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Publisher
Les Blank Films
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (4 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Lightnin' Hopkins sings about playing cards with Les Blank and Skip Gerson - a card game he won which turned critical to the making of the film "The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins." After filming 13 songs, Lightnin' had told Les and Skip that he was done filming. As a last resort Les asked Lightnin' to play cards and he lost {dollar}200. But then Lightnin' agreed to film more. 3 1/2 min Color.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 36 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Art is one of the oldest activities on Earth, even predating science or math. But too often we forget it is a basic part of a balanced, healthy life. And women and art rarely get serious attention in our culture. Older women in art are virtually ignored. TRIPTYCH is about three women in their seventies who've devoted their entire adult lives to making art. They show us what they do and how they do it. Lana Wilson is a mother and grandmother who has...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 106 min.)
Language
English
Description
Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits––and at times risking her life in the process––she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
WITKIN AND WITKIN explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, a world famous photographer and Jerome, a painter and life long educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art and personal relationship. A film about perception and growing older, two artists who shared a childhood but whose lives took very different directions.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Ordinary music soars to extraordinary heights as gifted keyboardist Herbie Hancock joins forces with a variety of well-known music superstars to offer a completely original listening experience.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After assembling mock assault rifles out of everyday found objects, sculptor David Hess decides to turn them into an experimental public art installation to explore America’s obsession with guns. The fruits of that mission comprise the story of Gun Show, a fascinating and deeply moving documentary that steers clear of advocating a position and instead invites meaningful dialogue about the cultural power of guns. Beginning in Hess’s sculpture studio,...
7) Fiddlin’
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sister filmmakers, Julie Simone and Vicki Vlasic return to their Appalachian roots to film at the world's oldest Fiddler's Convention. With multiple generations jamming together, Fiddlin' is a love-letter to American roots and the uplifting power of music. Audience Favorite at the **Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival**. *"[A]n undeniably heartfelt if overlong affair, especially for the uninitiated." - Michael Rechtshaffen, **Los Angeles Times***...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
IT'S BAD FOR YA, Carlin's Emmy-nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the decrepit state of the American culture. Carlin once again comes up with an hour of brand new material that not only makes you laugh, but makes...
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Starting his career with Nichols and May, training most of the original cast of SNL and forming Second City, and being the inspiration for the ever popular Upright Citizens Brigade theater (UCB), there isn't a comic working today who wasn't fostered or mentored in some way by Del Close.
10) Tom of Finland
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, influencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness. But who was the man behind the leather? Dome Karukoski's stirring biopic follows his life from the trenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Zaha Hadid discusses her current work while taking the camera through her retrospective exhibition "Zaha Hadid has arrived" at Vienna's MAK, a museum for design and contemporary art. The centerpiece is a sculptural work entitled "Ice Storm" especially created for the exhibition. "Zaha Hadid has arrived" is a brilliant review of her progress through the last decade and includes: her museums of contemporary art in Rome and Cincinnati, the BMW plant...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Mitchell Kezin delves into the minds of some of the world s most legendary Christmas music fanatics and hits the road to hang with his holiday heroes including hip hop legend Joseph Rev Run Simmons of RUN-D.M.C., The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, filmmaker John Waters, bebopper Bob Dorough, L.A. DJ and musicologist Dr. Demento, and Calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow. In his search for the twelve best, underappreciated Christmas songs ever recorded,...
13) Cecil Balmond
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A documentary film about a unique thinker and practitioner at the height of his career. In conversations with the architecture critic Sanford Kwinter, Cecil Balmond reveals his vision and multifaceted talents in a retrospective exhibition of his accomplishments at the Graham Foundation Gallery in Chicago. Since the early 1980s Balmond has collaborated with such important contemporary architects and artists working today as Toyo Ito, Anish Kapoor,...
14) That Summer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Welcome to GREY GARDENS...as you've never seen it before. Discover the long-lost film featuring Big and Little Edie before they were cultural icons. With Andy Warhol.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film documents an intimate visit to the couple’s famous art collection in their New York City home. The Ganz’s describe how they began to collect art in the 1940’s, citing Picasso as their first passion. The couple soon became infatuated with more contemporary artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. On a serendipitous Saturday afternoon in 1968, Victor Ganz came upon the work of Eva Hesse in New York’s Fischbach...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The illustrious career of the renowned photographer who has taken some of the most vibrant and intimate portraits of The Beatles, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill and many more.
17) Tattoo Uprising
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From antiquity to the present, TATTOO UPRISING reveals the artistic and historical roots of today’s tattoo explosion. This sweeping overview explores how tattoos were used in early Christian practices, how they were discovered halfway around the world during the voyages of Captain James Cook, and how they exploded in popularity in America beginning with artists like Ed Hardy.
Tattoo Uprising features some of the most extraordinary people of the
...Publisher
Felix Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (5 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Lexi is a self-described “queer freak from outer space”. With her mane of mermaid green hair and “cyberfemme” aesthetic, she has created a space on Instragram in which she can celebrate her “freakiness” and encourage others to feel comfortable in their skin and their choices.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After centuries of percolating in America’s immigrant and racial mix, particularly in the American South, what was first called “hillbilly music” begins reaching more people through the new technologies of phonographs and radio.
20) Greg Lynn
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Greg Lynn, one of the leading figures in computer-aided architectural design, is the curator of an exhibition series initiated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA.) The exhibitions, which will travel to the Yale School of Architecture Gallery, are to explore the role of digital technologies in the design process since the early days. For the first exhibition “Archaeology of the Digital” Lynn selected four individuals who are the pioneers...
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