Search
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with...
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of...
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Known for his bold, abstract and stark white buildings, American architect Richard Meier now takes on the challenge of building the Jubilee Church in...
Richard Meier in Rome Building a Church in the City of Churches
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and...
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an...
Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
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...
Empire City
Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who...
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Centered around the emergence of Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada, Beyond Cubism takes a closer look at the artists who ignited the new...
Masters of Modern Sculpture Part II: Beyond Cubism
Working together as photographers since 1957, Bernd and Hilla Becher have become known for capturing endangered architecture quickly vanishing from...
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of Industrial Architecture
Architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden where he can keep the politics of...
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
"Permanent Change" looks at the history and development of plastic within the architectural world. Capturing both a series of lectures and a panel...
Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering
For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...
Yesterday's Witness
In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...
Hollywood's Musical Moods
In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada,...
Roy Lichtenstein
In 1943 Herbert and Lotte Strauss made the courageous decision to escape from Germany and almost certain extermination in a Nazi concentration camp....
We Were German Jews
Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility...
Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to...
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
"Marking Infinity", Lee Ufan's recent retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim charts the artist's creation of a visual, conceptual, and...
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity