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"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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Cast: Yoko Ashikawa

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Groves

Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Trisha Brown

With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Eisenman

A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jimmy Cleveland

When the Tuscan city of Pisa commissioned David Chipperfield to create a master plan that would bring new vitality to this historic spot on the Arno,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Chipperfield

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Erika Mann

Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elizabeth Diller

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helmut Federle

"Solid States: Concrete in Architecture and Structural Engineering" offers examples and insights into the ever-adapting possibilities of concrete....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kenneth Frampton

For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Matthew Barney

“Christo: Works in Progress” takes us around the world on a showcase of the artist’s grand environmental installations. With both...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christo

In Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality Portugal's renowned architect reviews his work with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton. While touring his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Álvaro Siza Vieira

Art historians and critics talk with Philip Guston about his ideas and new work of the 1970's. Filmed during the making of "Philip Guston: A Life...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philip Guston

In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Francis Bacon

A concentrated look at one of America's early Pop artists, the film was made during Dine's 4-year residency in London. Actively at work in his studio...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jim Dine

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lowell Thomas

The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurie Anderson

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...

Genre: Documentary

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Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a...

Genre: Documentary

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