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Humor (2015)

aka: Humour

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 55 minutes), €15.63

How do artists use irony, goofiness, satire, and sarcasm in their work? Can an artwork be funny and critical at the same time? Do contemporary artists always take themselves seriously? The documentary HUMOR...

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Tim’s Vermeer (2014)

Director

Teller

Producer

Penn Jillette; Farley Ziegler

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Jan Vermeer, specifically how Vermeer managed to paint in such a realistic manner 150 years before the invention of...

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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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Transformation (2014)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

Costumes and masks, makeup and style, dolls and mannequins, stage and cinema: what strategies do we use to refashion identity? Do we seek out excess and extremes in order to see ourselves more clearly? The...

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Structures (2014)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

How do we organise life? What are the ways in which we capture knowledge and attempt greater understanding? The Art21 documentary Structures explores these questions in the work of the artists Roni Horn,...

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Spirituality (2014)

Subject

Art; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

How does contemporary art address the idea of spirituality? How do artists working today reveal and question commonly held assumptions about faith, belief, meditation, and religious symbols? SPIRITUALITY...

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Botticelli’s Drawings for the Divine Comedy (2014)

Director

Ben McPherson

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £17.99

With the patronage of the Medici family, Botticelli created a series of famous illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy. Free and unconventional in his imagery, Botticelli reveals the extent of his genius...

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Pierre Soulages (2014)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 51 minutes), £17.99

"When speaking of light, in connection with black, this sounds paradoxical. However, in reality, black is a colour of light. You cannot imagine there to be light without black being there, also," explains...

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Talking Stone: Rock Art of the Cosos (2014)

Director

Paul Goldsmith

Subject

Archaeology; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 53 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]; $19.95 [Home use]

Hidden away in the canyons of a top-secret military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America. Created over thousands of years by a now vanished culture,...

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Collector Costakis, The (2014)

aka: George Costakis

Director

Barrie Gavin

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 55 minutes), £17.99

George Costakis is well known as the foremost collector of early 20th Century Russian avant-garde art. The walls of his public housing flat in Moscow are crowded with his rich collection of banned and...

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