so well.
John Cusack learned the hard way: steal Don Henley's car then drink and play shotgun golf.
Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson
1978 BBC DOCUMENTARY: Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision (On The Road To Hollywood)
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Olafur Eliasson (b.1967)
2009 ::: offart
Playing with space and light
In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception.
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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
2009 ::: movie
Sebastian Horsley (b.1962)
2009 ::: offart
Holger Meins (1941-1974)
Oskar Langenfeld (1967)Film by Holger Meins about a tuberculosis-afflicted homeless
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Gilbert & George
2009 ::: movie
No Surrender, 8th May 2007
"All the hidden remarks - 'the curiously besuited couple', 'the tedious twosome' - that's all coded language for 'I'd prefer not to have two poofs exhibiting in this gallery'," Gilbert and George declare over tea with Alan Yentob in their favourite East End café.
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"All the hidden remarks - 'the curiously besuited couple', 'the tedious twosome' - that's all coded language for 'I'd prefer not to have two poofs exhibiting in this gallery'," Gilbert and George declare over tea with Alan Yentob in their favourite East End café.
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Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)
2009 ::: photography
Gursky World (2002)
In the first programme of a major new arts strand, Ben Lewis's amusing odyssey delves into the world of the planet's most influential photographer, Andreas Gursky.
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In the first programme of a major new arts strand, Ben Lewis's amusing odyssey delves into the world of the planet's most influential photographer, Andreas Gursky.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
2009 ::: preview
Black White and Gray
In their many years together as artist and collector, model and mentor, wealthy curator Sam Wagstaff and bête noire photographer Robert Mapplethorpe had many dual portraits taken. But even though these photographs are clear and intelligible, the relationship between these two talented and influential men never has been.
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Horseplay
2009 ::: movie
Horseplay
Is a short 16mm documentary about the New Zealand painter Philip Trusttum. The film presents a brief snap-shot of the artist and his surroundings at his farm in Waimate. The approach of the documentary makes no attempt to disguise the role of the filmmaker. In this way it pays homage to the Direct Cinema tradition. The film uses hand-held camera, voyeuristic shots and off-camera audio. The film was made in 1990 by: Peter Bannan; Vivienne Stone; Peter Evans; Robert Sarkies; Michael Brown; Simon Perkins; Philip Trusttum; Lee Trusttum; Peter Leech; James Wallace.
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Margueritte Duras (1914-1996)
2010 ::: movie
Les Mains Négatives 1978
Les Mains Négatives shows the travellings across the streets of Paris at daybreak of a voice speaking of love. This declaration is sent out to the ones who have been left behind. It speaks to immigrant workers, the homeless, the clandestine population in a Paris still asleep with its historical buildings and monuments as a backdrop for a love declaration outside of real time.
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Nico (1938-1988)
2009 ::: Interview
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)
2009 ::: Interview
Interview`s with Andrei Tarkovsky
"The pressure Rublev is subject to, is not an exception. An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn`t exist, for the artist doesn`t live in a vacuum.
Some pressure must exist: the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn`t look for harmony but would simply live in it.
Rt is born out of an ill designed world. This is the issue in "Rublev": the search for harmonic relationships among men between art and life, between time and history. That`s what my film is all about.
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Philip Glass and Robert Wilson
2009 ::: offart
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
Documentary, Interview`s about this legendary opera, sound and choreographie
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Balthus
2009 ::: offart
Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola
Documentary
A wonderful poetic documentation about one of the greatest painters of the last century.
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Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
2009 ::: photography
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
2009 ::: lyrics
Alan Watts (1915-1973)
2009 ::: lyrics
A Conversation with Myself
A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind.
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A 1971 television recording with Alan Watts walking in the mountains and talking about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind.
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William K. L. Dickson
2009 ::: offart
The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
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Yves Klein
2009 ::: offart
Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings
Filmed in 1960, Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings consists of two art performances. Musicians play music as Yves Klein directs young women to imprint their blue-painted-bodies onto canvas. The second performance involves the women helping to create an outline of themselves before a torch is used to scorch the canvas.
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Jenny Holzer
2009 ::: offart
Jenny Holzer discusses her difficult relationship to writing during the installation of the exhibition "PROTECT PROTECT" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Featured works include "Red Yellow Looming" (2004), "Lustmord" (2007), "Protect Protect deep purple" (2007), and "For Chicago" (2008), among others. The exhibition remains on view in Chicago through February 1st, and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in March.
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Featured works include "Red Yellow Looming" (2004), "Lustmord" (2007), "Protect Protect deep purple" (2007), and "For Chicago" (2008), among others. The exhibition remains on view in Chicago through February 1st, and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in March.
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Nancy Spero
2009 ::: offart
Becoming an Artist
A pioneer of feminist art, Nancy Spero's work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War.
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Rachel Whiteread (b.1963)
2009 ::: offart
In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London's Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.
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Cindy Sherman
2009 ::: photography
In her studio in 1986
This video is an excerpt of an episode of State of the Art, a series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. Filmed in Europe, the United States, and Australia in 1985-6, the six programs feature many key artists including Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, Eric Fischl, and Joseph Beuys.
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Romy Haag (b.1951)
2010 ::: offart
Talks about her legendary Transvestiteclub in Berlin Schöneberg, the time during Berlin of the 70`s, her relationship to David Bowie.
Another famous club during that Berlin decade was the "Dschungel" in Nürnbergerstrasse near KaDW and "Andere Ufer" in Hauptstrasse one of the first gaybars at that time, close by Bowie`s flat.
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Another famous club during that Berlin decade was the "Dschungel" in Nürnbergerstrasse near KaDW and "Andere Ufer" in Hauptstrasse one of the first gaybars at that time, close by Bowie`s flat.
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