Interview with Henry Miller Screener Contemporary Arts Media 2009-06-12 | Screener for Interview with Henry Miller DVD available online at http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=1287 Code: SRC-Mill In this brilliant interview, Henry Miller (1891-1980) describes the motivation and inspiration that guided his writings. He talks about his self-imposed exile to Europe and Paris, his return to the U.S., censorship, fame and the importance of reading. In English, b/w, 1969, 60 mins. Transcript available with the film on request.
In time - Screener Contemporary Arts Media 2024-07-30 | Company of Pal Frenak - contemporary danceThe tense theatrical pulsation of male and female roles, loneliness and togetherness, suffering and happiness, egoism and objectiveness call us to realize ourselves. InTimE does not need to offer solutions: representing the complexity of these human relationships is enough, it is so honest that the spectator cannot escape being touched by the performance.There are six dancers on the stage. They sometimes motionlessly observe the other’s fight with a distance from the outside, while in other situations they take part in these battles. How can – if ever – one person become real to the other? Can the desire for each other remain unfulfilled forever?Frenák’s haunting question is how much our life is entangled in the opportunism towards others and ourselves; how much lying and insincerity impact our relationship to our body. The emblematic red sofa is a choreographical boundary and the platform of fights, struggles and desires, and the place where we can face the unique loneliness of human beings.'…and sometimes it is an island, a shelter to hide away to find some intimacy, to find a safe place to arrive and stay calm and relaxed. Yes, InTimE is physical, intense, pulsative and sometime seems to be provocative, but for me it talks about the fusion of people without limits, showing the human body and soul in its pure perfection is just a tool to create a deeper layer of meanings.'Pál Frenák's reflections on the creation InTimE for Auditorium MagazineMature content, recommended for ages 18+
Robotic arts: Chico MacMurtries TOTEMOBILE Contemporary Arts Media 2024-07-30 | The full film is at youtu.be/yJoB-lYqDPU?si=VYjgNvTm48tMlWJTChico MacMurtrie is internationally recognized for his large-scale, performative, kinetic installations, and interactive public sculpture. In this video a fullscale Citroën DS transforms in a few minutes to an 18-meter-high totem, nearly touching the roof of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris (Science Centre), and this it does without recourse to Hollywood special effects.During an interview Chico MacMurtrie talks about how he creates his robotic sculptures and installations, about the challenges he and his engineer team are facing.Chico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works (ARW), a collective he founded in 1991, consisting of artists, scientists and engineers. Currently operating out of Brooklyn, New York, ARW is dedicated to the study and creation of movement as it is expressed in anthropomorphic and abstract robotic forms. MacMurtrie has been working over the last years on his innovative, inflatable sculptures, which were exhibited in major museum shows and other international exhibitions.The interview was filmed at the Robotic Art Exhibition at the Cité des Sciences et de L'industrie, Paris 2014, Curator Richard Castelli, Epidemic
A Womans Tale - Trailer Contemporary Arts Media 2024-07-30 | Directed by Paul Cox, an uplifting tale about growing old. A story of life, love, strength and hope.Martha (Sheila Florance) is a modern, spirited woman trapped in an old and decrepit body. At almost 80 years of age, she has seen the good and the bad, and now offers her love and wisdom to all who are willing to listen to her.Her closest ally and comrade in arms is Anna (Gosia Dobrowolska), her District Nurse. Their friendship is based on Anna's support and understanding of Martha's independent spirit. Martha has her own moral code and lives by her own rules. Finding the world far too cynical and heartless, she refuses to accept society's constraint on growing old and fights the establishment with great humour and compassion.The death of her neighbour, Billy (Norman Kaye), confronts Martha, extinguishing her passion and leaving her exhausted and depressed. Her ability to care for herself diminishes and forgetfulness leads to accidents. Her son and the authorities decide it's time for her to be committed to a home for the aged.But Martha has other plans. She cannot live without honor, and makes her own final decision.
The Brasso Railway Station Contemporary Arts Media 2024-07-30 | Brasso (Brasov) Railway Station is at a crossroads. Shabby trains come, stop and go, bringing together passengers of different origin, culture and language. It is a place where people wait and talk in the smoky waiting rooms, eating, drinking and sleeping. But sometimes it is a place for play and the people will sing, dance and play music.This film is about the dance and music of this culturally rich area, a region which has drawn in generations of musicians and music ethnologists to do research and seek inspiration.
You are naked, so am I Contemporary Arts Media 2023-04-23 | An interview by Kriszta DoczyDaniela Miszkinis is a visual artist and practising art therapist and counsellor. She is focusing on painting in oils from life, in particular portraiture, still life arrangements, interiors and painting from figure.Always working directly from life, without reference to photographic material, Daniela creates paintings based on the premise that the sitter’s psyche can be accessed through the observation of their body. Her work centres on the psychological realms of the human mind and gives expression to her fascination with the interior, deep and hidden realms of the life force.Painting the body of the model allows the psychological themes to emerge through the work instinctively; to portray the richness of human experience, the beauty of beginnings, the sorrow and heroism of illness, the lyrical inevitability of death.
