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  1. Race and History in Brazil: Denying Brazil and Aleijadinho - Passion, Glory and Torment (2011)

    aka: A Negacao Do Brasil

    Director
    Joel, Zito Araujo; Pereuram Geraldo Santos
    Subject
    Art; Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 92, 100 minutes), $29.95

    Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-DVD set. The documentary DENYING BRAZIL analyses the issue of race in contemporary Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to...

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  2. American Avant-Garde: The Lawrence Jordan Album and the Films of James Broughton (2011)

    Director
    Lawrence Jordan; James Broughton
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 465, 290 minutes), $89.95

    The life’s work of two legends of the US avant-garde cinema is included in this 7-disc collection. Lawrence Jordan’s collage-style animation—which influenced the early work of Terry Gilliam, among...

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  3. All the World’s a Stage: Dress Rehearsal/Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor (2011)

    Director
    Nasser Taghavi; Dennis Bablet
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 64, 145 minutes), $39.95

    A 2 DVD pack containing ancient and modern performances. DRESS REHEARSAL: THE BRAVE HURR’S TA’ZIEH provides a rare opportunity to witness the performance of a ta’zieh, an ancient and uniquely Iranian...

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  4. Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)

    Director
    Göran Hugo Ollson
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 100 minutes), $24.98

    The BLACK POWER MIXTAPE examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the USA from 1967 to 1975, using recently discovered 16mm footage filmed by Swedish journalists and found lying in the cellar of...

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  5. Age of Czeslaw Milosz, The (2011)

    Director
    Juozas Javaitis
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 185 minutes), $29.95

    This documentary commemorates the 100th birthday of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize-winning Polish-Lithuanian poet. Famous cultural figures, friends, and family retrace the life and work of this...

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  6. Basis of Make-Up I-Iii (2010)

    Subject
    Architecture; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 94 minutes), $39.95

    This film explores the mindset and artistic vision of iconoclastic filmmaker Heinz Emigholz, who is the originator of "Architecture as Autobiography," a series of documentaries on unique or unusual...

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  7. Loos Ornamental (2010)

    Director
    Heinz Emigholz
    Subject
    Architecture; Design
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 72 minutes), $39.95

    One of the pioneers of the European Modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos turned against building ornamentation, triggering a controversy in architectural theory. His development of a "spatial plan" launched...

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  8. Still Life (2010)

    Director
    Harun Farocki
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $19.95

    This film essay by Harun Farocki compares the still-life paintings of the Dutch masters with still-life photography of the present day, in particular commercial photography and advertisements. Using...

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  9. Rossellini’s History Films - Renaissance and Enlightenment: Blaise Pascal, The Age of the Medici, Cartesius (2009)

    Director
    Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)
    Subject
    French studies; History; Italian studies; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 546 minutes), $59.95

    "In 1963, Rossellini announced that he had abandoned cinema and would start working in television. He directed nine telefilms on historical subjects and six short documentaries, claiming TV could be used as...

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  10. Milking the Rhino (2009)

    Director
    David E Simpson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 83 minutes), $29.95

    MILKING THE RHINO examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who...

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