Ant Farm, a radical architecture and experimental art collective, created works from 1968–78 that challenged the traditional notions of architecture. In addition to the restored and digitally re-mastered Media Burn, this new DVD includes artists’ commentary, interactive menus, hidden bonus films and previously unreleased works. DVD: $39.95 |
The definitive multi-media reference on the twentieth century’s most important artists, movements, galleries, collectors, and critics. A wonderful resource for art lovers, teachers, and students. CD-Rom: $125.00 |
With high-resolution reproductions, artist statements, and commentary from conservators and historians, this exciting multimedia program illuminates questions of technique and process in key works in the Anderson Collection. CD-ROM: $15.95 |
The Order is the final film in Matthew Barney’s spectacular five-part Cremaster Cycle—heralded in film festivals worldwide and recently featured in an exhibition at the Guggenheim. This is the first of Barney’s films to be released on DVD and includes a special multi-angle interactive video, new music remixes, and a commentary track by the artist himself. DVD: $35.95 |
The Golden Gate Bridge, with its distinctive orange color and Art Deco style, is recognized as a marvel of engineering and design. This documentary traces the remarkable journey of the planning and construction of this famous bridge. DVD: $15.00 |
Ambient works from three of the world's legendary designers set to music. DVD: $19.99 |
Volume 3 of a 3 volume collection of films that explore the creative processes of the world’s greatest contemporary photographers using images and artist commentary. DVD: $47.95 |
Experimental Films An essential collection of short films by Maya Deren, the leading female avant-garde filmmaker. Working completely outside of the commercial film industry in the 1940s and 50s, Deren’s work focused on the personal, symbolic, and surreal. DVD: $39.95 |
This mesmerizing film captures Andy Goldsworthy in the midst of constructing his trademark masterpieces made entirely of materials found in nature. DVD: $29.95 |
Werner Herzog's epic vision of our search for a new planet to colonize, while aliens attempt to settle on our almost uninhabitable Earth. Winner of Best Film: Critics Prize at the 2005 Venice Film festival, DVD: $24.95 |
An exploration of the enigmatic world of artist and underground icon Ray Johnson, the original art world prankster. Relatively unknown until his death, Ray Johnson’s career spanned nearly 50 years; his work has been exhibited in major museums around the world. DVD: $36.00 |
The Beauty of Questions California artist Robert Irwin has spent his lifetime paring down the artistic endeavor to its core value in the splendor of perception. Filmed over a five year period, this marvelous film portrait spans Irwin’s entire aesthetic journey. DVD: $39.95 |
Films, drawings, installations, theatre, opera: William Kentridge, one of the most important names in South African contemporary art, easily glides between media, in a combination of references and techniques that render his work unique. In this documentary, which follows him through Johannesburg and Brazil, he speaks of the impact of the landscape and social contradictions on his work, and comments on the life of characters like Felix Teitlebaum, his alter ego. DVD: $55.00 |
A definitive biography accompanied by spectacular images of the artist's greatest work. DVD: $24.95 |
Lagos, with its 14 million inhabitants, is a city of high energy, mass population growth, dysfunction, and danger. Architect Rem Koolhaas and a team of students from The Harvard Project on the City are followed over a 2 year period as they research one of the fastest growing cities on the African continent. DVD: $46.95 |
The 1929 Surrealist classic by Luis Brunel and Salvatore Dali. A landmark in the history of cinema. DVD: $24.00 |
This award-winning CD-ROM from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art harnesses the power of multimedia to offer in-depth, intimate portraits of eight of California's most celebrated artists. A rich mix of 40 video and audio clips, more than 150 exquisite full-screen reproductions of artworks, and personal photographs, letters, and diary entries reveal how the arts are integral to history, to literature, and to our everyday lives. CD-Rom Edition: $24.95; Classroom Curriculum Edition: $29.95 |
Inside a warehouse, artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss build an enormous, precarious structure 100 feet long made out of common household items. Then, with fire, water, gravity, and chemistry, they create a spectacular chain reaction, a self-destructing performance of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos worthy of Rube Goldberg. 30 minutes. DVD: $27.95 |
A personal response to the spiritual extremes of birth and death in the family. Black and white nocturnal imagery and underwater scenes depict a twilight world hovering on the borders of human perception and consciousness, where the multiple lives of the mind-memory, reality, and vision merge. DVD: $54.00 |
Bill Viola’s spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death. Produced in 1981 in Japan while Viola was artist-in-residence at the Sony Corporation. DVD: $54.00 |
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like Bill Viola’s personal investigation into the inner states and connections to animal consciousness we all possess. Produced in 1986 while Viola was artist-in-residence at the San Diego Zoo. DVD: $54.00 |
From 1970 to 1977 William Wegman created some of the most innovative and important works in video history. This 2 DVD set includes 130 of those works and runs 3 hours and 56 minutes. This set is playable in all regions. $48.00 |
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