An Interview with Albie Thoms Contemporary Arts Media 2023-04-16 | This precious interview had been planned by Albie Thoms and Kriszta Doczy since the beginning of 2012. During that year Albie was battling with his illness and using every drop of his energy to finish his book "My Gen" about the Sixties alternative underground film makers and artists in Sydney. Finally, just three weeks before he passed away Albie sat down with Kriszta and they started the conversation they had planned for so long. The interview was cut short, the book had to be finished and sent to the printer, and Albie was hoping to attend his last party, the launch of his book.The interview covers a wide range of topics: Albie Thoms' early theatre experiments with absurd plays, becoming a film maker, the UBU experimental film group's work, government politics, rebellion, and the emergence of Sydney's counterculture. He speaks about the why and the how of being an "experimental" artist and the bravery needed to not belong to the mainstream.It is a touching account from a once rebellious artist, illustrated with original photos, film clips, excerpts of performances and, most importantly, with selected clips from Albie's experimental films.This film is dedicated to Albie Thoms, a much loved and respected figure in Australian culture and film history.
Paul Cox directs the Diary of Nijinsky Contemporary Arts Media 2023-04-16 | A documentary on the making of "The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky" by Paul Cox. Two hours of behind the scenes footages - actors and performers in action, film production, interviews with the creators and performers."Vaslav Nijinsky" is a film very much in the same tradition as "Vincent - The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh", using the words from his diary and the many existing images from the Ballet Russe. In this film however, the camera 'dances' and we see from Nijinsky's point of view what it feels like to be a dancer. We follow the mind of a genius as he releases his delicate hold upon reality, and staggers along the outer verge of reason towards the end.Cox talks about his artistic approach, criticism and his films as means of self-expression:" Film has become more and more like a product, something you buy in the supermarket, like a bottle of shampoo... So I'm very sorry I make films from my point of view... A very few people can actually do it, or have they the density or sanity to keep doing it..."Actors and performers talk about their experiences working with Cox, how they become involved in the project and what it means to them.
Sound Cage - A film about Katalin Ladik Contemporary Arts Media 2020-03-05 | Katalin Ladik – born to be a boomer, but she is still relevant to today's #MeToo generation, she is a truly forward-thinking, revolutionary avant-garde feminist fighter, poet, actress, performance artist.In 2016, she was awarded the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace.Sound Cage is a documentary about her life and work. It is representing the rich legacy and adventures in experimental art globally since the 60s: Poems, erotica, body images and movement, gestures and vocal expressions, theatrical plays, collages, photography, records, performances and happenings in both urban and natural environments.If you already have Artfilms subscription, follow the link to watch the film: artfilms-digital.com/it…/soundcage-katalin-ladikDon't have an account? Sign up now and watch masterclasses, documentaries, interviews, content that can entertain, educate and inform: Artfilms streams 1800+ videos from top artists and producers:artfilms-digital.com/subscribe
Soul Dance by Yvette Bozsik Contemporary Arts Media 2020-03-02 | Soul Dance, the performance is the outcome of joint work by blind, partially sighted, physically handicapped and unhindered dancers with Hungarian Choreographer, Yvette Bozsik and her dance company.The project is an artistic inquiry and research in disability and art without being emotionally caught in pity or sympathy. The powerful performance shows the infinite possibilities that arise from the limitations and freedom of the human body and spirit. The performance and the accompanying documentary about the workshop are exceptional examples of what dance and movement therapy achieve by supporting the intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the disabled dancers.If you already have Artfilms subscription, follow the link to watch the film: artfilms-digital.com/item/soul-danceDon't have an account? Sign up now and watch masterclasses, documentaries, interviews, content that can entertain, educate and inform: Artfilms streams 1800+ videos from top artists and producers:artfilms-digital.com/subscribe
Haunting Douglas - the story of New Zealand born contemporary dance choreographer Douglas Wright Contemporary Arts Media 2020-02-27 | As #MardiGras celebrates diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice for the LGBTQI community, at Artfilms we would like to commemorate some of those artists who were rejected and forced to work in isolation because of their non-mainstream sexual orientation or gender identity.The video "Haunting Douglas" tells the story of New Zealand born contemporary dance choreographer Douglas Wright.A tortured genius, Wright’s work explores difficult themes including AIDS, isolation, homosexuality, death and redemption. Wright has danced and choreographed around the world. He has collaborated with some of the most important artists in contemporary dance including New York's Paul Taylor and Lloyd Newson of London's DV8 Dance company. If you already have Artfilms subscription, follow the link to watch the film: https://lnkd.in/fUYPyZwDon't have an account? Sign up now and watch masterclasses, documentaries, interviews, content that can entertain, educate and inform: Artfilms streams 1800+ videos from top artists and producers: https://lnkd.in/fsxm-GE#mardigras #celebrate #remember #lgbtqi #reflect #inclusion #socialjustice #douglas #film #documentary
The Last Trackers of The Outback Contemporary Arts Media 2020-02-24 | Trackers have been around for centuries and when the police realized that it would be interesting to put them to use in tracking escaped and missing persons, Australia was still a British penal colony. But in this age of GPS, 4×4 vehicles and helicopters, are we letting go of something more fundamental – an intuitive knowledge linking man to nature?Watch the fascinating and invaluable skillset of these indigenous trackers still in use today, helping police find dangerous criminals, lost children or travellers who have wandered off - track.If you already have Artfilms subscription, follow the link to watch the film: artfilms-digital.com/…/the-last-trackers-of-the…Don't have an account? Sign up now and watch masterclasses, documentaries, interviews, content that can entertain, educate and inform: Artfilms streams 1800+ videos from top artists and producers:artfilms-digital.com/subscribe
Heavy Metal Landscapes - An artist journey in the land - The Annabelle Nowlan story Contemporary Arts Media 2020-02-18 | A farmer’s life is never boring, and it is often daunting. Facing challenges such as drought, bushfires or floods, never the same day. Annabelle Nowlan a farmer’s daughter found meaning in her life when she turned to art. Her metal structures and artworks inspired by the land and her imagination, sought by galleries all around the country. Watch the film of her fascinating journey.If you already have Artfilms subscription, follow the link to watch the film: artfilms-digital.com/item/heavy-metal-landscapesDon't have an account? Sign up now and watch masterclasses, documentaries, interviews, content that can entertain, educate and inform: Artfilms streams 1800+ videos from top artists and producers:artfilms-digital.com/subscribe
