Fully awake Black Mountain College c2006
Cathryn Davis Zommer, Neeley House, and ElonDoc
A documentary film about the experimental college based in North Carolina from 1933-1957 and its enormous influence on community, collaboration, and American modern art. Looks at the unique educational style and long term significance of Black Mountain College through interviews with students, teachers, historians, and current artists. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-1888
The last conquistador c2008
John J Valadez, Cristina Ibarra, John Sherrill Houser, Valadez Media (Firm), Kitchen Sync, Inc, and Independent Television Service
The story of sculptor John Houser's dream to build the world's tallest bronze equestrian statue for El Paso, Texas, to memorialize the Spanish conquistador Juan de Ońate and to honor the contributions of Hispanic people in the American West. But Native Americans are outraged, remembering Ońate as the man who brought genocide, cut off their feet, and sold their children into slavery. As El Paso divides along lines of race and class, Houser must face the moral implications of his work. 1 videodisc (69 min. ) :
MEDIA 10-2478
Le Million The million 2000
Renae Lefaevre, Annabella, Louis Allibert, Renae Clair, A Bernard, Philippe Paraes , Georges van Parys, Georges Berr, Marcel Guillemaud, Filmsonor (Firm), and Criterion Collection (Firm)
A musical comedy about a pair of young lovers who lose a lottery ticket worth a million francs and chase it frantically across Paris. Considered one of the very first musical films. 1 videodisc (81 min.)
MEDIA 10-2050 2-168
Patti Smith dream of life 2008
Patti Smith is a renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Her music, poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. Traces Patti's punk-poet roots through the trials of daily life and untimely deaths that have formed her life and art. Touches on her early days in New York City and includes the people dearest to her, her family, and the political causes she champions. 1 videodisc (109 min.)
MEDIA 10-5045
Silent Ozu: Disc 2: Umarete wa mita keredo I was born, but-- : three family comedies 2008
James Maki, Akira Fushimi, Geibei Ibushiya , Yasujir o Ozu, Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara, Tomio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto, Teruyo Hayami, Seiichi Kat?o, Shoichi Kofujita, Janus Films, Sh?ochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, and Criterion Collection (Firm)
For two brothers, the daily grind of bullies and mean teachers is nothing compared to the mortification they feel when they come to understand their good-natured father's low-rung social status. A blithe portrait of the financial and psychological toils of one family, from the standpoint of a couple of stubborn little boys. 1 videodisc (90 min.)
MEDIA 10-2123
Some Fluxus 1991
Larry Miller, George Maciunas, and Electronic Arts Intermix (Organization)
This video documentary features performance works by Fluxus artists juxtaposed with excerpts from Miller's 1978 Interview with George Maciunas. 1 videodisc (59 min.) :
MEDIA 10-2292
Against the odds the artists of the Harlem Renaissance 1994
Amber Edwards and Joe Morton
Documents the story of a group of black visual artists working during the 1920s and 1930s, who for the most part were unable to show their work in mainstream museums and galleries. Highlights the influential role the Harmon Foundation played in the development of African American art in the United States. 1 videocassette (57 min)
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The age of anxiety 1997
Robert Hughes and Arnold B Glimcher
An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This final segment explores how American art has reflected the upheavals of the last 25 years. Hughes traces the evolution of abstract art and minimalism and considers the spiritual richness of earth works, in which nature is the artist's medium. He ends the series by profiling a wide range of contemporary artists including Edward Kienholz, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Walter De Maria, Robert Smithson, Bruce Nauman, Richard Diebenkorn, Philip Guston, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Susan Rothenberg, Eric Fischl, Louise Bourgeois and James Turrell. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4085
Alan Bean art off this earth 1990
Murry Battle, Rudy Buttignol, and Anna Medina
A documentary about the 9th astronaut on the moon, Alan Bean, which focuses on the paintings he created from his memories and experiences on the moon and in space. 1 videocassette (26 min.)
