Architecture
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Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Design history was born in a cavernous warehouse on a gritty street in Venice Beach, California, where Charles and Ray Eames set up their Renaissance-style studio in the optimistic flush of American victory during World War II. Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey's definitive cinematic...Watch Movie
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Unfinished Spaces
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes...Watch Movie
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Telos: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui
TELOS chronicles the unorthodox life and revolutionary work of Eugene Tssui, an eccentric visionary and a maverick architect. He questions traditional building standards and put nature and the environment at the forefront of his designs long before "green" and "eco-friendly"...Watch Movie
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Built on Narrow Land
A film that looks at a moment in Cape Cod when the spirit of European modern architecture inspired a group of bohemian designers (professionals and amateurs both) to build houses that married principles of the Bauhaus to the centuries-old local architecture of seaside New...Watch Movie
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Herman's House
Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement in America (40 years and counting in a 6-by-9-foot cell). This award-winning documentary is a moving account of the remarkable expression his struggle finds in an unusual art project proposed by New York artist Jackie...Watch Movie
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Be Like an Ant
Post-Vietnam, Paul bought a trailer for his family to live in. Annoyed by how bad living inside a mobile home during winter could be, he took matters into his own hands and started to build a house around the trailer. He never made any blueprints. As the house took shape, he would take a part of...Watch Movie
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Rodia-Estudiantina
In explaining the filming of RODIA-ESTUDIANTINA, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "Except for the removal of one out-of-focus shot, which I did not feel fit into the texture of the piece, I have never been able to change this footage from the way it came out of the camera. The...Watch Movie
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How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
A portrait of one of the world’s premier architects, HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER? follows Norman Foster’s unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. By investigating his origins to how his dreams and influences inspired the design of...Watch Movie
