Visual Arts Movies

  • 1975
    Miracle

    Miracle

    Miracle

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    Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha’s 1975 short film Miracle centers on a day in the life of an auto mechanic (played by artist Jim Ganzer),...

    Miracle
  • 2001
    Full Moon

    Full Moon

    Full Moon

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    Designed for continuous single or multiple monitor display (as well as video projection), the tape is a collection of computer animated sequences of...

    Full Moon
  • 2018
    Midnight Ruins

    Midnight Ruins

    Midnight Ruins

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    The fallen painter Cheng Zi was called by the old friend Sufi to investigate the strange events that occurred in the rehearsal of the "Song of the...

    Midnight Ruins
  • 1972
    The New York School

    The New York School

    The New York School

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    The band of American artists known as the New York School toyed with tradition and rebelled against the Renaissance.Feeling as though free...

    The New York School
  • 2013
    Melbhattan

    Melbhattan

    Melbhattan

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    Melbhattan. Melbhattan is part homage, part pastiche of the opening sequence of Woody Allen's seminal 1979 film Manhattan. Melbhattan features more...

    Melbhattan
  • 2023
    15 x 15 x 5 (minisalon 1984)

    15 x 15 x 5 (minisalon 1984)

    15 x 15 x 5 (minisalon 1984)

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    15 x 15 x 5 (minisalon 1984)
  • 2022
    Square Fieldwork

    Square Fieldwork

    Square Fieldwork

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    Milah van Zuilen, visual artist and forest ecologist in training, uses the square to deal with the habit of people to construct nature. Square...

    Square Fieldwork
  • 2021
    Keratin

    Keratin

    Keratin

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    Keratin is a collaboration with the London Sinfionetta, visually responding to Gavin Higgins' Seven Welsh Folk Songs: I. Dacw 'Nghariad i. The film...

    Keratin
  • 2023
    Lady Jellyfish

    Lady Jellyfish

    Lady Jellyfish

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    A story of a recent graduate's perplexity and escape.

    Lady Jellyfish
  • 1970
    Shoot Yourself

    Shoot Yourself

    Shoot Yourself

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    Shoot Yourself
  • 2003
    Dust Devils

    Dust Devils

    Dust Devils

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    A beautifully done video of Burning Man 2001, 2002 & 2003. Lots of people interviews, Center Cafe activity and extensive coverage of artist David...

    Dust Devils
  • 2018
    Carving Thy Faith

    Carving Thy Faith

    Carving Thy Faith

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    A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the...

    Carving Thy Faith
  • 2015
    República del color

    República del color

    República del color

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    About the history of the Dominican Republic's visual arts from the perspective of color given by the incidence of light in the island, alongside the...

    República del color
  • 1972
    Cowboy and Indian

    Cowboy and Indian

    Cowboy and Indian

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    This film goes no farther west than Toronto. The Indian is Robert Markle, from a family of Mohawk steel workers. The cowboy is his longtime art...

    Cowboy and Indian
  • 2013
    Stories Sarah Tells

    Stories Sarah Tells

    Stories Sarah Tells

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    Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using...

    Stories Sarah Tells
  • 2025
    LEMONLIME

    LEMONLIME

    LEMONLIME

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    Two long-time friends, Makahi and Yannick, reflect on their respective journeys as artists in different disciplines—visual arts and music...

    LEMONLIME
  • 2021
    Opalescence

    Opalescence

    Opalescence

    02021HD

    A short visual experiment resembling the inside of an opal.

    Opalescence
  • 2013
    1194D

    1194D

    1194D

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    1194D is originally a tweak of 115C8, one of the “Algorithmic Creature” series based on recursive triangle subdivision. The idea and...

    1194D
  • 2016
    Don Darby, l'homme et la matière

    Don Darby, l'homme et la matière

    Don Darby, l'homme et la matière

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    Don Darby, l'homme et la matière
  • 1970
    Dear Home of Scars

    Dear Home of Scars

    Dear Home of Scars

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    In Dear Home of Scars, we see celebrated visual artist Ibrahim Mahama return to his hometown of Tamale in Northern Ghana to visit Red Clay Studio, a...

    Dear Home of Scars