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Showing 1 - 10 of 101 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is The Politics of Art
Above and Below
Artist Tsherin Sherpa's remarkable 19-year journey from Tibetan Buddhist Thangka painter to global art superstar
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes
Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art Of Activism
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Fiona Cunningham-Reid presents an intimate portrait of internationally acclaimed artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, who work at the intersection of art, activism, biology and ecology
Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 77 minutes
Alan Magee: art is not a solace
Alan Magee: art is not a solace explores the artist’s subjects, locales, and the historical sources which have sustained his work for five decades. Through his paintings, sculpture, monotypes, music and short films, Magee asks viewers to consider the breadth of human behavior and experience.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 60 minutes
And Still I Sing
Three Afghan singers fight for women’s rights through music, despite death threats in a patriarchal society.
First Hand Films | 2023 | 90 minutes
Arna's Children
This film by prominent Israeli-Palestinian actor Juliano Mer Khamis tells the story of a theatre workshop with children of the Jenin refugee camp and explores the role of art as a weapon against occupation.
First Hand Films | 2003 | 84 minutes
Artists & Love: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
A story of an ardent love between two women with heroic destinies, united through life and death.
Icarus Films | 2020 | 26 minutes
Bank Job
Artist/filmmaker team Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell investigate how debt is created in our economy, and devise a clever plan to purchase and destroy over $1 million of private debt.
Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 87 minutes
Beethoven's Nine
When director Larry Weinstein is pulled into his own documentary about Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, his film about war, hope and music's relevance to our society today becomes a deeply personal exploration.
Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 83 minutes
Blowback
BLOWBACK is a dynamic exploration of the representation of the wars in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) in world cinema which argues that films function as resonant cultural artifacts that shape how the conflicts come to be understood and remembered by audiences at the time, and those of generations to come.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 30 minutes