MEDIA 2-1689
America's castles 1996
Randall Shuptrine, Joe Van Riper, and Scott Galloway
Archival films and photographs are used to describe Wright's childhood homes, as well as the homes of his early adult life in Illinois and later adult life in Wisconsin. Includes commentary by experts. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)
DANA 1640
American photography a century of images 1999
Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Ronald Blumer, Harris Yulin, Robert B Silberman, and Vicki Goldberg
Presents the whole range of photography in the United States in the 20th century. The range of topics include artistic photography, photojournalism and home photography. The series mentions the technological change and the impact that photographs have whether they are personal or newsworthy. 3 videocassettes (ca. 161 min.)
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Art city making it in Manhattan 1996
Chris Maybach, Paul Gardner, Tom Waits, Ronnie Jordan, Piero Umiliani, Chet Baker, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and George Van Eps
Presenting a cross-section of artists, status, age, sex, and ethnic backgrounds. The film moves into lofts, studios and galleries for intimate scenes of artists at work. They discuss inspiration, aesthetic issues, the meaning of success, and how they overcame hardship to pursue a lifetime in art. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 951 2-3598
Art in the twenty-first century c2001
Susan Sollins, Susan Dowling, Catherine Tatge, Deborah Shaffer, Steve Martin, Laurie Anderson, S. Epatha Merkerson, John McEnroe, PBS Home Video, and Art 21, Inc
Meet twenty-one diverse contemporary artists through revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration and creative processes. 2 videocassettes (ca. 4 hrs.)
MEDIA 2-4404-4405
The Art of Navajo weaving ; The Durango collection 1987
H. Jackson Clark, Mark Winter, David Baysinger, Elizabeth Gilmore, Isabel John, and Geanita John
Features two complete programs. The first, The Art of Navajo weaving, beautifully documents the state of Navajo weaving, looking at its origins and, through a visit with a contemporary weaving family, its current state. It features Isabel and Geanita John, award winning pictorial weavers. The second program is an interesting and educational tour through the Durango Collection, the most complete private collection of Navajo and Southwestern weaving in the world. The collection is presented as it was seen in a recent exhibition at the Denver Museum of Natural History. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
MEDIA 2-2647
Artists at work a film on the New Deal art projects 1983
Mary Lance and Morgan Freeman
An in-depth survey of the federal programs for support of visual artists during the depression. Several artists recount experiences with WPA's art project and other programs. Shows works of art created during the New Deal era and discusses the destruction and loss of many works of art produced then. 1 videocassette (35 min.)
DANA 317
Arts 1987
An optimistic look at the role of the arts in revitalizing the city of Newark. Discussion includes ambitious plans for the future of arts in Newark, including opening a performing arts center, and how it would be financed. Economically, socially, and politically, developing the arts in Newark will be beneficial to both the city and the State of New Jersey. Featured guests are the Chairman/CEO of Mutual Benefit Life Robert Van Fossan, Rutgers University-Newark Dr. Clement Price, Music critic for Star Ledger Michael Redmond and Assistant Secretary of State Alvin Felzenberg. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 161
Black women on: the light, dark thang c1999
Celeste Crenshaw, Paula Caffey, Camille McCurty Ali, Black Women On Productions, Inc, and Women Make Movies (Firm)
Explores the politics of color within the African-American community. Afro-American women, representing a variety of hues, speak candidly about the longstanding "caste system" that permeates black society and share personal stories about how being too light or too dark has profoundly influenced their life and relationships. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
MEDIA 2-7333
Bright like a sun 1999
Tracy Heather Strain and Vanessa Williams
Discusses the creative visions of African-American artists such as singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson, who uses his fame and artistry to fight for social justice; sculptor Augusta Savage, who builds an art school in Harlem to nurture African-American talent; jazz musicians Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, playing the bebop that will become a recognized musical genre. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4292
Clementine Hunter American folk artist 1993
Clementine Hunter, Katina Simmons, and Christina Patoski
Presents the art of Clementine Hunter with interviews with the artist and commentary by collectors from Natchitoches, Louisiana. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
DANA 576
East coast/West coast 1969
Nancy Holt
Artists Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, a married couple until Smithson's death in 1973, filmed their 1969 discussion of contrasting lifestyles and approaches to artistic creation. Smithson championed a relatively loose, free-wheeling approach; Holt argued for a greater degree of order and conceptualization in life and art. 1 videocassette (ca. 23 min.)
