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- The Architecture of Doom - Considers the Nazis' atrocities as a wholly rational extension of a fundamental tenet seeking to beautify the world.
- Art and Remembrance: The Legacy of Felix Nussbaum - The story of artist Felix Nussbaum, who created the major body of work about the Jews during the Holocaust.
- Artful History - An incisive examination of the heretofore mysterious - and the not always well intentioned - process of restoring art.
- Atomic Artist - Working with refuse from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Tony Price creates "atomic art."
- August Sander - A portrait of one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, who though uncelebrated in his own lifetime, pioneered social documentary photography.
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- Black Dawn - An animated account of Haiti's liberation told through the eyes of two African slaves.
- Bruly Bouabré's Alphabet - In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Bruly Bouabré created hundreds of pictograms based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété.
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- The Case of the Grinning Cat - In his newest film, French cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on French and international politics, art and culture at the start of the new millennium.
- Charlotte - Based on the autobiographical series "Life or Theater?" by Charlotte Salomon, a young Jewish painter from Berlin, who sought refuge in Nice during World War II.
- Chris Marker's Bestiary - Five Chris Marker short films devoted to animals collected together and available for the first time!
- Club of the Discarded - Barta's surrealistic animation pokes fun at bourgeois values while teaching a lesson in understanding and social acceptance.
- Colette - A fascinating visit with the legendary writer in her Paris apartment on the Palais Royal circa 1951. And Jean Cocteau drops by.
- Constant, Avant le Depart - Filmed shortly before Constant Nieuwenhuys' death, this is an intimate glimpse into the life and work of the painter, urban theorist, and influential member of the European avant-garde.
- Cracks in the Mask - A Torres Strait Islander sets out on a voyage of discovery to the great museums of Europe where his cultural heritage now lies.
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- Dreamings - Showing Aboriginal artists at work in their native environments, DREAMINGS explores the meaning and mystical significance behind these evocative works.
- Dust - DUST turns one of the most commonplace subjects imaginable into a vehicle for a new appreciation of how these tiny particles affect our bodies and our environment and can provide a fresh new perspective of the entire world. (new January, 2008)
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- Fang - Mixes documentary and fiction techniques to recount an African art object's 100 year journey - a whole century of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes!
- First Look - The first ever U.S. exhibit of revolutionary Cuba's art.
- From The Ashes - Ten downtown artists relate their experiences of September 11, as they try to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives, and struggle to redefine the meaning of their art.
- From The Ashes - Epilogue - The sequel to From the Ashes - 10 Artists, for this film we return to the neighborhood around Ground Zero to see how the events of September 11th impacted local artists and their work a year later.
- The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - A fascinating profile of Erkki Kurenniemi, an early inventor of electronic synthesizers and microcomputers, whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art.
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- Great Expectations - A journey through the history of visionary architecture, a survey of the most significant architectural movements of the 20th century that challenged conventional concepts.
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- Hellfire: A Journey From Hiroshima - The profound vision of painters Iri and Toshi Maruki who created the Hiroshima Murals after witnessing the aftermath of that city's destruction.
- The Hermitage Dwellers - This kaleidoscope of people and events in the great museum unfolds into a poignant account of Russia's painful 20th century transformed by the "dwellers" intimate relationship with the art.
- Hermitage-Niks - This five-part series is the expanded, in-depth version of THE HERMITAGE DWELLERS.
- Howard Finster: Man of Visions - A candid look at the unique Reverend Howard Finster, who, after forty five years of preaching, received instruction from God in 1976 to paint his spiritual messages.
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- Last Dance - Goes behind the scenes with the audacious, innovative Pilobolus Dance Theatre and legendary author-illustrator Maurice Sendak to reveal a stormy collaboration.
- Light, Darkness, and Colours - Using Goethe's Theory of Colors (Zur Farbenlehre) as a point of departure, takes us on a fascinating journey through the universe of colors.
- Linnea in Monet's Garden - From the bestselling book, a young girl's introduction to Monet's world.
- Living Memory - About Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Exposes tensions in a society assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.
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- Malick Sidibé - Short but sweet look at the work of the renowned African artist whose photographs have documented social and cultural changes in Mali over a forty-year period.
- Mille Gilles - The thought and ideas of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and his impact on creative work and communities around the world.
- Mokarrameh, Memories and Dreams - Mokarrameh made her first painting (a portrait of her cow) with mud and cow dung on a rock as a means to find consolation for its death. Now, her home overflows with vivid paintings, giving insight into the lives of Iranian women.
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- Napoleon, David - Featuring the paintings of Jacques-Louis David, including "Napoleon's Coronation." Examines how art and propaganda were intertwined throughout Napoleon's career.
- Notes on Marie Menken - The story of the "mother of avante-garde film"—the influential experimental filmmaker who inspired artists such as Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Kenneth Anger.
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- On Snow's Wavelength, Zoom Out - A documentary on artist Michael Snow, regarded as one of the great innovators and theoreticians of the film medium, as informative and enjoyable as it is beautifully constructed.
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- The People's Painting - Fascinated by the West's obsession with polls, Russian avant-garde artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid set out to create the perfect "British" painting. They use market research and focus groups, revered tools of capitalism, to guide them
- Photo Souvenir - Philippe Koudjina was once a renowned portrait photographer in Niger, but now, due to injury and illness, he barely ekes out an existence, while his contemporaries Sidibe and Keita have gone on to international success.
- The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover - A complex tale of art world profit, deception and crime, framed by O. Winston Link's stunning iconic photographs of the last of the American steam locomotives.
- Proteus - Animated exploration of the 19th century's fascination with the undersea world, and portrait of biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the sea depths an ecstatic fusion of science and art.
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- Regular or Super - A lovely introduction to Mies van der Rohe, one of the 20th century's most influential architects, and a stimulating examination of modernism and urban environments.
- Remembrance of Things to Come - Reminiscent of Resnais, Ivens, even Kubrick, but in its deployment of still photographs (as in La Jetée), its theme of history and memory, its subject-skipping montage and rapid shuttle of wit and philosophy it's pure Marker.
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- Santiago Calatrava's Travels - A fascinating portrait of world famous artist, engineer, architect and urban studies scholar Santiago Calatrava, and an interdisciplinary reflection on the perception and impact of architecture.
- Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square - An artist's personal exploration of China's recent history from the Cultural Revolution through the 1980s, told through a rich collage of original artwork, archival and family photographs, and animation.
- Swing in Beijing - A comprehensive survey of the contemporary art scene in Beijing, China, by the Academy Award nominated filmmaker Shui-Bo Wang.
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- To Be Seen - A lively study of visual culture, and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. What is art's role in the context of public space and urban culture?
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- The Universal Clock - Is there an alternative to run-of-the-mill TV? The film introduces us to Peter Watkins, who for the last three decades has proven that quality TV may be made without compromise.
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- The Way Things Go - 100 feet of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos worthy of Rube Goldberg or Alfred Hitchcock - a discussion starter for sure.
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- Zygosis - A radical and humorous electronic homage to John Heartfield, anti-Nazi German satirist who pioneered the photomontage.
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