Masters of Dreams - The Story of Big Brand Master Jewellers Contemporary Arts Media 2020-02-18 | Diamonds are forever – they say, but ever wondered about the creative process put into each shiny piece of jewellery? In this fascinating film, you can peek behind the curtains of the biggest Italian, French, Swiss, English, South African and American names in the jewellery design business.If you already have Artfilms subscription, follow the link to watch the film artfilms-digital.com/item/masters-of-dreamsDon't have an account? Sign up now and watch masterclasses, documentaries, interviews, content that can entertain, educate and inform: Artfilms streams 1800+ videos from top artists and producers.artfilms-digital.com/subscribe
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention Contemporary Arts Media 2020-02-06 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/subscribeTrailer for Trimpin: The Sound of Inventions: artfilms-digital.com/item/trimpin-the-sound-of-invention?fbclid=IwAR1YkQoqVzjqDQUM_u9aPfRPNyTEQIsvw4a7P6bb4QFSJ3PvyjLZG_ADTrcSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!Artfilms secured the DVD and streaming distribution rights from producer Peter Esmond for the film Trimpin: The Sound of Invention. A film you must see and an artist you must know of!Trimpin: The Sound Of Invention is an amusing exploration of the sonic world of an eccentric creative genius. Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin shuns the hype and hyperbole of the commercial art world – yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by museums all over the planet.Filmed over two years, this documentary feature follows the artist/inventor as he designs a 60-foot tower of more than 500 automatic electric guitars; builds an ensemble of huge marimbas that converts real-time earthquake data into music; and collaborates with the Kronos Quartet on an outrageous world premiere featuring toy instruments. Trimpin: The Sound Of Invention will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joy of creative experiment.Follow the link to immerse: https://lnkd.in/f8wydJH or if you don't have a subscription sign up now: https://lnkd.in/fsxm-GE
African Herbsmen: Healing and Religion along the Bight of Benin (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-07-11 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for African Herbsmen: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/african-herbsmen-healing-and-religion-beninSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/african-herbsmen-healing-and-religion-benin
Chasing the Spirit: Gorovodu in Southern Togo (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-07-11 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for Chasing the Spirit: Gorovodu in Southern Togo:https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/chasing-the-spirit-gorovodu-in-southern-togoSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!Chasing the Spirit: Gorovodu in Southern Togo:An ethnographic film dedicated to the rituals and ceremonies of Gorovodu religion in West Africa. Gorovodu is a medicine religion practiced by a many Ewe peoples in Ghana and Togo that co-exists with other Vodu groups, Christianity, and Islam. The film is set in Gbedala, a semi-rural seaside village near the capital city of Lome. More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/chasing-the-spirit-gorovodu-in-southern-togo
The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-25 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/the-rise-and-fall-of-squizzy-taylorSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!The Rise and Fall of Squizzy Taylor: Melbourne’s first celebrity criminal, set the pace in the early days. It is about the life of the notorious 1920’s Melbourne Australian gangster Squizzy Taylor including interviews and re-enactments.More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/the-rise-and-fall-of-squizzy-taylor
Talking with Ade: The Life and Times of Ade Monsbourgh (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-25 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for Talking with Ade: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/talking-with-adeSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!Talking with Ade: A rare interview with one of Australia's most revered jazz practitioners, Ade Monsbourgh. Looking back over the early years, and reminiscing on a lifetime spent playing a multitude of instruments with undiminished excellence.More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/talking-with-ade
A Secret History: A Journey in Syria and Iran (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-25 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for A Secret History: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/a-secret-history-syria-iranSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!A Secret History: This remarkable story began in 1960 when Richard Mordaunt and Michael Oliver, following in the footsteps of Freya Stark the great English explorer, set out to explore the Valley of the Assassins in Northern Persia. The film they made was shown on David Attenborough’s Travellers' Tales in 1961.Then in 2010, fifty years later, they returned to Damascus to uncover the origins of the Assassin Story which had spread to Syria in the Middle Ages. More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/a-secret-history-syria-iran
Brushes with Fame: The Story Behind the Archibald Portrait Prize (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-23 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for Masters of Dreams: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/brushes-with-fame-archibald-prizeSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!Brushes with Fame: This is a film about Australia’s most popular and controversial Art Prize, the Archibald Portrait Prize; It is also a film about Australia’s great painters; seven artists as they prepare their portraits for this annual competition. The film is also a history of the Archibald Prize and the first film in which we get to watch the judging process.More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/brushes-with-fame-archibald-prize
Salvatore Zofrea - Master of Light (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-23 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for Masters of Dreams: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/salvatore-zofrea-master-of-lightSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!Master of Light: This film tells the life story of Salvatore Zofrea, one of Australia’s great painters. Zofrea's most recent discovery is his experience of an ‘epiphany of the Australian light and a new way of seeing’. ‘As a migrant it took me a long time for the seed to open inside me’. It took fifty years and finally led to larger and larger works, most recently ‘Morning Light’ his 100 foot long panorama of the Australian bush, capturing the native flora and the Morning Light in minute detail.More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/salvatore-zofrea-master-of-light
Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-23 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for Jill Bilcock - Dancing the Invisible: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/ill-bilcock-dancing-the-invisibleSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!Dancing the Invisible:It is an unprecedented feature documentary about one of the world’s leading film artists – Australian film editor Jill Bilcock. Her work on beloved films such as Strictly Ballroom, Romeo+Juliet, Muriel’s Wedding, The Dressmaker, Road To Perdition, Japanese Story, Moulin Rouge!, Red Dog and Elizabeth, has established her as one of the world’s most daring and in-demand editors, highly sought after by leading international film directors and top film studios.More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/ill-bilcock-dancing-the-invisible
Masters of Dreams: Fine Jewellery (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-23 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for Masters of Dreams: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/masters-of-dreamsSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!Masters of Dreams: Go behind the scenes with thirteen of the world's most legendary jewellers: experience what goes into the design and creation of their most magnificent jewels, as well as the jewellery's presentation at major events. This series offers a breathtaking journey into the world of fine jewellery, filled with legendary families, gemstone hunters and some of the world's most innovative designers.More from the website: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/masters-of-dreams
The Emotion of Design (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-23 | The Emotion of Design:Mark Gabbertas, one of London's premier designers talks about the most current questions in furniture design: branding, production, psychology of space and the emotion of design. Mark’s philosophy is to create character through simplicity. The richly illustrated, in-depth video interview is a must-see for all design students.
Dynamic Abstraction by Paul Fletcher (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2019-04-18 | Subscribe to Artfilms Streaming: artfilms-digital.com/membersTrailer for Dynamic Abstraction by Paul Fletcher artfilms-digital.com/item/dynamic-abstractionSubscribe to Artfilms Streaming for only AU$15 per month and take masterclasses, watch documentaries, performances, installations, feature films and more. Learn, grow, get inspired, get involved! Flexible contract to access 1000+ films from everywhere at any time on all devices!Dynamic Abstraction: Animation can be seen in the intersections between art and commerce, narrative and abstraction, motiongraphics, story, movement, stasis, consciousness and gestalt, public, shared and private contexts, large-scale projections, handheld, wristwatch, t-shirt screens, active, passive, interactive, audience as artist, singular visions, collaborative and relational processes, good oldfashioned distributed authorship and more. It is these “tensions between elements of narrative and abstraction, stillness and movement, sonic melody and texture, between the wish to shake or disturb the senses and to relax or calm the mind that I feel animation is primed for exploring. (Paul Fletcher)The Drive to Work from this collection was Awarded “Best Site Specific Artwork” in Animafest 2017More from the website artfilms-digital.com/item/dynamic-abstraction
Harry Seidler: Modernist (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2017-10-30 | Full-length DVD and streaming available at:https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/seidler-modernistThe first documentary retrospective of Harry Seidler’s architectural legacy, Harry Seidler: Modernist reveals an intimate portrait of his extraordinary life and internationally recognised work. Seidler is acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist architects, and this is an exhilirating portrait of his vision.
Anne Deveson: Paper Trails - Screener Contemporary Arts Media 2017-10-30 | Full-length DVD and Streaming available at: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/paper-trailsPaper Trails follows the beloved Australian broadcaster, writer, activist and mental health advocate Anne Deveson AO as she reflects on her life, memory and history while racing against time to pack her 85-year paper trail into boxes destined for the National Library of Australia. Directed by Sue Maslin.
Behind The Seams - The Making of The Dressmaker (Screener) Contemporary Arts Media 2017-10-30 | Full version DVD and Streaming available from:https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/behind-the-seamsDirected by Sue Maslin, the documentary provides an intimate look at the making of the smash hit film, The Dressmaker starring Kate Winslet. With access to all areas, it traces how the creative vision of its director, Jocelyn Moorhouse was realised by the production designer Roger Ford, the cinematographer Don McAlpine, makeup and hair stylist Shane Thomas, and the costume designers Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson.
Tea & Coffee Towers by Museo Alessi and Anna Pitscheider Contemporary Arts Media 2017-01-19 | From Contemporary Arts Media https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/tea-and-coffee-towersDVD and Streaming In The tea and Coffee Towers project, 20 architects who used to work mainly in urban scale, were asked to design a Tea and Coffee Set as it was a micro-architecture. This project was presented at Venice Biennale in 2002. In this documentary the Architects describe their experience of answering to eight standard questions about the method and process they went through.At the end, an experiment with Sensory Memory was proposed, asking them to switch from the conceptual to an intimate sensory level. They re-lived the realization of the object they created but this time by remembering with their senses: “close your eyes, have your set in your hands, feel the dimension, the material, the temperature, the weight, the way it opens... stay with it. “Several years have passed and although the world of design is constantly evolving, the reflections made by the authors are still valid and interesting.Disc 1:ALBERTO ALESSI (introduction)WILLIAM ALSOPWIEL ARETSMVRDVDENTON CORKER MARSHALLGARY CHANGUN STUDIOGREG LYNN FORMDisc 2THOM MAYNE MORPHOSISZAHA HADIDTOM KOVAC | DEZSÖ EKLERTOYO ITOJEAN NOUVELDORIANA, MASSIMILIANO FUKSASDOMINIQUE PERRAULTFUTURE SYSTEMSJUAN NAVARRO BALDEWEGKAZUYO SEJIMA, RYUE NISHIZAWADAVID CHIPPERFIELDALESSANDRO MENDINI
Robotic Arts - Transformations - Screener Contemporary Arts Media 2016-11-27 | Subscribe to 700 films from Artfilms for only $15 per month. No committment: stay until you enjoy the films.DVD and online: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/transformationsThe interviews were filmed at the Robotic Arts Exhibition presented by the Cité des Sciences et de l'industrie in Paris, (8 April 2014 - 4 January 2015)Curator and producer, Richard Castelli, Chico MacMurtrie, Till Nowak, Shiro Takatani speaks about how artists might be inspited by technology, how scientists collaborate with artists to manifest the vision of the artist and about the process of creating artwork from the birth of the idea till the opening of the exhibition in the Science City in Paris.ROBOTIC ART exhibition looks at transformations made possible by the use of technologies developed for the most part since the mid-twentieth century, particularly electronics, computing, bionics, and robotics.
