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Grand Award and Gold Award -The
Questar Awards Certificate of Creative Excellence -US International Film & Video Festival "Highly Recommended. An insightful view of Henry Moore’s interest in universal themes and of the harmonious blend created when modern sculpture is placed in an ancient landscape. Moore enjoyed having his sculpture exhibited abroad because he was influenced by other cultures. This film completes the circle." -EMRO Review "Recommended. A stunning documentary on the man whose sculptures have been placed in more public places throughout the world than any other sculptor in history." -Art World Review Narrated by Janet Suzman, this rare and beautiful documentary explores the life and artistic vision of Henry Moore. The grandeur of his work, with its feel for natural forms and its essential humanity, is magnificently captured on film as viewers see in China one of the largest exhibitions of the great sculptor's works ever assembled. Featuring works that span the artist's 60-year career, the exhibition of 106 sculptures was hailed by leading art experts as the most important showing of Western art in China since the Revolution of 1949. As well as unique footage of Moore's life and work, the film includes contributions from Chinese scholars, contemporary artists Phillip King and Cornelia Parker, the Ashmolean Museum and the Morris Singer Foundry. Also, in Beijing's Beihai Park, the former Imperial Gardens adjacent to the Forbidden City, twelve monumental bronzes were sited around the lake among spectacular Ming Dynasty settings. Produced by World Wide Pictures. 2010DR/CL JSCA 52 min. |
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"Recommended. The Native sculptor carving a totem pole
tries to 'release images locked within the wood'; also he shares his views
on the importance of working with an apprentice." -Booklist Robert Charles Davidson, who began carving at the age of 13, comes from a long line of respected woodcarvers. His great grandfather was the famed Haida carver Charles Edenshaw, and his father, Claude Davidson, and grandfather, Robert Davidson Sr., too were respected carvers. A Northwest Coast native of Haida descent, Davidson has been a master carver of totem poles and masks for more than thirty years, and is a leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture; he also works in a variety of other media as a printmaker, painter and jeweler. This beautiful, lushly filmed program introduces viewers to this acclaimed artist, while chronicling his intricate skills as he carves a totem pole. Aided by an apprentice, Davidson discusses his evolvement and shares his views on the state of Native Art in North America. Viewers will be engrossed to learn, as Davidson begins cutting into the large cedar, he is already envisioning the completed pole in his mind: seeing, feeling, the Great Eagle, the Salmon, and the Watchmen that will soon emerge from the wood. In three months, Davidson will transform the cedar into a monumental work of art. A 17-foot totem pole that will stand as a symbol of the rich Haida culture that he was born into. Produced by Hunter Rhodes Productions. 2010DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828), along with El Greco and Diego Velazquez, is one of Spain's great masters of art. It is known his work influenced Manet and Picasso, and today his paintings have as much impact as they did when they were created. Truly, the spirit of Goya lives on; however, there was a time when this great artist was a forgotten soul. Through three voices this unique program weaves a celebration of the great artist while revealing a little-known story about his self-imposed exile from Spain and subsequent death in Bordeaux, France. Here we learn how Joaquin Pereyra, the Spanish consul in Bordeaux, discovered Goya's body after 52 years of neglect. Another interesting fact: Goya's head had been removed from its body. As we follow Pereyra's Quixote-like quest to bring Goya back to Spain, and to solve the mystery of the head, we learn of Goya's life and work. How after a serious disease in 1792 left the artist deaf his work took a more serious tone. Of Goya's work in series, such as Los Caprichos, which reflected his feeling of a lack of hope in man's ability to rise above misfortune and of Spain being a country filled with empty souls; thus clarifying his eventual exile to France. Overall, this production reveals that one head such as Goya's is sufficient to give an intense, spiritual flavor to life while his art reminds us of the epic meaning to life. Produced by Rafael Diez Gines. English version by Chip Taylor Communications. 2010DR/CL JSCA 60 min. Also available in Spanish. |
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Best Documentary -Iris
Awards "Recommended. This biographical documentary reveals in personal interviews the artist's passion for art in any form and especially drawing. Examples of her works technically are easy to see and understand." -EMRO Review This highly acclaimed and award-winning classic documentary offers a personal look at the 70-year career of artist Sybil Andrews (1898 - 1993), primarily known for her modernist color linocut prints. Born in England, she reflects on her formative years there, being taught linocut printing by Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School in London. While much of her work evoked a bygone, agricultural age, its style we see embraced the spirit of modernity that was sweeping through British art at that period of time. We learn of her life in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada, where she emigrated with her husband Walter Morgan, in 1947; and, collectively, her recollections, combined with images of her artwork, reveal her lifelong passion for art. Produced by Peter Horvath. 2010DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
