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3) Botero
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Formats
Description
BOTERO is a poetic documentary of one of the world's most prolific living artists, Fernando Botero. Born in Medellin, Colombia in 1932 to a poor family, Botero witnessed the death of his father at an early age and experienced a violent and tumultuous political landscape in his youth during the Colombian civil war which had a profound impact on his art and humanitarianism. Botero would go on to face struggle and tragedy before his art captured...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Prolific filmmaker and ethnographer Yale Strom has turned his attention to an early American political hero: Eugene Victor Debs. Bernie Sanders inspired a generation - but who inspired him? Most people in America don't know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Debs. American Socialist is the culmination of five years of research and production. Its inspiration was the use of the word "socialist"...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This beautiful documentary tells the inspiring story of how love and art can transform tragedy into the brightest affirmation of life.. Director Richard Kane follows Jon Imber as he remains determined to continue his work as an artist despite the debilitating effects of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). Thanks to the support of his partner, Jill Hoy, Imber learns to paint with his left hand, and then with both of his hands as his condition...
6) Vito
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar took a surprising turn when patrons decided it was time to fight back. As a riot erupted outside the Stonewall Inn, a new era in the Gay Rights Movement was born. Vito Russo, a 23-year-old film student, was among the crowd. Over the next twenty years until his death from AIDS in 1990, Vito would go on to become one of the most outspoken and inspiring activists in the LGBT community's fight...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"I am armed with madness for a long voyage," states British born, prolific painter, sculptor, writer and visionary Leonora Carrington. Perhaps the last surviving artist of the original Surrealist artist movement, as well as the famously former lover of Max Ernst, Carrington's life and work is arguably not "surreal" at all, nor is it classifiable in any sense of the word. Indebted to Surrealism, Carrington is nonetheless possessed of unique personal...
Publisher
Zinc Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Poet Robert Bly stands out even among the celebrated, revolutionary generation of American artists who burst forth in the 1950s. ROBERT BLY: A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY charts Bly’s singular path as a farmer’s son on a wintry Minnesota farm to a radical anti-Vietnam War activist to a wild man of the 1990’s men’s movement. The bespectacled, white-haired Bly is every inch the politically and spiritually engaged mystic, seeking each moment’s fervid...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The first and only Estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more. Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he continues to be one of the most misunderstood, complicated...
10) Hare Krishna!
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's 1965 and The Western world is in turmoil. An unassuming 70-year-old Swami from India arrives in New York City alone. He carries only the firm faith in his teacher’s request: “offer spiritual wisdom to the people of the world!” This universal message resonates with more and more people, including poet Allen Ginsberg and Beatles' George Harrison whose hit song ‘My Sweet Lord’, features the Hare Krishna chant. From there, Prabhupada’s...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
One of the most important artists of the era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades. From techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer, the evolution of his music has coincided with his life journeys. Following the Fukushima disaster, Sakamoto became an iconic figure in Japan's social movement against nuclear power. As Sakamoto returns to music following a cancer diagnosis, his haunting awareness of life crises...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS - THE MODERNISM OF JULIUS SHULMAN celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away in 2009, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images...
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Comic book artist and pop surrealist, Camilla d'Errico, shares her techniques for bringing your manga characters to life through their clothing! Learn how to create two classic styles - a casual look and a school uniform look - for boy and girl characters. Camilla shows you how to add accessories and elements to develop your character's unique sense of style along the way. Love manga? Check out Camilla's other manga classes on Creativebug.
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of African American and/or black heritage. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields, including architecture, art, business, dance, education, fashion, film, industry, journalism, law, literature, medicine, music, politics and government, publishing, religion, science and technology, social issues, sports, television, theater, and others.
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Learn the Japanese art of manga from celebrated artist and author, Camilla d'Errico. What is manga, you ask? It's a wildly popular style of Japanese illustration commonly found in comics and graphic novels, and in this introductory class, Camilla gets us started by focusing on faces. Using simple steps, she demonstrates how to draw both male and female heads from four different perspectives, plus how to create iconic manga expressions and different...
Author
Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Want to learn how to draw manga characters that look like they're straight out of a graphic novel? Anime artist and pop surrealist, Camilla d'Errico, shows you how. In this thorough class, she shares pro tips for figure drawing a boy character and a girl character from several different angles: a standard straight-on and back-view pose, a three-quarter turn, and a profile view. Learning how to draw figures from several perspectives will allow you...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Since the 1950s, American animator Robert Breer has been well-known for his films exploring shape, color, perspective and motion. His work exhibits innovative graphic and dramatic interpretation as well as great wit and humour, and has inspired generations of other filmmakers. Robert Breer's prolific career as painter, sculptor, animator, and filmmaker began in Paris in 1950. After studying engineering at Stanford University, his interests shifted...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Paul Hegeman highlights the music of renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt while attempting to unveil the mystery around the purportedly reclusive writer of such famed works as "Tabula Rasa, " "Fratres, " "Trivium" and "Für Alina, " all stirringly performed here. But Hegeman, who also shot the film (with Auke Dijkstra), eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro's prolific life; we learn little of his past, his process...
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