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ANGEL WAGENSTEIN: ART IS A WEAPON Trailer

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The Art of Indonesia: Tales from the Shadow World, 1990

A captivating documentary about the rituals, myths, and traditions of Indonesia. Written and directed by Andrea Simon, this beautiful film incorporates Old Javanese poetry, sculpture, and music alongside performances by traditional artists and healers. Features exceptional footage of Borobudur, a Buddhist temple from the ninth century, and Prambanan, an important Hindu temple. Cinematography by Jerry Pantzer.

The Fayum Portraits: Funerary Painting of Roman Egypt, 1988

This enigmatic short film presents fifty Egyptian funerary portraits from the region of Fayum. Painted during Roman rule between 100 and 300 A.D., these striking, psychological works were executed in encaustic while their subjects were alive and later used to cover their faces after mummification. Narration includes excerpts from late Hellenistic texts including religious works and first-hand accounts from the dwellers of Fayum themselves, along with commentary from the art historian Richard Brilliant. A film by Andrea Simon and Bob Rosen, with music by Meredith Monk.

THE HAPPINESS OF STILL LIFE: Scenes from the Austrian Biedermeier 1815-1848

A haunting exploration in images and sound of bourgeois domesticity in post-Napoleonic Vienna, and its unavoidable path to romanticism and revolution.  Music exclusively by Schubert (with one short interlude of Johann Strauss).  Shown worldwide,  prizes Europe and USA, in the permanent collections of many museums.

Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney Museum

Buckminster Fuller:  Everybody is an Astronaut

The visionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome and Dymaxion  Dwelling Machine, considered in an exhibition on his life and work.  Produced with the generous cooperation of the Whitney Museum of American  Art, this piece includes interviews with Fuller's grandson Jamie  Snyder, curators Michael Hays and Dana Miller, and Curtiss Martin, a  museum visitor.

Architect Steven Holl: Paradise in Kansas City

Spaceships? Lanterns?  A visitation from the Great  Beyond?  Steven Holl's 2007 Bloch Building -- an addition to Kansas  City's venerable Nelson-Atkins Museum -- is the most insanely beautiful  building in America. "Green tea and silence" will take an artist far.

Kehinde Wiley 2008: "Painting is a Blood Sport"

 Nearly twenty years ago, when I filmed this piece at Kehinde Wiley’s studio in Greenpoint, he had just had his first major show at the Brooklyn Museum and was perceived as a very young, promising master of traditional painting techniques who was able to magically transform them into stunning contemporary portraits. As we now know, on his way to the top he made some errors in judgement. Nevertheless, when I see this piece I’m reminded of his massive talent and personal generosity.

Sean Scully: Wall of Light

"Structure without coercion:" British painter Sean Scully on the inner  meaning of abstraction.  Produced as the artist prepared his  Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, "Wall of Light."

Alex Katz Paints Ada

A visit with Alex Katz, the man who re-invented realism in a cooler
postwar key.  He's been painting his wife Ada since 1958 and they are
still the most glamorous couple in New York.  A Jewish Museum
exhibition looks at these "non-psychological portraits," which Katz
says reveal influences from Japanese prints to film noir.

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