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Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973) Takehisa Kosugi was a hippie become avantgarde composer. Born in Tokyo in 1938, and graduated in 1962 at the Tokyo University of Arts, Kosugi founded the Japanese equivalent of the Fluxus movement, called "Group Ongaku", a group devoted to improvisation and multi-

Lenz Of Spinoza (short, 1989) Directed by Jun Kurosawa #art #japan #kinostr #kino #artstr…

Hex - Global Chaos (VHS, 1993) from archiveorg: 'Robert Pepperell founded Hex in 1990 along with Miles Visman and Coldcut members Matt Black and Jon More. We wanted to exploit the creative possibilities of personal computers especially exploring the convergence of distinct media such as music, video, animation and visuals.

The Vampire (short, 1945) Director: Jean Painlevé Jean Painlevé’s short THE VAMPIRE draws the connection between the movie monsters of the same name and the South American vampire bat. The animal’s gruesome feeding habits are on full display. After a look at some strange creatures, the narrator and…

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (1990) Director: David Lynch The film tells the story of a heartbroken woman (played by Laura Dern) who floats over an industrial wasteland and sings ballads of love after her boyfriend (Nicolas Cage) leaves her. Made before the unprecedented success…

Twisted Issues (1988) Director: Charles Pinion A murdered skateboarding teen rises from the grave on his trusty board, unleashing a wave of outrageous revenge on those who wronged him. 'Twisted Issues is the debut film from underground art-barf filmmaker Charles Pinion. It has a killer with a skateboard

The Shock of the New (TV mini series, 1980) Written and presented by Robert Hughes Ep 1: full series: Complete eight-part documentary television series about the development of modern art written and presented by art critic and author Robert Hughes (1938-2012) #art #documentary #artstr #kino #kinostr #documentaries…

Kenneth Clark: In the Beginning (TV episode, 1975) Director: Michael Gill Writer: Kenneth Clark a few years after completing Civilisation Lord Clark filmed a kind of standalone prequel episode covering Ancient Egypt ("Civilisation: Episode Zero," as it were) -- a one-hour video which adopts the same themes, language,

David Lynch: The Art Life (2016) Directors: Rick Barnes, Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm A rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most enigmatic visionaries, David Lynch: The Art Life offers an absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself.

Moments Like This Never Last (2020) Director: Cheryl Dunn Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his…

Film (short, 1965) Director: Alan Schneider A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi&

Medieval Abbeys & Medieval Churches (1980s documentaries presented by Patrick Troughton) Medieval Abbeys Medieval Churches #documentary #80s #british #architecture #art #christian #documentaries #rare #kino #kinostr #artstr…

Dirty Handz: Destruction Of Paris City (1999) Released in 1999, this 50-minute video opens the trilogy. It focuses only on graffiti in the railway world. There are various activities such as the interior degradation of metro wagons (bomb marker and marker, window scratches), but also that of subway station.