Self-Portrait
Footage of the gradual installation and deinstallation of a private exhibition of calligraphic self-portraits hung on the gate of a cramped backyard is intercut with a short shot cut from a family film showing a close-up
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Footage of the gradual installation and deinstallation of a private exhibition of calligraphic self-portraits hung on the gate of a cramped backyard is intercut with a short shot cut from a family film showing a close-up
This documentary features a kinetic artist who creates vibrant mixed media works that push the boundary between 2D and 3D.
A polaroid flashes, it’s 1978 and Frances, twelve years old, drops a risqué photo of herself and a love letter into an envelope to slip under the door of her crush. But when an older friend suggests she may be coming on
Dubbing himself a religious-political activist, Ed McAteer resigned from a successful corporate career to devote his marketing expertise to promoting conservative Christianity. As president of the Religious Roundtable, M
The director returns to super 8 mm & 16mm footage that he shot as a film student years ago but did not edit until now, in this personal expression on filmmaking.
Newfoundland painter Gerald Squires has referred to his portraits as "confrontations," though not intending the hostility that word can convey. This film shows a meeting between the artist and Edythe Goodridge, art curat
An Appropriated Self-portrait is an autobiographical piece conceived through the articulation of appropriated and recycled film fragments from over 180 movies and found footage. It was assembled as a fragmentary structur
The actor in question is George C. Scott. Many of his co-workers on the film The Last Run (1971) talk about what it is like to work with the famed actor.
In "Self-Portrait", Federica Foglia (re)constructs her dislocated immigrant identity through the home movies of others, enacting a search for the self and creating a work of striking filmic autopoiesis.
A portrait of the artist Monica Sjöö, observing her creative and domestic world, as she reminiscences on her life so far.
When the Soviet Army marched into Romania in 1944, a part of the Romanian population went “into the mountains” – a diverse assortment of nationalists and fascists, liberals, apolitical farmers and members of the middle-c
The Slovenian Walt Disney, as Mickey Mouse was also called, already delighted young and old with his first heroes – Zvitorepec, Trdonja and Lakotnik. He always knew how to connect a good drawing with witty content and th
Interviews and footage document the life and work of dancer Bessie Schonberg.
Portrait of a gentleman is a video from the series Stills Made in Museums which stages the behavioral rules that derive from the strange constructs which "protect" and "exhibit" art. Museum Stills explores both extremes
Carmelita, an eight-year-old girl, embarks on a journey between reality and imagination to learn how to say goodbye to her grandfather and understand that letting go is also a way of loving.
Matej Bobrik turns the camera on himself at a time of change in his life, defined by his relationship to two women: his grandmother, with whom he talks only on the telephone ever since the recent death of his mother, and
An unbroadcast 1958 essay-film by Orson Welles, blending documentary, personal reflection, and cultural portraiture in a subjective study of Italy and actress Gina Lollobrigida.
An introspective reflection of family life during a succession of lockdowns and part of a continuing series that reimagines familial uses for photographic imaging. Original music composed and performed by Rhaia Egleston.
One-hour self portrait, 60 one-minute videos
A portrait of the forest drawn by ripping off the faces of the forest one by one and reconstructing them abstractly.