Robotic arts: Chico MacMurtries TOTEMOBILE Contemporary Arts Media 2016-10-29 | Full films is at https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/robotic-arts-chico-macmurtries-totemobileSubscribe for streaming of 700 titles for just $15 a month.Chico MacMurtrie is internationally recognized for his large-scale, performative, kinetic installations, and interactive public sculpture. In this video a fullscale Citroën DS transforms in a few minutes to an 18-meter-high totem, nearly touching the roof of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris (Science Centre), and this it does without recourse to Hollywood special effects.During an interview Chico MacMurtrie talks about how he creates his robotic sculptures and installations, about the challenges he and his engineer team are facing.Chico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works (ARW), a collective he founded in 1991, consisting of artists, scientists and engineers. Currently operating out of Brooklyn, New York, ARW is dedicated to the study and creation of movement as it is expressed in anthropomorphic and abstract robotic forms. MacMurtrie has been working over the last years on his innovative, inflatable sculptures, which were exhibited in major museum shows and other international exhibitions.The interview was filmed at the Robotic Art Exhibition at the Cité des Sciences et de L'industrie, Paris 2014, Curator Richard Castelli, Epidemic
Gustav Deutsch - Film ist. (1-12) - screener Contemporary Arts Media 2016-10-28 | The 77 min. full film is available on DVD and streaming fromContemporary Arts Media: https://www.artfilms.com.au/item/gustav-deutsch-film-ist-1-12It is, in a word, glorious.... what I feel is the inherent power and mystery of such material, the arrangement of these images and sounds into a definition of cinema constitutes one of the greatest pedagogic films I have seen.... my main reaction is to have my socks knocked off.(Tom Gunning)-Film ist... [1-12],BONUSTRACK 1: Über. Gustav DeutschBONUSTRACK 2: Film ist. (1-12), DVD Installation
Advanced Swedish Massage System Screener Contemporary Arts Media 2016-10-12 | Elena Genovese's Advanced Swedish Massage System DVD available online from http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=2496Code: EG-Swe Educational license is also available.As a practitioner and lecturer Elena Genovese has developed her Swedish Massage System over the last 16 years. In this 120 minute film Elena teaches this advanced technique through step by step demonstration of the sequence of strokes for the back, shoulders, arms, neck, scalp, legs, feet and abdomen.In each section she outlines the benefits of the massage strokes and how they work on the muscular and circulatory system. She also shows students of massage how to use their own bodies most effectively, so that they can avoid back-strain and unnecessary effort in shoulders, arms and hands. The film is an invaluable resource for students in physical education, health and beauty therapy and a "must have" item in dance and martial arts education.Elena Genovese is a fully qualified Trigger Point therapist and lecturer. She has set up her practice in Perth, Western Australia where she lectures in the Diploma of Health and Massage at TAFE (a government accredited institute of tertiary education) and at the WA Institute of Holistic Medicine.
Garry Shead - Curious Portraiture - Screener Contemporary Arts Media 2016-06-28 | Purchase this DVD or watch it online: artfilms.co.uk/item/Curious-PortraitureSubscribe to 900 art films, documentaries, instructional films for only £8 per month http://artfilms-digital.com/private-sign-upThe expressive, experimental and sensuous portraits of Garry Shead.Shot in his studio, the 20 mins. video is an intimate interview - about his portrait painting -with Garry Shead, one of Australia’s most famous and acclaimed lyrical figurative expressionist artists, the winner of the Archibald Prize for Portraiture and the Dobell Prize for Drawing.The role that portraiture occupies in Garry Shead's oevre can only be described as curious. At least since the late 1960s, Shead seems to have been out of step with prevailing fashions in the art world, yet as a portraitis this credentials have never been questioned. On twelve occasions his portraits have been hung in the "Archibald Prize" exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. At the age of nineteen he appears to have been one of the youngest artists ever to be hung in the "Archibald"; and in 1993 he was awarded the Archibald Prize for his Portrait of Tom Thompson. By the age of twenty-five he was a recognised and decorated portraitist on the Australian art scene. (Sasha Grishin)
Everywhere Art ...what is good public art? Contemporary Arts Media 2016-05-19 | Subscribe to 900 Art films from: http://www.artfilms-digital.com/sign-upPurchase the DVD from Artfilms : http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=6047Art in public spaces once consisted of statues of royalty and monuments to war heroes, explorers and the wealthy, but all that has changed. Art now celebrates and enhances all our lives in a way it never has before. Everywhere you look solo artists, commissioned artists, artists working with architects and undercover artists with spray cans are enlivening where we live.
