Philip Haas
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Philip Haas is an American artist and filmmaker. His exhibition of film installations at the Kimbell Art Museum, "Butchers, Dragons, Gods and Skeletons," was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top ten museum shows of 2009 Retrospectives of his art films have been held at the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Lincoln Center in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for this body of work. His feature film Angels and Insects, set in Victorian England, was nominated for an Academy Award. Other feature films include the highly regarded The Music of Chance (1993), and Up at the Villa, starring Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft and Kristin Scott Thomas. In 2008 and 2010, he had one-man shows of paintings and film installations at the Sonnabend Gallery. in New York City. Haas's 15 feet (4.6 m), fiberglass sculpture Winter (after Arcimboldo) was unveiled in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in September, 2010.
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Historia de un triángulo amoroso durante la guerra en Iraq entre un agente de la CIA, una periodista americana y un fotógrafo iraquí.
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In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for his own gain. The 2002 adaptation discards a significant portion of the original plot, some essential characters, and much of the philosophical underpinnings of the book and the original PBS production. Ursula K. Le Guin disapproved of the A&E production, and stated that she found it "misguided and uninteresting".
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En 1938, una viuda inglesa sin apenas recursos que se encuentra de vacaciones cerca de Florencia, considera la propuesta de matrimonio de un aristócrata entrado en años que acaba de ser nombrado gobernador de Bengala. Inesperadamente, un asesinato la coloca ante el dilema de elegir entre su reputación y sus sentimientos.
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Cyril y Fiona son una pareja casada que viajan a una ciudad costera tropical sin nombre para seguir sus fantasías sexuales. Allí se encuentran con otra pareja, Catherine, Hugh y sus tres hijos. Hugh es un fotógrafo que se especializa en fotografías de mujeres campesinas desnudas. Comienzan las relaciones Cyril / Catherine y Hugh / Fiona.
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Cyril y Fiona son una pareja casada que viajan a una ciudad costera tropical sin nombre para seguir sus fantasías sexuales. Allí se encuentran con otra pareja, Catherine, Hugh y sus tres hijos. Hugh es un fotógrafo que se especializa en fotografías de mujeres campesinas desnudas. Comienzan las relaciones Cyril / Catherine y Hugh / Fiona.
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Cyril y Fiona son una pareja casada que viajan a una ciudad costera tropical sin nombre para seguir sus fantasías sexuales. Allí se encuentran con otra pareja, Catherine, Hugh y sus tres hijos. Hugh es un fotógrafo que se especializa en fotografías de mujeres campesinas desnudas. Comienzan las relaciones Cyril / Catherine y Hugh / Fiona.
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Tras un largo viaje por la selva amazónica y sin un penique en el bolsillo, el naturalista y explorador William Adamson conoce al aristócrata reverendo Alabaster. Al ser coleccionista de insectos, el reverendo queda fascinado por los relatos de William, e invita al joven a su mansión.
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Tras un largo viaje por la selva amazónica y sin un penique en el bolsillo, el naturalista y explorador William Adamson conoce al aristócrata reverendo Alabaster. Al ser coleccionista de insectos, el reverendo queda fascinado por los relatos de William, e invita al joven a su mansión.
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Jim Nashe es un ex-bombero que viaja sin rumbo, con dinero heredado y su BMW nuevo. En medio de la carretera se encuentra a un desconocido que ha recibido una brutal paliza. Este es Jack Pozzi, un jugador con mucha labia que convence a Nash para que se juegue todo su dinero, 10.000 dólares, en una partida de cartas contra dos millonarios excéntricos. Pero lo que pueden perder va más allá del simple dinero.... Un evocativo y oscuro cuento sobe el poder, la manipulación y las apuestas donde a menudo el destino está determinado por el simple corte de una baraja. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Jim Nashe es un ex-bombero que viaja sin rumbo, con dinero heredado y su BMW nuevo. En medio de la carretera se encuentra a un desconocido que ha recibido una brutal paliza. Este es Jack Pozzi, un jugador con mucha labia que convence a Nash para que se juegue todo su dinero, 10.000 dólares, en una partida de cartas contra dos millonarios excéntricos. Pero lo que pueden perder va más allá del simple dinero.... Un evocativo y oscuro cuento sobe el poder, la manipulación y las apuestas donde a menudo el destino está determinado por el simple corte de una baraja. (FILMAFFINITY)
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MONEY MAN is a documentary film about an artist, J. S. G. Boggs, who draws money. Boggs draws his "notes" (as he calls them) with the same face as regular U.S. currency with his thumbprint on the back. He goes around trying to sell his notes to people in exchange for goods and services.
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A documentary on Australian Aboriginal art. The fist part is about a group of desert tribesmen who retell their legends by creating three large and elaborate ground paintings. In the second part the Aborigines of the northern coast depict the story of their ancestors in bark paintings.
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Cyprien Tokoudagba is from the city of Abomey in the Benin Republic of West Africa, where he paints the religious houses of the vodun. Haas and his film crew follow Cyprien as he first paints and then takes part in the ceremony to open a new temple. The paintings include three vodun figures and several emblems, including a pipe and a duck. Cyprien explains his work in the context of the religion and takes the crew to film two other local ceremonies, one where the dead are believed to come back to instruct the living through wild dancing and, another, where women warriors perform their war dances.
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Filmmaker Philip Haas traveled to the southernmost tip of Madagascar to meet Efiaimbelo, a man in his mid-sixties who works as a funerary sculptor. The film follows Efiaimbelo as he travels to an isolated area in the countryside to cut down a special tree for sculpting. He makes it into a pole of geometric shapes, which he then tops with a finely honed sculpture of a cow. This beautiful sculpture is funerary piece, designed to ornament a grave. The film features remarkable footage of huge tombs covered with cow antlers and poles like the one we see Efiaimbelo sculpt. The tops of these poles are decorated with all sorts of animals, people and tableaux associated with the dead person. Very little has been known or seen of this funereal and artistic tradition outside the region and the film provides an extraordinarily rich visual experience.
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Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.
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Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.
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Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world. Their exploration of the bleak urban surrounds of 1980’s London, powerfully evoke the desires and tensions of its disillusioned youth alongside their own eccentricities. Poetic narration combines with vivid imagery that moves between the startlingly beautiful, the humorous, and the absurd. Church spires and city streets, youth and drunks, dancing and tea-drinking all take on an affecting symbolism when viewed from the unique perspective of Gilbert & George.
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Seni Camara lives with her husband and family in the village of Bigona, in the Casamance region in southern Senegal. Working outside the local tradition of making pots and “useful” objects out of clay, Seni claims that through a “gift of God” she has been able to create thousands of bizarre, magnificent creatures — clay sculptures of astonishing originality. Although the villagers don’t know quite what to make of Seni and her art, she continues to work to support her family and to satisfy her own creative urge. The film follows Seni and her husband as they prepare the materials of her art. Together they dig up the hard dirt of the land and slowly mix it with water and sand until the clay is ready to be molded (she tells by taste). While Seni does the intense work of shaping the wet clay into her truly original forms, her husband prepares the final dye bath by harvesting and soaking wild nuts in water. Finally they fire the sculptures and dye them.
