The New Wave is the seminal compendium of independent video work in the early 1970s. Written and narrated by Brian O'Doherty, this overview of the emerging video field includes examples of guerrilla television and "street" documentaries, early explorations with image-processing and synthesis, and performance video. This historical anthology includes excerpts of tapes by the following video pioneers: Stephen Beck and Warner Jepson, Peter Campus, Douglas Davis, Ed Emshwiller, Bill Etra, Frank Gillette, Don Hallock, Joan Jonas, Richard Serra, Paul Kos, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, Willard Rosenquist, Dan Sandin, James Seawright, Steina Vasulka, TVTV, Stan Vanderbeek and William Wegman.

THE ARTIST AND THE FORCE OF THOUGHT, reflects the relationship between balance and imbalance within ...

An intimate portrait of Eric Carle, creator of more than 70 books for children including the best-se...

Cyprien Tokoudagba is from the city of Abomey in the Benin Republic of West Africa, where he paints ...
A Weaverly Path offers an intimate portrait of Swiss-born tapestry weaver Silvia Heyden. The film ca...

Challenging all notions of genre, Semi Colin is a living, breathing art installation. Part performan...

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

A short documentary by Sonny Garrett about the life, work and philosophy of William Blake featuring ...

Painter, poet and playwright, teacher and freethinker, lover and traveler, Austrian artist Oskar Kok...

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for fou...

African Underground: Democracy in Dakar is a groundbreaking documentary film about hip-hop youth and...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...

Many artists use the pain, exhilaration and resolution of private desires to express themselves. Art...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...

This fascinating exploration of the creative process follows one of Australia's leading contemporary...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.