Whispers of Life - an imaginative fable about bullying and teen suicide Contemporary Arts Media 2016-05-19 | Subscribe to 700 Art films from: http://www.artfilms-digital.com/sign-upPurchase the DVD from Artfilms : http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=5822Whispers of Life is inspired by the onslaught of publicized gay, teen suicides. This short film works as an artistic intervention to challenge the societal taboo of suicide, the pervasive and damaging eff ects of anti-gay bullying and the fact that these issues are not discussed openly.
API KALASAM Indian Stories of Microcredit trailer SD1 Contemporary Arts Media 2016-05-19 | Subscribe to 700 Art films from: http://www.artfilms-digital.com/sign-upPurchase the DVD from Artfilms : http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=6013The KALASAM is the arrangement of a brass or silver pot filled with water, holding a coconut amongst mango tree leaves at its mouth. It's regarded as auspicious and used to initiate Poojas and invoke the Goddess Shakthi in the local culture. When the women started saving for contingencies again, as their predecessor had done for generations, they wanted to do so in an auspicious manner in the name of the God so that it will continue and flourish. They decided to give the name KALASAM for their saving group, collect saving and work with this name in Madurai area.
Copy of Heavy Metal Landscapes - The Life and Work of an Artist-Farmer Contemporary Arts Media 2016-04-08 | Subscribe to 700 Art films from: http://www.artfilms-digital.com/sign-upPurchase the DVD from Artfilms : http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=5359In this half-hour-documentary, shot in full HD, the engaging, down to earth Annabel Nowlan relates the story of her journey from running an out-back farm to becoming one of Australia's most celebrated artists.Putting skills she learned as a farmer to good use, Annabel works in copper and aluminium, etching, riveting, welding and corroding the metal. The materials are hard and tough to manipulate, yet the works are soft, tender, thought provoking with historical insights and a wry sense of humour. She now lives in Melbourne and her work, informed by her life on the land, is sought after by major galleries and art lovers around the country. She is passionate about this history of the land, ecology and Aboriginal culture.Galleries now clamber to show her unique work, which is sold to eager collectors around the country.
Dancing in the Now - by Ubuntu Samaya Contemporary Arts Media 2016-01-26 | DVD and streaming is available: http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=6009Screener. This documentary film is about the art and profession of contemporary dance. Exploring not only what it means to be a dancer, but what it means to be human, and how these are intrinsically and intimately woven. -- With footage collected across Australia and Europe and interviews with Stephanie Lake, Antony Hamilton, Paea Leach, James Vu Ahn Pham, Lauren Langlois, Tara Jade Soh and Sarah Jayne Howard, it has been beautiful journey indeed."The more I observe and explore the phenomena that is dance the more I truly see and believe that what dance provides is a visual language for an internal world...the world of human emotion that cannot be seen, but always be felt. And with in this language I have yet to find a dance form in which this is more evident than the globally practiced yet loosely defined genre of contemporary dance.These dancers spend their life in vigorous training, challenging and expanding their physical, mental and emotional limitations purely to find ways to better express and communicate the stories, messages and experiences that reflect what it is to be human...using nothing more than their very own human body. It never ceases to strike awe in my spirit when I watch these humans at work.Finding myself completely immersed and enraptured by these moving bodies, I feel every movement as if it were my own. With a simple flick of a hand or hip bone I can feel my heart jolt. In a graceful leap or twirl I feel it lift and sore and with just a precisely timed flexion of muscle I can feel it rise up my very throat and pour out of my eyes and down my cheeks transformed now into water. Using their body like a magic wand these dancers can trigger emotion inside you through physically becoming and embodying that emotion themselves. Creating a connection between strangers at the most personal level." Ubuntu Samaya
Costumes for Performance Contemporary Arts Media 2015-07-11 | DVD and Online available from Artfilms http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=5863Back in the late 1960s and early 70s a group of Australian performers from the Soapbox theatre in Melbourne and the New Circus from Adelaide got together to form a new type of circus. They all had traditional circus skills but were also hell-bent on political reform. This was a time of radical community politics. Australia was ripe to get rid of its long time conservative government, get out of the Vietnam War and address gender inequality. And Circus Oz wanted to address these issues through performance.Laurel Frank was one of the founding members of Circus Oz. She joined in 1978 and tried her hand at everything from trapeze, to juggling to tight rope then designing their costumes. Eventually she became their resident costume designer and has since been with them on countless Australian and international tours, enhancing their special brand of leftie ratbaggery and comedy with her innovative and colourful outfits. Circus Oz costumes were always an integral part of their performance. Traditional lycra and sequins were given a new twist.There have never been any animals in Circus. According to Laurel this was partly philosophical and partly because ‘we simply weren’t capable of looking after animals’. However, the strong sense of Australiana saw the creation of some classic costumes with performers dressed as mobs of large red, bounding kangaroos and hilarious flying trapeze Cockatoos. While the costumes are colourful and fun they also need to be durable. All the stretching, free-falling and pole climbing, as well as the constant touring means a lot of wear and tear. They also need to be readily changed quickly and sometimes hold secret openings, pockets and layers. Laurel’s’ job is to make sure the costumes are beautiful, easy to get-off and able endure all the physicality and touring. She says that after all these years with the circus she never tires of coming up or discussing possibly designs with new performers. She says ‘it is still a real thrill’.
