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  1. Russian Avant Garde, The (2014)

    Director
    Barrie Gavin
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 207 minutes), £30.00

    This four disc set looks at the life of art collector George Costakis and three of his favourite artists.The first film is about Costakis, one of the 20th century’s most prominent art collectors, who...

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  2. Cinema Dada (2006)

    Director
    Hans Richter; Viking Eggeling; Man Ray; René Clair; Fernand Léger
    Subject
    Art; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £17.99

    Published to coincide with the Pompidou Centre’s major Dada exhibition. Features Rhythmus 21 by Hans Richter, Symphonie Diagonale by Viking Eggeling, La Retour a la Raison by Man Ray, Entr’acte by René...

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  3. Louise Bourgeois (2008)

    Director
    Camille Guichard
    Subject
    Art; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £24.99

    Born in 1911 in Paris, after studying art in France, Louise Bourgeois leaves for New York in 1938. An outsider to the art scene, she has few of her own exhibitions until her sculptures find international...

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  4. Scenes and Songs from Boyd Webb (1984 Film, Video)

    Director
    Philip Haas; Boyd Webb
    Producer
    Philip Haas
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Boyd Webb’s art works are extremely large photographs. In the studio he constructs elaborate sculptural sets in which figures pose and are photographed. In this film Boyd Webb has designed eight new works...

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  5. Manet (1993 Video)

    Distribution
    Off-air recording license Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Professor T J Clark examines the possible meanings of two notorious paintings by Manet: ‘Olympia’ (1863) and the ‘Bar at the Folies Bergère’ (1881-2). Using contemporary criticism as evidence,...

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  6. Alive from off Centre (1990 Television)

    aka: Stuff As Dreams Are Made on

    Series
    Words on Fire
    Producer
    John Schott

    Series of arts programmes featuring the work of avant garde artists. In this episode, in a solo performance piece entitled ‘Stuff As Dreams Are Made On’ , Fred Curchack puts on a variety of masks and...

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  7. Allies’ Bands in Paris

    Date released
    6 May 1916
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    245-2
    NoS ID
    125622
    Story no
    2 / 2

    [SUBTITLE]: "Bands of the Garde Republicaine, the Italian Carabineri and the Coldstream Guards, attend the Festival for wounded at the Trocadero. Mlle. Paule Andral singing the National Anthems of the...

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  8. Live Nude Shakespeare (1997 Film)

    Director
    Michael D. Fox
    Producer
    Michael D. Fox

    Feature film. Soft porn movie in which showgirls recite Shakespeare soliloquies while performing their striptease act in front of pipe-smoking, highbrow Waldorf Emerson-Biggins who ogles the girls while...

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  9. Chantal Akerman: From Here

    Director
    Gustavo Beck; Leonardo Luiz Ferreira
    Subject
    Film studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 62 minutes), $298.00

    This film about Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman consists of an hour long conversation with the director about her work. Akerman describes her first experiences with avant-garde film in New York, and, in...

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  10. Four American Composers: John Cage, Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass (1984)

    aka: 4 American Composers

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Producer
    Revel Guest
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 220 minutes), £32.92

    A series of four programmes of performances by ‘avant-garde’ musicians from New York: John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Robert Ashley. The programmes are preceeded and followed by short...

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