Genre: Art and Design
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PressPausePlay (2011)
Cast: Moby, Lykke Li, Lena Dunham …
Directed by: David Dworsky, Victor Köhler
Exploring the connection between fear, hope and digital culture, filmmakers David Dworsky and Victor Köhler profile the leaders of a digital revolution that's allowed anyone with a…
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How Are You (2011)
Cast: Michael Elmgreen, Ingar Dragset
Directed by: Jannik Splidsboel
This documentary explores the lives and collaborative careers of artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, including their dramatic love story. The film also features some of the…
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Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis (2011)
Cast: Storm Thorgerson, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Peter Gabriel …
Directed by: Roddy Bogawa
This documentary chronicles the long and storied career of Storm Thorgerson, the most famous artist you've never heard of -- the brilliant photographer who created scores of iconic album…
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About Jenny Holzer (2011)
Cast: Jenny Holzer
Directed by: Claudia Muller
Director Claudia Muller follows the career of conceptual artist Jenny Holzer in this documentary that's as illuminating as her trademark LED displays. For over 30 years, Holzer has used…
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Eames: The Architect and The Painter (2011)
Cast: James Franco
Directed by: Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey
This documentary tells the story of the husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames, widely considered America's most important designers. Their creations include furniture,…
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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Cast: Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Thierry Guetta …
Directed by: Banksy
Filmmaker Thierry Guetta's project to chronicle the underground world of street art takes a fascinating twist when he meets elusive stencil artist Banksy, who turns the project around to…
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Waste Land (2010)
Cast: Vik Muniz, Karen Harley
Directed by: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim …
Renowned artist Vik Muniz embarks on one of the most inspired collaborations of his career, joining creative forces with Brazilian garbage pickers who mine treasure from the trash heaps of…
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New People Artist Series: Vol. 5: Makoto Aida: Cynic in the Playground (2010)
Cast: Makoto Aida
Makoto Aida discusses his controversial art while he creates his works "Human Project" and "Shinjuku Castle" in this fifth volume of the "New People Artist Series," which features…
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Marwencol (2010)
Cast: Mark Hogancamp
Directed by: Jeff Malmberg
After a terrible beating left Mark Hogancamp brain damaged, he began creating models of a fictional town, Marwencol, to process the trauma. Jeff Malmberg's documentary explains how…
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New People Artist Series: Vol. 6: Katsura Funakoshi: Whispering Gaze (2010)
Cast: Katsura Funakoshi
The sixth volume of the New People Artist Series introduces audiences to Japanese pop artist Katsura Funakoshi, a forward-thinking sculptor who applies his uncommon eye to a very specific…
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The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
Cast: Igor Savitsky, Ben Kingsley, Sally Field …
Directed by: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope
Trace the incredible story of defiant visionary Igor Savitsky, an artist and museum curator who cunningly acquired more than 40,000 banned Soviet Union paintings and hid the illegal…
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The Woodmans (2010)
Cast: Francesca Woodman, George Woodman, Betty Woodman …
Directed by: C. Scott Willis
This intimate documentary profiles the Woodmans, a family dedicated to the making of art in all forms, and their reaction to the suicide of their most famous member, daughter Francesca, whose…
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Typeface (2010)
Directed by: Justine Nagan
Justine Nagan's fascinating documentary highlights the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wis., which also serves as an old-fashioned print shop where contemporary art merges with…
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010)
Cast: Anselm Kiefer
Directed by: Sophie Fiennes
Modern artist Anselm Kiefer and his monumental landscape creation at Barjac, France -- a vast complex including lakes, bridges, caves and galleries displaying Kiefer's other work -- are…
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!Women Art Revolution (2010)
Cast: Judy Chicago, Guerrilla Girls, Martha Wilson …
Directed by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Renowned artist Lynn Hershman-Leeson spent 40 years gathering interviews and news footage for this stunning documentary profiling the feminist art movement, which seeks to empower female…
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Paris: Luminous Years (2010)
Cast: Concetta Tomei
Directed by: Perry Miller Adato
In the early 20th century, Paris was the glittering crossroad of the avant-garde art world, where Pablo Picasso mingled with Gertrude Stein and Jean Cocteau, and this vivid documentary charts…
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Tree Safari: The KOA Connection (2010)
Directed by: Todd Jarrell
In this examination of an artist's methods and his medium, sculptor Brad Sells journeys from his Tennessee studio to the volcanoes of Hawaii's Big Island to learn about exotic koa…
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Objectified (2009)
Cast: Jonathan Ive, Marc Newson, Dieter Rams …
Directed by: Gary Hustwit
Discover how manufactured objects that surround us such as cars, phones and chairs influence our daily lives with this revealing documentary, which features top industrial designers…
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We Live in Public (2009)
Cast: Josh Harris, Tom Harris, David Amron …
Directed by: Ondi Timoner
Ondi Timoner's documentary chronicles a decade in the life of Internet pioneer Josh Harris, who instigated an "artificial society" experiment in which more than 100 artists lived under…
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Con Artist (2009)
Cast: Mark Kostabi, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pope Benedict XVI …
Directed by: Michael Sladek
With this documentary, Michael Sladek chronicles the rise and fall of Mark Kostabi, the infamous contemporary artist who rose to acclaim in the 1980s by openly lampooning and exploiting the…
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Cast: Peter Weibel
Providing a visual archive showcasing the career and artistic development of Peter Weibel during the 1960s and '70s, this presentation includes the conceptual artist's video…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2009)
Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian …
Directed by: Tamra Davis
Controversial, charismatic artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is the subject of this insightful documentary from director Tamra Davis, who has uncovered a never-before-seen interview with the artist…
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13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (2009)
Cast: Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips, Paul America …
Directed by: Andy Warhol
In the 1960s, artist Andy Warhol filmed silent screen tests of the interesting visitors to his Factory studio in New York. This compilation, featuring songs by Dean & Britta, presents 13 such…
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New People Artist Series: Vol. 4: Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai Nouveau (2009)
Cast: Hisashi Tenmyouya
This documentary focuses on the work of Hisashi Tenmyouya, a painter whose neotraditional Japanese style is produced through time-honored techniques to combine modern and classical images…
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ARTS: A Film About Possibilities, Disabilities & the Arts (2009)
Cast: Temple Grandin, Geri Jewell, Donna Williams …
Directed by: Keri Bowers
This documentary from director Keri Bowers examines how a number of men and women with disabilities -- including author Temple Grandin, who suffers from autism -- turn to painting, music and…