Here are a few more of the films currently playing at the Slamdance Film Festival. The festival will be available online January 23-29. You can find out how to see the films at https://slamdance.com/festival/. Where the Road Leads, directed by Nina Ognjanovi?, comes to the festival from Serbia. The film opens with a young woman,…
Today?s films range from the mundane to the worlds of power and money. Documentaries are ways to mark points in time, to see life in new ways, and to broaden our knowledge. That happens in these films. The HBO Documentary Series Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union premiered the first two episodes at…
In Selina Miles?s debut feature documentary, Martha: A Picture Story, we enter the world of street art through Martha Cooper, who has been documenting that field for more than forty years. Cooper was in many ways a trailblazer as a working woman photojournalist. Her early years in the business are covered only briefly. But when…
?It can?t be the biggest shitty window in the world. It has to be the biggest and the best.? Holy Frit, an amazing documentary directed by Justin Monroe, is making its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. It is the story of the making of the world?s largest stained glass window to go into…
The greatest art fraud of the twentieth century is examined in Driven to Abstraction, a documentary by Daria Price. Over a period of fifteen years, the Knoedler, the oldest and one of the most prestigious art gallery in New York, sold $80 million dollars worth of forgeries. Among the artists whose works were forged are…
?Artist is not a profession. You don?t work from 9 to 5. To the artist, you are all the time artist. There is no moment you are not artist.? The artist Christo is known worldwide for his very large scale temporary art projects. But after the death of his wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude, he made…
There is throughout the film a sense that for Van Gogh painting was in many ways a spiritual exercise.
?He painted the soul, not just the image.? The PBS series American Masters is airing an episode focusing on the painter Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth was one of the 20th century?s most famous magical-realist painters. He had both popular and critical success. But the popular success also led to a time of critical rejection as abstract…
Directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Elephant), Don?t Worry He Won?t Get Far On Foot tells the story of controversial cartoonist, John Callahan. After nearly dying in a car accident, the last thing Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) intends to do is give up alcohol. Reinvigorated by his girlfriend and a charming sponsor, Donnie (Jonah…
?This is what you?d like to see in nature.? Gardens bring us pleasure, even if we have to work to keep them beautiful. Gardens bring a bit of nature close to us, even if it is in an artificial setting. But Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf seeks to make gardens that reflect nature. Filmmaker Thomas…
