In this powerful film, renowned artist Vik Muniz journeys to the world’s largest garbage dump in Brazil to work with pickers of recyclables to recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage.
“While an independence that borders on alienation may be the enforced way of life for all 21st century Americans, there is a persistent subculture for whom it is a daily goal. Long Gone, a feature-length [...]
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman captured the work of nearly every [...]
Henri Cartier-Bresson may be considered the father of modern photojournalism, but he was not solely a photographer. Several documentaries he shot between the 1930s and the 1970s bear witness to his affection for the cinema, [...]
Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff’s transformation from innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover and patron is intensively probed in BLACK WHITE + GRAY. During the heady years [...]
Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer and the “William Blake of film.” His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks became essential influences to contemporary art superstars [...]
An audience favorite at Sundance, THE TRUE MEANING OF PICTURES is an introduction to the work of renowned photographer Shelby Lee Adams. Born in Eastern Kentucky, Adams has devoted 30 years of his life to [...]
In this lively, intellectually stimulating discourse on the power of images, renowned photojournalist Susan Meiselas returns to the scenes of a revolution she witnessed and captured with her camera of war-torn Nicaragua in the late 70s and 80s
Brigid Berlin’s story takes us on a journey through the life of a blueblood socialite turned Andy Warhol bad-girl. Friends and admirers such as John Waters and Patricia Hearst, as well as Berlin herself, tell [...]