Best Visual Arts Films of 2007
The Rape of Europa
Adolf Hitler spent years ... million dead. The film features rare newsreel footage and photographs documenting the Nazis' obsession with art; Joan Allen narrates. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
The Cool School
New York City has ... L.A. art (and willingness to buy pieces) provided crucial support for a struggling movement. Jeff Bridges serves as narrator. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Exotic Saltwater Aquarium
Ryko's release HDScape Exotic ... select a program that displays one tank after another, working its way through the line-up of all available tanks. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Fireplace Impressions
This 60 minute high ... soothing fireplace, providing the same brilliant imagery and crackling sounds that would be provided by a real, live fireplace. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
My Kid Could Paint That
Most four-year-olds make paintings ... in his film My Kid Could Paint That, which was an official selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Vincent Van Gogh: A Museum for Vincent
The post-impressionist Dutch painter ... in a visually arresting documentary showcasing the world class collection of the Rijks Museum Vincent Van Gogh in Amsterdam. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Andy Warhol: Life and Death
Art enthusiasts know well ... fictional musical around the major events in the life of the iconic 1960s-era painter, filmmaker, and Studio 54 mainstay. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Alice Neel
Filmmaker Andrew Neel explores ... offers greater insight than ever into the woman whose remarkable portraits still possess the power to move and inspire. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Plasma Window: Panoramic Landscapes
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Plasma Window: TVlightbox
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Wrekage
Wreckage documents the staging ... group Keep Adding. These wide-ranging exhibitions combine architecture, light boxes, water, and ambient music written specifically for these events. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Helvetica
In 2005 a number ... interviews over 20 design experts in the film, including Michael C. Place, Paula Scher, Matthew Carter and David Carson. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Too Many Nights: The Images of Bob Carlos Clarke
Bob Carlos Clarke - ... release Too Many Nights: The Images of Bob Carlos Clarke provides an onscreen compendium of many stills by Clarke. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Pulp Fiction Art
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Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper qualifies as ... Moore's film explores Hopper's aesthetic influences, the milieux that inspired him, and his contributions to the American artistic canon. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Nature's Journey
The ambience release Nature's ... artist John Banks - that are coupled with on-location footage of picturesque landscapes. Composer Michael Sterns provides the soundtrack. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Modern Masters: In Studio with Michael Golden
Modern Masters: In the ... artist responsible for such popular titles as Dr. Strange, The'Nam, and Micronauts. The program traces Golden's development of Tunuki. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Smooth Jazz & Art
The ambient title Smooth ... stress by combining soft and easy jazz music with a montage of onscreen images by photographer Paul "Sequence" Ferguson. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Celtic Colours International Festival
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Schindler's Houses
Springing from the conviction ... out an impression of not simply Schindler's work, but of domestic living environments in contemporary Los Angeles per se. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche: Ultimate Reality
Dan Deacon and Jimmy ... They combine their talents in order to present a program full of original music accompanied by oddly juxtaposed images. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Goya: Crazy Like a Genius
Acclaimed for sporting one ... and reflects at length on his life, era, and secondary careers as a satirist, war commentator and court painter. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
J.M.W. Turner
Often incorrectly associated with ... painting-by-painting retrospective of the artist's work, set to music and intercut with on-camera trips to the locales Turner inhabited. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Lightrhythm Visuals: Notations 01
The performance art release ... program includes optional "remixes" of each film that enable the viewer to watch the work from an alternate perspective. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Tim Marlow With... Gilbert and George
Two iconoclastic performance artists ... which the artists pontificate on their lives, religions (or lack thereof), and personal feelings about artistic expression per se. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Gustave Courbet
While seldom discussed in ... times, and approach to the craft of painting, and asks what prompted him to hone such a unique style. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
Chihuly in the Hotshop
Internationally renowned glass blower ... residency at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, filmmaker Peter West explores Chihuly's unique approach to his craft. [ best visual arts films - 2007 ]