CHRISTINE JOHNSON Voyages Botanical Contemporary Arts Media 2015-07-01 | DVD & Streaming from Artfilms: http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=5857&CategoryID=23&SubCategoryID=56This film is a snapshot of the work of Christine Johnson, a unique visual artist who shares her passion for plants and fowers with journalist / film maker Marianne Latham.Growing up next to a large park, Christine Johnson had an early fascination with plants and flowers. There were roses, forget- me-nots and delphiniums and as she wandered around the flowers beds and winding paths what Christine saw was different to others. She was short sighted, so everything seemed rather blurry, until she looked at them close up. Later as an artist this was what she loved to paint. Huge canvases full of beautiful flowers that showed minute detail, but were slightly out of focus on the edges.In the past few years, moving to outer Melbourne, on the edge of the bush, she developed a fondness for Australian native flora. While researching the names of the flowers, she discovered how many early explorers of the Great Southern land, Cook, Dampier and Flinders had becomme fascinated with the strange flowers and plants they found. Botanists such as Sydney Parkinson, who came to Australian with Captain Cook, took the flowers on voyages back to Europe. One lover of Australian flora was Empress Josephine and plants such as the Golden Everlasting can still be seen in many public gardens in France.Wanting to include the history of these early voyages, with the portrayal of the plants, Christine found that printmaking served this purpose better than her usual large canvases. Her delicate prints are made on plates using the sun to etch the details then printed at the Baldessin Press in the bush just north of Melbourne. Exhibited at the Victorian State Library, these prints are a wonderful record of the early voyages of discovery to Australia, the indigenous flora and an example of fine, delicate and imaginative printmaking.
KaBooM trailer Contemporary Arts Media 2015-06-26 | Subscribe to 700 films online for only £8 per month! http://www.artfilms-digital.com/membersKaBooM DVD and Streaming from Artfilms / Contemporary Arts Media http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=5855What happens when we are unwillingly thrust into the frontline of war? It can happen to anyone, anywhere. Our lives irrevocably and unpredictably changed in an instant. And what remains within us when we have escaped the warzone?KaBooM is a physical performance event – its subject is War.KaBooM is based on real stories of soldiers who have fought on the frontline. Australians who fled to this country to escape conflict and build new lives. The tale of Fabrice - a child soldier from Burundi, who hid in lakes to escape machete wielding hordes; the tale of Majid, who deserted after fighting for 10 years in Saddam Hussein’s army; the tale of Ivor, who, as a 16 year old escaped the Holocaust to fight for his family in the Pacific Islands along with a guardian monkey.Each of the 7 tales serves as a basis for 7 leading independent theatre directors to create a theatrical response. They use the body of one female performer and an arsenal of contemporary theatrical weapons - projections, aerial work, pulsing sound track from Bigtoxic - and elements – mud, water, tomatoes, hay – to create a series of interlocking performance vignettes.Like a contemporary Scheherazade this performer functions as the central storyteller. She also adds an original feminine perspective to the tales of “Men at War “ by assuming complimentary and companion roles in the story telling - the war widow reading a last letter from the heat of battle; the absent lover; the daughter brought up with the ghosts of war constantly hovering in the background.KaBooM positions the audience, as witness, into the midst of the performance arena. They are placed in a metaphorical field of war, populated with visual imagery and the debris of battle. Spectators are led to discrete performance areas. There is no fourth wall - the sense of involvement and engagement is direct.KaBooM is both deeply personal and universal – as you read these words there is a war going on in several corners of the globe. This event takes fragments from humanity’s long and tragic involvement with global conflict and reduces them to the underlying human experience - stories of the real lives of ordinary people plunged into extraordinary circumstances.The waves created by the “BooM” in KaBooM are sonic, emotional, psychological and physical; they all coalesce in this one unique
Nude - The Naked Body in Art Contemporary Arts Media 2014-12-06 | Available from http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=5823What is art and what is pornography?Throughout history depictions of the naked human body have been totemic, reverential, religious, salacious or immoral, depending on when, where and why they were created.The Venus of Willendorf, believed to be the first nude, was a fertility symbol made around 25,000 BCE. Thousands of years later the Greeks and Romans frequently portrayed nudes in sculptures such as the Discus Thrower and Venus de Milo, as symbols of perfection. Later, angels, cupids and virgins were painted without clothing as part of religious observance supposedly devoid of sexuality. This was despite some being entirely about sex. Many versions of Susanna and the Elders depicted two elderly men perving on a young woman they intend to rape. Yet in a religious context this was supposedly a morality tale.In the 18th Century nudes became commonplace. Painted for the male gaze, and not to be seen by ‘ladies’, these reclining nudes, without blemish or pubic hair, were compliant with eyes modestly averted. Then along came Goya in the 18th Century and Manet in the 19th Century, to turn the tradition upside down. They painted prostitutes, who met the gaze of the ogling men, which created an uproar. During the late 19th and early 20th Century, Austrian artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele painted controversial nudes bordering on pornography. But they were beautiful and therefore accepted as ‘art’. Australian artist Brett Whitely in the 20th Century, became known for his sensuous, distorted nudes. Briton, Lucien Freud’s nudes were more anatomically correct but portrayed in a warts and all realism. American Jeff Koons painted himself having sex with his wife and muse, an Italian porn icon. But it was all art, wasn’t it? With concerns over the availability of pornography on the net, particularly that which involves children, there are now heightened concerns about the portrayal of the nude body. Australian Bill Henson caused an outrage by exhibiting photos of nude pubescent teenagers, prompting the question ‘What is art and what is pornography? In ‘Nude – the Naked Body in Art’, art practitioners, art academics and a nude art subject speak about the history of the naked human body in art.
