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Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1985, Willem de Kooning's oil painting Woman-Ochre vanished from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson. The $160 million work of art remained missing until 2017, when it was found hanging in the former home of Jerry and Rita Alter, a deceased New Mexico married couple. The film features interviews with the Alters' family members and those involved in the painting's disappearance and recovery. The film also utilizes actors to stage reenactments...
Publisher
Catalyst
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
How might your life be better with less? Minimalism examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life--families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street broker--all of whom are striving to live a meaningful life with less.
4) Aquarela
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Russian
Description
Water is the main protagonist, seen in all its great and terrible beauty. Mountains of ice move and break apart as if they had a life of their own. Kossakovsky's film travels the world, from the precarious frozen waters of Russia's Lake Baikal and Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma, to Venezuela's mighty Angel Falls in order to paint a portrait of this fluid life force in all its glorious forms. Fragile humans experience life and death, joy and...
5) Alive inside
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Captures Peter Gabriel₂s celebration of the 25th anniversary of his landmark album ₁So₂. To mark the event Gabriel reunited his original ₁So₂ touring band from 1986/87 and for the very first time fans saw them play the multi-platinum selling album in its entirety. Whilst the core of the performance is the ₁So₂ album, there is so much more to the concert with unfinished, previously unreleased and re-imagined songs sitting effortlessly...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Deutsch
Description
Two years ago, world-famous dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch selected forty teenagers who had never heard her name to be part of her dance piece Contact Zone. For ten months through opening night, the young dancers discover Bausch's genius and their own bodies
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Numbering no more than a few thousand, tiny groups of intrepid humans began to move out of Africa, eventually dominating the planet. How did these early humans acquire the skills, technology, and talent to thrive in every environment on Earth? Take a global journey through the past, following the ancestors' footsteps out of Africa along a trail of scientific clues to help unravel the mystery of how humans got where they are.
9) Miniature
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From making miniature furniture to creating art within the eye of a needle, this film investigates the mysterious and profound human urge to create and keep miniatures.
10) Scrap
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. SCRAP is a love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic documentary tells the stories of people who have deep connections to objects that have reached their end of life. The stories convey a deeper environmental and human message about our relationship to things, the sadness we feel...
11) Erasing David
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
How much do the government and private corporations know about people? How much can they find out? In order to discover how much privacy he has left, David Bond disappears from his life in England for one month and tries to go underground in Europe. But with a pair of top-notch detectives on his trail using all the information that the surveillance society has made available, Bond finds his task far trickier than he ever imagined.
Publisher
Distributed by Beyond Words Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tachi is 21 and has lived below the poverty line all his life. He is a member of the revolutionary Zapatistas in Mexico City. He is searching for his roots. Ehekateotl (Ehe) is a 52nd generation Aztec medicine man and traditional healer. Through a series of extraordinary circumstances, the two meet. Tachi's life is changed forever. Filmed on a month-long journey through the mountains of rural Mexico.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is the key question posed in Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, which features interviews with film archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Jonas Mekas, Patricio Guzmán, Ken Loach, Bill Morrison, Fernando Trueba, Wim Wenders, and appearances by Martin Scorsese, Barbara Rubin, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Ridley Scott, and Ousmane...
16) Earthlings
Publisher
Nation Earth
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A film about mankind's complete dependence on, yet total disrespect for, animals used as pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and for medical or scientific research. With hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, Earthlings chronicles the day-to-day practices of some of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Kevin Box has always known exactly what he intends to do with his life. In his words, "I want to have a conversation with people now and hundreds of years into the future." The origin story of Kevin and his wife Jennifer as they hone their craft of metal sculpture and develop powerful messages of peace inspired from within their magical studio compound in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The film is also a Love Story and a beautiful spiritual transformation...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
"Drawing its title from a celebrated exhibition at Switzerland's Gottardo Art Gallery, Eternity Has No Door of Escape traces the tumultuous history of art brut, translated in English as outsider art and introduces us to its pivotal figures, including psychiatrist and art collector Dr. Hans Prinzhorn; curator Harald Szeemann, and Surrealist artist and writer Andre Breton."--Container.
19) Objectified
Publisher
Swiss Dots Limited
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. In his second film, director Gary Hustwit (Helvetica) documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential product designers, and looks at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets
20) Mountain
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Only three centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, an upper world to be shunned, not sought out. Why do mountains now hold us spellbound, drawing us into their dominion, often at the cost of our lives? From Tibet to Australia, Alaska to Norway armed with drones, Go-Pros and helicopters, director Jennifer Peedom has fashioned an astonishing symphony of mountaineers,...
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