MEDIA 2-5640
Eat 19--
Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and Film Library
A film or artist Robert Indiana eating mushrooms and playing with a cat. 1 videocassette (ca. 25 min.)
MEDIA D-228
The Eighteenth century woman 1982
Suzanne Bauman, Jim Burroughs, Marisa Berenson, Diana Vreeland, and Stella Blum
Looks at an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled The eighteenth century woman, a vast collection of costumes, accessories, and objets d'art that reveal the unique ways in which fashionable eighteenth-century women made their presence felt in the society, art, and politics of their time. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
DANA 767
The empire of signs 1997
Robert Hughes, Clement Greenberg, Karal Ann Marling, Henry Louis Gates, and Kirk Varnedoe
An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this seventh segment, after the post-war era, Hughes traces the development of abstract expressionism and the life of Jackson Pollock, and explores how artists as different as James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, David Smith, Willem De Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Romare Bearden, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns reacted to the new consumer culture. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4084
Fire in the East a portrait of Robert Frank 1986
Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, Amy Brookman, Anne Tucker, and Paul Yeager
"Presents an intimate view of four decades of Frank's life, films, and photographs. This award-winning documentary features his photographs, films, and interviews with many of his collaborators and contemporaries, including Emile de Antonio, Allen Ginsberg, Walter Gutman, June Leaf, Jonas Mekas, Duane Michals, John Szarkowski, and Rudy Wurlitzer"--Container. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
DANA 813
From these roots a review of the "Harlem Renaissance" 1974
William Greaves and Brock Peters
Uses still photographs and filmed sequences to recreate the social and political climate of the Harlem renaissance--a period of great artistic and cultural activity in the 1920's which had, and still has, a profound influence on black American art and self-awareness and life-style. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.)
MEDIA 2-1703
Fully awake Black Mountain College c2006
Cathryn Davis Zommer, Neeley House, and ElonDoc
A documentary film about the experimental college based in North Carolina from 1933-1957 and its enormous influence on community, collaboration, and American modern art. Looks at the unique educational style and long term significance of Black Mountain College through interviews with students, teachers, historians, and current artists. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
MEDIA 10-1888
Guerrillas in our midst 1992
Amy Harrison, Margaret Herbig, Ron Hunnings, Maurice Chayut, and Ruth Cullen
Gallery owners comment on the actions of a group of anonymous women artists who call themselves the Guerrilla Girls. Also interviewed are members of the Guerrilla Girls, who, dressed in gorrilla masks, work to promote greater representation of women and minority artists in art exhibitions. 1 videocassette (36 min.)
MEDIA 2-3102
Hidden heritage the roots of Black American painting 1990?
Andrew Piddington, David C Driskell, and Maureen McCue
Traces the work of Black American artists from the American Revolution to World War II. Places the artists' individual achievements in the context of social change, abolition of slavery, Jim Crow laws, racial violence and segregation. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
MEDIA 2-2231
The Highwaymen c2003
John Hambrick, Spencer Christian, Everglades Media, WLRN-TV (Television station : Miami, Fla.), and Janson Media
Examines the work of the Florida landscape painters known as the Highwaymen, a group of young, untrained African-American landscape painters. They emerged from the small central Florida town of Fort Pierce in the late 1950's and early 1960's. They were prevented by segregation from selling their paintings in traditional art galleries. So they sold their paintings out of the trunks of their cars, usually for around $35 a painting. They painted on wallboard. In 1995, the Highwaymen became recognized by the art world and their paintings sell for thousands of dollars. The Highwaymen mainly painted Florida back-country scenes, using bold strokes of dramatic colors. 1 videodisc (58 min.)
