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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Includes two films: Continuum and Deconstruction Sight.. "This is history without narrative, an abstract summation of what happens when human beings move stuff around and make something of it, grow tired of what they've made and demolish it using other things they've made, and then start all over again. What we build, what we destroy, what we find useful to do both, how we let our interaction with them describe what we call human - these are some...
4) Bedlam
Publisher
iotaCenter
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Starting point for this work was a performance text for five performers. I decided that the original text dialogue should be recorded and that I would then translate the text associatively into visual imagery. Parallel to this, the composer created a soundtrack from collected material related to the means inherent in the text. There are three levels in this work: the spoken text, the sound composition and the visual imagery, which were then synchronised...
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A series of films exploring relations of text and found image: how text turns the image, spins it, to acknowledge the alphabet as power, accompaniment and meaning. Originating from Child’s explorations as a published poet and her friendships in the field..."We perceive that a set of concerns builds up, with artful indirectness: women’s power; the gestures of gender; manipulation of a spectator’s sensibility through the medium of film; large-scale...
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
A sensuous woman, an angry artist, a mysterious puppet maker, suspicious townspeople, mischievous kids; these are the characters in THE HOUSE WITHOUT STEPS. The setting is contemporary Vermont, but it is Walter Ungerer's Vermont; the landscape, though beautiful and tranquil, is charged with an ominousness familiar to Ungerer films. Everything takes on a greater importance; time loses its boundaries. Through Ungerer's vision, people are transformed...
14) Re-enchantment
Publisher
Film Art Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presented as an interactive multi-platform documentary project exploring why fairy stories continue to enchant, entertain, fascinate and horrify contemporary adult audiences. ..Re-enchantment features a series of 10 x 3-minute animated documentaries (interstitials), which explore the themes at work in fairy tales. Each episode offers a rich visual design and presents a new way of thinking about these familiar and much loved stories. ..Relevant secondary...
15) Con Artist
Publisher
Argot Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A stylishly dark docu-comedy excavating America's craving for fame and fortune via one of its most outrageous addicts. Once a legitimate art star in the 1980s New York scene, millionaire "business artist" Mark Kostabi hires others to conceive and create paintings which he openly signs and sells as his own.. This highly energetic character study focuses on Kostabi's current attempts to regain prominence and find happiness through fame, which he openly...
16) White Spirit
Publisher
Topshot Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Avoiding uncomfortable pauses in a conversation is an art. Creating such moments in a conversation is a job, more precisely, this is White's job. In this whimsical musical short, dance along with White, a man who interferes in conversations at appropriate - or quite inconvenient - moments.. Official Selection at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Durban International Film Festival, and the San Francisco Dance Film Festival
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers to a personal voice on the immigration debate: DACA, the Dream Act, and other immigration reform, speaking about what it's like to grow up and face an uncertain future as a young undocumented person in America.. Because she doesn't want to appear on camera, found footage from American culture illuminates the...
18) The Royal Road
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, THE ROYAL ROAD offers up a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, the pursuit of unavailable women, butch identity and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, and featuring a voice-over cameo by Tony Kushner.. This bold, innovative film from...
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An examination of four different films, which to varying degrees center on a prop, object, or an item that crosses various characters' lives and passes from hand-to-hand.. The story in each film is, to a certain extent, told from the viewpoint of the object, which can neither speak nor evaluate the actions of the characters whose lives it touches and influences. The films examined are Mme de…, Winchester ’73, Virdiana, and Au Hasard Balthazar....
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