Film Categories: art & artists

  • Collagist, The

    This charming and humorous animation is a collaboration with artist Marc Bell. “THE COLLAGIST” focuses on Bell’s hands as he assembles one of his works. This dynamic two dimensional piece incorporates drawings, paper cut-outs and looped animations.

  • Michael Snow Up Close

    “MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE” was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist. The documentary celebrates the multi-faceted shape of Snow’s creative genius, including glimpses of his work in painting, sculpture, film, photo-works, performance, installations, and holography. Discussions with Snow, original documentation of his music and performance work, and excerpts from his avant-garde films, are complemented by interviews with filmmakers Jonas Mekas and Bruce Elder, Snow’s dealer Av Isaacs, the architect Eb Zeidler, museum director Pierre Théberge, curator Louise Dompierre, and others. A deliberately conventional documentary about a deliberately unconventional artist.

  • Limits of What We Know, The

    In 1993, Amy Bodman took a small crew to Zimbabwe to make a film about land as a living entity. Quietly told through the voice of Zimbabweans, THE LIMITS OF WHAT WE KNOW documents the changing landscape of Zimbabwe and its people’s relationship to it. Part travel log, part environmental study and part meditation on life itself, the film reveals nature’s mysterious tenacity in the face of great change. Although the film initially appears to be a portrait of Zimbabwe, THE LIMITS OF WHAT WE KNOW culminates as a heart-felt picture of our changing world as it struggles to compensate…

  • Still On About Keith Cole

    Inspired by The Cockettes, musical art star darlings KIDS ON TV have never looked and sounded so good. A music video where the KIDS are the kids, the mother a gift-bearing fairy wood nymph and the father a high-heeled, nosey prude. Modern-day family values brought to life by director and subject Keith Cole, “Still On About Keith Cole” is a hippy, trippy homage to our queer past.

  • CHRISTEENE “Tears From My Pussy”

    “The cry between the thighs.” Artist: CHRISTEENE featuring DJ POWERHAMMER Song: Tears From My Pussy Album: SOLDIER OF PLEASURE

  • CHRISTEENE “Fix My Dick”

    “It’s Goooooooood!!!!” Artist: CHRISTEENE featuring DJ Jaunty Song: Fix My Dick Album: SOLDIER OF PLEASURE

  • Coda

    A coda to “Armoire,” in which the bird loops again with unmasked mirror apprehended by a camera in flight.

  • ON COLOR I: lukrezia

    References the nude subject of Lucretia in the allegorical work by German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 – 1553). The distorted visual is juxtaposed with an orthodox choir of monks and the sound of funeral church bells.

  • ON COLOR II: blind spotting

    The sentence “Du mußt dein Leben ändern” (“You must change your life”) appears on screen written in the Braille system. Referencing the book by cotemporary German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, “ON COLOR II: BLIND SPOTTING” questions Sloterdijk’s call to change oneself, rather than the world. Oscillating colors contrast in an attempt to translate a message that remains untouchable to the blind, and undecipherable to the sighted.

  • ON COLOR III: still life with fruits

    Contrasts warm colors with black, white and grey. “ON COLOR III: STILL LIFE WITH FRUITS” references the paintings by Jewish-French artist Sonia Delaunay (1885 – 1979) who co-founded the Orphism movement noted for its strong use of color and geometric shapes. STILL LIFE WITH FRUITS also cites the theory of colors by French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786 – 1889).