Graham Dean: Waterproof - Screener Contemporary Arts Media 2014-11-10 | Available for education from Artfilms: http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=5813The films are artworks themselves interpreting the emotional, sensual process of painting in a cinematic language.Using a technique he calls ‘’reverse archaeology’’, Graham Dean re-invents the traditional uses of watercolour resulting in a unique technique. Contrasting layers of paint are applied separately on thick, handmade paper from Southern India. Each sheet has undergone a process of tearing and overlapping to create a final composition; this corresponds to the multiple layers of the epidermis, which protects the human body.The process is organic and cyclical, the paintings appear fragmented and destroyed using sections (front and back) that lead to a renaissance in the form of a new composition. The application of paint glazes (multiple, transparent layers) creates intensity and depth. The juxtaposition of complimentary colours creates strong, theatrical works.Graham’s painting is an investigation between the inside and the outside, the surface and what lies beneath. Arms, faces, torsos, legs become interchangeable – anonymous but recognisable, The body becomes a canvas, torn and stretched, a vehicle for the imagination of the artist. The works are open to interpretation, free, as are the movements of watercolour, colours and sensual shapes.He is essentially a painter of identity. But more than the identity of the body, it is the identity of the soul as evoked by these sumptuous watercolours. Something deeply personal, his images are recomposed in a creative alchemy, mixing people, body parts and time itself. He has also used buildings, mysterious ships, and confessionals in churches, forests, and trains, to enhance these atmospheric moods. For Graham Dean, the body is a ‘holding-pen of emotions’, a ‘thinking body’ similar to the research done by Wilhelm Reich. His characters are the receptacles of these emotions, ideas, and memories.
Design Interviews - Andrea Branzi screener Contemporary Arts Media 2014-10-01 | film by Museo Alessi and Anna PitscheiderFrom Artfilms - www.artfilms-digital.com http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Search.aspx?SearchQuery=mus-What is design? The interview series which was lauched in New York’s MoMA reveals the answers of four masters of design in this historical collection. Directed by Anna Pitscheider, co-edited by Museo Alessi and Edizioni Corraini in 2008, the interviews portray masters who have made Italian design famous across the world.This exclusive collection of interviews featuring Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass is the result of Museo Alessi’s eagerness to share the experiences and methods of the most important Italian designers with the general public. Brief conversations, reflections and anecdotes that describe with spontaneity and great eloquence the teachings that have shaped their personal and professional lives.Italian with English subtitle.Collect all 4 DVDs of Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass and SAVE!
Design Interviews - Alessandro Mendini - screener Contemporary Arts Media 2014-10-01 | film by Museo Alessi and Anna PitscheiderFrom Artfilms - www.artfilms-digital.comhttp://www.artfilms.co.uk/Search.aspx?SearchQuery=mus-What is design? The interview series which was lauched in New York’s MoMA reveals the answers of four masters of design in this historical collection. Directed by Anna Pitscheider, co-edited by Museo Alessi and Edizioni Corraini in 2008, the interviews portray masters who have made Italian design famous across the world.This exclusive collection of interviews featuring Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass is the result of Museo Alessi’s eagerness to share the experiences and methods of the most important Italian designers with the general public. Brief conversations, reflections and anecdotes that describe with spontaneity and great eloquence the teachings that have shaped their personal and professional lives.Italian with English subtitle.Collect all 4 DVDs of Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass and SAVE!
Design Interviews - Richard Sapper screener Contemporary Arts Media 2014-10-01 | film by Museo Alessi and Anna PitscheiderFrom Artfilms - www.artfilms-digital.com http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Search.aspx?SearchQuery=mus-What is design? The interview series which was lauched in New York’s MoMA reveals the answers of four masters of design in this historical collection. Directed by Anna Pitscheider, co-edited by Museo Alessi and Edizioni Corraini in 2008, the interviews portray masters who have made Italian design famous across the world.This exclusive collection of interviews featuring Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass is the result of Museo Alessi’s eagerness to share the experiences and methods of the most important Italian designers with the general public. Brief conversations, reflections and anecdotes that describe with spontaneity and great eloquence the teachings that have shaped their personal and professional lives.Italian with English subtitle.Collect all 4 DVDs of Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Richard Sapper and Ettore Sottsass and SAVE!
Heavy Metal Landscapes - The Life and Work of an Artist-Farmer Contemporary Arts Media 2014-05-29 | Purchase the DVD from Artfilms : http://www.artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=5359In this half-hour-documentary, shot in full HD, the engaging, down to earth Annabel Nowlan relates the story of her journey from running an out-back farm to becoming one of Australia's most celebrated artists.Putting skills she learned as a farmer to good use, Annabel works in copper and aluminium, etching, riveting, welding and corroding the metal. The materials are hard and tough to manipulate, yet the works are soft, tender, thought provoking with historical insights and a wry sense of humour. She now lives in Melbourne and her work, informed by her life on the land, is sought after by major galleries and art lovers around the country. She is passionate about this history of the land, ecology and Aboriginal culture.Galleries now clamber to show her unique work, which is sold to eager collectors around the country.
