The 18-minute film begins by imagining the day when teenage Len Lye had ‘the best idea of his life – a ‘Eureka moment’ that led him to imagine a new art of movement. The film goes on to trace Lye’s extraordinary career and to dramatize his ideas about art, movement and the…
Liesl Silverstone demonstrates the theory of Person-Centred Art Therapy. After an introduction about the background and theory of Person-Centred Art Therapy, Liesl Silverstone offers an art therapy exercise. She demonstrates the approach by working with two women and their images. Then, as 'tutor',…
The Art Toys, also known as Designer Toys, are imaginary characters that reflect urban culture, its phobias and fantasies. They are framed within the counterculture and navigate along with street art, graffiti, protest, design, illustration, comics, animation and personalized art in small collections.…
Most people descend upon the Cote D’Azur in search of sun, sea, fine wine and fine dining but the Riviera isn’t just a holiday destination for sun-worshippers. The region also presents the traveller with an extraordinary art trail once touched by the greatest artists of the modern era: Paul…
A lyrical exploration of modernist composer and pianist Artur Schnabel features acclaimed actor Udo Samel, pianist Markus Pawlik, singer Dietrich Henschel, and the Szymanowski Quartet. Filmmaker Matthew Mishory uses unexpected textures (super8, drone footage, back-projection) shot in Italy, Switzerland,…
"Visually arresting." –Seattle Times Meet the artists, designers, and visionaries involved in the creation of Seattle's new Olympic Sculpture Park in this exquisitely told story.
Revel in the beauty of awe-inspiring landscapes and the unique animals and people that inhabit them through an artist’s lens in Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge —a 26-episode series airing nationwide on your local public television station and syndicated in over 60 countries. Art…
“A Rua da Estrada” travels around Portuguese roads, with its very peculiar landscapes – a seismograph of passing time. Voiced by geographer Alvaro Domingues, the film shows us a trip around Portugal as it is. A Rua da Estrada (A Road As A Street) directed by Graça Castanheira,…
"Gliding from intimate to surreal, from aurally disjunctive to visually seductive, Rubberband is a languorous ballad." -Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times, Critics Pick A Rubberband is an Unlikely Instrument is a lyrical exploration of a Brooklyn couple as they navigate their path…
The harsh realities of growing up homeless in Siberia. A Russian Fairytale Following the break up of the Soviet union, a gang of children from broken homes made a new life together inside the derelict buildings of a once secret weapons manufacturing city. In their childhood innocence, they thought…
This film offers a remarkable behind-the-frontlines look at the aftermath of the anti-Marcos “Yellow Revolution” that brought Corazon Aquino to power in the Philippines in 1986. Shot over eight months, often in dangerous conditions, the film chronicles the three points of an often-violent…
Camille and Antoine, two French slackliners and alpinists have a dream, to walk between two iconic rock towers. Arves-En-Ciel tells the story of an amazing project, which required a huge team of invested people to be fulfilled. Official Selections 2021: BANFF, Chamonix Film Festival, V’allons en…
