Movies: Visual arts

  • 2018
    A Time for Making

    A Time for Making (2018)

    A Time for Making

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    Nine artisans on secluded Gabriola Island reveal the differences between mass manufactured and authentic locally handmade through intimate portraits of their work and lifestyle....

    A Time for Making
  • 2023
    Jeu de mémoire

    Jeu de mémoire (2023)

    Jeu de mémoire

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    Jeu de mémoire
  • 1972
    The New York School

    The New York School (1972)

    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 association yielded their best results, the painters, poets and performers of the New York School took a surrea...

    The New York School
  • 1995
    Frank and Ollie

    Frank and Ollie (1995)

    Frank and Ollie

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    Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Frank and ...

    Frank and Ollie
  • 2003
    Dust Devils

    Dust Devils (2003)

    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 Best and the Temple construction and burn. This documentary captures the swirling columns of dust th...

    Dust Devils
  • 1987
    The Way Things Go

    The Way Things Go (1987)

    The Way Things Go

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    Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss create the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. The pair used found objects to construct a complex, interdependent contraption in an empty warehouse. When set in motion, a domino-like chain reaction ripples through th...

    The Way Things Go
  • 2009
    House of Flesh Mannequins

    House of Flesh Mannequins (2009)

    House of Flesh Mannequins

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    A loner artist with a history of abuse meets a beautiful woman who takes an interest in his life and work; leading to a chilling path of tragedy....

    House of Flesh Mannequins
  • 2025
    Let's Make a Mug Too Movie

    Let's Make a Mug Too Movie (2025)

    Let's Make a Mug Too Movie

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    Compilation movie of Let's Make a Mug Too Season 1....

    Let's Make a Mug Too Movie
  • 2016
    Dimensions

    Dimensions (2016)

    Dimensions

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    A mathematical play on one repeated movement. It imparts a sense of possibilities: that something simple can produce complex and unexpected patterns. As with an atom, the variety of possibilities from a base movement is potentially infinite....

    Dimensions
  • 2018
    Midnight Ruins

    Midnight Ruins (2018)

    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 Night" by the drama dramas. This is also the rehearsal that they had rehearsed in the past, and it is a...

    Midnight Ruins
  • 2025
    Lyne Lapointe – L'art et la matière

    Lyne Lapointe – L'art et la matière (2025)

    Lyne Lapointe – L'art et la matière

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    Everything about the Quebec visual artist Lyne Lapointe reflects the grip of art on her life. Lesbian and feminist, she tirelessly highlights in her work the challenging position of women in society and in the art world. This concern is the common th...

    Lyne Lapointe – L'art et la matière
  • 2014
    Restless Leg Saga

    Restless Leg Saga (2014)

    Restless Leg Saga

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    In this edition of Moulton's narrative series, the artist's character Cynthia suffers from Restless Leg Syndrome, and seeks relief in pharmaceutical ads on TV and in health magazines. In a domestic world enlivened with animated dance and mystic poetr...

    Restless Leg Saga
  • 2023
    15 x 15 x 5 (minisalon 1984)

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

    15 x 15 x 5 (minisalon 1984)

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

    Square Fieldwork (2022)

    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 Fieldwork is filmed in the Bohemian forest in the Czech Republic and the concrete structure of Barendrecht,...

    Square Fieldwork
  • 2021
    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento

    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento (2021)

    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento

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    THE ARTIST AND THE FORCE OF THOUGHT, reflects the relationship between balance and imbalance within the partiality of movement of the dancer Marcos Abranches. It oscillates the body to wake up from the emptiness and isolation caused by the imbalance....

    O Artista e a Força do Pensamento
  • 2007
    Woodland Spirits

    Woodland Spirits (2007)

    Woodland Spirits

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    In this documentary short, two men paddle a canoe across a remote part of northern Lake Superior. Each stroke brings them closer to the culmination of an artistic and spiritual journey, one that begins with ancient rock paintings from their Anishinaa...

    Woodland Spirits
  • 1940
    Night Descends on Treasure Island

    Night Descends on Treasure Island (1940)

    Night Descends on Treasure Island

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    A travelogue celebrating the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition and highlighting its exhibition of classical paintings and stunning lighting effects....

    Night Descends on Treasure Island
  • 2014
    Music to My Ears

    Music to My Ears (2014)

    Music to My Ears

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    Vinyl Scratch, or DJ-Pon3, puts on her headphones and listens to her favorite music as she stops by Sugarcube Corner Cafe on her way to school, while everything around her seems to react in time to her music....

    Music to My Ears
  • 2013
    1194D

    1194D (2013)

    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 complexity of the work started to go beyond the initial expectation after it was decided to experiment with multiple ...

    1194D
  • 2013
    Stories Sarah Tells

    Stories Sarah Tells (2013)

    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 humorous, simple line animation, the film comments on the messiness of life and art....

    Stories Sarah Tells