DANA 287
Horace Pippin there will be peace 1998
Linda Freeman, Horace Pippin, David K Irving, Brock Peters, Joshua Stone, Tom Campbell, and Judith E Stein
This video profiles the artist Horace Pippin. A self-taught artist, Horace Pippin's paintings reflect his own life and concerns. Film clips, still photographs and Pippin's paintings illustrate the film. 1 videocassette (ca. 28 min.)
DANA. MEDIA 899 2-3176
In and out of Africa 1992
Gabai Baaré, Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor, Aladji Abdourahamane, Christopher Burghard Steiner, and Lucien Taylor
Story about Gabai Baaré, a merchant who brings wood carvings from West Africa to sell in the United States. 1 videocassette (59 min.)
DANA 1695
Large-scale projects Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen 1998?
Lana Jokel, Nick Doob, Claes Oldenburg, and Coosje van Bruggen
Claes Oldenburg and his wife and artistic collaborator, Coosje van Bruggen, explore the mystery and power of everyday objects by changing their sizes, shapes, and textures in surprising and unsettling ways. The film shows various works from conception to installation. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
DANA 1689
Latino artists pushing the boundaries 1995
Juan Carlos Garza and Ray Santisteban
The first segment of the program, "Poets' cafe," visits the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe on the lower east side of Manhattan. Poets Ed Morales, Carmen Bardequez, Willie Perdamo, Pedro Pietri and Miguel Pińero read from their works. The second segment, "ASCO," describes the development of the 1970's Los Angeles visual arts/performance group of that name (Spanish for nausea) through interviews with its four members: Harry Gamboa, Patssi Valdez, Gronk and Willie Herron. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
DANA 707
Money man 1992
Philip Haas and Belinda Haas
Profiles the work of artist J.S.G. Boggs, who makes one-sided copies of United States currency, then attempts to spend his bills by convincing people that they are valuable as works of art. According to the artist, it is the successful spending of his bills that makes them complete, giving them greater artistic and monetary value for collectors. The artist is also shown in Washington attempting to get five of his confiscated bills back from the Secret Service, and visiting the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-2543
The "New Negro" arts movement 1998
Wanda M Corn
Between WWI and WWII nearly 2 million blacks migrated to Harlem making it an exciting and culturally rich neighborhood. Although there was still much bigotry directed towards blacks it was the first time that America saw the potential for major art to come out of a great black community. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-5111
Not a rhyme time 1999
Sheila Curran Bernard, Denise A Greene, and Vanessa Williams
Between 1963 and 1986, a cultural revolution began as black artists challenged mainstream aesthetics, identity and power, and ultimately defied the very notion of a mainstream. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4294
Not for sale feminism and art in the USA during the 1970s 1998
Laura Cottingham, Mary McEntire, Sally Sasso, Leslie Singer, and Yoko Ono
Presents the art, artists, and activities of the feminist art movement of the 1970s. Includes interviews, slides, and archival footage. 1 videocassette (88 min.)
MEDIA 2-3565
Painters painting 1989
Emile De Antonio
Illustrates and examines the work and ideas of several modern abstract expressionist painters, including Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, and Andy Warhol. 1 videocassette (116 min.)
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Post no bills 1992
Clay Walker, Marianne Dissard, and Robbie Conal
A film about painter Robbie Conal, showing him in the process of creating his politically-oriented paintings and displaying his paintings on city streets. Includes recorded speeches by the political leaders he satirizes, along with his statements about his art. 1 videocassette (ca. 57 min.)
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The Promised land 1997
An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this second segment early settlers in the "Promised land" strive to carve out an identity in a virgin land while in the West, Spanish missions use art to convert the natives. In the East, plain Protestant settlers are suspicious of art's pleasures while in Virginia, an exiled aristocracy, strives to recreate its ideal of England. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4079
Reflections 1977?
