Mead Hunt

No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master builder, Mies van der Rohe. Together with docum...

01 de jan. de 1986

Um olhar imersivo sobre a vida agitada e a brilhante carreira artística do visionário trompetista de jazz americano Miles Davis (1926-1991).

23 de ago. de 2019

Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of d...

01 de out. de 1980

Adult-film star Katie Morgan leads a candid, and naked, virtual journey through the history of sex toys, from stone age toys to the latest modern d...

08 de nov. de 2007

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

07 de dez. de 1998

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory ...

01 de jan. de 1999

O famoso psiquiatra Dr. Park Dietz entrevista Richard Kuklinski, um assassino da máfia condenado à prisão perpétua por cerca de 200 homicídios, e i...

01 de jun. de 2004

A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic...

07 de set. de 1990

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...

01 de jul. de 1985

For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films tr...

28 de fev. de 2004

Um olhar sobre a história da reprodução forçada de escravos no Sul dos Estados Unidos antes da Guerra Civil e a liberdade de Mary Gaffney, uma mulh...

04 de ago. de 2023

The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laur...

01 de jan. de 1993

This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnaten. The film follows two productions by the Wür...

08 de out. de 1986

A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair...

06 de dez. de 2006

A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the world.

31 de jan. de 2007

Late in life, the artist looks back over a career that originated in social realism during the '30s, moved to the center of Abstract Expressionism,...

01 de jan. de 1982

Renowned American porn star Katie Morgan traveled to New York to meet her fans, answer their questions and more.

13 de dez. de 2012

In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass discuss the conception of Pa...

01 de ago. de 2008

A journey inside the world of a legend of modern art and an icon of feminism. Onscreen, the nonagenarian Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial an...

28 de jun. de 2008

Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a con...

08 de mai. de 2007

Japan's establishment as an economic superpower led to a Golden Age of Japanese architecture. Six innovators stand out particularly, fusing Japanes...

01 de jan. de 1989

Critic Kenneth Frampton is a masterful commentator on the architecture of our time. At the start of his long-spanning career Frampton worked as an ...

01 de jan. de 2012

Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years, brought together by their creativity, philosophy and visionary architect...

01 de jan. de 2012

As an architect, educator, and philosopher, Louis Kahn played a prominent role in the history of 20th century architecture. An examination of six o...

01 de jan. de 1996

Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style...

11 de out. de 2016

"Marking Infinity", Lee Ufan's recent retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim charts the artist's creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoreti...

01 de jan. de 2012

Since the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures, and artists previously excluded from modernism's privileged canons have become absorbed into an ever ...

01 de jan. de 1992

In 1943 Herbert and Lotte Strauss made the courageous decision to escape from Germany and almost certain extermination in a Nazi concentration camp...

05 de out. de 1981

American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's c...

01 de jan. de 1994

Greg Lynn, one of the leading figures in computer-aided architectural design, visits the first in a series of exhibitions initiated by the Canadian...

01 de jan. de 2014

CHE was the first feature to use the Red camera, which Soderbergh embraced for its versatility and image quality. This short 2009 documentary looks...

01 de jan. de 2009

"Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades" presents an opportunity to accompany one of the great artists of our time on a tour of his work, from his formative years t...

01 de jan. de 2001

Art historians and critics talk with Philip Guston about his ideas and new work of the 1970's. Filmed during the making of "Philip Guston: A Life L...

02 de nov. de 2003

In an effort to work without the distractions of the city, artist Carroll Dunham moved his studio from Manhattan to a small village in Connecticut,...

01 de jan. de 2014

George Segal constructs a type of human form and vulnerability that feels rare in the world of sculpture. As we follow his process at the isolated ...

23 de fev. de 2016

A documentary on the making of the 1936 film Swing Time, featuring interviews with jazz and film critic Gary Giddens, dance critic Brian Seibert, a...

11 de jun. de 2019

The British architect based in Stockholm looks back on major projects of a long career inspired by European Modernism combined with his personal se...

09 de jul. de 1986

The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in ...

The McElroy brothers are not experts, and their advice should never be followed. Justin, Travis, and Griffin are three brothers from Huntington, We...

A history of the American public education systems, beginning in the late 1700s and working up to the present day.