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- A man recalls the story of how his bees implanted in him a bee television, causing him to lose all perception of space, time, and self in the deserts of the American West.
- Profiles Milton Glaser (1929- ), America's foremost graphic designer: designer of the iconic "I [heart] N.Y." logo, teacher, and humanitarian. Interviews with Glaser are arranged to take him through a rough chronology of his life: study at New York High School of Music and Art and at Cooper Union, a seminal stay in Italy, his marriage, and his various partnerships - founding Push Pin Studios and "New York" magazine, designing Grand Union supermarkets, and working with "The Nation." Interspersed are examples of his work. Glaser is, throughout, charming in manner, memorable in his observations, and generous of spirit.
- For the first time in history, women are designing our world. They are the rising stars in architecture-previously an all-male galaxy--and they are literally and figuratively changing the landscape. MAKING SPACE captures the compelling stories and outstanding designs of Annabelle Selldorf (NY), Farshid Moussavi (London), Odile Decq (Paris), Marianne McKenna (Toronto), and Kathryn Gustafson (Seattle & London). Without script or narration, each woman tells her own story, enhanced by the insights of commentators including Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger; MoMA's Peter Reed and Paola Antonelli; and others. Meryl Streep makes a special guest appearance.
- The reluctant iconoclast Thom Mayne and his Santa Monica collective Morphosis have been redefining architecture since the 1970s. In this free form documentary, Mayne takes viewers on a tour of his controversial San Francisco Federal Building, floor by floor, innovation by innovation. In the process we also learn about the works that preceded it. What naysayers overlook is how the structure operates almost entirely without HVAC or lighting. Mayne's building miraculously heats, ventilates and lights itself (with the assistance of SF's temperate climate). He explains the steps that inspired him to create a unique interplay between site orientation, robotics, ethics and materials, and a building that consumes a fifth of the energy of conventional designs. But the most revolutionary thing revealed in Mayne's tour might just be how he reclaims the choicest office space for workers, not management.
- 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.
- The story of a courageous painter who, along with her friends Jackson Pollock and Willem deKooning, was a key figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement in American art. A major artist who refused to be categorized, Grace Hartigan continually invented and reinvented herself and her style and persevered in the face of profound personal and professional challenges: a very public falling out with Clement Greenberg, one of the most influential art critics of the time; an attempted suicide; an estrangement from her only child; and the long, tragic illness and death of her beloved (and 4th) husband. Against the background of one the most explosive periods in American art history, this film celebrates a fiercely independent painter whose life was as gutsy and compelling as her art.
- Billy Collins is perhaps the first American poet since Robert Frost to enjoy both critical and popular acclaim. This documentary follows him from poetry readings and college classrooms to his home, office, and even into his car. Collins manages to remain amazingly witty, gracious, and open in discussing his life, his work, and the nature of poetry itself.
- For more than forty years, Ralph Gibson has served as one of the few truly independent forces within photography. In this film biography, Gibson is very much the star of his own life as he discusses his colorful childhood in Los Angeles as an extra in Hollywood movies, his stints in the U.S. Navy, his time as an assistant to Dorothea Lange, as well as his lean, wayward years in New York.
- A biography of John Szarkowski including many examples of his photos and a loose chronology of his tenure as Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
- Following Ellsworth Kelly as he revisits the Paris of his early 20s, this documentary uncovers early influences that became leitmotifs he would return to, reiterate, refine and rework for decades to come. Insightful commentary from such scholars and critics as Robert Storr (Dean, Yale School of Art), the late Anne d'Harnoncourt (Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art), Alfred Pacquement (Director, Centre Georges Pompidou), Ann Temkin (Curator, Museum of Modern Art) and Roberta Bernstein (Professor, University at Albany) helps to round out this definitive portrait of one of the true giants of American art.
- Seminal theoretician and influential architect, Peter Eisenman is also an irrepressible sports fanatic. In this revealing look into his design for the iconic new home for the Arizona Cardinals football team, Eisenman takes us on a tour of the stadium that represents the culmination of nearly a decade of his work on this visionary sports facility. Spectacular footage, along with Eisenman's explanation of his intentions as he walks through the stadium's spaces, provides a compelling presentation of this singular work of architecture by one of today's leading practitioners.
- Architect Daniel Libeskind's first work of architecture to be realized in the U.S., an addition to the Denver Art Museum, the American public has a chance to examine his unconventional talents.
- Frank Stella, one of the most important living artists, is still producing vital work after more than six decades of art-making. Stella has relentlessly pushed the boundaries of painting and specifically abstraction itself. His deceptively simple description of his work - "What you see is what you see" - belies an unparalleled diligence and intelligence in this pursuit. Stella arrived on the scene in the late 1950s, with an emphatic body of work that immediately re-shaped the discussion on abstract painting. In this film, Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper, Stella revisits these seminal paintings on display in the 2012 L&M Arts exhibition. We follow the artist through the galleries as he looks back on his creative, intellectual, and practical approaches to his paintings. In addition to the artist in his own words, Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director at the Whitney Museum of American Art, explores Stella's education at Andover and Princeton, as well as his early years in New York City. Ann Temkin, Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, reflects on how Stella's early works blazed a trail in post-Abstract Expressionism. Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper is an intimate first-person investigation into one of the 20th Century's seminal series of paintings.
- Ground has been broken on Roosevelt Island for New York City's newest academic campus - the sustainable, high tech home of Cornell Tech, a radical reconception of graduate level engineering study for the information age. Over the next three years, a stunning complex of architecture and landscape will emerge - a unique hub of high tech research and entrepreneurial activity. Before every great piece of architecture, there is a unique journey, and since 2013, Checkerboard has been documenting the journey of Cornell Tech as it rises on Roosevelt Island. This film tells the story of how political visionaries, educational innovators, architectural designers and philanthropic benefactors have come together to create something that will have an incredible impact on New York City for decades to come.