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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
For further information, please E-mail [email protected].
Copyright © 1995 Program for Art on Film.