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Filmed at Sydney's Carriageworks, the Australian Chamber Orchestra take us on an exquisitely beautiful and moving journey. Vox amoris, written for Richard Tognetti in 2009 by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, the violin sings a song to the glory of love through emotional highs and lows. Such balancing of melancholy and light also underpins the moral complexity in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, but the resolution finds love as a redeemer. Even Bach’s...
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Meet an eclectic group of people who have dedicated their lives to answering the question: what should books become in the digital age? From the esoteric world of book artists to the digital libraries of the Internet Archive, the film spins a tale of the enduring vitality of the book. This engaging documentary captures the painstaking but pleasurable process of creating hand-crafted books, in a diverse range of styles and mediums. The film travels...
3) Black Sun
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Blinded in a New York City mugging, artist Hugues de Montalembert defied expectations by continuing his work- a poetic meditation on life without vision.
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Narrated by iconic director John Carpenter, THE RISE OF THE SYNTHS traverses nine countries, interviewing the scene’s biggest stars and original trailblazers. The film explores the roots of the now breakout Synthwave scene, charting its humble online and underground beginnings to its impact on today’s pop culture.
5) DocoBANKSY
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Find the truth and explore the impact that the world’s most famous graffiti artist has had on the art world, on the expression of protest and satire, and on the perception of what you can do with a spray can and a stencil.
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The film features artist Frank Stella as he walks us through his 2012 exhibition “Black Aluminum Copper Paintings” at L&M Arts. The film also features commentary on Frank’s life and career from Adam Weinberg (Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY) and Ann Temkin (Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY).
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Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world – with glowing reviews, global publicity, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run – the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of an historic event. Suzanne Raes’s film follows curators, conservators, collectors, and experts in their joint mission to shine a new...
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Immerse yourself in printmaking artist Brian’s world at his home and workshop on the coast of Maine — his model airplanes and trains, wall-to-wall books and curling wooden staircase up to his studio, the vintage MG in his garage which shares space with a printing press — and above all, Brian’s work: the copper plates and engraving tools, mixing ink and wiping plates, working on his plates and printing from them, his hands and what it means...
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James Rosenquist (1933-2017) was an influential American Pop artist, best known for his collage paintings, such as F-111 and President Elect. The artist used his commercial background to create surrealist works that helped define the Pop art movement. The film follows the life and career of James Rosenquist, with commentary from Ann Temkin (Mare Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY), Sarah Bancroft...
10) Raphael Revealed
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Marking the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the greatest exhibition ever held of his works took place in Rome, Exhibition on Screen was granted exclusive access to this once-in-a-lifetime show. With over two hundred masterpieces, including paintings and drawings – over a hundred of which have been brought together for the first time – this major exhibition celebrates the life and work of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. With unprecedented loans...
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Discover the life and music of jazz luminary Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history. Featuring original concert footage and candid interviews with jazz legends such as Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins and Jon Batiste, Finding the Right Notes is a vibrant portrait of one of America's great musical trailblazers.
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Several of the interviews in this documentary were filmed at a symposium about the career and biography of Michael Chekhov, which was held in the US in the 1990s. The participants in the symposium shared their memories about being taught by, or working with, the late, great actor, director, and drama coach, Russian-born Chekhov (1891-1955), who was the nephew of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Many film clips, plus some rare stills of...
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Gianni Berengo Gardin, since the 1950s, has devoted himself to reportage, social investigation, and architectural photography of environmental description. With his friends Josef Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, Eliott Erwitt, Ferdinando Scianna, Renzo Piano, and Gabriele Basilico, in this film Berengo Gardin retraces his life as an "artisan of photography," always convinced that "it doesn't matter how you photograph but what you photograph."
14) Unity Temple
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There are great buildings and there are great restorations. Sometimes, both come together. UNITY TEMPLE: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MODERN MASTERPIECE, is an homage to America’s most renowned architect. The 55-minute film by Lauren Levine follows the challenging {dollar}25 million restoration and revival of Wright’s first public commission and the painstaking efforts to bring the 100-year-old building back to its original beauty.
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Born in the West Indies, Pissarro found his passion in paint as a young man in Paris, and by the age of 43 had corralled a group of enthusiastic artists into a new collective. Their first show was scorned by the critics, but the group had acquired a new name: the Impressionists. For the next 40 years Pissarro was the driving force behind what has today become the world’s favourite artistic movement. The Ashmolean Museum has a long tradition of excellence....
16) Scrap
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Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycke the world's scrap. SCRAP scratches beneath flaking paint and rusting metal to reveal the beauty and pathos in the ugliness we leave behind.
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For many years no-one was interested in the art of the Impressionists. Artists like Monet, Degas and Renoir were vilified, attacked, and left penniless as a result. Then, something remarkable happened. A new breed of collectors emerged and, before long, they were battling to acquire any work by these new, radical artists that they could find. Amongst them was the visionary Danish businessman Wilhelm Hansen. It was an extraordinary moment in art history,...
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Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the most important sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, has been a fascinating and enduring influence on a generation of contemporary American artists. Insights into Brancusi’s legacy are presented by Carl Andre, Lynda Benglis, Ellsworth Kelly, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, and Joel Shapiro. Film locations include the recreated Brancusi studio at the Centre Pompidou, the PMA’s Brancusi gallery, and...
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This portrait of Vladimir Kagan–noted furniture designer, sculptor, and writer, documents his creative process, from initial drawings and design ideas through the creation of the Gigi and Gabriella chairs. His long career and continued inventiveness from the late forties to 2016 had a seminal influence on Twentieth Century design.
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