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MICHAEL BLACKWOOD
(Georg Baselitz: Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden, 60 minutes, German with English subtitles, 2008)
Independent documentary filmmaker Michael Blackwood has produced and directed
more than 100 films during the course of his career, aiming
to create a permanent record of the leading figures in the
cultural landscape of our time. His interests are in the areas
of architecture, art, music and dance. Coming out of a background of cinéma-vérité, narration is used very sparingly,
if at all, which allows the subjects to speak for themselves.
This approach makes his documentaries meaningful primary source material. Since 1966, Blackwood’s films have been aired
in the United States and abroad and can be found in the permanent collections of many museums and universities. |
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Christina Clausen Photo: Katsuyoshi Tanaka |
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CHRISTINA CLAUSEN
(The Universe of Keith Haring, 82 minutes, English, 2007)
Born in Denmark, Christina Clausen lives and works for the most part in Rome. Since 1991 she has worked for Rai Television. In 1998 she debuted as a director with Tedeschi in Italia 1943–1945. She has also worked in Austrian television (ORF) and Swiss television (RTL).
Since 1994, she has curated several audiovisual projects for exhibitions of contemporary art in Italian museums. |
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Chiara Clemente
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CHIARA CLEMENTE
(Our City Dreams, 90 minutes, English, 2008)
Chiara Clemente directed her first art documentary for the RaiSat Art channel in Italy in 2000. Based on the success of that film, she was invited to direct 12 more. Commissions have included documentaries on artists and architects such as Jim Dine, Frank Gehry and Brice Marden. Clemente also began collaborating with artists on short films, such as These Imaginary Boys and Know Yourself with Adrian Tranquilli. In 2002, she directed and photographed Three Worlds: A Portrait of Francesco Clemente. She is currently working on another collaboration with Adrian Tranquilli. |
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TAMRA DAVIS
(Conversations with Jean-Michel Basquiat, 22 minutes, English, 2006)
Born in California, Tamra Davis studied the art of filmmaking at the Los Angeles City College Cinema. She began her career directing music videos for such artists as Hanson, Luscious Jackson, Sonic Youth, Cher and Bette Midler, and directed her first feature film, Gun Crazy, in 1992. Other features include Billy Madison, Half Baked and Crossroads. Davis has also directed documentaries like Mi Vida Loca and short films such as To the Curb and Sophie goes to the Beach. She helmed the filming of a feature-length concert film for the Indigo Girls, and travelled to Africa where she directed a film for the United Nations about Bill Clinton’s initiative on landmines. |
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 Julien Devaux |
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JULIEN DEVAUX
(Wide Details: On the Traces of Francis Alÿs, 56 minutes, Spanish, English and French with English subtitles, 2006)
Born in Belgium, Julien Devaux moved to Paris after studying fine arts and art history to work as
a chief film editor. He has since directed and edited several projects and has frequently collaborated with artist Francis Alÿs. Wide Details is his first feature documentary.
