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Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 24, 2015 1 video

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The American painter and printer Yvonne Jacquette is best known for her aerial landscapes of cities and towns, which incorporate distinctive brushwork. Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion, filmed in 1981, explores the artist’s creative process as she creates a triptych that is approximately 26…

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Duane Michals (1939 - 1997)

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 19, 2015 1 video

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A haunting and evocative film by the photographic master of mystic innuendo, Duane Michals. This film is divided into sections, some of which reproduce in Michals' well-known photographic stories, sequential images that add up to form a narrative. "The Bogeyman" is a child's nightmare…

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The Paris Review...: Early Chapters

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 24, 2015 1 video

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In the summer of 1953, an expatriated trio of young Americans -- Peter Matthiessen, Harold "Doc" Humes and George Plimpton -- founded the international literary quarterly, The Paris Review. Designed to welcome "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders,"…

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Billy Collins: On the Road with the Poet Laureate

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 24, 2015 1 video

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Billy Collins is perhaps the first American poet since Robert Frost to enjoy both critical and popular acclaim. This 59-minute documentary captures the qualities that make Collins such a refreshing literary figure. With a film crew trailing him from poetry readings and college classrooms to his home,…

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L'âge tendre

from SPIRA PRO on November 17, 2015 1 video

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2013 - Version originale francophone • SYNOPSIS Dans une école secondaire de Montréal, 9 jeunes aux parcours atypiques sont réunis autour d'un projet de dramathérapie qui vise à offrir une voix aux groupes marginalisés. Au fil des rencontres se déploient…

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WHO WE ARE: BRAVE NEW CLAN [from the CAAMA Collection]

from Ronin Films PRO on August 24, 2015 1 video

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Brave New Clan features six extraordinary young Australians who share what Indigenous culture means to them today in contemporary urban Australia. From the bustling streets of Sydney to the aquamarine vistas of the Torres Strait, their stories span a diverse population across the country and yet share…

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Barry Harris: The Spirit of Bebop

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 19, 2015 1 video

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This intimate portrait of modern jazz pianist, Barry Harris, becomes a historic walk with some of the best-known jazz musicians of the 1950's and 60's. Memorable scenes span from archival footage of Harris playing at his piano to more recent reminiscing about his circle of friends and influences,…

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Ralph Gibson: Photographer/Book Artist

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 19, 2015 1 video

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For more than forty years, Ralph Gibson has served as one of the few truly independent forces within the field of photography. His unique graphic style — stark, erotic, chaste, allusive, surreal — is as unmistakable as it is influential. His many-published books have shown generations…

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Robert A.M. Stern: 15 Central Park West and the History of the New York Apartment House

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 19, 2015 1 video

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Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series Even during the Great Recession of 2008, one new apartment house in New York City continued to set the bar for real-estate prices: 15 Central Park West. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, the lavish, limestone-clad structure from…

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Yoshio Taniguchi: The New Museum of Modern Art

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 18, 2015 1 video

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Landmarks in 21st Century American Architecture Series Architect Yoshio Taniguchi, revered in his native country of Japan for the design of consummately minimal museums, won the much-coveted commission to expand and renovate the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1997. Opened in 2004, the…

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Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 18, 2015 1 video

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Landmarks in 21st Century American Architecture Series French architect Jean Nouvel has long been known in Europe for his bold, shimmering glass museums, concert halls, and high-rise towers. Now the much-acclaimed new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which opened in 2006, is displaying…

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Kiki Smith: Squatting The Palace

from Checkerboard Films PRO on August 18, 2015 1 video

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This film takes a circular approach to an artist who works in overlapping spirals of creative energy. Smith works in her home – not in a space specifically designed as a studio but on the 2nd floor of her East Village townhouse. There, amidst her books, a pet bird, and tiny kitchenette, Smith…

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