Guido Magnone designs cardboard boxes by hand for his parents' small business. A painter friend loves his brushwork and pushes him to attend the Beaux Arts. He takes an external competition, wins it, befriends the sculptors César and Féraud, surrealists, a handful of bohemians. He then discovered the mountain and quickly became one of the best climbers of his generation. He made prestigious conquests such as the west face of the Drus in the Alps, the first ascents of Fitz Roy in Patagonia with Lionel Terray or Makalu in the Himalayas... Magnone also participated in the creation of the UCPA and will be president of the Groupe de Haute Montagne from 1961 to 1965. From 1977, Guido returned to his first passion: sculpture, to devote himself fully to it around 1990. He began to exhibit again in 1996. In 2002, he exhibited his sculptures in Paris , Bourg-la-Reine, Aosta then in Etroubles in 2009.
A group of artists settle in a swamp on the banks of the Indre River. Meanwhile, a voice describes a utopian world.
After experiencing her first heartbreak, Anais declares war on all the boys in 6th grade.
An examination of the relationship between the life and art of Maria Martins, now recognized as one of the greatest Brazilian sculptors, in addition to her engravings and texts. The film reveals the greatness of her work and her boldness when dealing directly with the feminine perspective of sexuality, a transgression that led to attacks by Brazilian critics. In parallel, her life as the wife of an important diplomat and her connection to Marcel Duchamp, in a relationship of mutual collaboration between the two artists.
A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.
A project about the architectural, cultural, and social heritage of the city of Buenos Aires. An investigation about the enigmatic "Casa del Angel", a castle that used to belong to Dr. Carlos Delcasse, and the winged figure in one of its balconies that attracted the attention of all the neighbors: the sculpture of an Angel, which disappeared after the demolition of the house.
From the heads of Roman Emperors to the 'blood head' of contemporary British artist Marc Quinn, the greatest figures in world sculpture have continually turned to the head to re-evaluate what it means to be human and to reformulate how closely sculpture can capture it. Witty, eclectic and insightful, this film is a journey through the most enduring subject for world sculpture, one that carves a path through politics and religion, the ancient and the modern. Actor David Thewlis has his head sculpted by three different sculptors, while the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, artist Maggi Hambling and art critic Rachel Johnston discuss art's most enduring preoccupation, ourselves.
Scenarzysta Gil Pender wyjeżdża do Paryża wraz z narzeczoną Inez i jej rodzicami. Pewnego wieczoru pijany Pender gubi się w paryskich zaułkach. Nocna włóczęga w magiczny sposób zamienia się w podróż w czasie do lat 20. XX wieku. Scenarzysta poznaje sławy epoki, m.in. Francisa Scotta Fitzgeralda i jego żonę, Ernesta Hemingwaya, Salvadora Dali i Pabla Picassa. Gil, zafascynowany kochanką malarza, Adrianą, uważa, że znalazł inspirację do napisania powieści. Inez, zaniepokojona nocnymi wędrówkami narzeczonego, postanawia poznać prawdę.
Bjørn Nørgaard and a team of Czech glass artists in the demanding process of creating a grave monument for Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark.
A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his only friend, a potted plant. As the hand's request gives way to bribery, demands, and threats, the potter becomes more desperate to escape its clutch, leading to tragedy.
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For a time she even lost the power of speech, and it was during this period that her drawings became extraordinarily articulate.
W spokojnej tajlandzkiej wiosce, w świątynie Nong Pradu stoi Ong-Bak. To 200-letni posąg Buddy, który według wierzeń okolicznych mieszkańców przepojony jest magiczną mocą chroniącą ich przed nieszczęściem. Pewnej nocy Don (Wannakit Sirioput) i jego ludzie ucinają głowę posągu, aby wkraść się w łaski bezwzględnego gangstera Khoma Tuana (Suchao Pongwilai). Zrozpaczeni wieśniacy szukają bohatera, który odzyska ich skarb. Wybrańcem zostaje Ting (Tony Jaa), wychowanek mnicha Pra Kru, który wyszkolił go w prastarej sztuce walki Muay Thai. [opis dystrybutora dvd]
A short, experimental documentary featuring sculptures by Alonso de Berruguete and Juan de Juni. Shot within the Valladolid National Museum, the film is an excercise in what Val de Omar called "Tactile vision".
"Złoty wiek" to film surrealistyczny. Opowiada o kobiecie i mężczyźnie, którzy są w sobie bardzo zakochani. Ich plany skonsumowania miłości zostają jednak udaremnione przez rodzinę, kościół i burżuazyjne społeczeństwo.
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.