A short film that explores the representation of women through art. It deals with the exploitation of women, the politics of beauty, and women's liberation. It explores such issues as: Does beauty bring happiness? Does a relationship with a man necessarily mean happiness? Does being liberated mean being ugly? 1 videocassette (15 min.)
MEDIA 2-931
The Republic of virtue 1997
Robert Hughes and Mark O Hatfield
An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This first segment examines some of the first images made in America which resemble ancient ones. Jefferson and the founding fathers felt that classicism gave the young nation power and authority. In Washington, D.C. architects adopted and transformed the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal. Hughes explores the work of artists and architects, Benjamin West, John S. Copley, Charles W. Peale, Thomas Cole and Charles Bulfinch. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4078
Robert Motherwell and the New York School storming the citadel 1990
Robert Motherwell, Catherine Tatge, and Jonathan Epstein
This program from the PBS American masters series explores the Abstract Expressionist movement and presents a portrait of its most important artist: Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). Featured are Motherwell's last major interview, archival footage and photographs of other maverick artists (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline), of Greenwich Village where they lived, and of events that shaped their lives. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
DANA 744
Running fence 1978
Christo, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, and David Maysles
Follows the artist, Christo, through the concept, building, and showing of his objet d'art; a 24 mile long, 18 foot high fence of white fabric stretched across the hills of California. The project was conceived as a work of art for Sonoma and Marin counties and took nearly four years to complete. Once finished and after a period of time, the fence was taken down and the materials were given to the people whose land the fence was built on . 1 videocassette (59 min.)
DANA 909
The Screen painters 1989
Elaine Eff
Chronicles the beginnings, the heyday and the decline of an urban folk art unique to Baltimore, Maryland--the practice of painting landscape scenes on window and door screens. Profiles seven artists: Albert Oktaver, Johnny Eck, Ben Richardson, Ted Richardson, Tom Lipka, Frank Cipolloni, and Dee Herget. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
MEDIA 2-1161
The Stone carvers 1990, 1984
Paul Wagner and Marjorie Hunt
Documents the work of a small group of Italian-American artisans who have spent their lives carving designs on the Washington Cathedral, a gothic monument begun in 1907 and still under construction. 1 videocassette (29 min.)
DANA 270
Strand under the cloth 1992
John Albert Walker and Paul Strand
A documentary portrait of the photographer Paul Strand which demonstrates his profound contribution to modern photography. Includes many of his most famous photographs, clips from his films, and interviews with friends and collaborators including Fred Zinneman, Cesare Zavattini and Georgia O'Keefe. 1 videocassette (81 min.) ;
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Strand under the dark cloth 1992
John Walker
A documentary covering Strand's life and work from his early associations with Stieglitz and O'Keeffe through his last years when, in failing strength, he continued to use his camera. It includes extensive display of his most well-known photographs, clips from his films, and interviews with friends. 1 videocassette (81 min.)
DANA 737
Streamlines and breadlines 1997
Paul Goldberger, Philip Johnson, Robert Hughes, Jack Levine, Vincent Campanella, and Robert Rosenblum
An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This sixth segment examines the mythic images of the 1920's and 30's as skyscrapers rise in New York and the rural heartland is idealized by Regionalists like Thomas Hart. Artists of the WPA celebrate the worker as hero, while Jacob Lawrence tells stories of black America, and ambitious New Deal projects like Hoover Dam project self-confidence in hard times. Also examines the work of Raymond Hood, Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, and Grant Wood. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
MEDIA 2-4083
Style wars 1983
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant
Focuses on the graffiti subculture of New York City. Includes interviews with graffiti artists and break dancers, along with documentary footage. 1 videocassette (69 min.)
MEDIA D-397
Voices in celebration 1991
Aviva Slesin
Provides a witty and often idiosyncratic journey into the workings of a major museum, revealing its history, its dedication to building and conserving a permanent collection, and its commitment to creating a lively center in which people can see, study, and most importantly, enjoy great works of art. 1 videocassette (45 min.)
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