Andres Veiel • Germany • 2018 • An intimate look at one of the great artists of his generation.
Joseph Beuys was one of the seminal German artists of the twentieth century. After attending the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, Beuys became known for his contributions to the Fluxus movement and his work across diverse media—from happening and performance to sculpture, installation, and graphic art. His expanded concept of the role of the artist placed him in the middle of socially relevant discourses on media, community, and capitalism in ways that remain resonant still today.
Assembled from archival footage, Beuys underscores how the artist’s work remained inextricable from his social activism. Andres Veiel’s sixth documentary premiered at Berlin, Sheffield, CPH:DOX, and the Munich International Documentary Festival, where it won the German Documentary Film Music Award.
Richard Press • 2010 • USA • A portrait the secluded pioneer of street fashion.
Perched on his Schwinn bicycle, a camera hanging from his neck, photographer Bill Cunningham roams the streets of New York snapping stills of unassuming passerby, if the look is right. Despite decades of work for th...
Beth B • United States • 2016 • A deeply personal portrait of acclaimed artist Ida Applebroog.
Ida Applebroog was born into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family in the Bronx in the 1920s. As one of three daughters to a father who had prayed for sons, her childhood was less than cheerful. Art became...
Gereon Wetzel • 2011 • Germany • The world's best restaurant creates the menu for its final season.
For many years, Catalan chef Ferran Adrià ran the best restaurant in the world. Tucked away in a small cove a few hours north of Barcelona, El Bulli prepared some of the most daring and innovativ...