| A classic documentary on the late English master potter, Michael Cardew, a main pillar in bringing the tradition of hand-made pottery back to England after it had disappeared when people flocked to the machine-made wares of the Industrial Revolution. At his home and pottery at Wenford Bridge in Cornwall, England, we watch as he wedges clay, throws a bowl on his kick wheel, pulls handles for mugs, decorates a jug and fires his wood-burning kiln, all the while sharing his philosophy of life and making pots. He wrote a memoir, Pioneer Potter, which was published in 1969; and at the time of his death in 1983, he was due to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Produced by Eve Muir. 2010DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |
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Acadamy Award Nominee CINE Golden Eagle Award Narrated by Ricardo Montalbán (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn; Fantasy Island), this digitally re-mastered classic is the story of Mexico's "Los Tres Grandes" - The Three Great Ones: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, whose murals today remain an integral part of the contemporary life and culture of Mexico. Told as Siqueiros was completing his monumental mural, "The March of Humanity," the documentary weaves the biographies of the three while dynamically dramatizing the powerful influences the Mexican Revolution for Independence had on their lives and their art. Produced by Edmund Penney and Associates. 2010DR/CL JSCA 75 min. |
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This is an eclectic and often graphic portrait of Antonio
Saura (1930 - 1998), who was one of Spain's boldest surrealistic
painters. He began painting and writing in 1947 while suffering from
tuberculosis, a condition that confined him for five years. Self taught, he
became part of the avant-garde El Paso group in Madrid and his work evolved
towards a dramatic and forceful expressionism filled with piercing irony. He
moved to Paris and collaborated with a number of Surrealists; then he began
to develop his own radically abstract style, focusing on the human form,
especially the female body. He rapidly found international recognition with
his well-known series entitled Ladies, Nudes, Self-Portraits, Shrouds
and Crucifixions, painting on both canvas and paper. In 1959 he
created a prolific body of work, illustrating in numerous books such as
Don Quijote, 1984 and Pinocchio; a year later he began to make
sculpture, creating works made of various welded metal elements; then in the
1970s he created stage designs for the theatre, ballet and opera. His
credits include: the Europen Biennial Exhibition of Engravings Prize,
the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and the Medal of
Merit from BellasArtes. Viewers are advised that Chapter 2 includes
scenes of nudity; a "Level 1" version is available with no scenes of nudity.
Produced by Jorge Calvo and J.L. Romeo. 2010DR/CL CA 30 min. Also available in Spanish Note: An edited version, Antonio Saura: Sauragrams - Level 1, is available. |
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This is an eclectic and often graphic portrait of Antonio
Saura (1930 - 1998), who was one of Spain's boldest surrealistic
painters. He began painting and writing in 1947 while suffering from
tuberculosis, a condition that confined him for five years. Self taught, he
became part of the avant-garde El Paso group in Madrid and his work evolved
towards a dramatic and forceful expressionism filled with piercing irony. He
moved to Paris and collaborated with a number of Surrealists; then he began
to develop his own radically abstract style, focusing on the human form,
especially the female body. He rapidly found international recognition with
his well-known series entitled Ladies, Nudes, Self-Portraits, Shrouds
and Crucifixions, painting on both canvas and paper. In 1959 he
created a prolific body of work, illustrating in numerous books such as
Don Quijote, 1984 and Pinocchio; a year later he began to make
sculpture, creating works made of various welded metal elements; then in the
1970s he created stage designs for the theatre, ballet and opera. His
credits include: the Europen Biennial Exhibition of Engravings Prize,
the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and the Medal of
Merit from BellasArtes. Viewers are advised that Chapter 2 includes
scenes of nudity; a "Level 1" version is available with no scenes of nudity.
Produced by Jorge Calvo and J.L. Romeo. 2010DR/CL CA 25 min. Also available in Spanish Note: An unedited version, Antonio Saura: Sauragrams, is available. |
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CINE Golden Eagle
Award "Highly Recommended. People will come away with new understandings and insight into ceramics as an art form." -Vern Thomas, Film Evaluations "The Natzlers' elegant and daring works helped elevate ceramics from a decorative art to a fine art. Their works were featured in innumerable gallery shows and are housed in dozens of museum collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York's Metropolitan and Modern Art museums, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London." -The Boston Globe A classic documentary that displays the philosophy, techniques and artistry of the world famous Austrian-born potters, Otto and Gertrude Natzler. After a display of their work, this award-winning program offers close-up shots of Mrs. Natzler demonstrating and discussing the steps in forming a hard, strong and waterproof pot; then Mr. Natzler takes viewers through the finishing process - mixing, applying the glaze and firing. Produced by Edmund Penney and Associates. 2010DR/CL JSCA 30 min. |