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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Brompton is no ordinary bike. You ride it - you fold it up. Not so much a product - more a cult - and it's made in Britain! This is the story of how they make it - and why they're changing to a different approach to production. Design: The Brompton bike was the brainchild of ex-landscape gardener Andrew Ritchie. He failed to interest the big bicycle companies in the idea and set up his own company. The secret of the Brompton's success lies in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The East-West Highway was soon to be built in central Taiwan. It would pass through the village of Liu Ts'o, and many homes and rice paddies would be destroyed. The film maker Hu Tai-Li went back to her mother-in-law's village Liu Ts'o, where she did anthropological research from 1976-78, to preserve some images of life forever.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barjac, a town in the south of France. Sophie Fiennes' film sheds insight into the years that Kiefer spent there, engaged in a fervent process of artistic creation, in order to shape the estate according to his vision.
4) Downside Up
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How does a dying working class town end up betting its future on art? With 80% of its downtown buildings closed, North Adams, Massachusetts united blue-collar locals with art world luminaries to transform economic failure into America's largest center for contemporary art, MASS MoCA. A film by North Adams native Nancy Kelly, DOWNSIDE UP is about the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a city widely viewed as hopeless. When, in the 1980s, the Sprague...
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