Art on Film/Film on Art
Video Anthology

ART ON FILM/FILM ON ART, 1992. A five-part video anthology that explores issues of presenting the visual arts on film and video. The series includes fourteen original productions commissioned by the Program for Art on Film, plus lively introductory conversations among art experts and film/video makers. The package also contains an illustrated 92-page Viewer's Guide that expands on the issues presented in the videos, and includes a detailed study guide for each individual production. Five 1/2" VHS cassettes plus Viewer's Guide, $349. Distributed by Home Vision/Films Inc. Video. Tel 800-323-4222, ext. 43. Fax 312-878-0416.

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Ma: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji, by Taka Iimura and Arata Isozaki, considers the Japanese concept of ma as exemplified in a Zen garden. (Photo: Masaru Ohashi)

Program List:

  1. Balance: Film/Art (59 min.)
    Includes: The Fayum Portraits, by Bob Rosen and Andrea Simon and Richard Brilliant; 1867 (on Manet's The Execution of Maximilian), by Ken McMullen and Michael Wilson; MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji, by Taka Iimura and Arata Isozaki.

  2. Film Sense/Art Sense (59 min.)
    Includes: Giorgione's Tempest, by William Cran and Cecil Gould; Trevi, by Richard Rogers and Corey Shaff and John Pinto; A Window to Heaven, by Adrian Maben and Robin Cormack.

  3. Film Form/Art Form (52 min.)
    Includes: Leonardo's Deluge, by Mark Whitney and Carlo Pedretti; A Mosque in Time, by Edin Velez and Jerrilynn Dodds; Sainte Geneviève: The Pantheon of Domes, by Nadine Descendre and Barry Bergdoll.

  4. Film Voice/Art Voice (51 min.)
    Includes: De Artificiali Perspectiva or Anamorphosis, by the Brothers Quay and Roger Cardinal; Architecture of Transcendence, by Richard Greenberg and Stephen Murray; Painted Earth: Art of the Mimbres Indians, by Anita Thacher and J.J. Brody.

  5. Film/Art: Subject and Expert (100 min.)
    Includes: Gombrich Themes: Illumination and Reflection, by Judy Marle and Ernst Gombrich; A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, by Philip Haas and David Hockney.
Executive Producer: Joan Shigekawa; Series Producer/Director: Michael Camerini; Production Executives: Karl Katz and Wendy Stein.

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