Fra Michael Blackwood Productions Studios
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1990
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis8.00 1990 HD
"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh...
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2012
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor1 2012 HD
Architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden where he can keep the politics of...
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2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial1 2009 HD
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to...
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1985
Empire City
Empire City9.00 1985 HD
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...
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1988
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser6.80 1988 HD
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with...
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2012
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice1 2012 HD
Critic Kenneth Frampton is a masterful commentator on the architecture of our time. At the start of his long-spanning career Frampton worked as an...
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2012
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY3.80 2012 HD
A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who established his status at age 30, just before the...
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1980
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers1 1980 HD
Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of...
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2004
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney1 2004 HD
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...
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2004
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-1968
What is Minimalism? : The American Perspective 1958-19681 2004 HD
Featuring notable Minimalist artists such as Bride Marden, Claes Oldenburg, and Donald Judd, What is Minimalism: The American Perspective 1958-1968...
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2012
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity1 2012 HD
"Marking Infinity", Lee Ufan's recent retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim charts the artist's creation of a visual, conceptual, and...
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1999
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language1 1999 HD
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...
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2009
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering1 2009 HD
"Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering" offers examples and insights into the ever-adapting possibilities of concrete....
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2012
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture1 2012 HD
Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years, brought together by their creativity, philosophy and visionary...
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1970
David Hockney's Diaries
David Hockney's Diaries1 1970 HD
Renowned English painter, David Hockney, takes us on a visual journey as he shares with us his treasured photo diaries. Consisting of polaroids...
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1978
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part I: The Pioneers1 1978 HD
The first chapter in our Masters of Modern Sculpture series looks at groundbreaking work from the brilliant minds that reshaped sculptural art and...
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1987
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact1 1987 HD
In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and...
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1993
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros1 1993 HD
The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...
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1994
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy6.00 1994 HD
American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's...
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2005
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression2.00 2005 HD
Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.