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  1. Art & Cinema: Die Belgishche Kunstdocumentarie/Le Documentaire Sur L’Art en Belgique/The Belgian Art Documentary (2013)

    Director
    Henri Storck; Charles Dekeukeleire; André Cauvin; Paul Haesaerts; Luc de Heusch
    Subject
    Art; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 425 minutes), 47 Euros

    This 3 DVD collection presents twenty films about art made by Belgian documentary filmmakers Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Henri Storck, Paul Haesaerts and Luc de Heusch. The films cover a period of...

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  2. Joan MirÓ: The Ladder of Escape (2012)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 32 minutes), £15.99

    This documentary explores the life and work of Catalonian artist Joan Miro, and seeks to understand how the political upheavals of of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the dictatorship of Franco...

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  3. Alice (2011)

    aka: N Co z Alenky

    Director
    Jan Svankmajer
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £19.99

    Jan Švankmajer’s award-winning ALICE is a distinctly disturbing and creepy interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s perennial literary classic, yet it is perhaps the closest to the original work. Combining a...

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  4. Alice - A Look into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2010)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £9.99

    'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ was published in 1865, and revolutionised children’s writing. It made a mockery of much that had preceded it; the cautionary tale where young mischievous children...

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  5. Magritte: Day and Night (2010)

    aka: Jour et la Nuit, Le

    Director
    Henri de Gerlache
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £24.99

    As mystifying and peculiar as his work, Rene Magritte painted in a style that was at once real and surreal, witty and disturbing. His enigmatic nature and amazing career deserve more than a routine...

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  6. Joan Miró: Theatre of Dreams (2008)

    aka: MirÓ: Theatre of Dreams

    Director
    Robin Lough
    Producer
    Christopher Martin
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 minutes), £17.99

    A sensitive profile of Spanish artist Joán Miró (1893-1983), a friend of Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and André Masson, and one of the generation of great painters who worked in Paris in the 1920s. The film...

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  7. Jonathan Meades Collection, The (2008)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99

    This three DVD box set includes eleven films made by Jonathan Meades for the BBC. Meades explore the ways human beings interact with the structures and places they create. With a distinctive style and...

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  8. Frida Kahlo (2007)

    Director
    Wibke von Bonin; Roberto Guerra; Eila Hershon
    Producer
    Roberto Guerra; Eila Hershon
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £17.99

    Portrait of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), wife of Mexican painter Diego Rivera, and the creator of highly personal work. Afflicted with illness throughout most of her life, Kahlo painted a...

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  9. René Magritte (2007 Video)

    aka: Monsieur RenÉ Magritte

    Director
    Adrian Maben
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 51 minutes), £17.99

    Profiles Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) and shows the recurring influence of certain themes and places on his work. Visits the various towns where he lived and which were a source of inspiration...

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  10. Chance, History, Art (2006)

    Director
    James Scott
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £50.00

    The film, originally conceived as a study of the effects of surrealism on art, consists of interviews with five artists, intercut with film of Jackson Pollock painting and a young child drawing, and...

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