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Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 24, 2015 1 video

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Billy Collins is perhaps the first American poet since Robert Frost to enjoy both critical and popular acclaim. This 59-minute documentary captures the qualities that make Collins such a refreshing literary figure. With a film crew trailing him from poetry readings and college classrooms to his home,…

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L'âge tendre

from SPIRA PRO on November 17, 2015 1 video

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2013 - Version originale francophone • SYNOPSIS Dans une école secondaire de Montréal, 9 jeunes aux parcours atypiques sont réunis autour d'un projet de dramathérapie qui vise à offrir une voix aux groupes marginalisés. Au fil des rencontres se déploient…

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WHO WE ARE: BRAVE NEW CLAN [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on August 24, 2015 1 video

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Brave New Clan features six extraordinary young Australians who share what Indigenous culture means to them today in contemporary urban Australia. From the bustling streets of Sydney to the aquamarine vistas of the Torres Strait, their stories span a diverse population across the country and yet share…

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Barry Harris: The Spirit of Bebop

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 19, 2015 1 video

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This intimate portrait of modern jazz pianist, Barry Harris, becomes a historic walk with some of the best-known jazz musicians of the 1950's and 60's. Memorable scenes span from archival footage of Harris playing at his piano to more recent reminiscing about his circle of friends and influences,…

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Ralph Gibson: Photographer/Book Artist

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 19, 2015 1 video

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For more than forty years, Ralph Gibson has served as one of the few truly independent forces within the field of photography. His unique graphic style — stark, erotic, chaste, allusive, surreal — is as unmistakable as it is influential. His many-published books have shown generations…

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Robert A.M. Stern: 15 Central Park West and the History of the New York Apartment House

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 19, 2015 1 video

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Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series Even during the Great Recession of 2008, one new apartment house in New York City continued to set the bar for real-estate prices: 15 Central Park West. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, the lavish, limestone-clad structure from…

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Yoshio Taniguchi: The New Museum of Modern Art

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 18, 2015 1 video

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Landmarks in 21st Century American Architecture Series Architect Yoshio Taniguchi, revered in his native country of Japan for the design of consummately minimal museums, won the much-coveted commission to expand and renovate the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1997. Opened in 2004, the…

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Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 18, 2015 1 video

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Landmarks in 21st Century American Architecture Series French architect Jean Nouvel has long been known in Europe for his bold, shimmering glass museums, concert halls, and high-rise towers. Now the much-acclaimed new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which opened in 2006, is displaying…

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Kiki Smith: Squatting The Palace

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 18, 2015 1 video

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This film takes a circular approach to an artist who works in overlapping spirals of creative energy. Smith works in her home – not in a space specifically designed as a studio but on the 2nd floor of her East Village townhouse. There, amidst her books, a pet bird, and tiny kitchenette, Smith…

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Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 18, 2015 1 video

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During the four decades of his career, Sol LeWitt produced more than 1200 wall drawings using a deliberately limited repertoire of lines and geometric shapes to create works of remarkable complexity. Born in 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut, LeWitt is considered one of the key pioneers of conceptual…

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Roy Lichtenstein: Tokyo Brushstrokes

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 19, 2015 1 video

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This film offers comprehensive documentation on a major public sculpture by the Pop master, Roy Lichtenstein. Just as he drew inspiration from cartoons and advertising to produce some of the most indelible images in contemporary painting, Lichtenstein became intrigued by a brushstroke he saw in a…

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The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel: In Search of Clarity

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 18, 2015 1 video

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Charles Gwathmey has held steadfast to the spirit of modernism in his architecture from the day he successfully built his parents’ home in 1967 based on the theories of Le Corbusier and American individualism. Avoiding the nostalgia of fashionable postmodernism throughout the eighties, Gwathmey…

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