Movies: Art school

  • 2014
    The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness

    The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness (2014)

    The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness

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    By the director: "Ar.Co embodies each person’s geography, it escapes normalisation. Each individual’s experience is his own. This film is my experience, our experience. Pieced together from the school’s archive, from recordings of classes by Manuel C...

    The Indispensable Practice of Vagueness
  • 2018
    Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus

    Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus (2018)

    Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus

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    Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus was supposed to unite sculpture, painting, design and architecture into a single combined constructive discipline. It is a synthesis of liberated imagination and stringent structure; cross-medial concepts th...

    Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus
  • 2020
    Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan

    Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan (2020)

    Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan

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    Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until Dawn is a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan (1927-1999), who painted all night to push the limits of vision. His life and thought revea...

    Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan
  • 2023
    These Four Walls

    These Four Walls (2023)

    These Four Walls

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    A short documentary that takes a look at Pratt Institute's Architecture program and how the first years handle the rigorous workload....

    These Four Walls
  • 1964
    The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare

    The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare (1964)

    The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare

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    An artist and his wife hold art classes using nude models. Their photographer friend Pete returns from two years in Europe, and they try to convince him he has a promising career in nude photography. He eventually agrees to try it, but finds that the...

    The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare
  • 1987
    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1987)

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

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    This is an interesting little documentary about the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, which was apparently one of the global hotbeds of experimental/avant garde art- particularly video art- back in the 70's & 80's. MacGillvary interviews a n...

    I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
  • 2018
    Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

    Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)

    Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

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    Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the primitive in art is problematic?...

    Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History
  • 2012
    21 Years in 7 Minutes

    21 Years in 7 Minutes (2012)

    21 Years in 7 Minutes

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    The director's life so far....

    21 Years in 7 Minutes
  • 2014
    The Making of G.O.L.D. ft. the Outsiders

    The Making of G.O.L.D. ft. the Outsiders (2014)

    The Making of G.O.L.D. ft. the Outsiders

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    A mockumentary focusing on an art school frat's attempt at recording a music video for their latest party anthem with unwanted dancers and an unruly director....

    The Making of G.O.L.D. ft. the Outsiders
  • 2018
    Love & Fascism In The 21st Century

    Love & Fascism In The 21st Century (2018)

    Love & Fascism In The 21st Century

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    In search of the archival, Carmen-Sibha Keiso re­-imagines theatre and film through personal narrative in her conceptual debut: Love & Fascism In The 21st Century. "... if Rappaport was in an art school." - Ferran Pla...

    Love & Fascism In The 21st Century
  • 2007
    My Art School Summer

    My Art School Summer (2007)

    My Art School Summer

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    My Art School Summer is an independent, hand-drawn animation film that follows the adventures of Carol, a young art student who wants to express her sexuality and creativity. However, she faces many challenges and distractions from the losers and hor...

    My Art School Summer
  • 2019
    Who Are You Really?

    Who Are You Really? (2019)

    Who Are You Really?

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    "A socially anxious college student reluctantly heads to a party attempting to make new friends. Nande Walters directs “Who Are You Really?”, an experimental portrait of insecurity characterized by a raw, youthful energy. Anya walks into the room and...

    Who Are You Really?
  • 2019
    In the Back of the Garden

    In the Back of the Garden (2019)

    In the Back of the Garden

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    A 90-second short showing a fairytale-like story of an abandoned art academy and the students who once resided there....

    In the Back of the Garden
  • 2016
    The Confrontation

    The Confrontation (2016)

    The Confrontation

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    In 1917, French artist Marcel Duchamp declared everyday objects as art. A provocative act that sparked a heated, still topical discussion around the question: what is art? Since then, that question has been asked time and time again. To the artist an...

    The Confrontation
  • 1969
    Nada

    Nada (1969)

    Nada

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    Nada