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EDGAR B. HOWARD
(Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments, 67 minutes, English, 2007)
In 1979, Edgar B. Howard established Checkerboard Film Foundation to document on film and video the American arts for archival and educational purposes. With his first profile on painter Brice Marden in 1977, Howard began filming artists and capturing their creative processes. Films on Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Roy Lichtenstein, Philip Johnson, the Paris Review and Billy Collins are examples of Checkerboard’s titles. All reflect the wide range
of artistic endeavours Howard has chosen to explore. |
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Isaac Julien |
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ISAAC JULIEN
(Derek, 76 minutes, English, 2008)
Isaac Julien was born in London, where he currently lives and works. After graduating from St. Martin’s School of Art, Julien founded Sankofa Film and Video Collective (1983–1992), and in 1991 was a founding member of Normal Films. He came to prominence in the film world with his 1989 drama-documentary Looking for Langston, and gained further success in 1991 with his film Young Soul Rebels. A successful artist as well, he was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 and was the recipient of the prestigious MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts that same year. His widely acclaimed documentary film BaadAsssss Cinema was made
in 2002. Julien was a jury member at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival and the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival. |
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Beeban Kidron |
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BEEBAN KIDRON
(Antony Gormley: Making Space, 48 minutes, English, 2007)
Beeban Kidron is an acclaimed filmmaker and director of drama and documentaries. Her television work includes the BAFTA-award-winning Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and the documentaries Carry Greenham Home and Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and their Johns. Feature films include To Wong Foo, Swept Away and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. |
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FRANÇOIS LÉVY-KUENTZ
(Yves Klein: The Blue Revolution, 52 minutes, English and French with English subtitles, 2006)
Born in Paris in 1960, author-director François Lévy-Kuentz received a degree in cinema from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. His interest in painting inspired him to make his first film, Man Ray, 2 bis rue Férou, in 1989. He has also directed numerous films on art : L’atelier de Robert Combas, Matta, Les concessions de Boltanski, Le regard rapproché, Georges de la Tour, Arroyo-Cadaquès, Le voyage de Delacroix, Les copistes du Louvre, Pascin, l’impudique, Chagall, à la Russie aux ânes et aux autres and Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine. |
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Annette Mangaard
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ANNETTE MANGAARD
(General Idea: Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle, 47 minutes, English, 2007)
Born in Denmark and raised in Canada, Annette Mangaard attended the Ontario College of Art and earned a degree in painting and printmaking. As an independent filmmaker she has written and directed 15 films in just over than a decade. Her films include Into the Night, The Many Faces of Arnaud Maggs, and Fish Tale Soup. She is currently working on several projects, including a documentary about the changing circumstances of the Inuit artists of Cape Dorset, for Bravo, TVO and APTN. |
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Andrew Neel
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ANDREW NEEL
(Alice Neel, 82 minutes, English, 2007)
Andrew Neel
was born in Vermont and graduated from Columbia in 2001 with a BA
in film studies. He founded SeeThink Productions in 2002 for the making
of his first 35mm short film, billy 528, which won Best Experimental Drama
at the New York Film and Video Festival in 2002 before airing on Showtime
in 2003. His first feature-length film, Darkon, won the Audience Award at
the 2006 SXSW Film Festival and was subsequently acquired by IFCtv. His third feature-length film, The Feature, recently premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. |
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Megumi Sasaki © Arthouse films
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MEGUMI SASAKI
(Herb and Dorothy, 91 minutes, English, 2008)
Born in Japan, Megumi Sasaki has lived in New York since 1988. As a freelance journalist, her coverage of the Berlin Wall’s fall garnered her great success in Japan. She then worked as a freelance television news director and field producer, developing programs for Japan’s documentary series NHK Special. In 2002 Megumi founded production company Fine Line Media. Herb and Dorothy is the first feature documentary project of the company. |
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Terrence Turner |
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TERRENCE TURNER
(Adele’s Wish, 55 minutes, English, 2008)
An award-winning director, producer, writer
and artist, Terrence Turner dedicated two years to researching, writing
and producing Adele’s Wish. An ardent observer of the human condition, Terrence Turner’s focus is on crafting evocative and thought-provoking stories for discerning audiences. |
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Marina Zenovich
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MARINA ZENOVICH
(David Lynch: The Air is on Fire/Milano, 29 minutes, English, 2008)
Marina Zenovich’s film Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and won its Best Documentary Editing Award. It was also chosen as an official selection at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. The film was named one of the best five documentaries of 2008 by the National Board of Review. Other Zenovich films include Who is Bernard Tapie?, Independent’s Day and Estonia Dreams of Eurovision! Further credits include Vanessa Beecroft in Berlin, Julian Schnabel in Naples, Robert Wilson: Video Portrait, John Baldessari and Takashi Murakami for Gallery HD’s series Art in Progress. |
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